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If you visited any gacha thread, chances are that you heard the phrase "This game is so generous" at least once as some cope. Usually this is said because of high amount of pulls or some gifts from the devs.

However, we're talking about Gacha, games build around predatory practices regardless of their quality. So whenever the games are being generous, there's always something that goes against the generosity, wether it's FOMO, powercreep or something else.

So what is "the catch" in each gacha you play?

To start;
>Honkai Star Rail

two new 5* per patch
occassionally more than 2 reruns per phase
a character (especially DPSs) could be powercrept within 5 patches

>Nikke

New SSR every 2 weeks
New Players have to go through the 160 wall, which can take months to clear even with free SSR from anniversary
Lower rate than normal for Pilgrims

>Wuwa

Guaranteed Weapon Banner, but the best 4* alternatives severely worse than even Standard 5* and sometimes with undesirable conditions
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)20:02:36 No.700965660
>>700965507
Genshin popularizing the 50/50 system has retroactively ruined every gacha coming after it
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)20:03:41 No.700965736
1639702507299
>>700965507
I am only here for sexy girls and Essex. Let's hurry it up paypiggies, I don't want to have to use this.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)20:07:25 No.700966013
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didn't read just here to post the sex
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)20:08:22 No.700966092
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Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)20:10:02 No.700966217
The catch of Limbus Company is that the combat is boring as fuck and a straight and likely deliberate downgrade from Ruina but the only way to continue experiencing the ProjecMoon universe and story is to put up with having to play the piece of shit game that it is.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)20:12:32 No.700966398
>>700965507
The downside of limbus is its shit, boring and is holding the series hostage.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)20:13:46 No.700966473
the party
>>700965507
I have rolled for nothing and bought nothing in Wizardry. I don't know if it's "generous" or not because I have never interacted with the currency/gacha systems. Pick a party you like then start clearing dungeons. Is just a dungeon crawler.
deleted last post because lol, lmao
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)20:14:39 No.700966536
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I have rolled for nothing and bought nothing in Wizardry. I don't know if it's "generous" or not because I have never interacted with the currency/gacha systems. Pick a party you like then start clearing dungeons.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)20:15:30 No.700966587
>>700966536
oh no, my doppleganger
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)20:16:02 No.700966629
1734287686813806
>>700965507
I've felt like a lot of people don't actually like the games they're playing, or at least not the game part of the videogame, and are instead completely locked in on the aspect of pulling for the sake of pulling. My experience with 'the catch' in this case is that if you're constantly showered with pulls, there's some aspect that's designed to be a roadblock, or a massive amount of FOMO (more than usual) in order to entice you to spend it all and still feel like it wasn't enough.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)20:17:46 No.700966763
>>700965507
>This game is so generous
this is a lie 100% of the time, you hear it most about hoyoshit that are notorious for being stingy
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)20:19:51 No.700966916
I admit that these are high investments
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)20:24:21 No.700967217
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>>700965507
GFL 2 has the hoyo system with more rolls and a lower pity ceiling but the last 2 limited girls have had big power spikes on their first dupe upgrade. At least the upcoming banners aren't nearly as meta so i can stock up on rolls
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)20:25:18 No.700967283
In the past:

GFL 1, it was actually pretty fair, just had a long rng equipment grind, and you had to optimize your runs so you didn't use too many resources when leveling stuff. The big catch was dorms so you could either wait for all the free premium currency or just bite the bullet and pay. The only other thing you paid for was the skin gacha which doubled as furniture gacha for dorms.

Genshin, no one thinks this shit is fair. I mean you could argue that since you only. need 4 stars to clear all story and events, and higher investment in them to clear abyss, that it's pretty fair in that regard. But this shit was beyond stingy for f2p

Arknights, uhhh it was only fair if you started from the very beginning like I did, and really you were reliant on the $5 monthly to get enough for pulls every banner. With the $5 monthly you actually could just hit every banner or at least that's how my luck went. Played until shortly after W release and hit every single banner. The game had pretty large powercreep though so you needed to follow China's meta to actually have a decent time with the challenging events.

Currently:

Nikke, pilgrims are bullshit and need a better update than the pilgrim wishlist. Everything else just comes with time and new accounts kind of just speed their way into success. I didn't have a bad time rerolling at all back when I got into it and got showered with SSRs and broke the wall fairly fast.

Horizon Walker, pulling is based on a generic currency that you constantly get but it's also tied to many upgrade methods. Barely a way to earn premium currency in the game, and after completing nearly all 3 star content I have less than enough to get 3 skins. The shop prices are insane but it's extremely f2p friendly with its roll system.

GFL2, thought the genshin system would kill it but it's actually been much more fair. But it's still simultaneously it's biggest catch, coupled with the shit attachment/attachment enhancement system.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)20:31:05 No.700967675
>>700965507
Blue Archive

Pulls are plenty as long as you actually play the game and SSR rate is very high at 3% and 6% during some events with there is no paid weapon system but

Chances of actually getting the rate up character is too low (%0.6 iirc) so you end up with plenty SSRs you don't want which is frustrating.
You need more copies or have to spend premium currency to actually get your character to 5 stars (SSRs start at 3 stars and can get as high as 8* )
There is no soft pity, you can only spark the rate up character at 200 pulls.

When you're in sparking territory there's no risk but if you want a girl and the spark is far away then tough shit
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)20:36:26 No.700968035
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Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)20:38:30 No.700968187
"This game is generous" is the gacha equivalent of "It's not pay to win, it's pay to not grind".
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)20:43:21 No.700968506
that 160 wall can go fuck itself
already got one mlb which is naga
close to volume but its taking forever
same for alice+privaty+grapewell
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)20:48:44 No.700968903
>>700967675
You never need multiple copies through pulling, getting the elephs to upgrade is super easy unless you try to 5 star everyone.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)20:54:28 No.700969271
YuriDori
Bd2 is actually a generous gacha.
>get free 10 rolls everytime you get the rate up character up to 5 times
>gives 300-500 rolls every summer/anni/half anni
>2 pity systems to get any non limited characters easily
>multiple character selectors and 5* tickets a month
Pretty much everyone on /v/ plays stingy gacha, azl is probably the only one that competes but I dropped that ages ago so I can really compare.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)20:58:13 No.700969509
>>700968035
S-She's fast!!!
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)21:00:18 No.700969619
What's this girl's name and where is the one of her eating glue, please
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)21:05:40 No.700969972
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)21:34:19 No.700971915
sex
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)22:10:05 No.700974063
Es ex
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)22:19:22 No.700974657
1703978113485828
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)22:23:40 No.700974896
>>700965507
I have not heard this once in blue archive threads. It's mostly
>Don't be retarded
And
>Lol bricked
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)22:24:49 No.700974970
>>700965507
I still don't understand what gacha is
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)22:28:29 No.700975192
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>>700965507
Rate my meal /v/
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)22:31:25 No.700975361
>>700974970
They're lootbox simulators
Half of OP's jargon is referring to the odds of getting certain items from the lootboxes
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)22:32:12 No.700975410
>>700965507
There is no generous gacha, only those who are lucky.

I got Astra Yao and her weapon in Zenless Zone Zero in a total of 70 pulls. This is incredibly lucky. If I didn't luck out, it could have tripled in pulls for the same outcome. The average pull rate for a limited SSR in Hoyoverse games is around 106. Even ZZZ ,the one with the most "generosity", gives around 17,000 polychromes worth of roll a whole patch cycle. That's assuming you do every single piece of content, including endgame. That is exactly 106 pulls. Keep in mind each patch cycle has two banners, so unless you're lucky or pay money you have to give up one of the two limited characters. This is completely ignoring W Engines.

The most generious gacha game in terms of pulls was Eversoul. Devs shit out 10 rolls daily. However they've been putting out high power low rarity characters, exactly similar to how Nikke does Pilgrims, except you need to pull that character 10 times to max them out, with only two copies coming from mileage rewards. Without the devs shitting out gems, it's worse than Fire Emblem Heroes and Fate Grand Order.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)22:37:52 No.700975771
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)22:42:15 No.700976054
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>>700965507
You can easily break the wall in nikke if you manage your resources right
It takes like 4 months
Even less if you start near the Anniversaries
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)22:43:34 No.700976136
>>700965507
When I play gatcha games I go various "art" websites and download a bunch of artwork of the characters I like.
Then I whip out my controller and button mash until I winrar.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)22:46:06 No.700976301
l31
>>700965507
you can farm 200 rolls in a week but there's no focused banners so its throwing everything at a 7 year roster
also SF capture is its own thing that needs to be upgraded with 4 days worth of wait time
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)22:48:23 No.700976401
cac
>>700976054
>It's easy if you start playing at specific time of the year
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)22:54:41 No.700976814
>>700974657
Why is Essex naked?
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)22:55:49 No.700976893
images - 2025-01-23T105423.880
>>700965507
No amount of """"generosity"""" going to make me sit through this dogshit even if it play by itself
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)22:58:47 No.700977072
>>700965507
Don't forget mihoyo games have the lowest 5* rate at 0.6%
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)23:00:36 No.700977191
OH YEAH I SAW THIS THREAD ON REDDIT OP!

here it is

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1i6l368/the_game_is_so_generous_but_whats_the_catch/
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)23:02:30 No.700977303
>>700977191
/v/ is fucking dead.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)23:05:53 No.700977495
>>700977303
>is
Has been
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)23:06:45 No.700977541
>>700977191
>copy pasted the same shit

KILL YOURSELF OP
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)23:08:46 No.700977654
>>700977495
it's amazing how this board is now 40% twitter screencaps, 40% reddit stuff, 5% off topic shit, 5% porn and and 5% original content.

the other 5%? luck.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)23:13:33 No.700977913
1709745170276799
>>700977191
but how did you know it was reddit?
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)23:17:18 No.700978140
IMG_20231109_164058
>>700977913
obviously it's OP baiting /v/
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)23:24:08 No.700978529
grok4429
>>700977913
With how hard most faggots try to fit in here it's pretty easy to tell when a post is non-native. Also most anons are scarred to type/read more than half a sentence. There's this incredible method I've secretly developed that you can try for yourself
>Highlight text
>Right click
>Search Google for
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)23:24:11 No.700978532
1703018617510597
>>700966013
Likewise. Fuck you OP. I ain't reading shit.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)23:27:08 No.700978713
1680484272400934
>>700978532
reading is for loser anyways
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)23:31:45 No.700978980
>>700967675
What? One of BA best features is not needing to roll for duplicates, I would rather use generic premium currency than being forced to keep rolling the same banner over and over.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)23:31:55 No.700978987
>>700978529
faggot op didnt even bother to change stuff to fit in.
Anonymous 01/23/25(Thu)00:09:03 No.700981009
>>700965507
If I ever say that it's because I'm comparing it to duel links which not only attempted to lock cards completely behind a pay wall, despite that did, maybe still does have cards you need at 3 copies locked behind a paywall due to not letting you use selector tickets on them, regularly releases boxes that give you a limited amount of free currency pulls which isn't enough to go through even half the box if I remember right and you most likely want to go through it three times, then by the time they finally get to releasing these cards from their pay to play prison they power crept them, if a deck is viable for long enough they will just slaughter it so it is unplayable through the banlist, routinely making core cards that are needed at three copies the hardest to get ones in the box just to screw you over. So yeah every single gacha I have played has been more generous and better to the player than that awful game was and most likely still is if it's not even worse at this point
Anonymous 01/23/25(Thu)00:10:22 No.700981067
>>700965507
>This game is so generous
imagine seeing that phrase and not immediately recognizing a chinese shill typed it out
Anonymous 01/23/25(Thu)00:40:29 No.700982681
sex antivirus
Holy shit, a sex thread!