Pictured: Gacha resale items listed on the official SL Marketplace at prices between USD $1037.50 and $5165 worth of Linden Dollars.
Reader “Gloom” makes an important point, commenting on last week’s post about Second Life gachas being a type of gambling. Typically, it only costs the Linden Dollar equivalent of pocket change to play them — but that’s only part of the story:
Sure you can argue it’s just pennies… but people easily drop hundreds of real life money into trying to get gacha sets. Then they turn around and take something that was a L$25 pull – to mark it up 100x the original cost on the Marketplace (I have seen multiple “rare” items going at L$2000 easily from a L$25 gacha). Then it becomes a cut-throat market.
In fact, the SL Marketplace carries gacha resale items priced as high as thousands of US dollars. (See screencap in this post.)
Vaki, the longtime Second Life user and real life attorney that I cited in last week’s post on gachas, tells me that this huge resale market for Gacha items will very much play into any legal determination of whether SL Gachas are defined as gambling by the many jurisdictions which outlaw or regulate the practice:
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