Revision history: Premium currency

Premium currency is the in-game currency that buys gacha pulls. Almost every gacha game runs the same dual-sourcing design: the currency can be bought with real money in tiered bundles, and it also drips from play through dailies, events, achievements, and new content. The earned stream keeps free-to-play players pulling; the purchased stream is the business.

Reference costs per limited pull in major games, from their in-game shops: 160 Primogems in Genshin Impact, 160 Stellar Jade in Honkai: Star Rail, 160 Astrite in Wuthering Waves, 3 Saint Quartz in Fate/Grand Order, 600 Orundum in Arknights, 120 Pyroxene in Blue Archive, 300 Crystals in Granblue Fantasy. [1] The absolute numbers are arbitrary; what matters is the real-money exchange rate and the earned income rate, which GachaWiki does not publish as a comparison because bundle pricing varies by region, promotion, and first-purchase bonuses.

Layered currencies are a documented consumer-protection concern: real money converts to premium currency, which converts to pull tickets, and the multi-step conversion obscures the cash price of a draw. The US FTC's January 2025 settlement over Genshin Impact required, among other things, clearer virtual-currency exchange disclosure and a direct real-money purchase option for loot boxes in the United States. [2] The EU consumer-protection network published similar "in-game virtual currency" principles in March 2025; see gacha regulation.