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I feel it coming from Reuters, but as far as me sticking my nose into everyone's business, I learned something out of the Chinese discourse on this.
Basically they were saying Black Desert >>> gacha. Game mechanics mindlessly focused on publisher profits are not productive, think about how the consumer, industry, workers in the industry all are affected. You can just make one shitty product make a bunch of money off virtual scarcity