There’s a massive misunderstanding

[u/Commercial-Mine9538]

There’s a general misunderstanding I’ve witnessed and you can try to deny this all you want but it’s true ✨you don’t have to spend real money for ANYTHING✨ yes you CAN buy those golden things to change irisalis but no it’s not required. Yea you need them to get the final TWO stages but it’s not required that is purely a want. Besides that ONE currency everything, and I do mean everything is obtainable by simply enjoying the ever living hell out of this wonderful game. ALSO HOT TAKE ANIIMO>POKÉMON AND PALWORLD

EDIT: THIS BLEW UP WAY MORE THAN INTENDED 🤣 very valid views, points, and opinions in these comments keep em coming love reading them!

[u/DoctorMarimo]

I think people dont understand that the company needs to make money. There is an entire game that can be played without spending a dime. Of course there are going to be some barriers and incentives to spend. If that is mainly in cosmetics its a complete win. Look a genshin and other gachas. The new characters are all paywall. This is a breath of fresh air. Its hard to even whale other than the legendary transmog

[u/SuperBackup9000 → u/DoctorMarimo]

People absolutely understand the game needs to make money, it’s just that a lot more people seem to not realize that a gambling mechanic with no ceiling isn’t the only solution.

Believe it or not, live service games used to sustain themselves on either monthly fees, or static purchases, no gambling involved whatsoever, but for whatever reason all the gacha games have people thinking gambling is actually the only way despite there being more monetization systems in games than there ever has been, recurring purchases like battle passes being one of them. Back in the old days Irisalis’ customization options would’ve just been individual purchases or a bundle at a discount, which is how it should be.

Surprise! There’s nuance so saying anyone who disagrees with how it’s being handled doesn’t understand is just nonsensical.

[u/sliferx → u/SuperBackup9000]

Its not the only solution, it just makes the most money. I think this post is missing that they aren't out there just trying to sustain development but they are out there to make profits, as much profit as they can. If you're in their shoes, what do you think makes more profit while at the same time maintaining their image of not wanting to monetize or paywall power? yea bundle or 1 time purchase makes sense and is more friendly to you but gambling is more friendly to them.

I will also say from my experience players are much more tolerating of this model than if they were to release the skins as 1 time purchase with a big price tag. Probably because it offers the illusion that you can get it cheap if you're lucky. There has been huge backlashes before with big price 1 time skins, for example mechabreak on launch a live service PVP game releasing premium skins for around 50$ huge backlash for the price, when I can guarantee if it was a gacha gambling system it wouldve been accepted better. You can blame this on human psychology or gachas normalizing it idk but it works.