I received a message from the Super Cream Fish Bread saying I’ve already spent money and bought some packages, so all I need to do is log in and open them.
So, I logged into the account and finally had the gacha right in front of me.
“What should I open first? There’s a premium gacha ticket in the storage… Is this it? Limited edition first release special premium 10 draws, 20 of them?”
[Yep, just open that one]
[Taxi Driver Kayak has entered the scene]
[Taxi Driver Kayak controversy, oh no]
[But is it really okay to trust the broadcast host with this? The host is known for having bad luck too, right?]
[The host has bad luck?]
[Remember the Snowflake Queen Camilla incident? LOL I’ve watched that movie more than ten times and still couldn’t pull the Snowflake Queen Camilla]
[OMG]
[If we mention that incident… ]
[Just being born with that face and body is already top 1% luck, what do you mean bad luck? LOL]
Behind the viewers, I quickly set up the camera and the mic, raised my energy, and made my joke.
“Ah, V-tube friends! Hah! It’s Kayak here. Today, I’m diving into the trending mobile game, Label! I won’t be playing it myself but borrowing a viewer’s account to do some gacha pulls!”
[Hah]
[Hello to the C-Tube fans]
[V-Tube kids, make sure this video hits a million views while I’m being nice about it]
[The host being cute while hyping up for the video is adorable]
[Will Kayak pull Ivory? Drumroll please…]
“It’s Kayak’s very first gacha! Let’s do the special first release premium draw! Am I a lucky hand or a bad hand…”
Since it’s not my account, I thought I could just pull without holding back.
But now that I’m all hyped up, I’m feeling quite nervous. It’s like checking if a lottery ticket I bought from a street vendor or a convenience store is a winner or not.
I clicked the gacha ticket, and there it was, the options: use 1 or use 10. Should I pull them all at once or one by one?
“Obviously… I should do it one at a time. Yes. If I had about 200 gacha tickets, it would be different, but since I only have 20…”
[With 200 tickets, that’s 20 million won!]
[20 tickets is quite a bit, but only 20?]
[20 million? For Kayak, that’s pocket change]
[As expected from Kayak, the one who gets a monthly 100 million]
[Being loved by the world-renowned tycoon Isabel, oh wow]
[I struggle to buy an 8 thousand won soup… People really have money]
[You can tell that the broke ones can’t play gacha games for real]
[Who are you sticking that on my nose?]
[If you rip 100 times and get 100 units, that thrill would be something else.]
[When you consider only the units that appear, it’s 200.]
[You gotta pull 1000 times for that real excitement, haha.]
“Okay, so the result of the first single pull is…!”
The screen suddenly shows a clear blue sky, and then shooting stars fall from it.
This effect that comes up every time a character is summoned. So, it’s the scene of the hero falling from the sky, right?
-Oh, hello! I’m Airi from the northern village…
The woman hero, Airi, appears. She’s wearing rabbit ears and has a rather cute appearance. With her round glasses, rabbit ears, and innocent look, she’s pretty adorable.
But just looking at her… she doesn’t seem like a good character. Even though I’m a total noob when it comes to gacha games, I know that good units usually have an impressive appearance or flashy summoning effects.
Also, Airi’s character card has a white border. This game has an unspoken rule where the rankings go from white to blue to purple to yellow.
To sum it up, Airi can be considered a garbage card, yeah. She’s just cute in appearance, but as a unit, she’s totally unusable.
[Why are you being mean to our Airi?]
[Airi, cover your ears!]
[Sh*t, haha, I can’t even argue because it’s all true.]
[Airi is still the hope of the free-to-play players though.]
[No, no, in the same category, Nina is way better.]
[How does a newbie know the ecosystem so well?]
[Just because she’s the same class as Ivory, how can she be treated like this?]
[I had no idea such a character existed while playing this game all this time.]
“Um, anyway, let’s keep summoning.”
*
“Wait, this can’t be happening….”
[What a catastrophic demise, lol.]
[I’m definitely never spending money on this.]
[But you did get SSR Harin sister, let’s celebrate!]
[But Harin is a coop, you know….]
[Of all the SSRs, why did it have to be Harin, the worst of the bunch, lol.]
[The account owner is crying tears of blood, haha.]
[From Shu-Bung to Puring, what a disaster.]
[A wave of secondary victims is popping up, oh wow.]
[Never let Kayak handle your gacha!]
Since the first guest, Shu-Bung, the applicants kept coming. The second one probably had the nickname Camilla-chan-chan-girl or something like that.
Now, I was already going through the gacha for the third account.
I was getting used to gacha by now, and before the character appeared, I could roughly guess whether this unit was SSR, SS, or below just by looking at the sparkle of the shooting stars.
However, aside from that, the gacha was not going smoothly at all. It was embarrassing to have bragged loudly before the content started when there were no good units coming out. It wasn’t my money or my account, but seeing things turn out this way made me feel sorry for the applicants.
“Ahem… This is strange. Why isn’t anything coming out?”
[But lady, you said you were pulling well!]
[The applicants starting to panic, haha!]
[Your accounts, your money, all used very well as fertilizer for KayakTube!]
[A VTube video about how Kayak has bad luck is coming soon!]
[But seriously, this is just unfair, hahaha!]
The third account was already halfway into the pulls.
If it had been before, I would have continued without hesitation, but with the previous records, I couldn’t help but hesitate.
With a gulp of anxiety, I said, “Wait, wait, time for a break. I’ll drink some water and use the restroom… Oh, right. I’ll change the music too. This music seems a bit cursed.”
[Sorry to the composer!]
[You gotta try everything, right? Haha!]
[This is so heartbreaking, boo hoo!]
So, I took a short break, changed the music, and tried various efforts, but…
“Uh, um… uh….”
It was a disaster. It was so bad that it could be called the worst gacha ever.
The chat was already a sea of laughter. Honestly, I found it so ridiculous that I was about to laugh, but I forced myself to hold back, trying not to smile.
If I laughed now, I’d look so bad. The owner of this account must be feeling so sad.
“Ahem, I’m very sorry…”
“You can laugh, really. Don’t hold it in for the sake of laughing… It’s unhealthy and all…”
[Teacher, 200 just evaporated into thin air, and you’re laughing?]
[Is this person a demon?]
[The viewer’s voice sounds a bit damp.]
[Is the applicant crying?]
I looked at the chat in shock and asked, “Uh, are you crying?”
“No, it’s just… I’m feeling a bit of reality hitting me. I’m not crying. I’m fine.”
Though he said that, his voice sounded choked up.
Some viewers were questioning why a guy would cry over something like this, but it was totally understandable.
He had just spent 2 million won. That’s pretty much equivalent to a month’s salary for an office worker; no wonder he was upset about not getting a decent return.
“Uh, don’t be too upset… I know this probably isn’t much, but do you have any of my merchandise? I have some extras and I can sign them, so I’ll give you that at least.”
“Don’t worry about it… I’m not really saying this as a substitute, but do you have any merchandise? I have some extras, and I can give you those with my signature.”
“Really?”
[Hey, I don’t have any merch either]
[A ha ha, trading for 200 and a signed kayak merch set sounds like a great deal]
[I also failed at the gacha but I’ll just squeeze out my own stuff]
[Were you pretending to cry on purpose?]
[The broadcast host is nice; they could’ve just ignored it]
That day, we didn’t take any more gacha applicants and wrapped up the content.
I was worried if the gacha for future accounts ended up failing as well, I might feel even worse about it.
*
It was about two weeks later that I heard news about Label.
By that point, as two weeks passed, my memories of the game called Label, its gacha, and the character Ivory were beginning to fade.
A viewer who had joined my gacha content sent me news.
[Super Cream Fish Bread donated 10,000 won!]
– Have you heard about the teacher?
“What? What news?”
[They say Label manipulated the probabilities, lol]
[They’re about to get fined, lol]
[I heard the Fair Trade Commission is investigating]
[No wonder it didn’t drop worth a damn]
[It wasn’t that the kayak couldn’t pull it]
[The fact they were openly scamming was legendary;]
[They were doing fine without cheating, so why did they?]
[Nobody’s going to play it anymore, tsk tsk]
“Oh dear, is that so?”
After learning the full story, I nodded knowingly, “Yeah, something felt off. I’m not someone that unlucky. If anything, I’m generally pretty lucky, so I wondered why it was like this. I thought it couldn’t be, but it was rigged.”
[Secom donated 5,000 won!]
-So, it was all rigged. The broadcast host didn’t do anything wrong, should we recover the merch and signatures we gave to the participants?
“Recover it? How would you even do that? Would you ask me to mail them back?”
It’s a situation that could nearly ruin the game. In fact, even now, most users have left, and it has turned into a ghost game with almost no players left.
“I actually liked the characters’ designs, though. Such a pity.”
[Anyway, similar games will come out again]
[There’s always a demand for this stuff, right?]
[Otaku cash in]
Just as they said. There will inevitably be another similar game released. A gacha game with heavy gambling elements that truly reflects user needs.
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