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PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery (files.catbox.moe)

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[-] [email protected] 79 points 6 months ago

I wish lawmakers had some balls on this subject. If there's gambling, they should have to register as a gambling company and comply with all the other restrictions on gambling advertisements in each jurisdiction.

[-] [email protected] 71 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The problem here is that Baltaro does not have gambling. It just uses cards and chips as the basis for playing the game. Like Magic the Gathering or Inscryption.

[-] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago

Using chips is even a stretch honestly. There are some chip imagery here and there but otherwise 'chips' are just how points are called.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Is there betting (such as buy-in / ante) in Balatro?

Is there in MtG?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

No, there are no bets, no buy in.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

There used to be ante in MTG. You'd play for cards in each other's decks and were to keep them if you won the game. Plus, there were a number of cards actively interacted with the ante'd cards and added or changed what's in the ante

[+] [email protected] -11 points 6 months ago

They also base it on poker, yeah cards can transform each other but it's still quite literally a poker game. This isn't MTG. (Which is just real life loot boxes)

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

But poker is only a gambling game because when you play it you "give up" something of value in the hope of winning more through playing and randomness. What makes it gambling is not the cards or the chips it's the gambling aspect. Balatro uses card and poker hands, and so does "yatzhee", but it does not use any gambling mechanic. Lootboxes on the other hand use gambling mechanic.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

Which is why PEGI didn't say it was literally gambling, they said it was imagery of gambling.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Although you may be right about why they did it, I feel like imagery of gambling is not meant to be 'something that is in any way related to something that happens to be gambling', it's when gambling is shown but you're not the one gambling. If someone in game is gambling that's imagery, if a game uses cards for something that is not gambling it's not imagery.

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