Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WEST (automaton-media.com)

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[-] Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

Games with casino style gambling to unlock characters or skins or whatever. Often times you'll have like 1/100 chance to unlock a character you want when opening a "box".

Hugly mobile popular games run like this with new more powerful characters releasing monthly

this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2025

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