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Re:Genshin Impact made more money in its first year than any... by criley2 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @03:30PM (#29111525)
You don't use real money for characters, you use real money to gamble on the chance of characters. And you need several copies of the same character to upgrade them. So you can play the slot machine many times and not get anything that you want. It's gambling 100%
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Re:Genshin Impact made more money in its first year than any... by sudosysgen on Thursday November 04, 2021 @06:08PM (#29113097)
Nah, you have a 100% chance of getting the character you want after a set amount of currency spent.

I still agree it's predatory. But it's not true that you can play the machine many times and get nothing you want. The constellation mechanism really really sucks. But thanks to regulation it's a lot better now than it used to.

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