>>36826You can't just compare unrelated things like that. It's a very twisted and inauthentic way to have a discussion.
I think it's true that gacha greatly harmed VNs since they're like watered down VNs that generate 500000x the profit by replacing long stories for exclusive JPEGs or jiggly Live2D boobs. Nasu, Key, and even Aquaplus attempted to make the jump. Key's gacha was so successful in China that they were bought out by some Chinese conglomerate (probably Tencent but I don't care to look) and are now otherwise dead apart from requisite re-releases.
Aquaplus in particular had a "Come read a VN instead of playing gacha" campaign for Utawarerumono 2 and 3 in Japan, but eventually they attempted to milk it with Utawarerumono's terrible dimensional-warping and time travel gacha that invalidates Utawarerumono's story.
Nasu does get credit for using filthy gacha money to release actual games like Extella and remakes of Tsukihime.