They’re still games. It doesn’t matter that they’re designed to get you to buy cosmetics. Even in full-on gambling they’re called games. Blackjack and video poker are games.

There used to be a clear separation between gambling and other gaming. No one's going to get fooled by blackjack. On the 'video game' scene we're muddling the waters by allowing gambling (lootboxes) and other gacha to be called video games.

Take your least favorite politician. They probably say they're the saviour of the nation. Do you call them that just because that's what they call themselves?

Why accept that for free to play stuff?

No, but I call them politicians. You’re using gacha in a way very different from other folks, a disjoint set noun from games versus a modifier. I don’t think it’s going to be successful.

I can try and teach :) They really don't deserve to be called 'games'.

blackjack and poker were games that were then co-opted into the gambling scene.

gacha platforms were designed from the ground up to extract cash, and were then gussied up to look like a game.

> blackjack and poker were games that were then co-opted into the gambling scene.

As far as I know poker has been played for money for hundreds of years?

Its history is kinda fuzzy. Poker as it is played probably isn’t quite 200 years old. But it always has been a gambling game, at least for it’s known history. Same with blackjack.