If gumball machines really are illegal in some states, that hasn't seemed to effect all sorts of other gacha-like products. I don't get the bubble gum machine comparisons given there's much closer ones like the plethora of gacha mobile games, CCGs print and digital, loot crate type boxes and heck, Happy Meal toys even. More often than not gachas are sold at or below play price. Why believe anyone is paying x100-x1000 more? And again, even those at the much lower and reasonable prices are still listed, meaning they're not selling. Search for the gacha items you show in that image with outrageous prices, there's more of the exact same items listed for 100-300L. A popular gacha item can resale a thousand times at 100L earning that 'Best Selling' status, but not once at a ridiculous price like 1,000,000L. Sorting by 'Best Selling' gives you no indication of what no-copy/trans items sell for.

Show me a gacha you think is worth that much, and I can probably go to the original machine and get it in 10 plays or so.

Seeing a listing of a gacha for thousands of USD isn't proof it's worth that much or ever sold for that much. Who's gonna spend thousands of dollars, or even tens of dollars on anything in Second Life that odds are, you'll get in 5 dollars or much less? None of the popular events have ever allowed percentages dip to some dismal rate like 1% or below, they're all 10% or more, at 100L or less a play. The value of gacha is really capped by percentage odds of getting any rare. What gacha item though is worth several thousands of dollars? Several hundred? Tens of dollars even? None of them are. There's proof of MTG's Black Lotus or Pokemon's Holo Charizard selling for whatever they're worth. Gachas fall waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay short in value of say, CCG cards where the amount of money spent on gacha a gacha set can buy a a booster pack that results in Pokemon or MTG cards that are actually worth thousands of dollars down the line. The fact that you've seen the listings means they haven't sold. but with a chance to win items as valuable on the open market as an actual car.Īnyone can list a gacha on marketplace for any amount of money, it doesn't mean it sells for that price.

This is an important piece of the gacha question I should have discussed in more detail before: A Second Life gacha is like a gumball machine. In other words, make gachas no_transfer and you solve the SL problem real fast. 'If gachas give you something worthless, they aren't likely to be considered gambling,' she goes on, 'it is their resale value (and their high resale value) that makes them more likely to be regulated. 'This was my point about gumball machines: if there's nothing of value at stake, it's not gambling, but some states consider even a little trinket or rubber ball to be of value. In my original interview, she noted that some US states heavily regulate gumball machines that typically cost just dimes or quarters to play, with the chance to win but a small prize: 'It impacts whether or not the items have value, and the definition of 'gambling' requires someone to risk something of value on the outcome of chance, with something of value at stake,' Vaki tells me. Vaki, the longtime Second Life user and real life attorney that I cited in last week's post on gachas, tells me that this huge resale market for Gacha items will very much play into any legal determination of whether SL Gachas are defined as gambling by the many jurisdictions which outlaw or regulate the practice: In fact, the SL Marketplace carries gacha resale items priced as high as thousands of US dollars. Then they turn around and take something that was a L$25 pull - to mark it up 100x the original cost on the Marketplace (I have seen multiple 'rare' items going at L$2000 easily from a L$25 gacha). but people easily drop hundreds of real life money into trying to get gacha sets. Typically, it only costs the Linden Dollar equivalent of pocket change to play them - but that's only part of the story: Reader 'Gloom' makes an important point, commenting on last week's post about Second Life gachas being a type of gambling. Pictured: Gacha resale items listed on the official SL Marketplace at prices between USD $1037.50 and $5165 worth of Linden Dollars.

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