64bithero@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agoWhat is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?message-squaremessage-square331fedilinkarrow-up1127
arrow-up1127message-squareWhat is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?64bithero@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agomessage-square331fedilink
minus-squareMagnificentSteiner@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·13 hours 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-up6·13 hours agoBut but but it uses cards with the joker on it
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 hours agoPretty sure some of these people would see games like Egyptian ratscrew as gambling
minus-squareCaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 hours 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-up5·11 hours 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?