Not sure if it's worth a thread, but playing some mobile games out of boredom (mostly Love Live and now some Bleach game lmao), I started wondering, how come people aren't really vocal about gacha, yet they are about pachinko? Pachinko is basically Japanese slot machines that existed for 100 years, they're the Japanese equivalent of casinos. Nobody really complains about slot machines in the west so vocally right? Well in any case, pachinko machines have nothing to do with video games and are just gambling machines in Japanese casinos. However gacha, which originates from Japanese toy machines where you insert coins to get toys, is something affecting video games, namely mobile games. It's basically microtransactions since you get very little points while playing.
So uh, how come something harmless like pachinko is the worst enemy of games rather than gacha that's disguised gambling? I know that the pachinko uproar started with the Konami controversy last year, but gaming companies were involved in that way before Konami, like SNK's whole pachinko business, or Capcoms. It's kind of odd that Konami specifically keeps taking flame for something that's been going on for decades.
So uh, how come something harmless like pachinko is the worst enemy of games rather than gacha that's disguised gambling? I know that the pachinko uproar started with the Konami controversy last year, but gaming companies were involved in that way before Konami, like SNK's whole pachinko business, or Capcoms. It's kind of odd that Konami specifically keeps taking flame for something that's been going on for decades.
