https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gacha_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gacha_game Putting a mechanic into your game where you spend real world money to gamble

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gacha_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gacha_game Putting a mechanic into your game where you spend real world money to gamble for skins and stuff. Game companies realized they can make a lot of money selling what modders used to be able to do for free. It's apparently a well known thing that there exist "whales" that spend huge amounts of money on these things. Probably a decent number are addicts being abused.