My man is one $50,000 CS2 skin away from a financial crisis.

I would’ve personally financed Riot Games if they had them shitty ass Exalted skins back in my hayday

nah cuz ppl want the high of opening the super rare expensive item

“Just don’t get addicted to things”

There is an “item” that people pay 20K? which is just some pixels… TIL

that’s as crazy to me as the whole NFT stuff that happened during lockdowns

If gamblers understood expected value, they wouldn’t be gamblers (well except for the few that do arbitrage betting and immediately get banned from every app).

The craziest thing about this entire AIpocalypse is it somehow made Apple the affordable priced option for laptops.

Grading in general is a scam imo but I’ll probably check the video out. Thanks for the suggestion!

Pokémon Go still doesnt either. They just put eggs into rarity tiers and the chances of finding “shiny” has never been officially published. They frame it as a “bonus” with the actual Pokemon being the reward so it skirts laws about publishing chances.

As an avid gacha gamer it does not make it easier to stop lol

Also it takes a long ass time to open let’s say 1 million dollar worth of packs, you can gable away a million dollar and some in a night, if you’re that kind of person.

Nah man there’s definitely dudes out there who spend every paycheck outside of there necessities on 2k upgrades or packs. I know a dude that’s a TSA agent and he drop hundreds on 2k each week

U have no read up on the shit gacha gamers or 2k players have done then. That shit is just as addicting as regular gambling

Bro we’re really cooked and the NBA/Vegas has already successfully corrupted GenZ/alpha if people actually loot boxes is worse than actual gambling

That’s easy because NBA 2k releases a new game every year while gacha games just gets updated after a few months.

Both are glorified gambling shits tho though so no doubt about that.

Two things can be bad and also be different. And this thread is about an adult.

Aint no way that second part is true, were gonna need some evidence

You sound high🤣🤣🤣

Probably more info than you care about - 2k alienated a large portion of their player base causing them to rely more heavily on income from their biggest spenders. Trickle down a couple of years and now they have to charge unreal amounts.

It’s a variable amount because it’s completely RNG dependent. But Yao Specifically was even more heavily RNG because you needed to collect a certain amount of “pieces” to lock in for him. You can’t just pull the yao out of the packs.

People with more money than sense buy it to have a marginal advantage for a few months before an equally strong card comes out that is more obtainable to the masses.

Imma speak as someone who actually whales in gacha games. Whales aren’t really “gambling addicts”, they’re game or collection addicts. If anything, the people behaving more like gamblers are the low spenders and dolphins. Those are usually the ones thinking, “Damn, just one more roll and I’ll get it.” They’re chasing luck.

Whales don’t really operate that way. Most whales already know the worst-case cost of getting an item. If the pity cap is, say, 100 pulls, then that’s effectively the price of the character or weapon. If you get it early, like in 10 pulls, then great, you basically got a discount. But if not, you were already prepared to pay the full cost anyway.

So for whales it’s less like gambling and more like buying something with a known maximum price. The randomness only determines whether you get a discount.

That said, I play Genshin, where there’s a hard pity system, meaning you’re guaranteed the item after a certain number of pulls. I’d never play, let alone spend money on, a gacha that doesn’t have some kind of guarantee.

I guess, but again it doesn’t really feel like these stakes are real. Like I’m gambling when I’m playing board games with my kids, but it’s for pretend money. The amounts he’s spending on these games is basically monopoly money.

I’m not sure its fair to call that gambling then if you’re paying real money but can’t get real money back from it. At that point its just a microtransaction.

Currency that is only useable for one year, correct? Until the next 2k game? Man what an incredible sham!

But with this logic, anything with a somewhat random outcome is gambling. I doubt you’d fully commit to that position. That’s like saying playing cards (without money involved) is gambling because you’re hoping you get dealt a good hand.