To be clear this is not the first game to have a gacha mechanic. From my research this is considered to be the oldest true social/Gacha game to take off. We can see other players’ profile pictures in the menus, which is a common staple of social network games. It isn’t the most engaging, and its age really shows when you look back at it. Limited animations, card battler gameplay. The gameplay of Dragon Collection was rather simple. It seems nothing is safe from the wrath of 2020. This is similar to the aforementioned Farmville that was blowing up around the same time, and subsequently caused many users to delete their Facebook accounts in anger because they were sick and tired of your spam Farmville requests.(I was one of those)But it doesn’t matter since the game is closing at the end of the year. It is insane to think Dragon Collection had an estimated 10 million players within the first few years of it’s release, and with the GREE social network being estimated at around 30 million users around that time, it would seem that nearly everyone you knew was playing this game. Very clever to name your social network after this. They were also six steps away from your bank account as well. The name is derived from an abbreviation of the “ Six degrees of separation” concept which is the idea that all people on average are six, or fewer, social connections away from each other. Dragon Collection was released on the social media network GREE. Just for perspective the original creator of Farmville is a billionaire now. ![]() Some of you are young, but around this time games like Mafia Wars, and Farmville were extremely huge on Facebook at the time. Steve Jobs unveiling the original iPhone.ĭragon Collection wouldn’t be classified as a gacha game at launch, but it would be considered a social network game. ![]() An important note because mobile gaming blew up massively with the success of the iPhone. This was a few years after Apple released the App store in 2008. Dragon Collection was released in the year 2010. One of the first gacha games that saw major success was Konami’s Dragon collection. ![]() But for this series we are going to focus on the more traditional gacha games as we know today, and how the history of Gacha gaming has led to games like Genshin Impact becoming so successful relatively quickly. The gacha or lootbox mechanic(we’ll talk about lootboxes later) has been present in many games. From its humble beginnings, leading all the way up to the massive success that is Genshin Impact. This series will cover important events in Gacha gaming history. We have all of the ingredients, sugar, spice, and cute anime girls. But I truly believe we are witnessing video game history. Now that is a very bold statement to make. ![]() I believe this is going to be looked at as one of the most monumental video game releases of all time. Genshin Impact released a few weeks ago, and has had a very successful launch. And in some cases that may be true, but it would be very shortsighted to ignore the beast that is growing right before our very eyes. They believe they are incomplete cash grabs that ruin the industry. Some gamers are very critical of gacha games overall. The Gacha Gaming sub genre has been evolving for the past few years, and has become a staple of the rapidly growing, massively profitable mobile game industry.
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