With Gachas Being Banned, How Will Future KittyCatS! Be Released?

[Arwen Swordthain]

(08-06-2021 07:48 PM)Serena Stroikavskoi Wrote:  Breedables I to don't see changing much. You are "paying for genesis cats" so if anything changes the "genesis" traited will be more controlled (maybe to new traits or current) as you buy them.. Traits are like DNA and you trace it thru a lineage, it's up to each of us to research what a cat "hides" and buy accordingly. So don't really see that change at all.

As to the collections that is more a gacha and we may see an actually paying for a "rare" costume which is what it's about. If you want to gamble go to a casino but if you buy a product you need to know "what" you are buying. So who knows, maybe to hop on the idea for every "genesis" cat you buy you get a "raffle" ticket that grants you a random costume to dress your kitty.

The concern here is you don't which of 5 furs or 5 eyes you are getting. I had the idea in chat, that since with collection starters we are purchasing the costume so seperate vendors for those solves that that maybe regular starters could be sold with a "costume" as well, I thought it would be cute if that was an old Genesis Fur, so a Smokey costume but under its a regular Genesis starter just like the Collections. So Costume = Smokey, Genesis/Starter = Pearl II (or one of the current) hidden traits = unknown which LL seem to be saying is allowed. Same with the eyes. Then every so often switch up the "costumes".

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(08-07-2021 05:51 PM)Tad Carlucci Wrote:  Perhaps too much is being read into the issue. I just read into the Gacha issue.

The main issue is "complete-the-set" gachas where one must spend a random amount of time a money to collect an entire set of items which can them be combined into a new "rare" item. I've seen those and I've seen my grandson fall for their trap (lucily, his mom and I were able to stop him early on so he only spend a few cents). This is the type of gacha which Japan specifically outawed.

I can see, however, applying an abundance of caution and strictly limiting the use of randomization. I sell a gacha script, for instance, which I'd have no problem taking down, but the way it works is the odds of getting the item you want increase with each sale until you're guarenteed to get that item. This is because it works based upon the item inventory, not some set of odds and remote delivery system. The purchaser can look and see what is in the sales object.

I don't see any problem with Starters. The number of possibilties is strictly limited and well known. And few really care about what a Starter looks like.

As for Collections, the solution is simple: don't do random sales. Let the players choose. Then there is no "rare" determined by KittyCats! Instead, the rarity is determined by the players. A few will probably by one-of-each but most will probably go for a specific set (Wow! Look at that Rainbow fur!) making the boring (All Whites and pale greys?) version very rare, to the surprise and delight of those who purchased the full set. It's gonna end up like that in a few whiles, anyway, so, really, what's the difference if it starts out that way?

Its the fact that in their original FAQs LL stated they were taking further legal advice regarding breedables, naturally that had everyone a bit worried. They have now clarified that as long as we know what we are buying ie costume with collections then its ok so Gachas/random vendors or whatever you want to call them can't be used to sell cats either at the Mainstore or on the secondary markets.