Mario Kart World Tour looks like it will be a game with a horrible “gacha hell”
The Mario Kart for mobile seems that it will have mechanics to continually get money from us. We pay to get characters with special abilities and to keep playing even.
Several Android users are already testing Mario Kart World Tour, the mobile installment of the racing series starring the Nintendo plumber that hopes to come out this year. Normally it is requested that details and images not be filtered but it is inevitable and it is even known that they will constantly try to get our money.
Microtransactions and paying for lives flood Mario Kart for mobile
At first, the idea of having Mario Kart on your mobile phone is ideal. It would allow you to play games with people from all over the world, the races don't last very long... So far, so good until users with access to the beta started to investigate and saw that the game is going to be a "gacha hell" full of microtransactions to get characters, as well as to continue playing.
“Gacha hell” is a term used to define mobile games that abuse RNG and character rolls in order to make users constantly spend money. A great example of this is Fate / Grand Order that has users who spend thousands of euros annually to get a character. And the funny thing is, Nintendo has used this formula before with Fire Emblem Heroes and its constant events with the most popular characters.
This obsession with microtransactions has generated the hatred of many followers of the classic franchise, and even in Belgium they have withdrawn Fire Emblem Heroes and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. Mario Kart is a franchise with a huge family audience and we already imagine that there will be thousands of complaints about the abusive and intrusive monetization in a game focused on children, we already know that there are dozens of stories of children who take their parents' card .
Source: Nintendo Life
