Pegi Thinks Balatro is Real Gambling

[@jordicochegrus657]

How can "gambling imagery" be punished but lootboxes are somehow just a fun jack in the box? Wild times

[@rixxi]

Exactly 💯

[@albema2]

This is ridiculous. Balatro actually manages to remove the gambling aspect of poker, you don't have to bet anything at any point.

[@rixxi]

@@albema2 exactly dude

[@greenebean4902]

You sir have just gained a subscriber :) I wouldn't of heard about this only for you vid!

[@chaotickreg7024]

Poker is gambling when you are betting money on cards that haven't been drawn yet. Balatro has this form of gambling, but it's for *points* which can only be redeemable for your time.

[@tbbbo]

I think this is insane because each shop you hit in this game, the further and further it strays from Texas Hold’em poker (aka gambling). On your first blind, all you’re really doing is ranking poker hands, that’s the closest it gets to “gambling”. Every hand after the first one your play style differs further and further from actual poker. How is knowing the rankings of all the poker hands the same as staking real money on an outcome governed by luck? It’s like they watched the trailer, saw poker hands, and went “yeah that’s enough for me, send this one to the gulag”.

[@edenhasyoutube]

they should make a balatro game called "balatro babies" where all references to cards are replaced with something different

[@shres2712]

"PEGI 18"

[@NalonB]

Valve, Epic, and Microsoft/Activision at the time probably paid off PEGI to restrict the game because an alternative dopamine source to their lootbox economy was dangerous, and they didn't want the lootbox kids to discover free dopamine from hitting that 1/4 chance on the wheel card in Balatro.

[@rixxi]

WHEEL CARD HIT IS LIKE CRACK!

[@NalonB]

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[@cheesymcnuggets]

eh it sucks but i expect high high majority of people wanting to play this game to be adults or at the very least not have such strict parents who wouldnt allow this kind of game over a shooter like fortnite.

[@rixxi]

That's a good point actually

[@sarcashd3991]

104 views in 16 hours you fell off

[@rixxi]

@sarcashd3991 i love you