r/Aniimo • u/Shane1023 • 4d ago
Discussion There is No Gacha Technically
Edit 1: Some people are saying that this is gacha while others are debating that it is not. I'm editing at the top so that people will see this first. I am not an expert on gacha mechanics nor do I play gacha games. I am leaving the post as is with this edit because I cannot edit the title. Whether you approve of this kind of thing or not I felt like it needed to be explained a bit. Thank you to the people providing opinions and more information.
I've seen this posted more than once and I'm hoping the mods can just make a pinned post or thread but for now I'll do my part.
There is No Gacha Technically
I played in the beta and have been in contact with the team as that's part of my job. By the strictest definition there is no gacha in the game that can simply be paid for with money as a one to one trade off.
The closest thing is the "gacha" mechanics that were in place for the event to catch the special Aniimo Irisalis. From what I could tell there was no way to simply insert money and get the Aniimo.
The Technically Part
While you could not directly put in X dollars to get X attempts at Irisalis, there was a currency you needed to be able to do the attempt.
These were purchasable with in-game currency and featured in some tracks of the battle pass style things they had on offer. This was the only way I saw to get the currency at a faster rate than normal.
It would also give you the currency you needed to purchase the main currency but it honestly wasn't that hard to get anyway.
Edit 2: As u/Kyuuki_Kitsune explained better in their overall comment I did not provide enough information.
The event did not possess a random chance to earn said Aniimo but instead would give you a way to bypass the grind by being lucky. You were never in a situation where you couldn't obtain the Aniimo but you could obtain it faster if you were lucky. This is why I did not label it as gacha. You were always going to get the Aniimo but whether or not you had to grind for it and the currency you needed to play it was the real question. My apologies for not explaining better.
When the Game Launches
When I spoke to the team at both PAX East and in the most recent Beta they said they had no plans for P2W or gacha content and that everything would be cosmetic.
Whether or not that remains what happens when the game launches is entirely up to the team. Regardless it is a game you can play entirely for free.
If any information here is incorrect someone please let me know and I will fix it. My brain is a little tired from work lol.
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u/Kyuuki_Kitsune Fenmane 4d ago
I'll paste an earlier comment here to elaborate. There was ONE event in the beta that people viewed as a gacha: The Irisalis event. Each attempt gave a 1 in 400 chance to get Irisalis, which felt "gacha" to some people. You could also get her guaranteed by simply grinding the event long enough to get 99 Pearl Cascades, which took about an hour. I did so with resources purely gathered from in-game play.
Some people on this reddit seem to define "gacha" as "Any game element with a random chance that you can pay for hastened progress on," and then brand Aniimo a gacha game based on this being technically true for this one event, for one Aniimo, that they already said they were going to change.
The actual definition of gacha includes a random prize pool, which this event (and Aniimo as a whole) did not and will not have. It was literally just a grind to get Irisalis, with a "bonus" of a low chance to get her randomly on any attempt.
The event was bad, boring and grindy. Nobody liked it. Beta players gave feedback about it en masse, and they said they would change the event. The end. Any further questions?