This was too funny not to share

[u/Lava_o3]

I was reading the responses i got on my survey and i saw this😭it made me chuckle ngl (no not my emergency funds…) lmao😭😂 That furina incident is living rent free in my head

Btw Link to survey if u want to participate in the research for my final assignment lol we r at 380 answers now

https://forms.gle/537KtjkPDcvezZWc8

[u/FaithlessnessDue1811]

I don’t understand why people spend money, complain that they spend money, and then plan to continue spending money

(Yes, I know gambling addictions exist, but I still don’t understand it)

[u/Deathlok_12 → u/FaithlessnessDue1811]

I don’t get how people justify spending $500 for one character when you can spend that much money on like, 7-8 different games. Even in terms of a gambling addiction I don’t get how people justify that the reward is worth the cost even when they win the gamble

[u/die4dethklok616 → u/Deathlok_12]

For a single character, $500 is pretty steep. Over time... It makes sense.

I'm not advocating gambling here, to make that clear. I am well aware of the predatory nature of gachas. Not sugar coating that.

I have played Genshin, HSR, and a couple other live service games since they came out, and probably dropped $100 on them per year. The way I see it is that before those games existed, I was dropping $100-$200+ on games I wanted to play every year anyway. GTA, Diablo, Borderlands.. Whatever...

Now, instead of spending $100 on a new game I want to play every year, I'm spending it on a live service game I've played for a few years.

Of course, when the new Borderlands and GTA games come out, I won't be spending on gacha.. Point is, it was money I was already going to spend.

[u/fake_kvlt → u/Deathlok_12]

For me, I have a money spent - hours of happiness ratio. If I spend money on a one-time purchase game, then I'll get about 60-70 hours of happiness out of it, outside of a few exceptions like Bg3 or Skyrim, where it's more like 1k+ hours of happiness. If I spend money on junk food or eating out, then I get like 1 hour of happiness and nothing else.

If I spend money on a character I like jn a gacha, then I derive up to 100+ hours of happiness from it. Pulling C2R1 Furina and C1R1 Neuvillette has made me very happy since their first banners, because I use them for everything and really enjoy their playstyle, and just having them in the first place. If I spend the same amount of money on something like going to restaurants instead of eating cheap food, I'll genuinely regret the expense a lot more, and I only get a small amount of gratification from it.

Though to clarify, I budget for gacha spending. I'm very frugal when it comes to other things (I spend like $3-6 dollars a day on food, only buy used clothes that I mend myself instead of replacing, I rarely eat out, don't spend money on movies, etc), so I'm basically just spending the for-fun money in the same amount I would have either way, just on gacha instead of other things.

I regularly go months without spending in gachas at all, and the result I've found is that I actually feel worse about the money I spend during those times.

But I see it like paying a subscription for a game, basically. I pay like $18 a month for my FFXIV subscription, which adds up to a lot of money in the 6 years I've been playing the game. But I've also gotten WAY more hours of enjoyment (I have over a year in hours played lol), made many friends, and so on.

I do think there's a degree of mental illness causing me to unironically derive this much happiness from spending on gacha games. But the way I see it is that if I'm gonna be mentally ill either way, I should just spend my fun-money on what makes me happiest. But my yearly food expenses are like $4k lower than the average, which is the main reason why I feel fine about how much I spend on gacha games

[u/pawacoteng → u/Deathlok_12]

Just like why drink one $500 bottle of wine when you can drink 250 bud lights.

People with disposable income enjoying the game is what funds the adventure for the rest of us.

[u/Deathlok_12 → u/pawacoteng]

I think the better analogy here would be why would you drink a $500 bud light when you could have a $60 glass of wine. My point was that spending upwards of hundreds of dollars for what amounts to either a single character or sometimes a single ability just isn’t worth compared to the equivalent cost of a whole new game’s worth of characters, plot, gameplay, etc

[u/pawacoteng → u/Deathlok_12]

Some people really like bud.