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Originally Posted by TinyRedLeaf
Arknights is very much kinder with its lottery rates than FGO, and has what appears to me to be a more ethical approach to its revenue model: It has a "pity" system that progressively increases the drop rate of rare characters if you go for a long enough spell without getting one.
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That's a...rather optimistic interpretation.
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Slot machines are also known for the “Taste.” The Taste refers to a small amount of money the game pays every few spins to those who are seated at a slot machine to keep them engaged in the game. The logic is simple: if players keep losing their bets without winning any back, they will eventually grow bored and leave the game. The taste is usually the 1:1 or the 2:1 payout.
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The 'pity system' does not exist to get you your fix without paying, it exists to keep you hooked even though you're not getting your fix. It's copied straight over from gambling - that's because gacha (and similar lootbox systems)
is straight-up gambling, just in a more modern form. When slot machines were new, they avoided gambling laws as well, but 100 years later we now see them as what they are - gambling in digital form.
Had Odd Taxi been set 50 years earlier, the exact same story could have been told with Tanaka becoming addicted to slots (or since it's Japan, probably pachinko). This episode was simply the life story of a gambling addict who loses everything.