The Escapist

NetEase’s longly awaited gacha game, Ananta seemingly has no gacha charcter pulls

NetEase Games’ upcoming urban open world RPG, ANANTA, is taking a radically different approach to free-to-play monetization, according to a report from Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu. The game will ...
GamesIndustry

F2P RPG Duet Night Abyss abandons gacha mechanics just weeks before launch in response to "consistent" player "dissatisfaction"

Pan Studio's free-to-play RPG Duet Night Abyss has pulled all gacha elements just weeks ahead of its October 28 launch. In an interview with Automaton, producer Deca Bear said that whilst prior ...
GosuGamers

Ananta won't be a gacha after all, monetisation focuses on cosmetics, furniture, and more

Beating the 50/50 once and for all: Ananta won't be a gacha. Despite looking every inch like the next big gacha, Netease’s upcoming free-to-play open-world RPG ANANTA won’t actually feature a ...
GamesRadar+

A gacha RPG is cutting all the gacha garbage so it can just be a better game: "We're completely removing all character and weapon banners"

We are officially entering the next chapter of the post-Genshin Impact world we find ourselves in. After a huge boom in this space, gacha action RPGs are, at long last, ditching the gacha part so they ...
PC Gamer

Despite all appearances, upcoming F2P open-world RPG Ananta isn't a gacha game—only charging for cosmetics and furniture

Action Ananta says hey, we can do a Spider-Man/Yakuza/Sifu/Batman: Arkham/GTA—but we'll put an anime bunny girl in our one RPG RPG throws the ring of monetization ...