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  "url": "https://gachawiki.com",
  "description": "GachaWiki is a network of gacha game wikis plus a cross-game encyclopedia: pull systems, odds, pity mechanics, history, and regulation. Every fact is cited to a primary source, and every page is machine-readable.",
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    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
  },
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    "note": "Append .md to any page URL for raw Markdown. Each entry below also lists its JSON twin."
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        "mechanics"
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      "verification": "partial",
      "lastUpdated": "2026-07-09",
      "lastVerified": "2026-07-09",
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      "title": "Fate/Grand Order",
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      "description": "Turn-based RPG by Lasengle, published by Aniplex, released in Japan in July 2015. Famous for a 1% SSR rate and for operating with no pity at all until January 2022, when a 330-roll guarantee was added.",
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      "description": "The distribution model of nearly all gacha games, where the client costs nothing and revenue comes from optional purchases. F2P also names the player identity of spending nothing and budgeting earned currency.",
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      "jsonUrl": "https://gachawiki.com/api/wiki/gacha.json",
      "description": "The monetization mechanic in which players spend currency on randomized draws for characters or items, named after Japanese gashapon capsule-toy machines. The defining system of the gacha game genre.",
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        "mechanics"
      ],
      "verification": "verified",
      "lastUpdated": "2026-07-09",
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      "sourceCount": 2
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      "title": "Gacha game",
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      "url": "https://gachawiki.com/wiki/gacha-game",
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      "description": "A game whose progression and monetization are built around gacha draws, typically free-to-play with banner-scheduled character releases. The genre spans from Puzzle & Dragons in 2012 to Genshin Impact and its successors.",
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      "verification": "verified",
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      "description": "The actual math behind gacha rates. What a 0.6% rate really means, why pity changes expected costs, how consolidated rates are computed, and why set-completion mechanics explode. With an interactive calculator.",
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        "mechanics"
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      "verification": "verified",
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      "title": "Gacha regulation by country",
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      "verification": "verified",
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      "description": "Endfield's character banner system. This page documents what is verified so far and openly lists what still needs transcription from the in-game rate disclosure.",
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      "title": "Gacha system",
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      "description": "NTE's character banner system. This page documents what is verified so far and openly lists what still needs transcription from the in-game rate disclosure.",
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      "verification": "partial",
      "lastUpdated": "2026-07-09",
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      "description": "Umamusume's two parallel gachas in detail. Character and support card rates at 3%, Carat costs, the 200-point exchange ceiling on each track, and why support cards are the real budget.",
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      "verification": "verified",
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      "description": "Japanese capsule-toy vending machines, introduced in 1965 by Penny Shokai and commercialized at scale by Bandai from 1977. The physical origin of the word and concept behind digital gacha.",
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        "history"
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      "description": "Open-world action RPG by miHoYo/HoYoverse, released in September 2020. Its Wish system, with a 90-pull hard pity and the 50/50 featured-character guarantee, is the most widely copied gacha model of the 2020s.",
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        "games"
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      "verification": "verified",
      "lastUpdated": "2026-07-09",
      "lastVerified": "2026-07-09",
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      "title": "Goddess of Victory: NIKKE",
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      "description": "Third-person shooter RPG by Shift Up, published by Level Infinite, released worldwide in November 2022. Known for a high 4% SSR rate paired with a 200-pull mileage spark that never expires, plus a wishlist system for targeting.",
      "tags": [
        "games"
      ],
      "verification": "verified",
      "lastUpdated": "2026-07-09",
      "lastVerified": "2026-07-09",
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      "title": "Granblue Fantasy",
      "type": "game",
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      "markdownUrl": "https://gachawiki.com/granblue-fantasy.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://gachawiki.com/api/wiki/granblue-fantasy.json",
      "description": "Browser and mobile RPG by Cygames, released in Japan in March 2014. The 2016 Anchira incident made it the origin of the 300-draw spark ceiling and of per-item rate disclosure as an industry norm in Japan.",
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        "history"
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      "verification": "verified",
      "lastUpdated": "2026-07-09",
      "lastVerified": "2026-07-09",
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      "description": "FGO's only safety net, added in January 2022 after six and a half years without one. How the 330-roll guarantee works, what counts toward it, the per-banner reset, and the 2024 and 2026 repeatability changes.",
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        "history"
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      "verification": "verified",
      "lastUpdated": "2026-07-09",
      "lastVerified": "2026-07-09",
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      "description": "Arknights' gacha in detail. The 2% six-star rate, the published escalation that reaches 100% by pull 99, the weak featured guarantees, and how the counter carries between standard banners.",
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      ],
      "verification": "verified",
      "lastUpdated": "2026-07-09",
      "lastVerified": "2026-07-09",
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      "url": "https://gachawiki.com/arknights/wiki/headhunting-data-contracts",
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      "description": "Arknights' spark system, added in 2024. One contract per pull on limited banners, 300 buy the rate-up limited six-star, 75 buy a rate-up five-star, and contracts expire when the banner ends.",
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      ],
      "verification": "verified",
      "lastUpdated": "2026-07-09",
      "lastVerified": "2026-07-09",
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      "description": "From Japan's first capsule-toy machine in 1965 through the 2012 kompu gacha ban, Granblue's 2016 spark, and Genshin Impact's global era, to the multi-platform gacha industry of 2026. Every date sourced.",
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      "verification": "verified",
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      "markdownUrl": "https://gachawiki.com/honkai-star-rail.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://gachawiki.com/api/wiki/honkai-star-rail.json",
      "description": "Turn-based space-fantasy RPG by miHoYo/HoYoverse, released in April 2023. Its Warp gacha keeps Genshin Impact's 0.6% base rate, 90-pull pity, and 50/50 guarantee, with pity shared across banners of the same type.",
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        "games"
      ],
      "verification": "verified",
      "lastUpdated": "2026-07-09",
      "lastVerified": "2026-07-09",
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      "description": "The banned \"complete gacha\" mechanic, where collecting a full set of random items yielded a rare prize. Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency ruled it illegal in May 2012, the genre's first major regulatory intervention.",
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        "history",
        "regulation"
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      "lastVerified": "2026-07-09",
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      "description": "The general term regulators use for purchasable randomized rewards in games. Gacha is legally a loot box mechanic in every jurisdiction that has ruled on it, which is why loot box law is gacha law.",
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        "regulation"
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      "verification": "verified",
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