• MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip
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    13 hours ago

    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.

      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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        9 hours ago

        Pretty sure some of these people would see games like Egyptian ratscrew as gambling

    • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      12 hours ago

      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.

      • jeeva@lemmy.world
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        11 hours ago

        Without actual stakes, and I mean “betting something” rather than the in game phrase, isn’t that just luck and not gambling?