Hey everyone, remember lootboxes in gaming? You know, the thing that& #39;s pretty much universally considered predatory gambling, has even resulted in various legislation around the world and has a bad enough rap that western publishers act very carefully on the subject as of late?

Meanwhile, eastern publishers are engaging in the exact same predatory lootbox practices on a regular basis, but everybody chill because we don& #39;t call it lootboxes, we call it gacha!

But gacha is literally the same predatory lootbox gambling. There& #39;s no damn difference.

Rather than "gacha games", we should use the term lootbox games. It& #39;s what they are and what they deserve to be called.

And don& #39;t forget that lootbox games are basically always live service games too, which means they& #39;re destined to be killed sooner or later, with no refunds.

This rant sponsored by Genshin Impact, the neat looking single player game that I can& #39;t in good conscience install because of its extremely invasive always online DRM, because gotta protect the integrity of our predatory lootbox gambling business model!

Lootboxes ruin everything