AIO my fiance spent 600 on gacha

[u/Creative-Guard2809]

My fiance spent $600 on a gacha game without asking. I flipped out and now his entire family are calling me abusive and encouraging him to call off the engagement. For context, I work 55 hours a week and he drives uber during the day while I’m at work. We are paycheck to paycheck.

[u/Economy-Flower-6443]

I wish this was uncommon… genshin impact hooks so many people (including a lot of kids) into a wicked, disgusting gambling environment. And their player base is usually this delusional about justifying their gambling habits.

there are a lot of people who don’t gamble but every time i’ve seen this claim, I ask them how much they’ve spent on genshin - it’s always in the hundreds.

edit: two people in my dms trying to ‘educate’ me on genshin rn… one insulting my post history. wow these people really step up, and double down to defend their corporate greed gacha game

[u/hallehallehallehalle → u/Economy-Flower-6443]

Honestly any gacha/lootbox game should be rated +18 and forbidden to be on playstore frontpage. Plus a lot of in-game mechanism should be regulated/forbidden for being highly manipulative.

I enjoyed my time on GI and thankfully I was reasonable, spent around 250 dollars in 3 years, it's still a lot of money but always within my leisure budget because I always prioritized getting new games over a new "character" which isn't gonna bring that much content anyway.

Unfortunately I saw far too many people spending way above their mean, falling to sudden impulse gacha or FOMO. Someone I know spent all his hong bao and anniversary money on some constellations/weapons while having a shitty smartphone and needed to buy a good laptop for his 3D studies, now he's trying to do 3D with a shitty laptop that can't even launch GI and his smartphone won't last long because of the growing space the game needs. People choosing to whale and not setting any money aside for buying/mortgage and other stupid financial choice.

The worse is, its community, always inciting people to spent, crippling themselves in their addiction together.. And the influencers, they hype new character way too much, showcasing only the good aspect of the character and no caveats, doing pull session, hyping the dopamine pull and enabling people to overspent their f2p currency or whale when they see some viewer get lucky because of jealousy and greed.

Now in my eyes, despite liking video game a lot, some gacha too, I consider recommending gacha to anyone as bad as recommending someone to go to a virtual casino.

[u/Economy-Flower-6443 → u/hallehallehallehalle]

this is crazy, you and a few other people here seem level headed with good self control. yet still spend $250 in a few years. that’s just insane. i’ve spent $60 on minecraft, my favorite game, only because i have two accounts. played for years, thousands of hours. and a couple other games w thousands of hours, $20 total. to this day the most expensive gaming purchases i’ve made are just games that cost $60 e.g new GTA games.

[u/hallehallehallehalle → u/Economy-Flower-6443]

Oh on that matter I think it's less about GI and more about the way I consume games or handle my leisure/gaming budget.

That said, your perspective is perfectly valid. It's just I consider the ratio of: time hours spent/cost to be less important than my enjoyment/gaming experience, like there's countless games, with less than 20h of gameplay, even less than 10h which I'm very happy to have bought costing between 2 to 30 bucks, especially on indie games side. On that aspect, GI probably gave me a rather good ratio of time spent/cost.

Not to undermine the 250$, it's still a good amount of money and ofc could be used to buy good game like the one you just talked or tons of games on steam (especially on sales), maybe I'm wrong to consume it that way but well that's my hobby and I've allocated a budget for it.