>>98267269A lot of gacha games are poor gaming experiences, yes, because they're designed around tedious repetitive grinding, gating your progress with energy systems, etc. But then you have something like Genshin Impact that has a ton of real content that isn't time gated, genuinely just a solid open world RPG that you can play as long as you want each day until you've had your fill and is completely playable as a game without caring about the gacha system at all. Yes, you can get cool characters from the gacha system, because they want to make money somehow, but the game is designed to be completely playable with the characters they give you for free. And I can vouch for that from experience.
Now obviously even I would prefer that it were designed as a single player offline game that you can buy once and have the whole thing, but I can't blame them when this method is quite profitable for them. Even so I can see their heart is genuinely into making a real game out of it despite the format. The way I see it, at some point in the future when they have to shut down, all gacha games that are actually worth playing will create an offline version that contains the full game so that people will still be able to play it years from now. And hopefully at that point people who skipped it before will be willing to pick it up and realize that there actually is a really good game there. Someday it may even become a game that retro gamers play.
