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The concept of Gacha predates lootboxes and started as physical real-world vending machines with surprise balls containing little toys or stickers, mainly aimed at kids
They noticed that the mystery drove sales and pretty much overwhelmed 'normal' toy vending machines in a few short years
While the concepts are similar, they had different origins.