I have spent money on gachapon, yes. I got a small Hachikuji figurine.

>>131769
post it

>>131770
Too lazy to take a pic. It's also caked in dust.

>>131771
cute

The only thing I gamble with is my life.

I played Last Origin for a bit because I saw some webms of the combat and it looked fun and I liked how most of the girls had super curvy bodies instead of the usual P shapes. As is usual with gacha many of the characters are blatantly ripoffs of existing things. No one can convince me this girl wasn't inspired by Sachiko.
The ability to create and optimize parties to AFK fight in was quite interesting to me. With a phone emulator on PC and a macro program you could set up some simple button presses so you would repeatedly play the same mission, so it was fun to "beat the system" by fighting 500 battles when I wasn't there.
I bought some monthly membership thing once (for one month) that allowed you to do more things and I guess I don't regret it since it just let me do more stuff. It had no translation available so I was just doing it to mess around in combat more while having a wiki open to show what stuff did. I have no idea what the story was apart from boober cyborgs fighting against robots.
I also had fun looking at the files since it had some minor texture mod support (against dev's wishes I'm sure) so I guess I got more mileage out of it than most. Unfortunately people were not very good at creating edits, but I'm sure today people could do it easily with SD inpainting.

It was like $15 spent on the monthly membership thing and I played it for like 40-50 hours so it wasn't too bad.
But I wish it was an actual stand-alone game I could have just bought.

I don't play gachaslop but I do enjoy the girls and making my own headcanon and its like playing with action figures but instead of action figures it's jpgs on like, Maptools.

>>131849
Who are you quoting?

>>131853
He was summarizing a post in quote formation.

>>131853
Paraphrasing is a form of quotation.

Just renewed my Genshi* sub.

>>131858
>>131866
Look Kana in the face and say that again.

>>131878
>>131882
the cutest

>>131768
I have never spent any money on gacha as I am not retarded to spend money on game they can just turn off next month. I have played f2p for 2 years and my game was shut down. I am glad I haven't spend a dime on this shit. The game was SIFAS they shut it down and SIF to to launch SIF2 the game famous for announcing that global is going live and is gonna shut down next month in the same twitter post. This made my realize that not even money but just spending time playing this is too much. That game demands you do kuso limited time events specifically when you not only don't want to play but when you don't have the time. It's not you who plays when you want but it's the game that plays you when it demands and it plays you like a fucking fiddle. Don't play any of this gacha crap.

I have indeed spent money on gacha, and no I do not regret it. I bought cute outfits for my waifu, my laifu. And I used the gacha money to marry her, look at how cute she is.

>>131911
Instead of spending money on jpgs, you should of written your own self-insert fanfic.

>>131913
I don't need a self-insert fanfic because the game is already a self-insert fanfic. I self-insert as a commander and she is my assistant/waifu.

>>131911
Where's this lucky lady from? Azur Lane?

>>131917
Yep, Azur Lane.

>>131918
I played that for a while because of Roon but I don't like how auto-battley it is. Close to dropping Blue Archive for the same reason...

PlanetSide 2 at one point introduced a gacha for implants, chips you could equip in sets of two at a time, and while it was often argued that they were secondary it's still the case that some of them were gamechangers, like Catlike 5's double jump height Carapace's full-HP for medic builds. Assimilate 5 was largely considered as close to BiS as there could be for heavies.
The system was very grindy, it sucked, and everyone hated it but reluctantly invested into it because some of this stuff was pretty important, though not as important as getting gear and upgrades that are guaranteed to be good. But, you know, the game can be quite janky when it comes to networking, and one day someone found out you could go to the menu, open the purchase panel, set an arbtrarily high number of units to buy, and, get this, if you disconnected your internet then spammed the purchase button, all your orders would go through! All of them! And you'd obtain a bajillion implants of all sorts of levels, dozens of the rarest ones, and also made you end up with an amount of held currency so low it'd show letters instead of numbers. This was kept secret, so it took a while to fix and when that happened everyone's wallet was reset to 0 muns but no implants were taken nor was any punishment meted out.

That was back in, not sure, maybe 2019? I forget. I did spend 10bux on an SMG, which wasn't necessary since I could've grinded it out with regular currency but it was the one time I wanted to get right there and then. Anyways, fun times.
>>131911
How much?

>>131919
As you reach the latest levels you have no choice but to manually play it, but yeah I know what you mean. In fact, before the new levels (14 and over I think) came out, I got so accustomed to the auto battles that manual play feels like a drag now...

PS2 is just grindy in general

I've been enjoying WuWa to the point where I might buy the pass thing. Changli is a big driver for my enjoyment in the game though, her design is complete sexo and her seiyuu is Chiwa Saito. I have such a weak spot for her characters...

>>131923
>WuWa
heh sounds like a joke nickname

>>131924
a wuuuuwa wuuwa awuuuwa

spent money on fgo today

No. I don't like getting things through buying them rather than through gameplay. It feels like cheating and it undermines the game in my opinion.

>>132096
Are you winning?

>>132098
maybe

>>132099
So uhhh... I have no idea what that means. Is more stars better or worse?

>>132100
5 stars = SSR, those are what youre looking for

in this case i spent $15 to get two duplicates of a character i already have

>>132101
Oh. Well, money well spent, huh. Can you 'sell' them or anything?

>>132105
i would never sell her even if there was an option

>>132106
Honestly you could have gotten more out of it if you just did a homebrew version of the game without having to pay for jpgs.

>>131920
>How much?
I don't know, don't keep track of it. But it's not much, maybe $200?
I wish my waifu was well known enough to have decent artwork of her, or even more official artwork but she has like maybe 10...
>>132108
Some people are not blessed in the art department!

>>132109
You don't need to be artistic (but maybe a little autistic) to play a low-tech version of a game.

I don't like gacha on principle. The idea of a forever game people sink most of their money into really repels me since it mostly means that people will just sink funds into a single product/company. Then instead of having the motivation from prior success to develop more games the incentive is to just work on adding new things to the old game until it's no longer as profitable then shutting it down for a new shiny one the dev can coast off name recognition to ensure some semblance of success. It's not like the gameplay or anything about them is really that complex or warranting continual development. It's just designs that people are in them for and for the company it's about maximizing the amount of money they can wring out of the userbase for the least amount of effort. NIKKE being the shining example of this IMO.

The only really good gacha is mahjsouls since it's more cosmetic sales overlayed atop a more complex game that's the main driver of its success. And there's one exception to 'forever games' that I can potentially understand and it's MMOs that are constantly trying to innovate and achieve a more ideal state. Though most of those eventually end up cruising on name recognition or established playerbases too (WoW being extremely egregious in this sense). I just can't wait until the industry blows up in gacha devs faces and people stop feeling the desire to pour endless amounts of their money into a fleeting product.

Probably the tipping point will be once AI progresses enough that these gacha stop feeling any reason to contract human artists to work on them. Then they'll become a completely parasitic existence that feeds back nothing into the community.

>>132439
>The idea of a forever game people sink most of their money into really repels me since it mostly means that people will just sink funds into a single product/company. Then instead of having the motivation from prior success to develop more games the incentive is to just work on adding new things to the old game until it's no longer as profitable then shutting it down for a new shiny one the dev can coast off name recognition to ensure some semblance of success.

I understand this, but some developers use the funds to fund other projects. FGO is so low budget that they've been using their gachabux to fund Tsukihime remake, Fate Extra Record, anime projects, and other stuff. NIKKE's devs also developed Stellar Blade.

>>132454
taxes with targeted advertising characteristics

Genshin now giving away free Monas every anniversary.