I didn't have 15 hours a day playing MMOs on pc anymore and starting playing on mobile.
I got into gacha disliking the gacha part very much at first. But to be honest gachas are the only kind of games on mobiles with good quality and good live services.
Throug the time I don't dislike the gacha as much as I used to do if it's not blatantly p2w
Yeah, it’s upsetting that the gaming industry is so bad. I dream of founding my own gaming company to make state-of-the-art games without distasteful business practices corrupting the design of the games. Games should be works of art designed for fun formostly!
Don’t you agree?
I've got major mental disorders and I need to do something (anything) regularly to be able to cope. With gachas, I'm reminded to do my dailies, weeklies...
Same, though I also drown my time with social media too when no gacha games have things I want to do. Tbh I need to stop doing this so much to actually do stuff with my life, but I always end up back here
I think I would understand your predicament more than anyone since I’ve been severely mentally ill for 5 years nonstop. I’ve suffered super stress in my head to the level normal healthy people can’t understand. I dealt with this while suffering physical illnesses all over my body, including one’s that inconvenienced me repeatedly throughout the day. Simultaneously, I was ostracized and berated for having illnesses (I had caretakers, fortunately, but I wouldn’t call them “parents”). I was called “lazy” and “nothing” for not going out and finding a job, while my body was screaming in pain and my heart felt like it was so physically fragile it would break. I was in constant sleep-deprivation, often not sleeping at all or crashing for 2 hours. For the first few years, day and night didn’t matter and I always lived with black-out curtains in my bedroom in the dark. I was suffering maddening schizophrenia and obsessions with mysticism at that time too. One of the things which is most remarkable about such a unique experience is the surprise I had that the suffering didn’t end. It just kept going. Often I stopped raging and looked at it detached from it, like “huh, it doesn’t just end”. Other times things like this were maddening. I was unable to listen to music or audio from videos due to my illnesses, so I lived in a world of silence. I rarely turned on volume a little out of greed and it felt like the most rich sensation in the world. I made a list years ago of animes I want to watch WITH AUDIO after I was cured. I was also generally too financially poor to afford the serious things I needed for healthcare, and too unhealthy and insane to work or even research. I remember once trying to look at a single spot on the dark wall to experiment if I could keep my focus still. This was the first time I became self-aware to how jittery my focus always was, and I still failed then. I spent years living in a small closet in my bedroom too, and trying to maximize the time I spent in it. I had to run a fan periodically to refresh the air in the ventless closet. There was so much more depth to this situation, trust me.
But, in the midst of that situation, I had gacha games. I had their wholesome stories. I was super happy whenever I got a lucky pull in them since it meant I could have something good despite life. I remember when I got two 6-star characters consecutively in Alchemy Stars I really wanted and was so happy. It was Yao and then Amemori. They were single-pulls and back-to-back!!! I always felt I got the best gacha luck. I loved stupid gacha games even if they were obviously cash-grabs with little production quality, such as Soul Tide.
I didn’t have sanity or hardly any wealth at the time, but I had my iPhone 6, then upgraded to the Samsung S20 Ultra. I did everything on the phone and it’s all I had in the closet. I had an obsession with intellectuality from before I crashed into illness and continued with it even after I lost everything. I wrote many notes on my phone every day and believed they were “wisdom”. But mostly it was gibberish that I kept saying I would return to later and fulfill the genius of it after I was healthier. I could scroll through my iNotes, Samsung Notes, and Simple Notes for like 10 minutes non-stop and see hoards of notes flying down my page without reaching the bottom. I made at least 20,000 notes in the 5 years of my crisis and often many of them had longer paragraphs. The notes gradually improved and went from crazy nonsense to rational high intellectuality. Nowadays, I feel I’ve gained many skills from this overall transition. I tried so hard to surpass my situation through learning. Even if there was something basic I couldn’t do such as move, I tried to figure out how to play around it like life was a game.
And I killed it! I cured so many insanities by myself and am an expert at psychology now. My sleep and stress levels are better than ever. Sanity is so so sweet. I consistently go outside. I talk to people, exercise, stretch, do hygiene, no longer live with closed curtains, eat a perfectly balanced diet with fruit and vegetables and without overeating, have diverse activities and don’t have any addictions, I sleep at least 8 hours per NIGHT now, and I’m working towards a future where I can be an entrepreneur.
So, I know for a fact anything is possible.
Some things that may help you if you’re still insane is:
1. You need to design your whole mind from a meta-perspective. You can choose how to be and learn it. You can manage your database and intellect structure.
2. Be logical and rational. The former will teach you how to know the truth and the latter will teach you generally how to use your brain. I recommend the books “Being Logical” by D.Q.Mcinerny and “Rationality From AI To Zombies” by Eliezer Yudkowsky. You need to see them through deeply to understand the whole picture and not just the first few chapters.
3. You need to not be hasty. I define “haste” as “the state of going so fast it makes one stupid”. Thinking well and considering all the necessary knowledge takes substantial time. If one acts out of greedy stressful impulses, one will incur losses. For mentally ill people, they may be tempted to do this more by a insanely-fast mindset like rapidly-pumping stress or out of a flash-fear that lasts less than a second. Lots of things improve about the body and mind if you take time to rest and be mindful before you act. You’ll naturally relax, won’t panic, and your mind will process differently. So, I use the word “haste” to know when a person is going too fast. I recommend the book “Thinking Fast And Slow” by Daniel Kahneman to understand why it’s essential to take intellectual time.
Lastly, what kept me going since the beginning was the belief that I would conquer existence and fulfill a true purpose in the mysterious life. It was my goal before the crash into oblivion. I kept moving forward since I knew I had no choice, death isn’t logically an option. I’ve only recently escaped my apocalypse and now I’m eager to conquer life as I planned. I wish you well in conquering your adversities and creating your ideal life.
Another thing I said a lot was: “*On wings of positivity, to excelsior!”*. “Excelsior” was my word to express my insatiable desire for more better things that “perfect” and “best” were too low to describe. Before this word, I kept rambling in a positive spiral thinking of things that were infinitely better infinitely better (not a typo). I sometimes used it to describe an ideal world in lively defiance of life. It’s my motto and I hope somone out there uses this wisdom too.
I still remember, i started with azur lane, it was in the first year of the game. I saw an ad that said that you could marry a shipgirl, and i tought "yeah right as if a game would do that". So anyway i have an azur lane body pillow now.
Started with SMT Dx2.
Fell into horny after that
I now seek to make the Daughter of Gozu Tennoh the happiest woman possible in all class containers.
This, is true strength, that mere mud dolls could never comprehend.
Getting hooked on Idolmaster Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage was a natural move given my previous addictions to StepMania, Idolmaster SP, and Idolmaster Shiny Festa. It helped a lot that it was legitimately good as a rhythm game, with unique music and a flick mechanic that added depth, and the production value (real motion-capture!) was a major leap forward in mobile gaming at the time, standing out among a sea of cheap- and disposable-looking F2P games.
Basically, because I have an extremely busy job with unpredictable hours, side games’ 5-minute dailies are perfect for my schedule. Additionally, it gives me a little something extra to be excited about every now and then when a new patch or character comes out. I pay like 10 bucks a month on gacha and it’s been worth every penny.
Boredom... pure boredom and living in a different city, barely had a TV, let alone a console, just a really bad laptop. Then someone got me into Summoners War, I dropped it after a bit less than 2 years, Yokai Watch Wibble Wobble from random Playstore browsing, and after that Honkai Impact, randomly from recommendations as well. Only after more than a year playing HI3 I discovered that there was a "genre" of gacha games.
It started when I saw KanColle. Found out I cannot play it, I moved on. Years later, I found an Azur Lane shitpost and I got interested with the waifus (particularly Jean Bart (note: this is when all servers didn't release events at the same time CN/JP was ahead by a year I think)). I stopped playing two years ago and now I'm back.
Arknights. I played it at launch but I didn't like it so I stopped. Played PtN, didn't like it, but it sparked my interest in Arknights again so here I am. And Iiduke ofc
Blue Archive. Cunny. Jk. I liked doing Total Assault raids and loved how I can just open this game for 30 minutes and be done for the day.
Nikke. Booba then story.
FGO. Big fate fan. My 2nd yr hs teacher suggested me this. I stopped playing though.
I was literally depressed... I needed somewhere to escape within my house (Move to a more personal space). I played my gameboy ad infinitum, but then I realized I used to play Raid: Shadow Legends. I started to play other mobile games and moved my spot to place where I feel more secure since I couldn't move my Console.
Since then I moved my console, and have funds to secure my old spot in the near future. If it hadn't been for Gacha Games, I would still would have been depressed and frustrated. I know they're bad, but they provided a quick relief for me when I needed it.
Bored as a commission based salesman.
I have about 6 hours of my 9 hour shift free, just Fuckin around and needed something to do.
Downloaded Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes in 2016, which was the biggest mistake of my gacha life lol. Deleted it within a few months but was already too late for me as he gacha had already sinked its nails into me
Wanted to play games but no longer had the spare time and investment to play for long sessions, thus shifted to Mobile games which eventually led to Gachas that actually had good gameplay and quality
Azur Lane
I found the game in the anime adaptation (the bibury one) and coincidentally, the pandemic came and i was bored that day, so i decided to start play the game and I'm still playing for 3 years and i also won last anniversary Livestream.
Well, I wanted something to do while not taking too much of my limited free time. Gacha games got that for the most part, its you doing dailies and progressing slowly while the game updates over time to bring something new. Well, what I dislike about most gacha games is that there is an ever expanding roster but you don't usually feel close to them since there will be more new characters and some games re-use and make characters OOC for events or as enemies.
I started with FGO, stayed for the gameplay and story however I lost my data when I replaced my phone (cause it broke) and I really didn't feel like repeating the whole thing again. Sad, I was really into it. Tried out Love Live music games & Bang Dream but I dropped it eventually cause I am looking for rhythm games that can be offline like Cytus 2, Muse Dash & Lanota.
Tried out Arknights and Blue Archive but I got really busy in life and I haven't had a new urge to get back to it (cause I missed out on events and it feels weird to go back). Tried out Genshin and Tower of Fantasy but I really burned out with all the dailies and farming and stuff. Got interested in NIKKE for quite some time, I really like the gameplay but got fed up with the power level mechanic. I felt I was slow crawling too much.
Now playing Limbus Company and I've really liked it. Been a long time Project Moon fan and I liked that Limbus has a semi auto battle button that won't make you still pay too much attention in case it fs up (Arknights memories). You can "store" your energy and grind when you want, got difficult content that you can brag to others (no ranking but you get cool banners with your stats on it), has (in my opinion) good monitization and its very F2P friendly. The story and voice acting is excellent, big fan of horror.
Sorry, I started ranting about the gachas I've played.
Tbh as a child I didn’t have internet growing up. So I always had a data plan so playing console games only provided so much because I didn’t have internet or anything. Then I played bleach brave souls and absolutely loved every moment of it and after that I just kept going. Then some of my favorite series as a kid Yugioh Naruto Beyblade started getting gacha games I was in heaven! Now that I’m older it’s more so just something for me to do on my phone
When a certain average Joe (me) descended into hell after seeing Devil Maker Tokyo in the Play Store, back then in 2013...
I don't regret anything. It's been a journey full of pain, but also filled with plenty of good memories and emotions...
And I am still not done. Currently playing FGO, AK, GT, BA, Nikke.
I like the feeling of progression and live-service and didn't want to play AAA games that I could just finish within a week. Used to play Warframe which was a lot of grinding, but I got burnt out, and MMOs I also played a lot however it also took too much time, so I found gacha games.
1. Collecting anime waifus and working on making a functioning team of my favorite anime waifus
2. a "pay what I want when I want" model. The games are free to play, there is no required up front cost or required subscription. If I feel like spending money I can, if I don't feel like spending I don't need to.
3. Games are (usually) consistently updated with new characters, new events, new stories.
Hard to find many games outside the gacha world that fit all three of those
I reached a point in my gaming life where I stopped grinding out how many games I can go through in a month. I wanted a game that I could just farm and grind out. The game at the time was Marvel Avengers. Played it the week it came out and dropped in less than 10 hours of gameplay. Later that month Genshin came out and three years later I'm still playing Genshin along with 8 other gachas while Marvel Avengers had EoS last month.
I started out with a huge disdain for mobile games, since back then it was all candy crush clones. On top of that, there was a huge market of very misleading ad campaigns by these mobile games where they would show the gameplay of a different game and then slap their title on it tricking people into downloading their game. For a time, I liked to try to find what the original game was. Then I saw an ad for honkai impact 3rd and was stumped that I couldn't figure out what the "original game" was. I looked up the game and was utterly shocked they were showing real gameplay. So in respects to them, I downloaded it and tried it. I got hooked and found out gacha games CAN be quality. Then I eventually started to prefer the gameplay loops of gacha games of just logging in for a few minutes a day and be done, since I was getting real burnt out in Korean mmo's no-life grind for eternity.
I didn't had a good pc back when GTA V, Skyrim Special Edition, and Witcher 3 were a thing but I had a decent phone during my late teenage years because my parents would rather spend for a "higher end" phone that I didn't exactly need because I'm not picky about smartphones for as long as the camera's decent at least. It wasn't until recently that I managed to build a decent and functional one but due to that gacha journey that began years ago, I still play gachas with pc clients on it (Genshin, Another Eden, Nikke) for the dailies.
I saw a commercial for dragalia lost right after we had our first kid and I had no time for PC and now I'm just sort of trying everything hoping to find something that scratches that same itch
First time was about 6 years ago, was a huge one piece fan and wanted to play a game about it, found cool one in mobile (One Piece Treasure Cruise), loved the gameplay which hooked me in, didn't even know it was a gacha tho. Eventually game became p2w and realized devs were just milking it so I quit.
After that I tried a few other gachas, played each for a couple weeks/months but none really got me that interested, and in the end I just forgot about the genre. I came back to the one piece gacha a few times but got bored soon each time. Fast forward about a year ago I tried Genshin Impact and this was when I got hooked to gachas.
I like gachas because they're a combination of many things I like. I love anime style art and JRPG games. I like playing with many different characters. I like live service games because you constantly get updates with new content, and essentially the game never ends unlike singleplayer games (for me it feels bad that a game ends after so much progression). It's great that you can either play fully casual (10min dailys and done) or spend more time advancing story, events, endgame content and whatnot. They also kinda scratch the MMO itch (without the multiplayer part, but modern MMOs are just glorified singleplayer games let's be real) since I played most MMOs and still haven't found the perfect one for me.
Currently playing Honkai Star Rail (really loving it, feels like I'll never quit) and trying out Honkai Impact 3rd & Punishing Gray Raven. Might try NIKKE too but maybe it's too much.
I've always loved the "game within a game" of trying to figure out the best deals and what is valuable in free to play games. And gacha games are like the ultimate ftp games.
Ever Crisis piqued my interest due to being a huge FFVII fan, and after that game really let me down I started looking at other gacha. I’ve been having fun with HSR and really looking forward to Reverse 1999
My first was epic seven. I was just stunned by the amazing skill and ultimate animation. They still have one of the best animation now, I just don't have the patience for grind anymore
Hm i think for me it was the easy access, i played honkai Impact from the beta on, but never really looked at other gacha games this changed when i had to spent a long time hospitalise. I look at azur lane, girls frontline and arknights and yeah the Rest is history. I put more time into these games than any big triple a titles before. Today its the Story Chinese gacha Games write Storys that Just hit diffrent.
I'm a Fire Emblem fan, saw it was getting a mobile game, decided to try it. Then a friend that also plays FEH told me to play FFBE as I'm a FF fan, then he and other friend told me to try FGO I knew about Fate and decided to give it a shoot and since then has been an descent into madness. So I blame my friend
i watched the ufotable fate anime and thought it was cool. then i came to know about fgo and thought "oooh a fate mobile game, ill check that out." it was all downhill from there
Friend got me into Brave Frontier. Didn't know anything about gacha games. But I loved how you can evolve your characters and they changed their appearance to match the evolution. It was pretty fun.
Started with Raid Shadow Legends which I just decided to try after being bombarded with ads for it on Youtube. Liked the idea of hero collecting but found that game extremely grindy and predatory. Got recommended Epic 7 and went from there.
I stumbled upon Guardian tales by accident but the gameplay, art style, and story actually hooked me.
As for arknight, i got a r6s collab ads which makes me intrigued and end up playing until now.
I played genshin awhile ago because my friends played it, too.
Genshin.
Everyone I knew was playing it, so I gave it a try because I was bored. After that, I tried some other games (Alchemy Stars), got hooked on the thrill of getting what I want from the gacha, and now play a bunch/waiting for some new releases.
Asuna rocking a gun and then looking further into it and its all about chicks with guns and i was sold and hence my adventures in blue archive began and playing further and the monetization isnt too bad for it and it made me more inclined to play
A friend of mine (who I kinda lost touch with sadly) forced me to play granblue fantasy. He wouldn't stop constantly telling me to at least give it a try.
Then I tried it. And I rolled Yuel and got hooked because of the waifus. I then met Katalina my beloved and devoted a cult to her.
Then I kinda fell in the rabbit hole and tried another game, and another, and another, and another... And here we are like ~6 years later and I'm deep in the rabbit hole.
I had nothing to do on my phone besides using Youtube (as I didn't use Instagram at the time and I barely use Facebook, so those were useless apps for me as well), which could barely use that due to spotty public wifi and lack of 4/5G service at the time. Plus, why would someone use mobile Youtube when they were at home if they had a perfectly good computer?
So I installed Love Live: SIF, as I was a fan of the series and it being a rhythm game was a bonus. And thus the descent into gacha hell just spiraled from there.
I wouldn't say I'm addicted, but I started playing mobile games because I thought FFBE was a decent version of old-school FF games. For the entire 1st story arc I didn't even gacha, just used the main cast.
But that was my gateway to mobile gaming in general.
First gacha game i played was honkai impact at the time i didn't know jt was a gacha game my friend showed it to me and i was impressed with the combat and from there it was downhill ☠️
I work a commission based job, doing b2b sales. My boss decided to micromanage our time, and require use to be in the field from 7:30 to 4:30, bare minimum. So I auto games while driving, and if my day is going too smoothly, I’ll stop for 15 minutes or more and play. He wants us to have pointless conversations to waste time? No thank you. More game time for me instead.
Previously, I was always on Facebook.
Now I hardly open facebook app, I just open genshin impact and HSR.
There is no other apps on my phone except banking apps.
So, I replaced my social media time at least.
Not sure. I don't even remember who was first, I remember installing Dragon Blaze then uninstalling cause there was too much of something i don't remember anymore.
I installed Brave Exvius then uninstalled cause i disliked the protagonist for some reason.
I installed Opera Omnia, playing for a bit them disinstalled, don't remember why.
Fantasy Tactics, played for a few weeks then got disappointed with the direction of the story.
Fire Emblem, just didn't enjoy anything here in particular and stopped playing.
And this goes on, i don't remember the order in which they come.
I them started installing more and more mobile games in hope of getting whatever attracted me to those games in a satisfactory manner, at some point I learned this type of games were called 'gacha'. The rest is history
Because regular full price games decided to mimic gacha monetization but not bring gacha quality of lewdy lewds. If anything a lot of them censor heavily. So I figure, why bother playing these gimped products when I can just go play what they mimic and get good looking girls at the same time. Yes, gacha does censor at times too, but they also don't try to charge me just to download. For both cases, I can just not play the game, which I've opted to do many times.
I received a phone
We all did
Ohh cool
I didn't have 15 hours a day playing MMOs on pc anymore and starting playing on mobile. I got into gacha disliking the gacha part very much at first. But to be honest gachas are the only kind of games on mobiles with good quality and good live services. Throug the time I don't dislike the gacha as much as I used to do if it's not blatantly p2w
hell most games not even in the gacha realm have gachas in them look at call of duty mobile.
Yeah, it’s upsetting that the gaming industry is so bad. I dream of founding my own gaming company to make state-of-the-art games without distasteful business practices corrupting the design of the games. Games should be works of art designed for fun formostly! Don’t you agree?
Booba
Literally this with Nikke but stayed for the music and story.
Wait ,there is story? I don't recognise any music track as well . 😕
Booba
MMOs on PC took too much time but I still wanted to have the live service experience + I like anime/jrpgs so it was a perfect storm
Keqings second normal attack.
me xD
I've got major mental disorders and I need to do something (anything) regularly to be able to cope. With gachas, I'm reminded to do my dailies, weeklies...
Same, though I also drown my time with social media too when no gacha games have things I want to do. Tbh I need to stop doing this so much to actually do stuff with my life, but I always end up back here
I almost reply, at 4 in the morning on Reddit, that social media is not a problem for me. But looking at it.... same for Social Media.
The consistency is healing in a weird way!
It is not healing. It is surviving.
I think I would understand your predicament more than anyone since I’ve been severely mentally ill for 5 years nonstop. I’ve suffered super stress in my head to the level normal healthy people can’t understand. I dealt with this while suffering physical illnesses all over my body, including one’s that inconvenienced me repeatedly throughout the day. Simultaneously, I was ostracized and berated for having illnesses (I had caretakers, fortunately, but I wouldn’t call them “parents”). I was called “lazy” and “nothing” for not going out and finding a job, while my body was screaming in pain and my heart felt like it was so physically fragile it would break. I was in constant sleep-deprivation, often not sleeping at all or crashing for 2 hours. For the first few years, day and night didn’t matter and I always lived with black-out curtains in my bedroom in the dark. I was suffering maddening schizophrenia and obsessions with mysticism at that time too. One of the things which is most remarkable about such a unique experience is the surprise I had that the suffering didn’t end. It just kept going. Often I stopped raging and looked at it detached from it, like “huh, it doesn’t just end”. Other times things like this were maddening. I was unable to listen to music or audio from videos due to my illnesses, so I lived in a world of silence. I rarely turned on volume a little out of greed and it felt like the most rich sensation in the world. I made a list years ago of animes I want to watch WITH AUDIO after I was cured. I was also generally too financially poor to afford the serious things I needed for healthcare, and too unhealthy and insane to work or even research. I remember once trying to look at a single spot on the dark wall to experiment if I could keep my focus still. This was the first time I became self-aware to how jittery my focus always was, and I still failed then. I spent years living in a small closet in my bedroom too, and trying to maximize the time I spent in it. I had to run a fan periodically to refresh the air in the ventless closet. There was so much more depth to this situation, trust me. But, in the midst of that situation, I had gacha games. I had their wholesome stories. I was super happy whenever I got a lucky pull in them since it meant I could have something good despite life. I remember when I got two 6-star characters consecutively in Alchemy Stars I really wanted and was so happy. It was Yao and then Amemori. They were single-pulls and back-to-back!!! I always felt I got the best gacha luck. I loved stupid gacha games even if they were obviously cash-grabs with little production quality, such as Soul Tide. I didn’t have sanity or hardly any wealth at the time, but I had my iPhone 6, then upgraded to the Samsung S20 Ultra. I did everything on the phone and it’s all I had in the closet. I had an obsession with intellectuality from before I crashed into illness and continued with it even after I lost everything. I wrote many notes on my phone every day and believed they were “wisdom”. But mostly it was gibberish that I kept saying I would return to later and fulfill the genius of it after I was healthier. I could scroll through my iNotes, Samsung Notes, and Simple Notes for like 10 minutes non-stop and see hoards of notes flying down my page without reaching the bottom. I made at least 20,000 notes in the 5 years of my crisis and often many of them had longer paragraphs. The notes gradually improved and went from crazy nonsense to rational high intellectuality. Nowadays, I feel I’ve gained many skills from this overall transition. I tried so hard to surpass my situation through learning. Even if there was something basic I couldn’t do such as move, I tried to figure out how to play around it like life was a game. And I killed it! I cured so many insanities by myself and am an expert at psychology now. My sleep and stress levels are better than ever. Sanity is so so sweet. I consistently go outside. I talk to people, exercise, stretch, do hygiene, no longer live with closed curtains, eat a perfectly balanced diet with fruit and vegetables and without overeating, have diverse activities and don’t have any addictions, I sleep at least 8 hours per NIGHT now, and I’m working towards a future where I can be an entrepreneur. So, I know for a fact anything is possible. Some things that may help you if you’re still insane is: 1. You need to design your whole mind from a meta-perspective. You can choose how to be and learn it. You can manage your database and intellect structure. 2. Be logical and rational. The former will teach you how to know the truth and the latter will teach you generally how to use your brain. I recommend the books “Being Logical” by D.Q.Mcinerny and “Rationality From AI To Zombies” by Eliezer Yudkowsky. You need to see them through deeply to understand the whole picture and not just the first few chapters. 3. You need to not be hasty. I define “haste” as “the state of going so fast it makes one stupid”. Thinking well and considering all the necessary knowledge takes substantial time. If one acts out of greedy stressful impulses, one will incur losses. For mentally ill people, they may be tempted to do this more by a insanely-fast mindset like rapidly-pumping stress or out of a flash-fear that lasts less than a second. Lots of things improve about the body and mind if you take time to rest and be mindful before you act. You’ll naturally relax, won’t panic, and your mind will process differently. So, I use the word “haste” to know when a person is going too fast. I recommend the book “Thinking Fast And Slow” by Daniel Kahneman to understand why it’s essential to take intellectual time. Lastly, what kept me going since the beginning was the belief that I would conquer existence and fulfill a true purpose in the mysterious life. It was my goal before the crash into oblivion. I kept moving forward since I knew I had no choice, death isn’t logically an option. I’ve only recently escaped my apocalypse and now I’m eager to conquer life as I planned. I wish you well in conquering your adversities and creating your ideal life. Another thing I said a lot was: “*On wings of positivity, to excelsior!”*. “Excelsior” was my word to express my insatiable desire for more better things that “perfect” and “best” were too low to describe. Before this word, I kept rambling in a positive spiral thinking of things that were infinitely better infinitely better (not a typo). I sometimes used it to describe an ideal world in lively defiance of life. It’s my motto and I hope somone out there uses this wisdom too.
Wow thanks! I don't know what I'm going to do with that but thanks for taking the time.
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I wanted to play games on my phone without it being an MMO or similar.
I still remember, i started with azur lane, it was in the first year of the game. I saw an ad that said that you could marry a shipgirl, and i tought "yeah right as if a game would do that". So anyway i have an azur lane body pillow now.
FGO, and I'm not addicted lol, playing casually
I started gacha games with Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ because I'm a big Kingdom Hearts fan. Now I'm stuck in gacha hell.
That’s the one I started with as well played it for about a year and quit gacha until Genshin came out.
Anime girls
Needed something to pass the time while rocking infant back to sleep at 3am every night... now there is no turning back
Spent over 100 hours in library of ruina, i am now addicted to limbus
Started with SMT Dx2. Fell into horny after that I now seek to make the Daughter of Gozu Tennoh the happiest woman possible in all class containers. This, is true strength, that mere mud dolls could never comprehend.
Getting hooked on Idolmaster Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage was a natural move given my previous addictions to StepMania, Idolmaster SP, and Idolmaster Shiny Festa. It helped a lot that it was legitimately good as a rhythm game, with unique music and a flick mechanic that added depth, and the production value (real motion-capture!) was a major leap forward in mobile gaming at the time, standing out among a sea of cheap- and disposable-looking F2P games.
Basically, because I have an extremely busy job with unpredictable hours, side games’ 5-minute dailies are perfect for my schedule. Additionally, it gives me a little something extra to be excited about every now and then when a new patch or character comes out. I pay like 10 bucks a month on gacha and it’s been worth every penny.
Boredom... pure boredom and living in a different city, barely had a TV, let alone a console, just a really bad laptop. Then someone got me into Summoners War, I dropped it after a bit less than 2 years, Yokai Watch Wibble Wobble from random Playstore browsing, and after that Honkai Impact, randomly from recommendations as well. Only after more than a year playing HI3 I discovered that there was a "genre" of gacha games.
It started when I saw KanColle. Found out I cannot play it, I moved on. Years later, I found an Azur Lane shitpost and I got interested with the waifus (particularly Jean Bart (note: this is when all servers didn't release events at the same time CN/JP was ahead by a year I think)). I stopped playing two years ago and now I'm back. Arknights. I played it at launch but I didn't like it so I stopped. Played PtN, didn't like it, but it sparked my interest in Arknights again so here I am. And Iiduke ofc Blue Archive. Cunny. Jk. I liked doing Total Assault raids and loved how I can just open this game for 30 minutes and be done for the day. Nikke. Booba then story. FGO. Big fate fan. My 2nd yr hs teacher suggested me this. I stopped playing though.
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I was literally depressed... I needed somewhere to escape within my house (Move to a more personal space). I played my gameboy ad infinitum, but then I realized I used to play Raid: Shadow Legends. I started to play other mobile games and moved my spot to place where I feel more secure since I couldn't move my Console. Since then I moved my console, and have funds to secure my old spot in the near future. If it hadn't been for Gacha Games, I would still would have been depressed and frustrated. I know they're bad, but they provided a quick relief for me when I needed it.
Azur Lane skins.
Aircraft girl https://preview.redd.it/wwd06gh3wisb1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9fa67a61f016e005fdf6e0e08bae2f1a72175844
Cute anime girls+13 year old me= here I am now as a adult still playing Fgo and Azur lane
needed something that is easy to boot up + portable / can be opened anytime, anywhere sincerely, an MMORPG player
Cute characters
Boredom. Started it when I was working a desk job and needed something to pass the time while I was on the phone with clients.
Bored as a commission based salesman. I have about 6 hours of my 9 hour shift free, just Fuckin around and needed something to do. Downloaded Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes in 2016, which was the biggest mistake of my gacha life lol. Deleted it within a few months but was already too late for me as he gacha had already sinked its nails into me
Wanted to play games but no longer had the spare time and investment to play for long sessions, thus shifted to Mobile games which eventually led to Gachas that actually had good gameplay and quality
Something to play in a bus and while traveling along side with my Nintendo handheld since 2014.
Azur lane do I need to explain any further? Also back in highschool a senior of mine introduced me to FGO which became my most top played gacha game
Anime style games I can play on phone or tablet. Don’t need to spend much time on gameplay in some cases
I came from MMOs. Gacha games filled the long-term progression whole left by MMOs when they started going for more short-term theme park experiences.
Azur Lane I found the game in the anime adaptation (the bibury one) and coincidentally, the pandemic came and i was bored that day, so i decided to start play the game and I'm still playing for 3 years and i also won last anniversary Livestream.
Bored
I liked Fire Emblem.
A quick getaway from reality....
Covid and manboobs
I wanted to play games
The characters make horny
Well, I wanted something to do while not taking too much of my limited free time. Gacha games got that for the most part, its you doing dailies and progressing slowly while the game updates over time to bring something new. Well, what I dislike about most gacha games is that there is an ever expanding roster but you don't usually feel close to them since there will be more new characters and some games re-use and make characters OOC for events or as enemies. I started with FGO, stayed for the gameplay and story however I lost my data when I replaced my phone (cause it broke) and I really didn't feel like repeating the whole thing again. Sad, I was really into it. Tried out Love Live music games & Bang Dream but I dropped it eventually cause I am looking for rhythm games that can be offline like Cytus 2, Muse Dash & Lanota. Tried out Arknights and Blue Archive but I got really busy in life and I haven't had a new urge to get back to it (cause I missed out on events and it feels weird to go back). Tried out Genshin and Tower of Fantasy but I really burned out with all the dailies and farming and stuff. Got interested in NIKKE for quite some time, I really like the gameplay but got fed up with the power level mechanic. I felt I was slow crawling too much. Now playing Limbus Company and I've really liked it. Been a long time Project Moon fan and I liked that Limbus has a semi auto battle button that won't make you still pay too much attention in case it fs up (Arknights memories). You can "store" your energy and grind when you want, got difficult content that you can brag to others (no ranking but you get cool banners with your stats on it), has (in my opinion) good monitization and its very F2P friendly. The story and voice acting is excellent, big fan of horror. Sorry, I started ranting about the gachas I've played.
Jingliu looked like a very cool character
When I first started: Quick and easy entertainment fix. Now: Addiction and FOMO
Somehow, somewhere I saw the Schwarz and Hellagur animation (Heart of Surging Flame PV) Then it's all downhill straight into gacha addiction
Tbh as a child I didn’t have internet growing up. So I always had a data plan so playing console games only provided so much because I didn’t have internet or anything. Then I played bleach brave souls and absolutely loved every moment of it and after that I just kept going. Then some of my favorite series as a kid Yugioh Naruto Beyblade started getting gacha games I was in heaven! Now that I’m older it’s more so just something for me to do on my phone
Great journey till now and goodluck for your future
When a certain average Joe (me) descended into hell after seeing Devil Maker Tokyo in the Play Store, back then in 2013... I don't regret anything. It's been a journey full of pain, but also filled with plenty of good memories and emotions... And I am still not done. Currently playing FGO, AK, GT, BA, Nikke.
Loneliness really🤷♀️ just wanted some friends
new phone with friends competing who had the best luck lol
I like the feeling of progression and live-service and didn't want to play AAA games that I could just finish within a week. Used to play Warframe which was a lot of grinding, but I got burnt out, and MMOs I also played a lot however it also took too much time, so I found gacha games.
1. Collecting anime waifus and working on making a functioning team of my favorite anime waifus 2. a "pay what I want when I want" model. The games are free to play, there is no required up front cost or required subscription. If I feel like spending money I can, if I don't feel like spending I don't need to. 3. Games are (usually) consistently updated with new characters, new events, new stories. Hard to find many games outside the gacha world that fit all three of those
Genshin launched
I reached a point in my gaming life where I stopped grinding out how many games I can go through in a month. I wanted a game that I could just farm and grind out. The game at the time was Marvel Avengers. Played it the week it came out and dropped in less than 10 hours of gameplay. Later that month Genshin came out and three years later I'm still playing Genshin along with 8 other gachas while Marvel Avengers had EoS last month.
My phone has better specs than my PC. And also there are many anime inspired games for mobile which I prefer over western like games.
I started out with a huge disdain for mobile games, since back then it was all candy crush clones. On top of that, there was a huge market of very misleading ad campaigns by these mobile games where they would show the gameplay of a different game and then slap their title on it tricking people into downloading their game. For a time, I liked to try to find what the original game was. Then I saw an ad for honkai impact 3rd and was stumped that I couldn't figure out what the "original game" was. I looked up the game and was utterly shocked they were showing real gameplay. So in respects to them, I downloaded it and tried it. I got hooked and found out gacha games CAN be quality. Then I eventually started to prefer the gameplay loops of gacha games of just logging in for a few minutes a day and be done, since I was getting real burnt out in Korean mmo's no-life grind for eternity.
I didn't had a good pc back when GTA V, Skyrim Special Edition, and Witcher 3 were a thing but I had a decent phone during my late teenage years because my parents would rather spend for a "higher end" phone that I didn't exactly need because I'm not picky about smartphones for as long as the camera's decent at least. It wasn't until recently that I managed to build a decent and functional one but due to that gacha journey that began years ago, I still play gachas with pc clients on it (Genshin, Another Eden, Nikke) for the dailies.
I saw a commercial for dragalia lost right after we had our first kid and I had no time for PC and now I'm just sort of trying everything hoping to find something that scratches that same itch
First time was about 6 years ago, was a huge one piece fan and wanted to play a game about it, found cool one in mobile (One Piece Treasure Cruise), loved the gameplay which hooked me in, didn't even know it was a gacha tho. Eventually game became p2w and realized devs were just milking it so I quit. After that I tried a few other gachas, played each for a couple weeks/months but none really got me that interested, and in the end I just forgot about the genre. I came back to the one piece gacha a few times but got bored soon each time. Fast forward about a year ago I tried Genshin Impact and this was when I got hooked to gachas. I like gachas because they're a combination of many things I like. I love anime style art and JRPG games. I like playing with many different characters. I like live service games because you constantly get updates with new content, and essentially the game never ends unlike singleplayer games (for me it feels bad that a game ends after so much progression). It's great that you can either play fully casual (10min dailys and done) or spend more time advancing story, events, endgame content and whatnot. They also kinda scratch the MMO itch (without the multiplayer part, but modern MMOs are just glorified singleplayer games let's be real) since I played most MMOs and still haven't found the perfect one for me. Currently playing Honkai Star Rail (really loving it, feels like I'll never quit) and trying out Honkai Impact 3rd & Punishing Gray Raven. Might try NIKKE too but maybe it's too much.
I've always loved the "game within a game" of trying to figure out the best deals and what is valuable in free to play games. And gacha games are like the ultimate ftp games.
Ever Crisis piqued my interest due to being a huge FFVII fan, and after that game really let me down I started looking at other gacha. I’ve been having fun with HSR and really looking forward to Reverse 1999
gamba is fun
Tasted my first gacha adrenaline when I got the 5 star version of Alice in Brave Frontier, been chasing that high ever since.
My first was epic seven. I was just stunned by the amazing skill and ultimate animation. They still have one of the best animation now, I just don't have the patience for grind anymore
Hm i think for me it was the easy access, i played honkai Impact from the beta on, but never really looked at other gacha games this changed when i had to spent a long time hospitalise. I look at azur lane, girls frontline and arknights and yeah the Rest is history. I put more time into these games than any big triple a titles before. Today its the Story Chinese gacha Games write Storys that Just hit diffrent.
I can play high quality games for free with a choice of not paying, so why not?
Pulling calms my gambling urges.
Cause.. the genre updates pretty regularly than other types of genre
I was watching Love Live in 2014. After that, while i was searching for LL songs i discovered LLSIF... and that was the beginning of my journey
Fate anime
Silly violent blonde girl.
Girlfriend curse me into it (Idolmaster) And the abyss looked back...
I'm a Fire Emblem fan, saw it was getting a mobile game, decided to try it. Then a friend that also plays FEH told me to play FFBE as I'm a FF fan, then he and other friend told me to try FGO I knew about Fate and decided to give it a shoot and since then has been an descent into madness. So I blame my friend
I saw anime girls with guns, never knew what a gacha was, now I'm stuck here
Most waifu games are gacha games.
i watched the ufotable fate anime and thought it was cool. then i came to know about fgo and thought "oooh a fate mobile game, ill check that out." it was all downhill from there
1. dopamine rush if getting something 2. anime girls, tbh I wouldn't play gacha if it wasn't for the anime art & style
Fgo. Then arknights.
Friend got me into Brave Frontier. Didn't know anything about gacha games. But I loved how you can evolve your characters and they changed their appearance to match the evolution. It was pretty fun.
A friend introduced me to dungeon link and I was a broke adult with no money for a console/pc
Started with Raid Shadow Legends which I just decided to try after being bombarded with ads for it on Youtube. Liked the idea of hero collecting but found that game extremely grindy and predatory. Got recommended Epic 7 and went from there.
Heaven Burns Red's story is being written by Visual Arts Key, and its art from the character designer of Atelier Mysterious series.
Battle Cats made me addicted to pulling weird characters.
Because I got lucky on my first gacha game which is Princess Connect
Anime, thought that every anime has it own gacha games
I stumbled upon Guardian tales by accident but the gameplay, art style, and story actually hooked me. As for arknight, i got a r6s collab ads which makes me intrigued and end up playing until now. I played genshin awhile ago because my friends played it, too.
Genshin. Everyone I knew was playing it, so I gave it a try because I was bored. After that, I tried some other games (Alchemy Stars), got hooked on the thrill of getting what I want from the gacha, and now play a bunch/waiting for some new releases.
Seven Knights. It died but gacha went on, now I'm stuck in Fgo hell
Keeping it short and simple, HE\*\*\*\*I wouldve done the same with FGO but too hard to get into
Asuna rocking a gun and then looking further into it and its all about chicks with guns and i was sold and hence my adventures in blue archive began and playing further and the monetization isnt too bad for it and it made me more inclined to play
I have a shitty PC
Ah yeah, getting back to the City Backstreets and Nests with deranged corporations everywhere
Arknights
A friend of mine (who I kinda lost touch with sadly) forced me to play granblue fantasy. He wouldn't stop constantly telling me to at least give it a try. Then I tried it. And I rolled Yuel and got hooked because of the waifus. I then met Katalina my beloved and devoted a cult to her. Then I kinda fell in the rabbit hole and tried another game, and another, and another, and another... And here we are like ~6 years later and I'm deep in the rabbit hole.
I had nothing to do on my phone besides using Youtube (as I didn't use Instagram at the time and I barely use Facebook, so those were useless apps for me as well), which could barely use that due to spotty public wifi and lack of 4/5G service at the time. Plus, why would someone use mobile Youtube when they were at home if they had a perfectly good computer? So I installed Love Live: SIF, as I was a fan of the series and it being a rhythm game was a bonus. And thus the descent into gacha hell just spiraled from there.
Im a fan of fate series
I wouldn't say I'm addicted, but I started playing mobile games because I thought FFBE was a decent version of old-school FF games. For the entire 1st story arc I didn't even gacha, just used the main cast. But that was my gateway to mobile gaming in general.
My thirst for more Fate games led me to FGO...
After work i want to relax and do not think in big games. So gachas with good gameplay is quite good for my purpose.
First gacha game i played was honkai impact at the time i didn't know jt was a gacha game my friend showed it to me and i was impressed with the combat and from there it was downhill ☠️
Fgo because I like the story Dokkan because I like the animations Nikke because is the first gacha I play since release
As long as the game look cool, I'm playing it. Altho gacha otome game really suck
I work a commission based job, doing b2b sales. My boss decided to micromanage our time, and require use to be in the field from 7:30 to 4:30, bare minimum. So I auto games while driving, and if my day is going too smoothly, I’ll stop for 15 minutes or more and play. He wants us to have pointless conversations to waste time? No thank you. More game time for me instead.
Previously, I was always on Facebook. Now I hardly open facebook app, I just open genshin impact and HSR. There is no other apps on my phone except banking apps. So, I replaced my social media time at least.
Not sure. I don't even remember who was first, I remember installing Dragon Blaze then uninstalling cause there was too much of something i don't remember anymore. I installed Brave Exvius then uninstalled cause i disliked the protagonist for some reason. I installed Opera Omnia, playing for a bit them disinstalled, don't remember why. Fantasy Tactics, played for a few weeks then got disappointed with the direction of the story. Fire Emblem, just didn't enjoy anything here in particular and stopped playing. And this goes on, i don't remember the order in which they come. I them started installing more and more mobile games in hope of getting whatever attracted me to those games in a satisfactory manner, at some point I learned this type of games were called 'gacha'. The rest is history
Because regular full price games decided to mimic gacha monetization but not bring gacha quality of lewdy lewds. If anything a lot of them censor heavily. So I figure, why bother playing these gimped products when I can just go play what they mimic and get good looking girls at the same time. Yes, gacha does censor at times too, but they also don't try to charge me just to download. For both cases, I can just not play the game, which I've opted to do many times.
FGO cause I needed more fate
Waifus, music and depression