08-26-2025, 07:05 PM
i so rarely get involved in fan bruhaha that i feel like I need opera glasses and a pamphlet that higlights the salient points that i can read during intermission.
i do think that gatcha games ought to be much more heavily regulated than they are - i would prefer, in fact, that they don't exist in the form they do now with the very shady monetization they all run under. yes, the company should make money because the people making it should make money. no game in existence should be pulling in 56 million dollars a month, that's ludicrous. and yet...it does and until the laws catch up (which will be never) it's either opt in and pony up your entertainment wallet each month, or just... don't.
LaDS is predatory, but they're all predatory and i would personally put this into the bad-but-not-the-worst category which i think i've mentioned elsewhere. i would not sign a petition about it because i think i am still getting value for my money, even if i wish they'd just require a subscription like an MMO and give me all the stuff each month. but that is how you DON'T get 56 million dollars a month and the CEO working on his 5th yacht, i suppose.
i will eventually bounce off the game, its inevitable. at some point the cost to keep going is going to rack up to the point where i will hit some internal tip-o-meter and the sunk cost fallacy will lose its grip and slide off into the pit. and since i am happily outsourcing the social media scouring to you, i can sit back and go, wow, that's sounds WILD and i don't have to put any of my skin into that game at all :D
do you have an opinion on this yourself? specific to whether winning an award of this type is a good thing or a bad thing or a general comment about how LaDS monetizes itself. like, if you see another paywall deal like we just got, would you quit over it?
i do think that gatcha games ought to be much more heavily regulated than they are - i would prefer, in fact, that they don't exist in the form they do now with the very shady monetization they all run under. yes, the company should make money because the people making it should make money. no game in existence should be pulling in 56 million dollars a month, that's ludicrous. and yet...it does and until the laws catch up (which will be never) it's either opt in and pony up your entertainment wallet each month, or just... don't.
LaDS is predatory, but they're all predatory and i would personally put this into the bad-but-not-the-worst category which i think i've mentioned elsewhere. i would not sign a petition about it because i think i am still getting value for my money, even if i wish they'd just require a subscription like an MMO and give me all the stuff each month. but that is how you DON'T get 56 million dollars a month and the CEO working on his 5th yacht, i suppose.
i will eventually bounce off the game, its inevitable. at some point the cost to keep going is going to rack up to the point where i will hit some internal tip-o-meter and the sunk cost fallacy will lose its grip and slide off into the pit. and since i am happily outsourcing the social media scouring to you, i can sit back and go, wow, that's sounds WILD and i don't have to put any of my skin into that game at all :D
do you have an opinion on this yourself? specific to whether winning an award of this type is a good thing or a bad thing or a general comment about how LaDS monetizes itself. like, if you see another paywall deal like we just got, would you quit over it?
