Gacha games are a type of video game genre that rely heavily on the gacha mechanic. To play the gacha, you have to spend a set amount on in-game currency, which can be bought with real money. While gacha games do not give prizes of any monetary value, gacha games can still be addictive for the same reasons gambling is addictive. This wikiHow will give some tips for playing gacha games.
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Set aside time or money for the game. To play a gacha game, you need to either invest a lot of time into the game or prepare to spend hard cash. Some gacha games offer free daily pulls, but more than often, to get pulls you need to devote time and effort into the game.
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Know the different kinds of gacha. Because of strict regulations on gambling, gacha games use different algorithms to determine what prize you won based on the quality of the prize. For example, a gacha game may automatically dispense rare items after pulling at most 10 times, with the rarest items requiring at most 100 pulls to obtain.
- Complete gacha was found to be illegal by the Japan Consumer Affairs Agency because it was deemed a form of gambling. In this model, players would pull to complete a set in order to obtain an item.
- Box gacha is a model in which a limited pool of items is pulled one by one, with the probabilities increasing from the base probabilities as less and less items are present.
- Consecutive gacha provides rarer rewards for multiple pulls compared to a single pull.
- Step-up gacha increases the probability of pulling a rare item with every pull.
- Many other gacha games do not fall in these categories, or do not describe their exact mechanics outside of the base rates.
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Determine the base rate for getting items. These can be found by looking at the rules for the gacha game. The base rate describes the numbers used when no pulls have been made whatsoever on the gacha, as well as after a reset.
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Know what the average rate means. The average rate describes, if infinitely many pulls were made, what proportion of each drop is of a specific rarity. This will almost certainly be higher than the base rate for rare items and lower than the base rate for common items.
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Understand what a guarantee event is. A guarantee event is triggered to automatically dispense a rare item after specific conditions are met. This usually happens after a set number of pulls, or if the probability for a rare event has reached 100% from the other gacha types.
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Pull in bulk or individually. Many gacha games allow you to pull in 3, 5, or 10-pull increments to allow you to progress through the gacha faster. Some even provide a discount for mass consecutive pulls. On the other hand, individual pulls may let you avoid spending more than you actually need to.
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Use the items obtained to improve your progress on the game. Every item obtained, regardless on the quality, can be used at some level to get better at the game. Even seemingly bad items can be used to improve the quality of good items, or can be paired with other items to make them stronger.
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Decide when to call it quits. It is almost never a good idea to spend money on a free game unless you're interested in supporting the game developers. If you find yourself "whaling" too frequently, you should reconsider how much money you are spending on the game and set a budget appropriately. You should also keep in mind that there is no monetary value to gacha game prizes and consider how it is impacting your life or your career.Advertisement
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- There is often no way to predict when you will get a rare item. For example, a game that advertises a guarantee of 100 pulls for a rare item may actually set the guarantee lower depending on the luck of previous pulls.Thanks
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