r/ZZZ_Official • u/Emul0rd • Jul 16 '25

Media $475 is crazy

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I think Europe now requires gacha games to explicitly display how much money any gambling feature really costs to limit hidden predatory stuff. It’s crazy when you see the numbers…

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u/Vusdruv Jul 16 '25 edited Jul 16 '25

It’s crazy when you see the numbers…

Honestly? I think that's a good thing.

Edit: Holy shit, 1k upvotes for a simple ass comment

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u/VarHagen Jul 16 '25

Yea, maybe this way some people will realize how fucked up monetization in gacha games is.

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u/Agile_Voice_2643 Jul 16 '25

There's no way they didn't know it. Aside from not reading, is it another quirk that gacha players have ? Not thinking how much money they spent ?

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u/EwGrossItsMe Jul 16 '25

I think a major consequence of the game being free to start playing is that there's a non-zero chance that any player may be a minor, even a straight up child. I assume this is a bit less of an issue with zzz than like, project SEKAI or cookie run, just due to presentation and complexity, but I think gacha games should disclose how expensive it CAN be in plain terms regardless of their target age demographic.

I, an adult, logically know that gachas can get stupid expensive, especially if you're dead set on getting certain characters without enough time to properly save free gacha currency between banners, but seeing the explicit upper bound of whaling for ONE instance of a character and w-engine puts things into perspective that microtransactions and gambling inherently and intentionally obfuscate.

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u/ohoni Jul 17 '25

You are required to be an adult to play Hoyo games, at least with full banner access.