Views on Gacha Games and Mechanics from a Canadian context: A qualitative study

Authors

  • Ryan Nguyen
  • Hyoun S. (Andrew) Kim
  • Lisa Henkel
  • David C. Hodgins
  • Philip Newall
  • Zsolt Demetrovics
  • Sherry H. Stewart
  • Daniel L. King
  • Hermano Tavares
  • Jung-Seok Choi
  • Andre Luiz Monezi Andrade
  • Andrea Czakó

Keywords:

gacha, gambling, loot boxes, qualitative, gaming, video games, perceptions

Abstract

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Published

2026-09-17

Bibtex

@Conference{digra3144, title ="Views on Gacha Games and Mechanics from a Canadian context: A qualitative study", year = "2026", author = "Nguyen, Ryan and Kim, Hyoun S. (Andrew) and Henkel, Lisa and Hodgins, David C. and Newall, Philip and Demetrovics, Zsolt and Stewart, Sherry H. and King, Daniel L. and Tavares, Hermano and Choi, Jung-Seok and Andrade , Andre Luiz Monezi and Czakó, Andrea ", publisher = "DiGRA", address = "Tampere", howpublished = "\url{https://dl.digra.org/index.php/dl/article/view/3144}", booktitle = "Abstract Proceedings of The Gam(bl)ing Conference 2026"}