Japan Ready To Ban "Gacha" Gameplay

[FFHAuthor]

It sounds like the item pack system in ME3's multiplayer might fall into this category of being illegal in japan judging from the article, same principle as having people pay for something and then give a random chance of getting something useful

 

[Kinguendo]

Its gambling... y'know, for kids.

I kinda* see why they had to crackdown on it.

*And by "kinda" I mean its really obvious why they are doing it.

 

[SecondPrize]

Umm... not to be defending the exploitative practices that these companies have but isn't paying money and hoping to receive a random and rarer valuable item the basis for things like Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokemon (and back in the day, baseball) cards?

Oh, if I had a thousand dollars a month to spend on Magic cards. As it is I function on about 2% of said amount.

Those games have physical cards, and therefore develop a secondary market in which you can buy the specific card you're looking for, which is a far better thing to do than buy packs and hope you luck into one.