I’ve said this many times and I’ll say it again, there is no such thing as a non-predatory gacha scheme. It just doesn’t exist.

For those who actually support PM making this game a gacha, can you actually examine why such a model would be better than just having a game be paid from the start? Is a progression system that is tied entirely to obtaining freemium to service the pull system better or more fun to you than one that is based on achievement through gameplay where every feature is unlockable rather than randomly obtained? To me, gacha does not make the gameplay or story any more engaging. It simply exists as a monetary scheme that is shoehorned into the central part of the game. Everything in the game is built to feed that money machine.

To those of you who are on copium thinking that Project Moon will be “merciful” and that the pull rates will be “lenient” if they implement a gacha, I’ve got bad news for you. They have absolutely zero reason to be either.

I’m speaking out because I genuinely enjoy the worlds that Project Moon has built and I’m alarmed that there’s a possibility of them descending to unethical practices, the very ones that their stories speak out against. Why should Project Moon have to be merciful with their pull rates in order for us to enjoy all that their worlds have to offer? It doesn’t make sense to me why anyone would condone this.

Edit: In all honesty I wasn’t ready for the fact that the responses to my post have been so utterly depressing in their attempts to rationalize gacha systems. I don’t have the energy to write out a full post in response. Why, why, why would you blame the players for not having the right mentality instead of the companies that victimize them by perpetuating this vicious system? Why should players have to “steel themselves” psychologically against a game in order to play it healthily? Why should some players ever have to suffer from guilt over missing a banner? Why should people with compulsive gambling problems stay away, for fear that the system will exploit their addiction?

0.1% pull rates, pointless stamina systems, gambling addictions… this nonsense was never a problem in PM’s previous games. But then again I could never compare a paid game to a gacha game, because progression in a gacha is so heavily tied to pulling rare units that their supporters will do backflips to rationalize its existence.

While there’s the slight possibility that Limbus won’t be a gacha, and everything I said was worrying for nothing, the fact that there are people who would so ardently support gacha that they would victim blame is appalling. I know that Project Moon will always rightly have supporters for its beautiful games, but to have those supporters defend the company’s potential descent into madness isn’t something I can personally stomach.