Anonymous asked:

What do you think will be the next trend after gacha games, or are gacha games just the end all be all of gaming?

The next step is gacha/loot box/subscription-driven AI games. There's a reason why the games industry never fails, even when it's affected by the same things that have been killing other industries. The interactivity aspect makes it hard for any other form of media to compete, and it inherently creates novelty. The only thing more novel than normal video games would be AI-driven games, which could generate genuinely unique scenarios without the limitation of human developers having to think them up. And you just know that, at some point, some douchebag is going to come along with a game that has the perfect combination of addictiveness and predatory monetizing.