64bithero@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoWhat is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?message-squaremessage-square530linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?64bithero@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square530linkfedilink
minus-squareMagnificentSteiner@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoHow could Balatro be seen as gambling? It’s a game you purchase once with no DLC or microtransactions and there’s no gambling in the game.
minus-squareMagnum, P.I.@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoBut but but it uses cards with the joker on it
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoPretty sure some of these people would see games like Egyptian ratscrew as gambling
minus-squareCaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoLater parts of grinding for Completionist++ felt like gambling on time to me. Not only you need to get a very certain joker, you need a competent build to carry that joker and whether you get desirable jokers is entirely up to luck.
minus-squarejeeva@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoWithout actual stakes, and I mean “betting something” rather than the in game phrase, isn’t that just luck and not gambling?
How could Balatro be seen as gambling? It’s a game you purchase once with no DLC or microtransactions and there’s no gambling in the game.
But but but it uses cards with the joker on it
Pretty sure some of these people would see games like Egyptian ratscrew as gambling
Later parts of grinding for Completionist++ felt like gambling on time to me. Not only you need to get a very certain joker, you need a competent build to carry that joker and whether you get desirable jokers is entirely up to luck.
Without actual stakes, and I mean “betting something” rather than the in game phrase, isn’t that just luck and not gambling?