Many gamers out there probably don’t believe in over saturation when you see a million Call of Duty games come out. The first thought you have probably is “they still sell well though” and you’d be right; games like Call of Duty still have a huge fan base that seems to never die out. However, without getting into the math behind it, Call of Duty is a series that has begun to lose fans and players due to the over saturated FPS market and the fact that Call of Duty seems to never die out. Gacha games can be compared to Call of Duty easily as they tend to not change from game to game—outside the characters and franchises used—and always rely on the same formula to make money off the player base. Gacha games are going to die out sooner than you think if they continue to live off the principle that people are willing to shell out hundreds of dollars for a rare 5-Star hero.

Gacha themed games can be truly enjoyable and let us experience our favorite franchises in a collaborative title that uses the whole franchise as the main medium. While this should equal fun let’s be honest for a second. Gacha games are rarely ever different from one another. They all tend to be turn based JRPGs and often they all use the same systems like sign on daily for summon points and buy summon items to boost your chances at nabbing cool characters/items. We’ve talked before on similar articles about the repetition that is gacha games but let it be known that if anything will end the genre, it will be the repeated formula done ad nauseam.

Gambling…another topic we’ve mentioned in similar gacha articles. Gambling is fun in small—and controlled—doses but when you have ten gacha games on your phone you begin to realize its not as fun as you think. Gacha games can truly put a dent into your wallet by having players spent hundreds of dollars for in-game lotteries. Be smart about how many gacha games you play folks…they might ruin your bank accounts when you realize ten dollar summon bundles might not hurt if its one game or two but ten of them equals out to a hundred dollars…that might hurt your paycheck more than you realize.

Outside the repetition and money spending issues, we wonder one last thing. What else can gacha games do? Gacha games rarely ever change the formula, but is there anything else they can actually do? With a gameplay system dedicated to having players invest and spend their hard-earned money, there’s not much else gacha games can provide players. That thought alone leads us to believe that the end is nigh for the gacha game influx and eventually, the genre will die out for a multitude of reasons. One of which is the fact that you can’t really change a formula set around gambling and time spending.