Talk:Gacha game

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Loot boxes and gatcha games

Please see a discussion I started at Talk:Loot_box#Loot_boxes_and_gacha_games on whether those concepts and related categories may benefit from merging. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:26, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Gacha prior to video games

This whole gacha concept must precede video games, when small Japanese contests have these balls in a rotating box. Participants who get the golden ball win a free trip to somewhere or some other glamorous prize. KyuuA4 (Talk:キュウ) 23:42, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

It does. You've seen those supermarket capsule vending machines where you put in your quarter, and turned the handle and out popped a capsule? With some of the items actually worth the quarter, and many not? That's gacha. The ones with an assortment of collectible mini helmets randomly dispensed? That's gacha too. You've seen gumball machines with special winner gumballs you can redeem for a prize? That's also gacha. It was in more places than japan. It's named after capsule vending machines, which are known as "gashapon" in japan, after the sounds they make, and massively predates use in video games. 24.241.67.34 (talk) 21:47, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

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Vending machines > Toy story (1995) > Pokemon (1996) > Lineage II (2003) > Phones.

We had it in fairs and resaurants and high-way shops in Swiss and Italy in the 80's already some used mecanical arms, others used classic chewing gum glass machine concept and the ball you recived was random. ( I'm not old enough to remember before, and bet they were in other country as well.) You can see the concept of these stufed animal or ball caged kids toy grabing machine in Toy Story who was in teaters in 1995. It was used to make the first Pokemon on Game Boy, that is the obviose first ancestor of all fighting gacha game. Slightly diferent pokeballs are often used as a tribute by game makers. The other one is the first succesfull free to play game in South Korea Lineage II in 2003 where items where delivered on random with the buisness model used by most gacha game today. From someone who started on Pong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Androolid (talk • contribs) 03:22, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Title: gacha or gacha game?

Right now this article is under 'gacha game', but isn't the topic here the concept of gacha and not its application as a gacha game? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 09:53, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

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Gacha 67.187.251.1 (talk) 02:44, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Gacha life

Gacha life is also a gacha 24.31.186.228 (talk) 01:35, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Gacha Life

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The current rarity of "closed" gachas

Current mobile gacha games are almost invariably "open gachas", i.e. with public display of odds. This stems from self-policy to avoid state intervention from Japan in the aftermath of a major controversy involving the game Granblue Fantasy, an event typically referred to as "Monkeygate" (long story short; they had a special temporary event where a time-limited character was featured with extra odds, but -- while technically true -- the rate increase was far lower than other time-limited events hosted prior in the same game, and was thus rather misleading).

Is this bit of history something that would be relevant for this article, or possibly the GBF article? --FIQ (talk) 22:40, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

I think it's worth talking about. I don't think wiki is supposed to be a time capsule of "what used to be true" to the detriment of talking about what's true now. If you or somebody else doesn't add it I'll get around to it eventually. Nyuuposting (talk) 13:22, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Open gacha is now used for pulls that require premium currency pretty much throughout the world now. Pulls for ingame currency that can't be gotten with money typically remain closed, to encourage paying for the open gacha. Both Google Play and the App Store require open gacha for capsules bought with premium currency or cash. China also requires open gacha, open hard pity timers, and daily pull limits. This is why it's so widespread now. 24.241.67.34 (talk) 21:35, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

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Student Adding improvments

I am looking to improve upon the model section as well as the criticism section. TheLonePlush (talk) 16:50, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Criticism and Controversy section warrants significant cleanup

Just had to note, it's riddled with grammar errors, flows poorly, and the massive paragraph is tiring to read. Lreinirz (talk) 09:35, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Criticism and Controversy section looks sabotaged

It’s full of grammar- and punctuation errors, unsubstantiated arguments, and lacks references. I see that somebody else noticed this a month ago as well. I don’t normally edit Wikipedia, but I made an account just to at least attempt to draw attention to it - it’s that bad. WikiOwlhoothoot (talk) 23:18, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Springer Nature Citations

Can we please remove the Springer Nature citations? Springer Nature is not to be considered a reliable source by anyone who isn't a racist, a climate change denier, or a shill for the Chinese government. 186.29.181.161 (talk) 17:01, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

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Missing Citations

I checked the citations in the "Model" section, and they don't support a majority of the claims. There's nothing in Leahy about "deals" or price anchoring or "near misses". It doesn't even really talk about psychology—it's more of a regulatory discussion. Maybe some citations got swapped around?

The source also doesn't mention "open gacha" or "closed gacha". The source says that "kompu-gacha" is illegal, but it has nothing on legal requirements to disclose drop rates. It's also from 2016, so we can't say "virtually all contemporary gacha games" have that info. Is that even true? I can't imagine it is for the US, but I haven't played a gacha game before, so I have no idea (I'm just on this page to learn about them).

The "Tan, Angeleen" source (cited under the Pity mechanic) seems much more comprehensive, and actually does discuss the stuff above. Maybe someone who knows more than me could verify? Mathdino (talk) 22:44, 24 June 2026 (UTC)