The problem is that it is not Linden Labs' choice. The policy has changed because of real world laws dealing with gambling and what is seen as gambling.
The law is basically this. What you buy must be what you see.
This is why banning of gachas is happening, because what you buy is NOT what you see. It might be in the picture, but am I getting a table, a chair, food? There is no way of knowing.
As far as kittycats go, the only problem I see is the collection cats. Even though we know what the costumes are ,we do not know what costume we will be getting. Nor do we know the size, etc...
For the starter cats. This can be easily worked around by giving the buyer the option of which fur they want. Size would have to be guaranteed, so probably "normal" size.
When buying a cat from the secondary markets, we KNOW what we are getting. We can see the cat. Know the gender, know the fur, know the size. We can even guess on the hiddens based on parents. But even if we could not know the hiddens, we still know we are buying a black and white chat 1 with silver genesis whiskers, etc... That is what we are buying, and receiving. Whatever that cat gives us, we are not actually buying. It is, in a sense, being given to us, thus, is not considered "gambling" as no money is being exchanged for the babies.
(08-06-2021 09:33 AM)Tad Carlucci Wrote: Considering breedables are a HUGE part of LL's cash flow, I doubt they'll make any large changes. My expectation would be that a one-per-customer, randonly chosen, rule and leaving the rest up to the player-to-player aftermarket would be where they end up.
The problem I always had with Gacha sales is that you depended upon the seller actually putting the 'rare' in the sales box. I have a feeling that, too often, they didn't. And many of the boxes were designed to make it impossible to check.
Charm's problem was that a number of times the "rare" was "junk". Her example to was that she'd bought a few to get the "rare" house she wanted and when she rezzed it, it didn't work. Missing parts, bad textures, and missing scripts.
ETA I don't see the actual breeding randomness as a problem is, at least for well-written products like KittyCats, the effects of randomness can be limited, even eliminated. For KittyCats, the only issues would be the starters, especially the special collections. Some breedables (I'm thinking of one in particular) are so badly done, I've always maintained they were simply ganbling systems and should always have been banned. I've even reported a couple, with statistical analysis to show they are pure random gambling, no matter what handwaving the original designed made. Those, I'd love to see simply banned.
With Gachas Being Banned, How Will Future KittyCatS! Be Released?
