There's one mobile game I play semi-regularly. It's a Moba style game riddled with gacha style events and gambling and such for heroes and skins. They regularl

There's one mobile game I play semi-regularly. It's a Moba style game riddled with gacha style events and gambling and such for heroes and skins. They regularly have these roulette style events which usually have the brand new shiny skin of the moment as a prize among a bunch of other random prizes. Typically, they'll give you a couple free spins, usually after completing some in game tasks, you'll inevitably win the worst of the prizes, leaving a bunch more crap, and the one good prize, only now, the cost has jumped to like a real dollar(in digital diamonds of course) a spin and increases in cost with each spin. The games are rigged so that the good prize is always the last one you'll win, pretty much every time. I remember one time, when there was a particularly fancy shiny new skin, I used up the free spins, checked out the rules to see how much it would have cost me to keep going until I got the shiny skin for sure... It was going to be over $50...for an item that literally does nothing but change your appearance. The thing is, I ended up seeing not a small amount of people already playing with the skin on the first day of the event...as in they just pumped a bunch of money into the game immediately without really thinking about it. It's constant though. Last time I played it they had 3 similar roulette events going on at once that would have cost over $100 to win them all. Then there's the amount of people on there who seem like they're kids who've obviously been playing the gacha shit and spending a bunch of money on these things. Hell, that game even teaches kids about leasing. They sometimes have an 'event' where you can pay a small amount of diamonds(real money) every day for a month or so for the new shiny skin and as long as you play using it every day for the lease period, you get to keep it...again it works out to cost almost twice as much as just going to the in game shop and just buying a skin...but people seem to do it. I probably went off on a bit of a ramble about this, but that game's my only real experience with these modern day lootbox gambling style things and I still find it unbelievable that it's so blatantly scammy. It doesn't lie about it either. Every event explains in the rules, you're probably going to lose a bunch of money and you're going to have to basically win everything. But these events must be popular, they happen constantly and I always see other players who've clearly taken part.