Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?

ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Nelots@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I don’t even like deck builders but I gotta disagree with you were. I mean sure, if its a poker game like Balatro I could see it. But how is Slay the Spire gambling? That’s like calling DnD-like games simulated gambling because everything is decided through a dice roll.

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  • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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    • Magnum@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      But but but it uses cards with the joker on it

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      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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    • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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      • jeeva@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  probably the same reason gambling is popular tbh

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