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Complete Gotcha is illegal!!! WE WON!!! NO GOTCHA!
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From the definitions in the article, I don't think this ban will apply to Mabinogi's gacha systems. Kompu gacha in this sense seems to entail "get all of these rare as hell prizes and we'll mail you something even cooler!", and Mabi hasn't done that since Wishbones for Thanksgiving.
haha that's how I got my first nuadha, 8m on that damn nao coin
"Gotcha" is the original name of a "gacha". Companies called them "Gotchas" because after you bought them and didn't get anything good they be like haha " GOTCHA !!! " as in " we got you! " or " we fooled you! "
Nope it means it can't do anything that requires a buch of pay to obtain items that are possibly the first drop or the last drop. So something like this is illegal:
This is what mabinogi has been doing to us for years!
Yes: http://wiki.mabinogiworld.com/view/Special_Equipment_Box
Those equipment became normal afterword.
http://mabinogi.nexon.net/News/Announcements/1/00J3D
No one has these to this day,
http://wiki.mabinogiworld.com/view/Winter_Gear_Shuffle_Cards
No one like this one.
http://mabinogi.nexon.net/News/Announcements/1/00J44
This took a lot of money from people.
That's not building a set of items to get a guaranteed prize. That's just gacha.
The diagram watercat0 posted is pretty much that.
However, the Gachas Nexon has been releasing (Save maybe one that people are talking about since I was absent at the time), do not fall under the Kompu Gacha catagory; they're just Gachas that have items, not parts of items that you have to collect to turn in for a bigger prize (Again, not including the one that people keep talking about). Save from that particular one, there's technically nothing illegal in terms of the Gacha that are being released thus far. None of the gachapons are telling you to complete a whole set to get a better prize. They're just a chance game to see what you can get. Won't always be that super uber something you really want but you do get something, as bad as those items may be.
"not parts of items that you have to collect to turn in for a bigger prize"
The grand prize is to look fashionable, do you want to look like this:
"None of the gachapons are telling you to complete a whole set to get a better prize"
no but you can feel it saying "connect them all in the name of fashion."
Also Korea copys japan's law every time plus they are working on stopping gambling, so it will not be too far in the future to see this law pass.
NA mostly follows Japan in terms of update content, so the theory would be a cash shop change happening there might happen here later on. But that'd require what Japan is doing now to fall under this new illegal type of gacha.
You are seriously trying to stretch this out. The legislation is against kompu gacha, which is defined as "obtain these items and you can get an entirely new item." Looking fashionable is not an item. If someone tries to bring that idea to court, Nexon JP lawyers will promptly shut them down because the law does not apply here.
Despite you showing us the exact definition of a Complete Gacha, with image description and everything, you somehow failed to understand the difference of a normal gachapon and a complete gachapon.
How?
Again, think of it as the Monopoly game that McDonald's and some other businesses use for promotionals and advertisements. You buy more products to get more tokens. In return, you collect those tokens and place them on your board. When you fill up a certain area, you turn in the board to the promoter for the prize that's listed. That's more of a closer definition to a Kompu Gacha.
Besides, being fashionable is all in the eyes of the beholder. One might think the set is fashionable and worth it while another person might not value it as much as the next. This isn't a 'grand prize' other than self-satisfaction. At least understand that part. It's all in the head.
I chalk this up to OCD or just the fashionista in some people who want to be completionists. To "Collect them all in the name of fashion" is just saying to buy the gachapon and try your hand at perhaps obtaining the piece you need. Again, NO WHERE does it say that you collect pieces from the gachapon and turn those pieces in for something better.
Even if it does pass, businesses will look at different ways to make money, but again, this law only applies to Kompu Gachapons, not the normal Gachapons that are common nowadays.
so the shuffle bingo board gach would be illegal because you had to gach for every single item on the board to get a reaper set ?
That one -might- fall under the definition. But all the others listed really wouldn't.