Or maybe love the gameplay mechanics, just like me. Which is the main reason I got myself into PGR (and glad that I stayed). Well, the gacha /gambling a little bit aswell but considering how the rate system works and how easy to do daily and weekly, it's not really into my concern. Played Aether Gazer aswell, but I can't seem to enjoy it as much as PGR.
the real winners are the company… f2p is painful and unlocking anything takes forever. nobody wants to play the whole game just using the starting character
Gacha game was meant to trap the vulnerable ones. Those are people who cant resist their gambling addiction and dont know when to stop pulling gacha. Lots of people can play gacha while they resist the temptation, and these people are not the main target of gacha games. This is why people call gacha as predatory aspect of the game. Because it prey on vulnerable ones.
Lucky for me I only play Arknights no other gacha game has gotten my attention and I only really play it at work when I got down time just to keep me busy.
You know you’re in deep when you’ve played every game mentioned in this video and then some more (I also enjoy Honkai Impact 3rd, Project Sekai, and Touhou LostWord)
I play project sekai just for the rhythm game, thus I never paid attention to scores because character based scoring is stupid. Playing it just to enjoy the song and the rhythm game
Wise man once said: "Limbus is a gacha game made by people who clearly have no idea how to make a gacha game. It's for that reason it's the best gacha on the market"
@@rpkuro do 3 mirror dungeons normal a week, and one hard a week, you should be fine then. If you also have 10 minutes spare a day you can also do the dailies, which should net you a few points in the season pass which will give you more shards thus avoiding the actual gacha more often
Thanks for these life ruining tips! For real tho I wish I had more time for story reading. There are so many nice stories out there but they just take so much time. Especially AK
Ong, 10 minutes reading before and after every stage. At least that's how it feels like to me. I stopped reading the story after Chapter 7. At some point I will go back and re-read little by little.
Lost my login streak because of their dumb account system, like seriously, why wouldn't they just link accounts to Google accounts? And now, if you suddenly uninstalled the game, you have to wait about a week, checking your email every day answering some questions (and I don't remember everything about my account)
@@LeomergeAs a "former" FGO player(complete f2p too) the gameplay gets pretty repetitive with the grinding hell after 600+ days, so many extremely long events and the only saving grace for FGO is their great story and writing but even then that slowly diminished so i stopped playing in 2022 I really liked the lostbelts tho the last time i played was after i finished olympus if i remembered correctly But yeah you'll probably get over FGO like me and then try another gacha games that are more generous Right now im only playing Arknights and Honkai Star Rail actively with Blue Archive and Genshin for once in a while
I only buy season pass which like RM30 in my country but only for PGR. For Genshin, only buy Welkins if I have mood to play or next banner probably what I want but it is true about you said. Most people really love just dump lots of money for characters and skins. I not love heavy grain myself so I prefer do it casually. There a day I talk about Steam's game and my friend would like to said that they don't have the money to buy PC but they can spend money like RM500 just for gachas is just crazy.
Bruh they need a shit tons of money to make those games lol, its super normal to spend a logical amount of money to support them. They used real money to make the game, we pay real money to play it. Simple as that.
This is why I only have 2 gacha games, Blue Archive and Reverse 1999. It's not time consuming, less money to spend on. Even doing dailies everyday felt like an obligation, it's no so fun anymore because you don't have time most of the time.
@@aman-my1cwNot just that; if you perhaps has the knowledge of a Gacha that gives you the HUGE amount of rewards that BA gives you please tell me I know there's plenty of games giving good rewards like Nikke, but man, basically 80% of my currency on BA is from free pulls/pyroxenes, like this time they gave us 600 pyroxenes (5 pulls) just for adding a new raid difficult, like bro, A NEW RAID DIFFICULT is just a new feature on the game
What I like about Arknights is that I can just tap to autofarm without focusing on the game, while eating or doing work. Then when I feel like playing the game for real, I can hop in and play Integrated Strategies for hours on end.
@@Adib-oc9rl The other gachas I've played are Puzzle and Dragons, Azur Lane, Fire Emblem Heroes, Magia Record, and Genshin Impact. None of them have sweep. Sweep would be a nice feature to add to Arknights, although it's not a huge priority for me personally.
@@mythicalskeleton1546 ironically enough my auto only fails when i am looking I had one auto i use a awful lot of times and one day when i setted the auto in and went to grab a snack, for some reason i felt an sudden urge to go back and check if everything went right, only to find out somehow, the slowass big enemy that dies in the auto skill somehow survived. Literally saved an auto that would fail because God (real) told me "yo dumbass the auto gonna fail"
You can play more if they all have autoplay. I used to open Fire Emblem Heroes, build a team I need to train and tell my little brother to press autoplay.
Have been playing gacha for 10 years dueing my teens and when my depression was diagnosed. I played my own fair share amount, having spent around 300 bucks. I can't maintain my social life so I usually hide myself in my house and play games, only occasionally studying for my exams and somehow getting through it. Whether I stop playing or not, I think it does make a difference, but damn am I dependent on it to feel somewhat happy.
I sure do love only playing Limbus Company as my gacha of choice. I haven't spent a dime, I haven't grinded very much , I started nearly 5-6 months after launch, and I currently have nearly everything in the game. Fear of missing out is kept to a minimum and spending money is not necessary, especially given how frequently the devs give out free pulls like every week is christmas. A peak story, weekly new content, interesting enough gameplay, and devs that actually respect my time and realize that I can't spend all my time or life savings on their game. The game is especially great for fans of Project Moon's earlier work, which I actually only went back to play after playing Limbus. It's a gacha game made by people who don't know how to make a gacha game, and I think that is a REALLY good thing.
@@Haru-nc3bx I respect it. I have their franchise like L Corp , LoR, LC but I wish I have dedication to LC that play that 50(I gave break in 20th day) days for its story lol (also I dont want to watch it on youtube to not lose its excitement of its story...)
@@GravityApproaching the more free advertisement the more chance that project moon as a franchise establish more HAMHAMPANGPANG restaurant outside of korea
Oh, thats quite neat. Could you share some works that made you interested in the genre? I'm curious about what tittles make people try to give the genre a chance
@@kubutogamermania7075 tbh, I did remain only blue archive, fgo and priconne because of their vn vibes though but other than that. I mostly enjoy moege genre where it's just cute girls dating with you, or meta genre where it brokes fourth wall and messing up the player. It's their scenarios and music makes up the vn medium as an enjoyable experience and it takes a long couple of hours to complete it. Mostly completed VN for me: Yuzusoft games, totono, umineko, cyanatope daydream, rewrite, summer pockets, aokana, amatatsumi and 9 nine series. Currently reading on Clannad.
@@dualia-s74m still i can date with a waifu, doesn't need money just to get the character and don't need to rely on the community since the game provides with you already (you know it about the stuff)
Last summer, I was playing Honkai Impact, Honkai Star Rail, Genshin Impact, Blue Archive, Counterside, Punishing Grey Raven, Snowbreak: Containment Zone, Tower of Fantasy, NIkke, and Epic Seven every day. I understand being tired of gacha games. The break I took in the fall from social media and those games, excluding PGR, Nikke, and BA to an extent, was the best time I've had in years.
Oh god i have enough with Genshin and Star Rail (especially since i dont even have enough storage to have both at the time on my phone) and battle cats with technicallyyy is a gacha game
@@midnighttea0 same I only play Genshin and Honkai 🤣 I used to play Epic Seven but not much anymore I’ll probably play ZZZ when it drops and I’ll be at my limit for sure
@@Blade_BeastIV nah cuz you can just seed track so it’s not even really gâcha anymore at this point and it’s way better (the gacha system) then something like genshin
@@midnighttea0 but that removes all the enjoyment out the game. The issue isn't the rates, it's the fact that they rarely give out cat food. I don't even play anymore tho so it could be different.
I like how in PGR you can just log in, and in 15 minutes all dailys are done. I've only played Arknights in the past, and now I play PGR only. It's a breeze honestly.
I distilled what I enjoyed about these games, realised I liked the story and characters/artwork but didn't like the grind so I picked up digital art, now I draw pictures of characters I like for my personal enjoyment and engagement in communities and watch stories and play alongs on youtube for enjoyment and context. It's really sad how gacha lures players in with the fancy wrapping of art and story only to trap the player inside a psychological hamster wheel of money and addiction.
Years ago when I really got addicted to FGO I was homeless for a couple month because I was too much invested in this game. It really disgusted me how low I fell and I refused at the time to beg for money of my parents and friends because I felt ashamed. Nowadays I still play some gachas but my desire to buy the next virtual dress or pulls is almost gone. I've learned my lesson in a hard way and now enjoy the free to play way. I definitely do not recommend to spent your money on chances.
I play Arknights, because it's genuinely fun and every event is great. I'm mostly free to play when no Limited operators get involved. I missed Ash form R6 event and was traumatized for not getting her. Also I can just set up an auto clicker and go do something else while I'm farming for mats or anything else. I also play Reverse 1999 a bit it's a pretty good and F2P friendly I'd say... Other games I play when I'm on break from school or have some nice free time : Honkai star rail, Wild rift and maybe Genshin if I feel like grinding. To be honest I drop games that are hard to keep up with.
As someone who actively plays fgo and has been playing for years. Im sorry you had such a bad experience. The game has changed so much and its so much better than it was when i first started four years ago. It’s honestly my favorite gatcha game.
Quite so, but it's still a gacha game. I really enjoy the story (and sometimes gameplay, mostly fighting bosses) but planning to leave after they complete bleached earth arc
free to play genshin player here, dont regret playing amd gacha game is not only abt gambling the story and lore rly changed me a lot and for the good with the life lesons. character also helped with my drawing and I CAN THANK GOD ENOUGH for it
I only play one Gacha game and it is Nikke. Love the game to death for it's amazing characters, story, and music. And their dailies take 30 to 45 minutes to complete!
I already said this in one of Touhousniper's video, gacha games saved me during the darkest period of my life. I played FGO NA the longest from year 1 to last year before the summer event. I tried all of the gachas games available during the time and now, I am simply finished with gacha games. I also got everyone I wanted from FGO so that really helped ease the quitting. From all saber faces to all favorite waifus like Hokusai. I don't hate gachas or regret the spent time and money, it was one of the few things that made life bearable during those times. I will always look fondly on my time playing them, its a bit funny because those new upcoming banners made me postpone the unlife date until I forget to set a unlife date lmao.
Oh Gawd it's true I feel like this can't leave my honkai impact 3 hard earned grinding over 6 years with spend on money. Even though I play genshin 2 years account then lost to hacker I feel relieved forgetting genshin long tired story while working much less wasted time.
i find it hilarious how the community fights with one another over which game is the best when in reality all these devs are here to swindle the most that they can.
What about the part where one starts simping a waifu, creating a new religion in the prozess and starting sacrificing anything on a daily base such as money, cakes, drinks, gold, food, water, blood, eyes, limbs, hearts, feelings, souls, and maybe some countries, thus being first place on the international most wanted manhunt list? Nah, this surely can't be enough.
Did everyone play Touhou lost word?? Touhou lost word is my favourite gacha games bc of my favourite waifu Sakuya Izayoi and their story are interesting bc it treat mc like a queen which are friendly and their event also good specially character custome I do spend money on Touhou lost word but not crazily that much So reply me if you guys play Touhou lost word
So many people in the comments justifying their addiction to gacha games. Just back off your gacha for a min and play a AAA game for a while and you'll see what fun actually is. For 4-5 years I played Honkai 3rd, 7DS Grand Cross, and Genshin Impact logging in daily, doing my daily quests, not spending too much money, complaining that there's no content while lying to myself that it was fun. Then I played RDR2 for the first time and holy cow, it amazed me how we forget that gaming shouldn't be a chore but something to actually enjoy and relax with. After that I stayed on more great games GoW 2018 and Ragnarok, and Elden Ring, Zelda, Alan Wake 2 (the list goes on and on) and I love how healthy and therapeutic gaming has become for me. Seeing videos like these where they talk about gacha mechanincs and the endless grinding made me realize how biased I was. I truly believe saying that a game like Genshin Impact is better than any GOTY is bias at its truest form. Wuthering Waves looks good though lmao
i only stuck with 3 games to this day and stayed with gfl, limbus, and occasionally ak, mostly because i dont actually have to spend too much time (except ak) on them except certain times like events. nowadays i play games solely for story, and while i tried alot of other gachas, those 2 stuck story and character wise with better grinding (and ive reached the point where AK is kind off unbearable to keep consistent for me). ive heard things about nikkes story and path to nowhere, but honestly im sticking with 2+1 main games until they die out (which they probably wont, since ill probably play their sequels because im invested in them). remember to learn your limits in games in general, and i wouldn't recommend going over 2 games since youre trading time much worth being used for skills and knowledge, or just experiencing actual better written or meaningful games (as somebody who played gacha games since atleast 8 years or so) when time is already extremely strained and pressed for many things. edit: also forgot to mention how im so thankful mica team made gfl less painful grinding much later on with less corpse dragging and more passive investment with forward basecamp, otherwise i probably wouldve either dropped or hate myself for playing gfl
When I think of it, I just spent so much time on 13 gacha games. -FGO JP -FGO NA -Priconne EN -Azur Lane -Arknights -IM@S CG Starlight Stage -IM@S SC -IM@S SC Song For Prism -GFL -GFL Neural Cloud -PGR -HI3rd -HSR What's worse is that I am bound to try both WuWa, Arknights Endfield & GFL Exilium soon. Good luck to my time management 😑
i played most of those and some others not on the list but mostly dropped all. Currently just playing genshin and hsr. The biggest time i spent were fgo, gfl, ak, genshin and hsr. Played a few months of nikke but dont think ill return due to the paywalls and in your face "pay up". FGO got stale after 3 years, ak for 1, gfl was 1+ but was too grindy and sweaty: rank makes ak's hard stuff look like baby stuff. The story for them tho im still mostly interested in watching on youtube, especially gfl and fgo. I could only play 2-3 at a time tho, 4 was the max i did simultaneously and that wasn't healthy.. heck even 2 isn't imo.
Right now I am playing Wuthering Waves, I use 2 basic characters the games gives you for free, since I really like them, and only another 4 stars character I found. That's it, I am happy with that, I play the dailies when I can since now that I am in my holydays, and that's it, I still consider it the last of my priorities even between my hobbies, since working out and drawing come first.
I also started with FGO, but my problem was that I spent too much...time. The gacha is weird and unrewarding yeah, but once you get past the first year or so, your roster ramps up so much with all the random spooks that you actually end up having a lot of SSRs, more than you ever expected. FGO's issue is the fact you still have to manually farm all nodes one at a time, and it seems it will always stay like this. Most events require you to farm 50-100 times event stages to clear the shop, and lottery events are basically "yea give all your free time to me baby" It's just excruciatingly tiresome. And you realize it only after playing a game that is less predatory of your time. The issue with that is that the game that made me quit FGO is instead predatory in a different way...thankfully I managed to quit that one too last year, and now I will never play any game from that company, even that one turn based that came recently and it does right what the other game does wrong and it's honestly very good and well done and generous and not predatory...but no thanks, you betrayed me with your other "indie game", and that was your one chance with me. Lmao.
Right now I'm only playing blue archive, PGR, despite giving most things free, I just had burn out with boring events. My biggest issue with gacha is the feeling of playing the bare minimum of what the game usually offers after you are done with the good stuff. In paid games, that would be the point where you stop, but for gacha, no grind or dailies means no pulls, and characters is one big selling point for these games. Burnt out is just evident.
So true, this isn't only applicable to gacha games but to all video games that are highly addictive and time-consuming. I'm not saying video games are bad, but I've just realized that investing too much time in grinding is actually a waste of life. I've reached a point where I hate playing games of toxic and frustrating game systems, yet I can't stop and end up playing anyway. We enjoy playing games, but if a game consumes your life, then it means you're a slave to a false sense of accomplishment
I play Honkai Impact 3rd for the story and i think all of my fellow HI3rd players will agree with me on this. It is one of the most beautiful and the most darkest stories ive seen so far with a ton of (enter MatPat voice) *LOOOORE* and one of the most complex and interesting power systems ive seen while still being one of the most overpowered broken power systems aswell lol. And girls are hot too. And the game itself just looks beautiful with some of the best looking scenery ive seen in a game despite it being mainly not open world even though there is open world in the game its not the part of the main story so i wont count it. Talking about Part 1 becuase i havent played Part 2 yet and i know that is open world but idk since i didnt get to that part yet. So yea i think its cool and i think all the players will agree with me on this. Also i dont spend money on games unless its for cosmetics or something becuase i enjoy playing them and i havent spent more than 15 dollars on this game and that was becuase there was a limited outfit i really liked that i had to pay for becuase i was late to the event and couldnt get it on time otherwise. I dont even do character builds or team builds i just play what i like and enjoy the game unless im grinding for something and put on the best build i can make with what i have and speedrun the grind lol. So yea i dont think playing Honkai Impact 3rd is a waste if you genuinely enjoy playing it and i would reccomend the game to everyone becuase someone might like it. Rita Rossweisse best girl, Fallen Rosemary best battlesuit.
Living on with society these days are so despairing too as well, and everyone else have already rejected you even before you ever played any of these games.
To be real, Arknights and Azur Lane are the only two gacha games I ever get into. It’s funny because I took a 7-month break on AL and the moment Destiny 2 was flopping and felt disinterested from it for a time, I got back into the shipgirls. Now, I’m slowly getting the go-to priority ships I see some popular AL YTbers have. Plus some of them do pretty good damage and have great survivability. But through all of this, the only things I spend are the monthly payments for the two. With the side of others costing under $10, if I want to. Emphasis on want and not need.
I started playing Gacha games half a year ago but luckily I limit my screentime to like 15hours a week and stay f2p.That's still a lot but not to much compared either.
The only gacha game I picked up and dedicate to is arknights, I tried pcr before, but the arena pvp and guild boss is just too grindy and exhausting for me, so I gave up on that only after a few months - and it surprised me even more when I heard the game shut down its EN server last year - guess it is indeed too grindy to attract enough cash flow. I register ak on day 2 of global launch (cuz I forgot to bind my day 1 account and lost it), and for the past 4 years or so, I login everyday, doing every event, grab every medal sets, and really invested into this game. The daily routine of ak can be just two logins a day and 30-45 mins to use the sanity (stamina in ak), swap the base operators to keep the passive incomes going, and claim daily mission rewards - plain and simple. But even that I eventually get tired of it, so I start to use some external assist to help me get my daily done, and only pay some attentions when there's new event & banner drops. Hell, I am not surprised if one day I just feel like "let's take a break from it" and make it permanent like you did with FGO, and start using the money I usually put in arknights for buying some legit games on steam or just improve the life quality.
I only play arknights, i spend 5-6 minutes a day active, and grind 1-7, spending 5 dollars a month… and kinda just wait… you see how many pulls people have saved!?
So ur 2nd gacha was AL? Nice! My 1st gacha, and thus introduction to the concept of gacha as a whole was AL. I didn’t learn that AL was a gacha, and wat a gacha is til GI released and I picked it up and got bashed in the head w wat it chose to do for its gacha, steal from its players essentially. Once I learned about GI gacha system I realized all I needed to know and understand about AL and it’s gacha and how fucking nice and generous yostar is. I came to the realization that gacha games r usually very greedy but AL chose to take a different route. the gacha was mainly used as an excuse as to why and how we got 4-7 new shipfus to collect every 2-4 weeks from new patches. I’ve been playing AL for 5 years now. And I’m in love w it and that love has never wained. Rn I play AL daily without fail. And on the side I play GI and HSR, I sometimes miss a day or 2 here and there, or even sometimes week(s) upto month(s) in the case of GI. I tried AK twice, failed to like the game at all. And there is probably close to a dozen more gacha games I wanna try out but I lack the time and storage space on my phone to do so. There was 1 or 2 rinkie dink gacha games that I tried but they were unpolished closturfucks that almost got me to stay but they failed for reasons only done by small indie companies can. I actualły kinda feel bad for not enjoying 1 of them more and ended up silently quitting like that. 1 of them came so close to being my 2nd fav video game, behind AL. And about 90+% of the reason being the UI. The UI looked gud, but old and I struggled to understand and navigate it.
i currently play honkai impact 3rd, starrail and genshin. i think im gonna drop honkai impact 3rd after i complete the part 1 story. that will at least free up some of my time to do more than just dailies in the games.
I remember being a young rural halfwit growing up loving to learn more about WW2 and history stuff through the old books and stories my grandparents told me about their time in the the war, Fast forward 2014 I saw Kancolle and was like Gyatt damn, WW2 ships but as Animu Waifus. From there it went downhill and became years long obessesion with Military and Animu Waifus Azur lane being released in my Senior year in Highschool only fueled the gacha addiction and fapping to WW2 anthropomorphic ships and vehicles, especially after I quit FGO(banners sucks ass). Tried nearly all the gachas mentioned here through the years but by then I decided imma stick to a few, that being GFL, Arknights and RE:1999 (add In War Thunder) so far every step mentioned in this Video is accurate af.
I used to do Azur Lane but I guess retired from it is the right word since FGO IS my first and WILL be my first and only game I stick with because I’m into Typemoon and Fate as a whole.
I'm smart enough with my spending so I know how to spend on these games. My spendings so far are only for FGO's lucky bag summons and PGR's monthly pass. So I just endure the salt rather than whale on banners.
I think the thing with gachas is everyone enjoys them in a different way. Personally i don't think they're disruptive to my everyday life. Here i must add though, i'm a full f2p so sunk cost has never really been a problem to me, also not really a collector kind of player, i'm in fact kind of picky and am happy getting just who i really like, save for AL where i love pretty much every not-loli shipgirl, but luckily AL is super f2p friendly, just got Shinano yesterday and NJ last week. I think also having other hobbies helps a lot, i like to draw, so that's one thing i can always feel like i should prioritize.
This made me laugh wayyyy too hard, Ive been trying to ruin my life with gacha since genshin, then added honkai star rail, tried adding tower of fantasy (but didnt stick), tried adding zzz (but its worse than tof), and been tempted to add WuWa (but havent due to still having some desire to not ruin my life even further). I noticed how bad these games are and that i had a problem, when i kept playing even when i didnt want to, or was bored of it or annoyed. Now i try to have more self awareness and STOP playing when i dont want to, and tell myself, its OK, to skip an event, if you would rather have a life outside instead.
how to know if a gacha game player repsects themselves: they dont play a hoyoverse game (yes, this includes HSR and Hi3 part 2... unless if you played Hi3 for the story i cant blame you for that one cheif, its peak fiction)
Those who don't play HI3 for the story will simply drop the game in a year, because it's exhausting and not particularly interesting(like most gacha games). And Part 2 is actually revamping gacha, which is good, and adding more gameplay to the story - which is also good overall. About qualt of text - we will see, but we have many, many questions about Universe, so I hope they do something.
I play for the story the gacha and grind in HI3 is just 💀. Pure pain you need weapon, stigmata, and meta valkyrie. I give up building my valkyries only focus on story once I hit lvl 50
I've gaddly quit , every one of them , as for Honkai , day 1 CN and SEA player here , i've gaddly quit after arc 1 ending , seeing the plot conclusion was enough , that game has no gameplay content worth your time now , abd that's the whole point of part 2 but saddly (happily) not enough to get me back
@@GolgothianSylex in a year? Nah for me it's just a week because like you said it's exhausting. And for part 2 dialogue ngl for me I'm confused about the scientific jargon in it
@@birubluebiru6861 any gacha besides autobattlers is exhausting, I've played FGO JP since Babylon to Avalon Le Fae, it was way worse. I simply deduce that gacha players has stamina to sit through some... strange game design decisions.
I think its also the way you approach the games. I play a lot of gachas myself but I guess because I literally just login play for a few minutes then switch to the next one, it doesnt affect my life as much as I just do it while Im on the bus/train. I kinda treat gacha games like watering a plant. You give it some water then thats it I guess
how to not ruin your life with these games: be a broke guy that lives in a third world country like me so even if you wanted to, you can't spend money on these games because you have priorities (food, bills and your family, basically just surviving), just be an absolute f2p fucking unit like me, anyways, get your mind off the microtransactions and just enjoy the game, of the gacha games that i play, genshin and star rail, they both give out pretty decent rewards for a f2p player so you should be fine, be responsible human beings yall, please
@@simonshura9144 yeah sounds like a literal everysingle person that lives on a shitty country's problem huh, it's not just me dude, be more aware of the world that u live in
I dropped multiple gachas to name of top of my head (Arknights, Star Rail, Ode to Heroes, Nikke) which I have spent significant amount of money to just get bored and never return again what a thrill lmao
Im glad modern fgo requires you to only play the game for 2 minutes a day cuz i cant grind for hours a day, thats about the only good thing about that game tho
For me only the FGO and Gundam Breaker Mobile is worth to try first minimum paid gacha for not to repeat paid again before since GBM shutdown now my Alternative is CodeGeass Lost Stories because why not I like fantasy and mecha though i choose to convert from F2p now because of what happened to GBM😭
I've been playing granblue fantasy for 7 years and in those 7 years i waste my time only for that game, even to the point when i play 17 hrs everyday just to get higher rank in guild war. But after i break for 2 years and comeback i can control my time for granblue from 12 - 17 hrs to just 1 or 2 hrs a day and doing something else useful to my life. The point is there would be a time when you tired of the game and break, if that happen use that time properly and when you comeback to your game control yourself so you not fall to the same hole twice
Heyy... my journey was similar like yours too! But my starting lane was Brave Frontier, then FGO. Now my main games are AK, PGR, AL and HSR. I agree with you, gacha games are slow burn and frustrating. Well, at least I'm a student so my spending are very limited.
Yes, Fate Grand Order got me into gacha games, 7 knights its now closed and FF Brave Exvius. its the adrenaline and excitement of getting a super super rare character that got me hooked. its like a drug to be honest. i am now focused on playing Star Rail, turned based games seems to be my comfort, but i would login to FGO sometimes.
As long as you don’t spend money and you find a good work life balance,it should be fine. That’s not really a Gacha problem and just a degeneracy problem
damn man, more or less it was the same to me, I have literally played every game you have mentioned. I dedicated (wasted) like 2 years of my life trying to grind for the new waifus even if I didn't enjoy the gameplay or the game anymore. I managed to get out of the gacha hell like 3 months ago and man, I feel like as I've earned more by leaving those games than what all my savings there. If you're in a similar situation, just think that those pixels are not worth the price they're sold for, and if you like the story, then most of the time you don't need the newest or strongest characters, you can just play the story and leave, as if it was another normal game! And you don't need to own the waifus/husbandos to enjoy them, the fanarts of them are free to search for, if you know what I mean. P.D.: I used to play 14 simultaneous gachas everyday, now that I think about it I can't figure out how did I manage to do so.
veteran here who has spent way more then i ever even should have ever even conceived to spend. my experience after 7 years of gacha and whaleing (sometimes on games that went down a year later) *Spirit Pledge* the most important thing to do when you start a gacha game is to determine what you want from it. if you dont do this you will be chaseing your tail. the sad reality is for most gacha games the end game is boreing and underwhelming a vast majority of the time the grind WAS the most "game" part of the gacha game. im at the end of every gacha game that i still play or hasnt been shut down and honestly? its pretty depressing and boring. i put all this effort into these games to reach the end only to find out, its empty at the top. Also for anyone who still plays FGO use FGA fate grand automata it has that auto battle feature you crave.
1. Spend little to no money, 2. Pick ONE game, 3. Prioritize what you like about the game, 4. Take breaks when you need them, 5. Ignore RUclipsrs and other influencers. Thanks for the advice!
finally someone who i can relate to, financially yes, it can screw you over if you really can't handle the fomo and control your wallet, but the biggest offender for me was the time. It's double edged, you get copiumed into thinking the dailies/weeklies only take 5 or whatever amount of minutes, but in reality it eats up more, and encroaches. Some people can't even work out daily, and these games ask you to spend the little time you have per day on it, not to mention if you play multiple of them. Say goodbye to your freetime and sanity when theres colliding events or major story launches. those 5 minutes turn into hours per day.
The only gacha i play is genshin impact,seriously never bother to build character to perfection. As long as they kill overworld enemy,i am satisfied. I play it more for open world and story than gacha stuff.
Some of the games are not available in the US app stores, and as a free-to-play player, the only games I play are Princess Connect! Re: Dive and Cookie Run: Kingdom, because I love both the franchises. Touhou Lostword is a fan game, and Princess Connect! Re: Dive was shut down on April 30, 2023 by Crunchyroll, resulting in lots of controversy and rebellion against Crunchyroll. I will come back to CRK and Lostword, but I will swear vengeance for the PriConne gals, no matter what it takes! The Battle Cats is part of a gacha game series developed by PONOS, a spiritual ancestor and successor to most gacha companies like Cygames and Devsisters, and I highly recommend The Battle Cats over all other gacha games.
gacha summon gamble system is criminal and should be illegal…you can spend 1000$ and not getting the character you need (for the meta). its a sick world. and if you become addict (myself) too…you will spend for this trash instead paying your bills or appartment. very dangerous, be careful.
My first gacha was Summoners War. Great game but my god do you need to invest alot of time into it. Especially for events. I switched over to Arknights (couldnt download both so dropped SW) and there has been times where i felt i needed to invest as much as back with SW but that was for one or two of the events, the rest have been fine. Would have played Genshin Impact if i was able to. I am fully free to play so both of these games have been pretty good in that regard. Would be interested to atleast try out some others but are either unable to play them or dont have the storage to. Though two big reasons i enjoy gacha would be looter shooters and anime, its always nice to get something rare and a bonus if they look good too.
You forgot to mention join a guild that has Guild Wars. Nothing like peer pressure to give yourself an excuse to whale to keep your account strong in order for your guild to rank highly. Granblue Fantasy says hello.
The only winners are the people who don't care about gambling/ ranked and genuinly love the characters, story, and leave it at that.
that's me, but i still has no life :D
dont forget the company
Or maybe love the gameplay mechanics, just like me. Which is the main reason I got myself into PGR (and glad that I stayed). Well, the gacha /gambling a little bit aswell but considering how the rate system works and how easy to do daily and weekly, it's not really into my concern. Played Aether Gazer aswell, but I can't seem to enjoy it as much as PGR.
the real winners are the company… f2p is painful and unlocking anything takes forever. nobody wants to play the whole game just using the starting character
@@7WhiteSword Arknights f2p gives you everything you need idk what you're talking about
How to not ruin life with gacha: just enjoy the game as much it lasted
OR just play single player offline video games; why?? Cause gachas have one weakness: internet; No internet, No gacha simple as that.
Nah, I'd maintain a healthy amount of gacha gaming.
the only healthy amount is zero
Are you having a gambling addiction because you are gacha player or are you a gacha player because of your gambling addiction
@@notusneo Nah, I'd roll an SSR.
@notusneo Maybe, but i like PGR music and the gameplay is very addictive
Stand proud, you're a gambling addict.
I love my gambling but with anime girls games, I shall never stop no matter how much my wife and infant son beg me to
Literally me
this what internet has done to people
wait what???
bruh fr
yeah.....till you realize how fuck up you are in the end
LMAO we went from the same journey with gacha games, like literally exact order FGO then AL and then GFL to find out AK by accident, relatable content
Gacha game was meant to trap the vulnerable ones. Those are people who cant resist their gambling addiction and dont know when to stop pulling gacha. Lots of people can play gacha while they resist the temptation, and these people are not the main target of gacha games.
This is why people call gacha as predatory aspect of the game. Because it prey on vulnerable ones.
Because easy money for the company
Lucky for me I only play Arknights no other gacha game has gotten my attention and I only really play it at work when I got down time just to keep me busy.
This tbh 🎉
In my case is Blue Archive. 15 minutes a day is more than enough and some days I play more to read the story
That's what a lot of players in Asia do too. Honestly, Arknights isn't much better.
You know you’re in deep when you’ve played every game mentioned in this video and then some more (I also enjoy Honkai Impact 3rd, Project Sekai, and Touhou LostWord)
Do you still play all of those games?
I play project sekai and it’s fun. But it does actually require some skill since you can’t pay to win.
I play project sekai just for the rhythm game, thus I never paid attention to scores because character based scoring is stupid. Playing it just to enjoy the song and the rhythm game
The only gacha game I've ever played is The Battle Cats. I've been playing casually and completely f2p for around 5.5 years and it's pretty fun.
CAT GAME MENTIONED ‼️‼️
Me too!
Man, five years, even casually that is dedication
Wise man once said: "Limbus is a gacha game made by people who clearly have no idea how to make a gacha game. It's for that reason it's the best gacha on the market"
After Limbus I started to think that throwing a coin is cool as heck lol
atleast the grind isn't too tiring either
@@rpkuro do 3 mirror dungeons normal a week, and one hard a week, you should be fine then.
If you also have 10 minutes spare a day you can also do the dailies, which should net you a few points in the season pass which will give you more shards thus avoiding the actual gacha more often
As a limbus player myself I just think that project moon only know how to make the gameplay good and fun and not the gacha itself
@@just_living_a_life167 well its not like Limbus gameplay is that fun thoe
Thanks for these life ruining tips!
For real tho I wish I had more time for story reading. There are so many nice stories out there but they just take so much time. Especially AK
Ong, 10 minutes reading before and after every stage. At least that's how it feels like to me. I stopped reading the story after Chapter 7. At some point I will go back and re-read little by little.
@@paulperalta3150 That's how I tackle it too. But if only it were just 10 minutes. Often it's 15 to 20
thats why I just reading the main story for AK, good luck reading the side story
@@socrates1796 some side story was better than the main but damn, 30m read per stage is very long
@@NightMare-ti6sn yes I know, I remember the only side story I read is texas alter and gavial alter
If you stream your daily gacha gameplay, you won't lose time and get double returns! Truly that's the way to go.
I've been playing FGO regularly since November 2022 and didn't miss a single log-in.
Same
Lost my login streak because of their dumb account system, like seriously, why wouldn't they just link accounts to Google accounts? And now, if you suddenly uninstalled the game, you have to wait about a week, checking your email every day answering some questions (and I don't remember everything about my account)
@@Pseudonimus Didn't you save and remember the one time generated password they gave you.
Best gacha until today, FGO gives u a lot of freedom.
@@keibrokay, how much lasagna pays you
Slowly but surely that 30min - 1 hour per day per game will take up a lot of time 😅
I really love those games, but the thoughts of using real money only to get those artificial things is beyond me
I have faith in humanity again
Still to early to say this because I'm only 253 days on fgo, but thankfully, I'm still f2p, and fgo is the only gacha game I'm playing
@@LeomergeAs a "former" FGO player(complete f2p too) the gameplay gets pretty repetitive with the grinding hell after 600+ days, so many extremely long events and the only saving grace for FGO is their great story and writing but even then that slowly diminished so i stopped playing in 2022
I really liked the lostbelts tho the last time i played was after i finished olympus if i remembered correctly
But yeah you'll probably get over FGO like me and then try another gacha games that are more generous
Right now im only playing Arknights and Honkai Star Rail actively with Blue Archive and Genshin for once in a while
I only buy season pass which like RM30 in my country but only for PGR. For Genshin, only buy Welkins if I have mood to play or next banner probably what I want but it is true about you said.
Most people really love just dump lots of money for characters and skins. I not love heavy grain myself so I prefer do it casually. There a day I talk about Steam's game and my friend would like to said that they don't have the money to buy PC but they can spend money like RM500 just for gachas is just crazy.
Bruh they need a shit tons of money to make those games lol, its super normal to spend a logical amount of money to support them. They used real money to make the game, we pay real money to play it. Simple as that.
This is why I only have 2 gacha games, Blue Archive and Reverse 1999.
It's not time consuming, less money to spend on.
Even doing dailies everyday felt like an obligation, it's no so fun anymore because you don't have time most of the time.
Blue Archive the goat
Aside events and raids, BA is really wageslave-friendly. It wouldn't take no longer than your toilet break to clear your dailies and AP😂
@@aman-my1cw Hai desu hai desu
@@aman-my1cwNot just that; if you perhaps has the knowledge of a Gacha that gives you the HUGE amount of rewards that BA gives you please tell me
I know there's plenty of games giving good rewards like Nikke, but man, basically 80% of my currency on BA is from free pulls/pyroxenes, like this time they gave us 600 pyroxenes (5 pulls) just for adding a new raid difficult, like bro, A NEW RAID DIFFICULT is just a new feature on the game
Me who didn't finish task in reverse 1999 daily it's too much time consuming 😭
What I like about Arknights is that I can just tap to autofarm without focusing on the game, while eating or doing work.
Then when I feel like playing the game for real, I can hop in and play Integrated Strategies for hours on end.
Until you look away and it somehow fails
@@Adib-oc9rl The other gachas I've played are Puzzle and Dragons, Azur Lane, Fire Emblem Heroes, Magia Record, and Genshin Impact. None of them have sweep.
Sweep would be a nice feature to add to Arknights, although it's not a huge priority for me personally.
Still waiting loop farm
@@mythicalskeleton1546 ironically enough my auto only fails when i am looking
I had one auto i use a awful lot of times and one day when i setted the auto in and went to grab a snack, for some reason i felt an sudden urge to go back and check if everything went right, only to find out somehow, the slowass big enemy that dies in the auto skill somehow survived.
Literally saved an auto that would fail because God (real) told me "yo dumbass the auto gonna fail"
Sweep>auto
Just play 1 gacha that u really like, problem solved.
You can play more if they all have autoplay. I used to open Fire Emblem Heroes, build a team I need to train and tell my little brother to press autoplay.
i only have 2, being pgr and limbus, which i think are great games
NIKKE 😌
Have been playing gacha for 10 years dueing my teens and when my depression was diagnosed. I played my own fair share amount, having spent around 300 bucks. I can't maintain my social life so I usually hide myself in my house and play games, only occasionally studying for my exams and somehow getting through it. Whether I stop playing or not, I think it does make a difference, but damn am I dependent on it to feel somewhat happy.
Never try drugs kids
It’s really spookable
Me as AL, Ak and BA enjoyer
So you tried to drug them too ? 😭
jk
@@AdmiralHibi breh
Roon
@@arkstazk4120 Roon
I sure do love only playing Limbus Company as my gacha of choice. I haven't spent a dime, I haven't grinded very much , I started nearly 5-6 months after launch, and I currently have nearly everything in the game. Fear of missing out is kept to a minimum and spending money is not necessary, especially given how frequently the devs give out free pulls like every week is christmas. A peak story, weekly new content, interesting enough gameplay, and devs that actually respect my time and realize that I can't spend all my time or life savings on their game. The game is especially great for fans of Project Moon's earlier work, which I actually only went back to play after playing Limbus. It's a gacha game made by people who don't know how to make a gacha game, and I think that is a REALLY good thing.
POV: You are PM-brainrot trying to find a mention of Limbus
@@justarandomguyonyoutube9129 It's okay, I'd rather have PM brainrot than be in crippling debt through other gacha games
@@justarandomguyonyoutube9129 the more free advertisement limbus has = the more jihoon cook
@@Haru-nc3bx I respect it. I have their franchise like L Corp , LoR, LC but I wish I have dedication to LC that play that 50(I gave break in 20th day) days for its story lol (also I dont want to watch it on youtube to not lose its excitement of its story...)
@@GravityApproaching the more free advertisement the more chance that project moon as a franchise establish more HAMHAMPANGPANG restaurant outside of korea
I finally quit on gacha hell, now im on visual novel hell.
Those are literary works though. Like books 2.0.
Oh, thats quite neat. Could you share some works that made you interested in the genre? I'm curious about what tittles make people try to give the genre a chance
@@kubutogamermania7075 tbh, I did remain only blue archive, fgo and priconne because of their vn vibes though but other than that. I mostly enjoy moege genre where it's just cute girls dating with you, or meta genre where it brokes fourth wall and messing up the player. It's their scenarios and music makes up the vn medium as an enjoyable experience and it takes a long couple of hours to complete it.
Mostly completed VN for me:
Yuzusoft games, totono, umineko, cyanatope daydream, rewrite, summer pockets, aokana, amatatsumi and 9 nine series.
Currently reading on Clannad.
I want to get out of gacha hell just to beat more of my JRPG hell..
@@dualia-s74m still i can date with a waifu, doesn't need money just to get the character and don't need to rely on the community since the game provides with you already (you know it about the stuff)
Last summer, I was playing Honkai Impact, Honkai Star Rail, Genshin Impact, Blue Archive, Counterside, Punishing Grey Raven, Snowbreak: Containment Zone, Tower of Fantasy, NIkke, and Epic Seven every day. I understand being tired of gacha games. The break I took in the fall from social media and those games, excluding PGR, Nikke, and BA to an extent, was the best time I've had in years.
Oh god i have enough with Genshin and Star Rail (especially since i dont even have enough storage to have both at the time on my phone) and battle cats with technicallyyy is a gacha game
@@midnighttea0 same I only play Genshin and Honkai 🤣 I used to play Epic Seven but not much anymore I’ll probably play ZZZ when it drops and I’ll be at my limit for sure
@@midnighttea0battle cats is so bad with the gacha. But the actual gameplay is very enjoyable.
@@Blade_BeastIV nah cuz you can just seed track so it’s not even really gâcha anymore at this point and it’s way better (the gacha system) then something like genshin
@@midnighttea0 but that removes all the enjoyment out the game. The issue isn't the rates, it's the fact that they rarely give out cat food. I don't even play anymore tho so it could be different.
I like how in PGR you can just log in, and in 15 minutes all dailys are done.
I've only played Arknights in the past, and now I play PGR only. It's a breeze honestly.
I distilled what I enjoyed about these games, realised I liked the story and characters/artwork but didn't like the grind so I picked up digital art, now I draw pictures of characters I like for my personal enjoyment and engagement in communities and watch stories and play alongs on youtube for enjoyment and context. It's really sad how gacha lures players in with the fancy wrapping of art and story only to trap the player inside a psychological hamster wheel of money and addiction.
Years ago when I really got addicted to FGO I was homeless for a couple month because I was too much invested in this game. It really disgusted me how low I fell and I refused at the time to beg for money of my parents and friends because I felt ashamed.
Nowadays I still play some gachas but my desire to buy the next virtual dress or pulls is almost gone. I've learned my lesson in a hard way and now enjoy the free to play way.
I definitely do not recommend to spent your money on chances.
I play Arknights, because it's genuinely fun and every event is great. I'm mostly free to play when no Limited operators get involved. I missed Ash form R6 event and was traumatized for not getting her.
Also I can just set up an auto clicker and go do something else while I'm farming for mats or anything else. I also play Reverse 1999 a bit it's a pretty good and F2P friendly I'd say...
Other games I play when I'm on break from school or have some nice free time : Honkai star rail, Wild rift and maybe Genshin if I feel like grinding. To be honest I drop games that are hard to keep up with.
Good news, we got a rerun for the R6S event! Just like me, we'll be able to put this one missed character moment to rest.
@@TheOrian34 bad news, another R6 new banner, which means to avoid making the mistake i did 2 years ago i will have to euthanize my wallet
Surely it won't go wrong, hahaaa...@@monikaisdonewiththeinterne2039
Back then I thought my Gacha addiction was a joke until it becomes a serious problem
As someone who actively plays fgo and has been playing for years. Im sorry you had such a bad experience. The game has changed so much and its so much better than it was when i first started four years ago. It’s honestly my favorite gatcha game.
Quite so, but it's still a gacha game. I really enjoy the story (and sometimes gameplay, mostly fighting bosses) but planning to leave after they complete bleached earth arc
free to play genshin player here, dont regret playing amd gacha game is not only abt gambling the story and lore rly changed me a lot and for the good with the life lesons. character also helped with my drawing and I CAN THANK GOD ENOUGH for it
Seek help for gambling.
I only play one Gacha game and it is Nikke. Love the game to death for it's amazing characters, story, and music. And their dailies take 30 to 45 minutes to complete!
I already said this in one of Touhousniper's video, gacha games saved me during the darkest period of my life. I played FGO NA the longest from year 1 to last year before the summer event. I tried all of the gachas games available during the time and now, I am simply finished with gacha games. I also got everyone I wanted from FGO so that really helped ease the quitting. From all saber faces to all favorite waifus like Hokusai.
I don't hate gachas or regret the spent time and money, it was one of the few things that made life bearable during those times. I will always look fondly on my time playing them, its a bit funny because those new upcoming banners made me postpone the unlife date until I forget to set a unlife date lmao.
Oh Gawd it's true I feel like this can't leave my honkai impact 3 hard earned grinding over 6 years with spend on money. Even though I play genshin 2 years account then lost to hacker I feel relieved forgetting genshin long tired story while working much less wasted time.
i find it hilarious how the community fights with one another over which game is the best when in reality all these devs are here to swindle the most that they can.
What about the part where one starts simping a waifu,
creating a new religion in the prozess and starting sacrificing anything on a daily base such as money, cakes, drinks, gold, food, water, blood, eyes, limbs, hearts, feelings, souls, and maybe some countries, thus being first place on the international most wanted manhunt list?
Nah, this surely can't be enough.
Like that one guy who created a Maizano shrine from Daganronpa
the guy that started "kyaaaa skadi" that spread to "kyaaaa eula" and spread even further to any Rina Sato character
Everyone should pay more attention to the Eula.@@King_Jockey
@@King_Jockey kyaaaaaaaa vert
Did everyone play Touhou lost word??
Touhou lost word is my favourite gacha games bc of my favourite waifu Sakuya Izayoi and their story are interesting bc it treat mc like a queen which are friendly and their event also good specially character custome
I do spend money on Touhou lost word but not crazily that much
So reply me if you guys play Touhou lost word
So many people in the comments justifying their addiction to gacha games. Just back off your gacha for a min and play a AAA game for a while and you'll see what fun actually is. For 4-5 years I played Honkai 3rd, 7DS Grand Cross, and Genshin Impact logging in daily, doing my daily quests, not spending too much money, complaining that there's no content while lying to myself that it was fun. Then I played RDR2 for the first time and holy cow, it amazed me how we forget that gaming shouldn't be a chore but something to actually enjoy and relax with. After that I stayed on more great games GoW 2018 and Ragnarok, and Elden Ring, Zelda, Alan Wake 2 (the list goes on and on) and I love how healthy and therapeutic gaming has become for me.
Seeing videos like these where they talk about gacha mechanincs and the endless grinding made me realize how biased I was.
I truly believe saying that a game like Genshin Impact is better than any GOTY is bias at its truest form.
Wuthering Waves looks good though lmao
I still think genshin is a great game just that the gacha aspects ruin it and you do not realize until after leaving
i only stuck with 3 games to this day and stayed with gfl, limbus, and occasionally ak, mostly because i dont actually have to spend too much time (except ak) on them except certain times like events. nowadays i play games solely for story, and while i tried alot of other gachas, those 2 stuck story and character wise with better grinding (and ive reached the point where AK is kind off unbearable to keep consistent for me). ive heard things about nikkes story and path to nowhere, but honestly im sticking with 2+1 main games until they die out (which they probably wont, since ill probably play their sequels because im invested in them).
remember to learn your limits in games in general, and i wouldn't recommend going over 2 games since youre trading time much worth being used for skills and knowledge, or just experiencing actual better written or meaningful games (as somebody who played gacha games since atleast 8 years or so) when time is already extremely strained and pressed for many things.
edit: also forgot to mention how im so thankful mica team made gfl less painful grinding much later on with less corpse dragging and more passive investment with forward basecamp, otherwise i probably wouldve either dropped or hate myself for playing gfl
Oh shit, I had no idea you were a gfl player. Ironically that was the third gacha game I picked up but has been the one I stuck with for years now.
i wish i could stay on gfl, but its way too grindy and sweaty, game does not respect your time at all. Its a love hate relationship for me.
@@mendicsHow long has it been since you've last been on it?
When I think of it, I just spent so much time on 13 gacha games.
-FGO JP
-FGO NA
-Priconne EN
-Azur Lane
-Arknights
-IM@S CG Starlight Stage
-IM@S SC
-IM@S SC Song For Prism
-GFL
-GFL Neural Cloud
-PGR
-HI3rd
-HSR
What's worse is that I am bound to try both WuWa, Arknights Endfield & GFL Exilium soon. Good luck to my time management 😑
That's too much
i played most of those and some others not on the list but mostly dropped all. Currently just playing genshin and hsr. The biggest time i spent were fgo, gfl, ak, genshin and hsr. Played a few months of nikke but dont think ill return due to the paywalls and in your face "pay up". FGO got stale after 3 years, ak for 1, gfl was 1+ but was too grindy and sweaty: rank makes ak's hard stuff look like baby stuff. The story for them tho im still mostly interested in watching on youtube, especially gfl and fgo. I could only play 2-3 at a time tho, 4 was the max i did simultaneously and that wasn't healthy.. heck even 2 isn't imo.
Right now I am playing Wuthering Waves, I use 2 basic characters the games gives you for free, since I really like them, and only another 4 stars character I found. That's it, I am happy with that, I play the dailies when I can since now that I am in my holydays, and that's it, I still consider it the last of my priorities even between my hobbies, since working out and drawing come first.
I also started with FGO, but my problem was that I spent too much...time.
The gacha is weird and unrewarding yeah, but once you get past the first year or so, your roster ramps up so much with all the random spooks that you actually end up having a lot of SSRs, more than you ever expected.
FGO's issue is the fact you still have to manually farm all nodes one at a time, and it seems it will always stay like this.
Most events require you to farm 50-100 times event stages to clear the shop, and lottery events are basically "yea give all your free time to me baby"
It's just excruciatingly tiresome. And you realize it only after playing a game that is less predatory of your time.
The issue with that is that the game that made me quit FGO is instead predatory in a different way...thankfully I managed to quit that one too last year, and now I will never play any game from that company, even that one turn based that came recently and it does right what the other game does wrong and it's honestly very good and well done and generous and not predatory...but no thanks, you betrayed me with your other "indie game", and that was your one chance with me. Lmao.
three words FateGrandAutomata
next stop: LIMBUUUS COMPANYYY! Vrooms Vrooms
Right now I'm only playing blue archive, PGR, despite giving most things free, I just had burn out with boring events. My biggest issue with gacha is the feeling of playing the bare minimum of what the game usually offers after you are done with the good stuff. In paid games, that would be the point where you stop, but for gacha, no grind or dailies means no pulls, and characters is one big selling point for these games. Burnt out is just evident.
So in the end, don't spend on any and just play like it's going to shut down.
Sounds like a plan.
It won't stay permanent tbh.
The trick with gatcha game is, stick with only one at time, or they such your entire time
That is the truth 😂
So true, this isn't only applicable to gacha games but to all video games that are highly addictive and time-consuming. I'm not saying video games are bad, but I've just realized that investing too much time in grinding is actually a waste of life. I've reached a point where I hate playing games of toxic and frustrating game systems, yet I can't stop and end up playing anyway. We enjoy playing games, but if a game consumes your life, then it means you're a slave to a false sense of accomplishment
I play Honkai Impact 3rd for the story and i think all of my fellow HI3rd players will agree with me on this. It is one of the most beautiful and the most darkest stories ive seen so far with a ton of (enter MatPat voice) *LOOOORE* and one of the most complex and interesting power systems ive seen while still being one of the most overpowered broken power systems aswell lol. And girls are hot too. And the game itself just looks beautiful with some of the best looking scenery ive seen in a game despite it being mainly not open world even though there is open world in the game its not the part of the main story so i wont count it. Talking about Part 1 becuase i havent played Part 2 yet and i know that is open world but idk since i didnt get to that part yet.
So yea i think its cool and i think all the players will agree with me on this.
Also i dont spend money on games unless its for cosmetics or something becuase i enjoy playing them and i havent spent more than 15 dollars on this game and that was becuase there was a limited outfit i really liked that i had to pay for becuase i was late to the event and couldnt get it on time otherwise. I dont even do character builds or team builds i just play what i like and enjoy the game unless im grinding for something and put on the best build i can make with what i have and speedrun the grind lol. So yea i dont think playing Honkai Impact 3rd is a waste if you genuinely enjoy playing it and i would reccomend the game to everyone becuase someone might like it.
Rita Rossweisse best girl, Fallen Rosemary best battlesuit.
Living on with society these days are so despairing too as well, and everyone else have already rejected you even before you ever played any of these games.
I just started some Gacha Games and this pops up 💀
Run while got chance 🐥
*RUN*
To be real, Arknights and Azur Lane are the only two gacha games I ever get into. It’s funny because I took a 7-month break on AL and the moment Destiny 2 was flopping and felt disinterested from it for a time, I got back into the shipgirls. Now, I’m slowly getting the go-to priority ships I see some popular AL YTbers have. Plus some of them do pretty good damage and have great survivability. But through all of this, the only things I spend are the monthly payments for the two. With the side of others costing under $10, if I want to. Emphasis on want and not need.
I love money more than waifus so at least my wallet is more or less safe, mental health is another story...
I started playing Gacha games half a year ago but luckily I limit my screentime to like 15hours a week and stay f2p.That's still a lot but not to much compared either.
The only gacha game I picked up and dedicate to is arknights, I tried pcr before, but the arena pvp and guild boss is just too grindy and exhausting for me, so I gave up on that only after a few months - and it surprised me even more when I heard the game shut down its EN server last year - guess it is indeed too grindy to attract enough cash flow.
I register ak on day 2 of global launch (cuz I forgot to bind my day 1 account and lost it), and for the past 4 years or so, I login everyday, doing every event, grab every medal sets, and really invested into this game. The daily routine of ak can be just two logins a day and 30-45 mins to use the sanity (stamina in ak), swap the base operators to keep the passive incomes going, and claim daily mission rewards - plain and simple. But even that I eventually get tired of it, so I start to use some external assist to help me get my daily done, and only pay some attentions when there's new event & banner drops.
Hell, I am not surprised if one day I just feel like "let's take a break from it" and make it permanent like you did with FGO, and start using the money I usually put in arknights for buying some legit games on steam or just improve the life quality.
Not the Arknights ad right after the video 😭😭😭
I only play arknights, i spend 5-6 minutes a day active, and grind 1-7, spending 5 dollars a month… and kinda just wait… you see how many pulls people have saved!?
So ur 2nd gacha was AL? Nice! My 1st gacha, and thus introduction to the concept of gacha as a whole was AL. I didn’t learn that AL was a gacha, and wat a gacha is til GI released and I picked it up and got bashed in the head w wat it chose to do for its gacha, steal from its players essentially. Once I learned about GI gacha system I realized all I needed to know and understand about AL and it’s gacha and how fucking nice and generous yostar is. I came to the realization that gacha games r usually very greedy but AL chose to take a different route. the gacha was mainly used as an excuse as to why and how we got 4-7 new shipfus to collect every 2-4 weeks from new patches.
I’ve been playing AL for 5 years now. And I’m in love w it and that love has never wained.
Rn I play AL daily without fail. And on the side I play GI and HSR, I sometimes miss a day or 2 here and there, or even sometimes week(s) upto month(s) in the case of GI. I tried AK twice, failed to like the game at all. And there is probably close to a dozen more gacha games I wanna try out but I lack the time and storage space on my phone to do so. There was 1 or 2 rinkie dink gacha games that I tried but they were unpolished closturfucks that almost got me to stay but they failed for reasons only done by small indie companies can. I actualły kinda feel bad for not enjoying 1 of them more and ended up silently quitting like that. 1 of them came so close to being my 2nd fav video game, behind AL. And about 90+% of the reason being the UI. The UI looked gud, but old and I struggled to understand and navigate it.
I only play Honkai Star rail and it take me almost 2h a day as F2P . I can't imagine play 6-8 Gacha game at the same time
What are you doing there? I take me like 5 minutes every day. I'm doing story, moc and other of course but they really fast most of the time
i currently play honkai impact 3rd, starrail and genshin. i think im gonna drop honkai impact 3rd after i complete the part 1 story. that will at least free up some of my time to do more than just dailies in the games.
I remember being a young rural halfwit growing up loving to learn more about WW2 and history stuff through the old books and stories my grandparents told me about their time in the the war, Fast forward 2014 I saw Kancolle and was like Gyatt damn, WW2 ships but as Animu Waifus. From there it went downhill and became years long obessesion with Military and Animu Waifus Azur lane being released in my Senior year in Highschool only fueled the gacha addiction and fapping to WW2 anthropomorphic ships and vehicles, especially after I quit FGO(banners sucks ass).
Tried nearly all the gachas mentioned here through the years but by then I decided imma stick to a few, that being GFL, Arknights and RE:1999 (add In War Thunder) so far every step mentioned in this Video is accurate af.
I used to do Azur Lane but I guess retired from it is the right word since FGO IS my first and WILL be my first and only game I stick with because I’m into Typemoon and Fate as a whole.
I'm smart enough with my spending so I know how to spend on these games. My spendings so far are only for FGO's lucky bag summons and PGR's monthly pass. So I just endure the salt rather than whale on banners.
Famous quote
"Hey, thats the hell you're walking into"
Instructions unclear, playing Sakura wars from Sega Saturn in RetroArch emulator android.
I think the thing with gachas is everyone enjoys them in a different way. Personally i don't think they're disruptive to my everyday life. Here i must add though, i'm a full f2p so sunk cost has never really been a problem to me, also not really a collector kind of player, i'm in fact kind of picky and am happy getting just who i really like, save for AL where i love pretty much every not-loli shipgirl, but luckily AL is super f2p friendly, just got Shinano yesterday and NJ last week. I think also having other hobbies helps a lot, i like to draw, so that's one thing i can always feel like i should prioritize.
Obviously if u have a life and other hobbies 😂 its not that difficult to fall in gacha hell
This made me laugh wayyyy too hard, Ive been trying to ruin my life with gacha since genshin, then added honkai star rail, tried adding tower of fantasy (but didnt stick), tried adding zzz (but its worse than tof), and been tempted to add WuWa (but havent due to still having some desire to not ruin my life even further). I noticed how bad these games are and that i had a problem, when i kept playing even when i didnt want to, or was bored of it or annoyed. Now i try to have more self awareness and STOP playing when i dont want to, and tell myself, its OK, to skip an event, if you would rather have a life outside instead.
Can agree im low on the fgo grind. 6 years in and damn.
can i balance "premium" games together with gacha games too?
As a fgo player of 3 years, i can confirm the rates are terrible, especially when you only want the 4 star on the banner but get the 5 star
How to stay single
Step 1: be a gacha player
Step 2: congratulations
how to know if a gacha game player repsects themselves: they dont play a hoyoverse game
(yes, this includes HSR and Hi3 part 2... unless if you played Hi3 for the story i cant blame you for that one cheif, its peak fiction)
Those who don't play HI3 for the story will simply drop the game in a year, because it's exhausting and not particularly interesting(like most gacha games). And Part 2 is actually revamping gacha, which is good, and adding more gameplay to the story - which is also good overall. About qualt of text - we will see, but we have many, many questions about Universe, so I hope they do something.
I play for the story the gacha and grind in HI3 is just 💀. Pure pain you need weapon, stigmata, and meta valkyrie. I give up building my valkyries only focus on story once I hit lvl 50
I've gaddly quit , every one of them , as for Honkai , day 1 CN and SEA player here , i've gaddly quit after arc 1 ending , seeing the plot conclusion was enough , that game has no gameplay content worth your time now , abd that's the whole point of part 2 but saddly (happily) not enough to get me back
@@GolgothianSylex in a year? Nah for me it's just a week because like you said it's exhausting. And for part 2 dialogue ngl for me I'm confused about the scientific jargon in it
@@birubluebiru6861 any gacha besides autobattlers is exhausting, I've played FGO JP since Babylon to Avalon Le Fae, it was way worse. I simply deduce that gacha players has stamina to sit through some... strange game design decisions.
I can confidently say that gacha games killed mobile gaming potential
I think its also the way you approach the games. I play a lot of gachas myself but I guess because I literally just login play for a few minutes then switch to the next one, it doesnt affect my life as much as I just do it while Im on the bus/train.
I kinda treat gacha games like watering a plant. You give it some water then thats it I guess
how to not ruin your life with these games: be a broke guy that lives in a third world country like me so even if you wanted to, you can't spend money on these games because you have priorities (food, bills and your family, basically just surviving), just be an absolute f2p fucking unit like me, anyways, get your mind off the microtransactions and just enjoy the game, of the gacha games that i play, genshin and star rail, they both give out pretty decent rewards for a f2p player so you should be fine, be responsible human beings yall, please
Sounds like a you problem 😂
@@simonshura9144 yeah sounds like a literal everysingle person that lives on a shitty country's problem huh, it's not just me dude, be more aware of the world that u live in
I dropped multiple gachas to name of top of my head (Arknights, Star Rail, Ode to Heroes, Nikke) which I have spent significant amount of money to just get bored and never return again what a thrill lmao
Im glad modern fgo requires you to only play the game for 2 minutes a day cuz i cant grind for hours a day, thats about the only good thing about that game tho
For me only the FGO and Gundam Breaker Mobile is worth to try first minimum paid gacha for not to repeat paid again before since GBM shutdown now my Alternative is CodeGeass Lost Stories because why not I like fantasy and mecha though i choose to convert from F2p now because of what happened to GBM😭
I've been playing granblue fantasy for 7 years and in those 7 years i waste my time only for that game, even to the point when i play 17 hrs everyday just to get higher rank in guild war. But after i break for 2 years and comeback i can control my time for granblue from 12 - 17 hrs to just 1 or 2 hrs a day and doing something else useful to my life. The point is there would be a time when you tired of the game and break, if that happen use that time properly and when you comeback to your game control yourself so you not fall to the same hole twice
Heyy... my journey was similar like yours too!
But my starting lane was Brave Frontier, then FGO. Now my main games are AK, PGR, AL and HSR.
I agree with you, gacha games are slow burn and frustrating. Well, at least I'm a student so my spending are very limited.
Yes, Fate Grand Order got me into gacha games, 7 knights its now closed and FF Brave Exvius. its the adrenaline and excitement of getting a super super rare character that got me hooked. its like a drug to be honest. i am now focused on playing Star Rail, turned based games seems to be my comfort, but i would login to FGO sometimes.
As long as you don’t spend money and you find a good work life balance,it should be fine. That’s not really a Gacha problem and just a degeneracy problem
This describes my experience very well
damn man, more or less it was the same to me, I have literally played every game you have mentioned. I dedicated (wasted) like 2 years of my life trying to grind for the new waifus even if I didn't enjoy the gameplay or the game anymore. I managed to get out of the gacha hell like 3 months ago and man, I feel like as I've earned more by leaving those games than what all my savings there.
If you're in a similar situation, just think that those pixels are not worth the price they're sold for, and if you like the story, then most of the time you don't need the newest or strongest characters, you can just play the story and leave, as if it was another normal game!
And you don't need to own the waifus/husbandos to enjoy them, the fanarts of them are free to search for, if you know what I mean.
P.D.: I used to play 14 simultaneous gachas everyday, now that I think about it I can't figure out how did I manage to do so.
veteran here who has spent way more then i ever even should have ever even conceived to spend. my experience after 7 years of gacha and whaleing (sometimes on games that went down a year later) *Spirit Pledge* the most important thing to do when you start a gacha game is to determine what you want from it. if you dont do this you will be chaseing your tail. the sad reality is for most gacha games the end game is boreing and underwhelming a vast majority of the time the grind WAS the most "game" part of the gacha game. im at the end of every gacha game that i still play or hasnt been shut down and honestly? its pretty depressing and boring. i put all this effort into these games to reach the end only to find out, its empty at the top. Also for anyone who still plays FGO use FGA fate grand automata it has that auto battle feature you crave.
1. Spend little to no money, 2. Pick ONE game, 3. Prioritize what you like about the game, 4. Take breaks when you need them, 5. Ignore RUclipsrs and other influencers.
Thanks for the advice!
Ur missing the hole point of community tho and all the fun n drama that comes along with that 😂
finally someone who i can relate to, financially yes, it can screw you over if you really can't handle the fomo and control your wallet, but the biggest offender for me was the time. It's double edged, you get copiumed into thinking the dailies/weeklies only take 5 or whatever amount of minutes, but in reality it eats up more, and encroaches. Some people can't even work out daily, and these games ask you to spend the little time you have per day on it, not to mention if you play multiple of them. Say goodbye to your freetime and sanity when theres colliding events or major story launches. those 5 minutes turn into hours per day.
I recommend playing only 2 games if you still have some life left with 5 being the limit of the slightly less sane average person
I feel extremely called out. We even play the same games 😂😂😂
My first gacha was Magia Record. Loved it. Had a great account. And then the NA server shutdown. I will never trust another gacha game again
The only gacha i play is genshin impact,seriously never bother to build character to perfection. As long as they kill overworld enemy,i am satisfied. I play it more for open world and story than gacha stuff.
he explained everything like a legend
i play arknights to learn strategies i would eventually forget, and put myself in a perpetual loop on coming back and forgetting
I picked a gacha that I can auto, and used the daily habit to learn Japanese while autoing.
I’m currently having 27 gacha games rn and I feel fine actually
Some of the games are not available in the US app stores, and as a free-to-play player, the only games I play are Princess Connect! Re: Dive and Cookie Run: Kingdom, because I love both the franchises.
Touhou Lostword is a fan game, and Princess Connect! Re: Dive was shut down on April 30, 2023 by Crunchyroll, resulting in lots of controversy and rebellion against Crunchyroll.
I will come back to CRK and Lostword, but I will swear vengeance for the PriConne gals, no matter what it takes!
The Battle Cats is part of a gacha game series developed by PONOS, a spiritual ancestor and successor to most gacha companies like Cygames and Devsisters, and I highly recommend The Battle Cats over all other gacha games.
gacha summon gamble system is criminal and should be illegal…you can spend 1000$ and not getting the character you need (for the meta). its a sick world. and if you become addict (myself) too…you will spend for this trash instead paying your bills or appartment. very dangerous, be careful.
been playing for probably eight years and only spent like $20
My first gacha was Summoners War. Great game but my god do you need to invest alot of time into it. Especially for events. I switched over to Arknights (couldnt download both so dropped SW) and there has been times where i felt i needed to invest as much as back with SW but that was for one or two of the events, the rest have been fine. Would have played Genshin Impact if i was able to. I am fully free to play so both of these games have been pretty good in that regard.
Would be interested to atleast try out some others but are either unable to play them or dont have the storage to. Though two big reasons i enjoy gacha would be looter shooters and anime, its always nice to get something rare and a bonus if they look good too.
Personally, i find that 2 gacha games is a good balance for me. Anymore and ill forget to play at all. Currently playing Reverse 1999 and Arknights.
You forgot to mention join a guild that has Guild Wars. Nothing like peer pressure to give yourself an excuse to whale to keep your account strong in order for your guild to rank highly. Granblue Fantasy says hello.