>>718979039
>Why does is always have to be fucking gacha?
This is a recent development.
Basically hot girls have been systematically removed or downgraded in AAA games, even the ones from popular Japanese franchises.
If you search for the most popular vidya girls with attractive designs, you'll notice that most of them save for a few exceptions were designed decades ago.
Gacha is basically companies noticing the vacuum created by this movement, and deciding to provide attractive female designs paired with draconian monetization mechanics to make billions.
And they were very successful.
Of course, this will inevitably influence devs of regular games who will want a piece of that cake.
I don't think it's a coincidence that when even Nip companies like Capcom folded and started pushing ugly shit, was when Gacha finally exploded in popularity and took over the market.