What do you think about gacha and microtransactions in smartphone otome games?

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Personally, I'd rather play games without those kinds of mechanics.

 

[ninnikuryona]

i cant deal with them. at all;;;

gacha is that very specific genre that is built around sucking money out of you, so this naturally leads to some nasty but obvious moves like paywalling certain cards. like behind battlepasses, vip levels, or just straight bundles. and i cant stand that!! spending money on an online hobby is already a questionable decision for me, considering how impulsive i can get with my purchases ww, but when the company is trying so shamelessly to force my wallet open, im just,, yea nah sorry w

another thing i have a question about is the relationship flow. naturally, most development happens in card stories, but what if you are missing certain cards? what if you had to skip a wedding banner? does that mean that, while other girlies are getting their "happily ever after" moments, you are just gonna be stuck in a limbo of sorts? i dont really vibe with that very much..^^;;

and yes, i know that you can look up those stories you are missing (if they actually exist on the internet), but what if im an idiot who likes to experience stuff firsthand?? reading a card story on a separate website will not add said card to my collection!!;; im really really grateful for all the hardworking girlies who transcribe stuff and let other girlies experience it at any moment, but still.... im petty.......!

this is something that basically never happens in full releases. with a full release game, you pretty much set your own pace of reading, and you can start or stop at any point. in gacha games though, if you arent a gigawhale, you can just hit a wall and never overcome it, therefore your relationship is gonna be riddled with unfillable gaps. and that does not really appeal to me!!!!! even if there are 50 games in a series, at least i can read them all without worrying that they might be a one-time thing, which is a luxury i cant afford in a gacha game!!!!;;;;;

however, im not some gacha hater or anything. i do play several gacha games, to the point im kinda addicted www, but games that card-lock certain parts of stories, no matter how mundane or unimportant they are, are a big no-no for me. and that makes me extremely sad because i look at all the lbc and tot girlies and!!!!! im so happy for them!!!!!! i really wanna experience this happiness too!!!!!!!! but waaaghghfhg this is so hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!;;;;;

 

[crescentfeather223]

Don't mind them too much but I find that it is hard for me to come back to a gacha otome game unless it has good gameplay and plot. Most are autobattlers and those, while the cards are pretty, I find don't really keep my interest for too long. Additionally, for me the appeal of an otome game is the good writing, story and interaction with characters. That is kinda hard to do with a gacha because it is a live service game so technically a never ending game. I kinda feel like an otome game is hard to do a gacha because while the purpose of a gacha is to keep people pulling for newer and newer characters, a good otome game has a smaller but developed cast that players get attached to.
There are some good ones like Love and Deepspace (LADS) as well as Tears of Themis but with the exception of LADS I find I don't really stick with or spend too much on these games.

 

[Mutamento]

I don't really like this type of game, but in my country, almost all games released are gacha-style otome games. Resources are hard to accumulate, and it's easy to get the wrong cards or hit the pity system, ultimately leaving you with no choice but to spend real money. Although the card art is beautiful, it gets a bit repetitive after a while, and the stories are more prone to falling apart. The two games I've played so far have turned into gacha simulators; I don't even look at the events or the story, I just keep tapping the screen to skip them in order to get resources for gacha pulls.

 

[mistysea]

While I do play a good lot of them- LaDS, LBC, ToT and several of the Ikemen series games- I don't particularly like the gacha side of them esp since most of them aren't very ftp friendly. I play otome games for the story and the characters so if a game's well written then I just end up tolerating the gacha side of it

 

[sunfrvr]

The gacha aspect in otome games are honestly disappointing, but it's what makes the game stay alive, i guess. I never spent money in otome gacha games cus it would take so much money to just pull for something I want and yeah, it's never friendly for ftp players or even light spenders. (unless there are actually some otome games that give u a lot of in-game currencies to pull).

 

[StarstuckGhost]

I've tried so many times to get into gacha games, but I honestly just don't have the time and money for them. Ends up just frustrating me and feeling like I'm wasting my time, making it harder for me to get attached to any of the story/characters.

 

[otofr3ak]

the gambling machine strikes once again. I had less issues with it when I didn't understand the predatory nature of gacha games, but now that I'm older and more aware of the dangers gambling has, I have grown to hate that aspect of the otome genre as a whole. (⑉･᷄ᴗ･᷅⑉)

 

[saphirre]

It doesn't bother me, I prefer to play these type of otome games without using my money and I'm patient for playing one just a few minutes par day. But these mechanisms is double-edged because if the otome game doesn't fully entertain me then I will abandon it

 

[pinkpinkatron]

Gachas need to sustain themselves at a long run, so most content ends up locked. I think that the fun on otome/other vn are the unlocking of the routes by playing, not paying.

 

[haru0117]

I don't usually play pay-to-win otome games, but when I do play games that require spending money, I tell myself I'm just supporting my favorite character, so it doesn't bother me.

 

[Foxfire]

I don't usually play pay-to-win otome games.

 

[1chi]

I'm attracted to the idea of being able to occasionally buy extra story content featuring my favorite character. However, for a character to truly become my favorite, they need to have a full, complete storyline, and that's obviously impossible in gacha. Although I don't know much about otome-gacha......

 

[mizumachi]

my experience with these is that for a month or two, i get really into it, but then my interest just fizzles away and maybe once or twice a week i check in. that's where i'm at with LADS, the main problem is that i want an actual route to develop the relationship, not for it all to be in gacha cards that feels extremely disconnected from each other. I don't play tears of themis anymore, but i remember they have individual stories/routes for the boys atleast

 

[neroro]

I would prefer to pay upfront for any games but i am guilty of spending money on love and deep space.

 

[hiver]

I used to play quite a few gacha otome games but I burned out from them eventually and had to drop them all - with lads being the latest game I dropped after getting really obsessed with it and I realised I'm really not made for gacha otome games.

The gacha systems simply needs way too much investment, not just financial investments but also time! And I noticed that after some time every new limited event and banner becomes a chore for me eventually, and with that my joy dwindles.
I'd much rather pay up front and enjoy the full content of my fav at my own pace. But there lies another problem, you'll never get the "full content" in a gacha. You're forced to keep on gambling for every new card and story; a story that could get dragged out for forever depending on how desperate the writers want to milk fans.

 

[Albeett]

I agree with what a lot of people here are saying. If a game forces you to play every day and spend money every month on a repeating gacha system, then you should stop. I switched back to playing VNs or reading LNs because they offer more flexibility.

 

[Murakuro]

I don't mind it. I only don't really care for it when the "story" is locked behind a gacha card or event card (we will have to spend for). It is fine for me if the story is unlocked during the duration for free.

 

[ichigofuji]

I don't like games that involve elements of luck.

 

[voIuvreles]

gacha otome is ok i guess, when you only focus on that one character and that character only, and you joined when it first releases. i dont like them if you're playing the game late/didn't join on the bandwagon when it first releases. the knowledge that im missing so much gacha contents and have to wait for rerun/will never be able to access the content cuz it's locked forever just irks me off

The only exception was LADS... and tbf even though the combat gameplay was unique and got me hooked for a while (it reminds me of PGR and i loooveee PGR), i left it on the 2nd week because it gets tiring real fast i only came back and stayed up till now because of Sylus lol. came back when Sylus released and i havent missed a card.

for the spending and gambling aspect, i don't really mind spending for gacha if the LI is my fav. but buying packs are last resort move, i usually just get the monthly subscriptions

 

[badpun4you]

I hate microtransactions

 

[sabrinaaa]

I dont mind when it's for like buying costumes (like in LBC), but for cards story......... esp. if you have shit luck... yea i get why people doesnt like microtransactions...

 

[Leviathan_01]

I don't mind much as long as it doesn't negatively affect the main story. In the games I play or have played, the gacha systems are only for cosmetics or cards, like in Cybird or Lovebrush Chronicles games. In none of those does the gacha affect the gameplay, so I don't see why I would be bothered ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[m000000]

I prefer when there's no gacha system… but let's be real, if it's there, I will end up spending money.
These days I'm mostly just playing Love and Deepspace. I always tell myself I won't go overboard, but I still pay to collect all the characters every time. And yeah… afterward I kind of regret it. It feels like such a money sink.
I'm starting to think I should just focus on my favorite instead of trying to get everyone. My wallet would probably appreciate that.

 

[LuhgVekr]

I really don't mind as long as the story it's not locked behind paywall. And I do play a lot of gacha games and I have to say I have pretty good self-control when it comes to gamble so it's not really a problem for me!