Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery
tlou3please@lemmy.world 4 days 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.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 days ago
The problem here is that Baltaro does not have gambling. It just uses cards as the basis for playing the game. Like Magic the Gathering or Inscryption.
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 4 days 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.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Exactly you never actually commit to any sort of wager or even an imitation of financial risk.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 days 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)
BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 4 days 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.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Which is why PEGI didn’t say it was literally gambling, they said it was imagery of gambling.
Arcka@midwest.social 4 days ago
Is there betting (such as buy-in / ante) in Balatro?
Is there in MtG?
Lowpast@lemmy.world 4 days ago
No, there are no bets, no buy in.
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 4 days 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