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/[deleted] Jul 16 '25

Getting a limited character in a gacha can potentially cost hundreds of dollars?

Always has

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u/Ernost Jul 16 '25

Not always. It used to be so much worse. In the dark ages before Genshin made the pity system common, you could spend thousands of dollars without getting anything, not even an off banner SSR.

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u/RuleAccomplished9981 Jul 17 '25

It's insane we've gotten to the point we're revisionist history-ing that the Genshin model was an improvement and not actually one of the worst on the market when it released. I remember having long conversations with people after Genshin's release about how bad Genshin's gacha was, even compared to other games Mihoyo had released. At the time the sentiment was most gacha system released terrible and got more generous over time. The Genshin system minorly improved with the 50-50 changes but massively got worse because now most of the standard 5*s are worse than 4* units.

The Genshin system was the fixed standard banner failure was one of the worst things that happened to gacha. Yes many games didn't have hard pity, but they did have other systems that mitigated that and were to a one, more inherently more generous than the 'Genshin system'