Comment by low_tech_love

It’s unavoidable, but really sad, isn’t it? Thinking about the incredible creativity and hard work that went into creating such challenges and now it’s probably history. I feel something similar with free-to-play gacha video games. The gacha mechanics are slowly creeping into every type of game, and where you once had very clear and obvious slot machines, now you get them transparently mixed in with beautiful and fun games (e.g. ZZZ, Where Winds Meet, Genshin, etc) in a way that sounds like in the near future no company will have any incentive to not have gacha mechanics in any game.