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gacha games, putting the “fetish” in “commodity fetishism”
it's really cool how they figured out how to not only do labour alienation but also emotional alienation, they are selling you pure concept
CORRECTION: they are selling you pure concept Gems, 76 units for 48 currency, with a 39% new user discount, which you can use to roll for pure concept Shards, which may be Fused into pure concept Tickets, with which pure concept can be Summoned, or Dematerialized to get—
@hikari But only for a limited time only while the Legendary SSS+ Mythic Rare FOMO Banner is active, which has a 0.05% higher chance of dropping one of a dozen normally < 0.01% equipment or skill tokens...
...or if you keep trying you could earn the ultra collectible this-event-only character wearing a swimsuit But This Time She Has A New Hat PNG that you'll NEVER have a chance to collect again if you don't login and start pulling that slot machine lever right the fuck now-
-too late you missed it, so sad! Here's your 5 Consolation Dust, which you can Compound 3000 of with Fairy Tears at the Alchemy Lab to make a Gacha Fragment, 12 of which can be assembled into Redemption Crystals which-
@hikari I remember reading a thing a few years ago claiming that f2p games were all putting in "combine 5 copies of the +1 sword to get a +2 sword" mechanics for accounting reasons specifically. Idea was if you spent money on a +1 sword and you keep if then they kinda have to recognise the revenue for that as averaged over the entire expected lifespan of your account. But if you spent money on a +1 sword and then destroyed that sword then they could recognise the revenue as soon as you destroyed it because at that point you've finished getting use of if it.