Due to a "changing regulatory climate" Second Life studio Linden Lab has announced that starting August 31, chance-based content purchases—gacha, in other words—will be banned entirely.

Gacha games are games in which players are encouraged to use real-life money to unlock randomized items in a loot box-type system. The term gacha originated in Japan and comes from the word ...

But as I’ve progressed, the game has given me — a gacha newbie — an unfortunate ... The trouble began right before the current Lunar New Year event, when I started obtaining every piece ...