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agesboy posted...

it's more like a necessary evil for f2p games at this point

Really, games have been relying on randomized rewards to artificially lengthen them for decades. Directly monetizing that is a relatively new phenomenon, and has absolutely been horrifically abused to exploit people that are prone to gambling addiction, but using randomization to allow people to perform the same gameplay actions and have different experiences is about as old as dice. Heck, that's the entire basis for roguelikes as a genre, as well as the driving force behind procedural generation as a core mechanic in games.

Ultimately, the bottom line is that there is fun to be had in seeing what you get from a random system. Sometimes, that's used in place of putting effort into designing something more deeply engaging, and quite often these days it gets used to manipulate money out of players, but it's not a bad thing, fundamentally.

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