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Western Web3 games need to use Gacha mechanics to conquer Asian markets
12.11.2024
The Asian gaming market is the world’s biggest. It has the most players and significant spending on consumables and represents the most lucrative opportunity for any Western game studio.
Western Web3 games need to use Gacha mechanics to conquer Asian markets
12.11.2024
The Asian gaming market is the world’s biggest. It has the most players and significant spending on consumables and represents the most lucrative opportunity for any Western game studio.
Let’s Not Pretend: Pokémon TCG Pocket Is Promoting Gambling To Children
6.11.2024
There is a way to play the PokémonTCG on your phone or tablet that is entirely free. Not “free-to-play,” but “free to leave it with your kid and not ever worry.” While it’s not the world’s best piece of software, PokémonTCG Live is an application that lets you play the full-size, 60-card deck...
Pokémon TCG Pocket Launches Its First Drop Event, But There's A Catch
5.11.2024
Pokémon TCG Pocket is proving to be rather successful. App Magic, a website that estimates mobile app earnings (via Mobilegamer.biz), claims the “free” card game has made over $20 million in its first week on sale from over five million downloads. The app has just launched its second in-game event...
Pokémon TCG Pocket Already Feels Like A Well-Laid Trap
31.10.2024
I’m really averse to trading card games. Despite loving me some Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh as a kid and tween, I’ve largely kept my distance from them in the time since. I’ve played a few hands of Hearthstone, I never touched Artifact, and I am straight-up dogshit at any card game baked into an...
Zenless Zone Zero Is Taking Big Steps To Eliminate The Gacha Grind
28.6.2024
If you’ve never been able to stomach the gacha grind of HoYoverse’s games, then Zenless Zone Zero might be for you. The next game from the developer behind Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail releases on July 4 (only a few days away) and is set to make some welcome quality-of-life changes to...
Great Combat Makes Wuthering Waves A Promising Alternative To Genshin Impact
29.5.2024
There’s nothing definitively wrong with being an iterative clone of something else people already love. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and all that. So I don’t really mind that on the surface, the new gacha open-world RPG Wuthering Waves looks to be a flattering copy of HoYoverse’s...
Genshin Impact Developer Mihoyo Valued At $23 Billion
11.4.2024
The tenor of conversations around mobile and gacha games has shifted over the years. Though they were first met with derision for the widespread perception that they were cheap and inferior knockoff games, not to mention predatory due to their various mechanics and features often being closely tied...
Now’s Your Chance To Play HoYoverse’s Next Game Ahead Of Launch
18.3.2024
Zenless Zone Zero, the next game from HoYoverse, still doesn’t have a concrete release date, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get your hands on it soon. For fans eager to get a taste of what the Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail developer has cooking, there’s a new closed beta for the game. So...
Sexy Anime RPG Puts Players In ‘Gem Debt’ To Pay Off Dev’s Mistake
3.11.2023
Taimanin RPG Extasy is a turn-based gacha RPG in which players unlock new warriors to fight demons and criminal syndicates in a horny sci-fi future. The game’s been live in Japan for years, but only recently came to the rest of the world, and it’s already facing its first major crisis: an outbreak...
10 Things You Should Never Say To A Genshin Impact Player
7.7.2023
The Genshin Impact community is no stranger to navigating choppy waters, whether it’s discussions about farming, characters and their voice actors, or even the genre of game itself. If you want to survive out there, you’ll want to avoid some sore subjects to avoid facing wrath or disappointment....
15 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Honkai: Star Rail, Genshin Impact Devs' New RPG
30.5.2023
HoYoverse has just released its latest gacha game, Honkai: Star Rail, and this latest space adventure has met endless comparisons to its sister gacha, Genshin Impact. After spending dozens of hours trailblazing through Honkai: Star Rail’s galaxy, I’ve experienced and combed through a huge number...
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Has Gacha Now, Which Is Deeply Funny
26.4.2023
Hands-on previews for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom have just dropped, and one small gameplay detail stood out to me among all the hype and skepticism about its crafting systems. TotK will contain gacha elements. That’s right. You can obtain crafting materials from a huge gachapon...
Rolling Genshin Impact's Infamous 'Scam' Weapons Banner After Two Years
18.1.2023
There are two sides to gacha in Genshin Impact. One is the normally infuriating and wallet-draining character gacha. Its more sinister brother is the weapons gacha, which is widely considered by the community to be a massive scam, especially for players who aren’t made of gold bricks (Thankfully...
Genshin Impact In 2022: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
16.12.2022
2022 was the year that Genshin Impact’s developer rebranded to HoYoverse to convey its ambitions for expanding its offerings to global audiences. It was also the year when players left the Japan-inspired region behind in order to explore Sumeru—a nation based on Southwest Asia, South Asia,...
Sonic Frontiers Fans Are Convinced Genshin Impact Is Bribing Its Community For TGA Votes
2.12.2022
There’s a corruption controversy rocking The Game Awards, and it’s about… Genshin Impact? Apparently, there are a lot of Sonic Frontiers fans and TGA fans who think the gacha game’s ascent in the Players’s Voice award category has been suspicious, and they’re loud about their displeasure. Things...
These Genshin Impact Fans Spent $1,000 to $90,000 On Its Characters
2.11.2022
“It’s like that Ariana Grande song: I see it, I like it, I want it, I got it,” said one anonymous investment banker who’s spent over $10,000 in the hugely popular, free-to-play action role-playing game Genshin Impact. “I’m not known for being cheap with what I like. Some people collect photocards....
Z mobilních závodů Mario Kart Tour zmizí gamblingový prvek
5.9.2022
Mario Kart Tour Says So Long To Its Controversial Gacha Gambling
2.9.2022
After three years, Nintendo is finally removing the contentious “gacha pipe” from its popular mobile racer, Mario Kart Tour. The pipes, which players had to purchase with in-game “rubies” to get a chance at unlockable prizes, will be replaced with a new in-game store.Read more
Arknights’ New Roguelike Mode Makes Its Gimmicky Characters Worth Playing Again
20.7.2022
I used to be a fairly casual player of Arknights, a tower defense game for mobile. That changed when the developers added a permanent roguelike mode that forced me to use the free gacha characters I had long retired. I found myself playing the “Integrated Strategy” mode for eight hours a day....