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roguetrick, do games w PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery

Reminds me of that Australian law that was proposed to make anything with a relation to casino games Restricted 18 but merely mature for exploitative slot machine loot box mechanics.

HawlSera,

I haven’t seen Loot Boxes in a game in awhile, I kinda prefer those to FOMO…

I think the perfect system is you earn Loot Boxes by playing that can contain anything, but you can buy the specific things you want at any time, the boxes themselves are unlocked through gameplay.

Heroes of the Storm did this, and god I miss that game.

I wish DBD did it

v4ld1z,

HOTS 2.0 did so much good, man. It’s a shame the game’s basically dead. Was a lot of fun to play with my brother

I realised that what brought me back to League was Wild Rift. Maybe of HOTS had a “mobile” adaptation, I’d come back. Just not much (if at all) a PC gamer nowadays

HawlSera,

There were rumors Microsoft were going to revive it, which lead to people playing the game, which lead to it getting balance patches again… but no new content drops sadly

v4ld1z,

Soon™

jagungal,

Sounds about right. I’d seen “slot machines” (we call em poker machines or “the pokies”) more times than I can remember before I was 18.

youstolemyname,
@youstolemyname@lemmy.world avatar

“the pokies”

You ever Google that?

jagungal,

No, why?

Goingdown, do gaming w what's a game that has you like:

Kingdom Come Deliverance. Low fantasy, no map marker (in hard mode), no superhumans or anything too fancy…

TheFriar,

Is this the most recent Kingdom Come 2? I’d been thinking of getting it myself, I play great stories over and over (RDR2, Cyberpunk, Alan Wake 2). But I’ve literally played them all so much that I’m about to be tired of replaying them. So I need a new game to 100% complete, this and STALKER2 have been on my list, but S2 hasn’t been released for ps5.

Goingdown,

Is this the most recent Kingdom Come 2? I’d been thinking of getting it myself

No, first one. 2 has not been released yet.

acockworkorange, do gaming w Inspired by another post

Might be a hot take, but reporting on that just generates the wrong kind of buzz.

Missmuffet, do gaming w what's a game that has you like:

Final fantasy 14

SleepyPie, do gaming w what's a game that has you like:

Siralim Ultimate. It’s like Pokémon but your party is essentially a machine built from passive effect interactions and the gameplay is like Diablo.

Absolute hidden gem.

CileTheSane,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

Recently started playing and it reminded me of when I used to play MtG and tried to build decks with broken combos.

slaacaa, (edited ) do games w PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery

He probably forgot to funnel millions of dollars to non-profits and businesses adjacent to PEGI decisionmakers and their family members. Rookie mistake.

derpgon, do games w PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery

Fuck PEGI, their ratings always sucked and weren’t useful at all. Full blown swearing? 13+. One cigar through 500 hours of gameplay? Adults only. Never cared, never will.

rimjob_rainer,

Violence and gore? 13+. Some boobs? Adults only.

Killing good, love bad.

wizardbeard,

And people pretend that only American ratings systems pull this kind of bullshit.

SaharaMaleikuhm,

If anybody knows about love it’s rimjob_rainer.

Maggoty, (edited ) do games w PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery

Loot boxes suck but the only thing separating this game from gambling is the use of real money. It’s literally a poker game.

This is the Steam Store description -

Combine valid poker hands with unique Joker cards in order to create varied synergies and builds. Earn enough chips to beat devious blinds, all while uncovering hidden bonus hands and decks as you progress. You’re going to need every edge you can get in order to reach the boss blind, beat the final ante and secure victory.

Yeah they were always going to get PEGI 18. This moaning is just a way to sell their game.

ech,

It’s literally not.

static09,

In Balatro, the Ante is the boss’s health and chips are the amount of damage done to a boss. The poker hands are just attacks done to the boss’s health. They use poker terms because it’s inspired by card games, not because there’s gambling.

Maggoty,

I didn’t say there was and neither did PEGI. The issue is all the terminology and visuals are gambling related. This is like giving a cigarette smoker a nicotine vape and saying it’s not cigarettes. It’s technically true but you’d be insane to authorize it for kids.

Tarquinn2049,

The whole point of the post is real gambling is rated as totally safe for kids. As long as it doesn’t use card or poker chips as imagery. Why is getting kids to actually gamble ok? Why is imagery associated with gambling so much worse than actual gambling for kids?

Maggoty,

No the whole point of this post is performative outrage as marketing. They knew exactly what rating a faux casino game was going to get them.

IzzyScissor,

This analogy is garbage. The “nicotine vape for kids” isn’t Balatro, it’s loot boxes. Balatro would be like candy cigarettes.

Maggoty,

Funny you should mention candy cigarettes.

Whether it’s candy cigarettes or a nicotine vape depends purely on the person playing the game. A gambling addict could easily see this as their nicotine vape, and it could easily prime kids for casinos.

sukhmel,

A good link, maybe image may be harmful even if it’s without context

BlueMagma,

You meant “chocolate cigarette” for your analogy, I remember they used to exists when I was a kid, don’t know if they still do.

Maggoty,

Funny you should mention candy cigarettes.

Whether it’s candy cigarettes or a nicotine vape depends purely on the person playing the game. A gambling addict could easily see this as their nicotine vape, and it could easily prime kids for casinos.

KinglyWeevil,

The only gambling in this game is picking the goddamn wheel card even though I know it’s going to give me “nope!”

Tarquinn2049,

So then explain why games with actual real money gambling aren’t rated 18+, is gambling “imagery” with no gambling really that much worse than having actual gambling?

Maggoty,

Ask PEGI why loot boxes aren’t rated 18+, I’m not defending them.

BradleyUffner,

Yahtzee uses “valid poker hands” and dice for scoring too. They sell that in toy stores.

Maggoty,

Yatzhee is dice. It uses combinations of numbers. They turn into points. Before you make any other ridiculous comparisons the idea is to perform to standard. Not to lower the standard. Gambling is a serious addiction and making games about it is a serious issue.

Tarquinn2049,

You can’t gamble with dice?

Soggy,

I played Yahtzee once and now I hustle back alley Craps foe drug money.

Maggoty,

If you want to be reductive everything is gambling. Even your birth.

Tarquinn2049,

I mean the kinds of gambling that might trigger someone with a gambling addiction. Isn’t that where you were coming from?

damnedfurry,

Yatzhee is dice.

So is craps, one of the most popular casino games on the planet.

BeardedBlaze,
@BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world avatar

These games not only have poker in the name, they are literally casino sims, and you play against other players:

store.steampowered.com/app/…/Prominence_Poker/

…playstation.com/…/UP2070-CUSA01104_00-UPUREPOKER…

Both pegi 12. Your argument is flawed.

ms_lane,

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

Teepo,

Balatro doesn’t have anything like gambling. There’s no betting. You don’t even have an opponent. The chips are only points, and the goal is to get as high a score as you can. The rules vary wildly from poker in ways that could never work with multiple players, let alone with real cards. It just looks like poker at the start and that description helps give you an initial idea of how to play.

Viri4thus, do games w PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery

I’m happy to lobby for the balatro dev once he posts on a federated media (real fed, not bluesky).

Personally, I don’t care if balatro is popular here, the pegi 18 rating will impact sales 0%. Also, FC24s gambling should be banned EU wide or the rating of the game should be upped to 18+. Better yet, we should use this Balatro slip up from PEGI to get FC24s rating to be revised to 18+

ZeroHora,
@ZeroHora@lemmy.ml avatar

Personally, I don’t care if balatro is popular here, the pegi 18 rating will impact sales 0%.

I don’t doubt that some weird ultra religious family will ban Balatro in their house because of that.

ProdigalFrog, do gaming w what's a game that has you like:

Thief: The Dark Project.

It’s everything I could ever want.

  • Excellent story perfectly meshed with the gameplay.
  • A strange high-technology medieval world.
  • Incredible level design combined with realistic roughly drawn maps, forcing you to take in your surroundings and build your own map.
  • Variety of gameplay, ranging from infiltrating a rich baron’s mansion to rob them blind, to delving into ancient crypts filled with odd creatures and an alien culture for some adventurous tomb raiding, to some of the most terrifying pants filling survival horror I’ve yet encountered.

It is, in my opinion, perfection.

DoucheBagMcSwag, do games w What game surprised you with their length?

Castlevania Symphony of the Night… At least when you defeat Shaft properly

An ENTIRE NEW CASTLE!?

kamiheku, do games w PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery

Wait, wasn’t this already an issue a while back and wasn’t that resolved?

simple,

It was banned by a few countries for looking like a gambling game which was a separate thing, now it’s just rated as an adult game by PEGI.

kamiheku,

Right - I was thinking of the brief store pull.

But I thought that got resolved with the game getting the 18+ PEGI rating back in March already?

nintendolife.com/…/balatro-back-on-switch-eshop-i…

Or was it like a provisional rating?

pastel_de_airfryer, do gaming w what's a game that has you like:

Ring of Pain

50_centavos,

Hey I play that every time I eat Taco Bell

Eyck_of_denesle, do games w PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery

Windows comes bundled with solitaire. How is it allowed in schools?

A_Union_of_Kobolds,

Give the kids Linux! Build a generation of superusers!

warmaster,

Supertux depicts imagery of speeding, misdemeanor and felony. +18 Age rating for Torvalds and all of his derivatives.

turbowafflz,

I think the current microsoft version of solitaire has microtransactions and ads so is actually significantly worse

vaultdweller013,

Why, how, the fuck do you add microtransactions to fucking solitaire?!

iAmTheTot,

It’s not really micro transactions as much as it is a monthly subscription to remove ads.

vaultdweller013,

Its fucking solitaire you can play the old version from windows 95 online for free. This is beyond fucking stupid.

iAmTheTot,

If that satisfies you then all the power to you.

FuzzyDog,

Real question, why wouldn’t the win95/xp version satisfy someone? Isn’t it the same thing with simpler graphics?

iAmTheTot,

I can’t speak for other people, I don’t even play solitaire. Realistically, I imagine most people get new PCs with newer Windows versions and play whatever solitaire is on there.

vaultdweller013,

Im a Utilitarian to a fault, of course I think the windows 95 version is just as valid. I wear everything down to scrap.

Zangoose,
@Zangoose@lemmy.world avatar

Step 1: Add ads into [insert app of choice here] that are really annoying

Step 2: Make people pay to get rid of them. Bonus points if it’s a subscription

Step 3: People hate your app but it’s the one that’s installed by default so they use it anyway

Step 4: Profit

vaultdweller013,

The fact that this business model earns moneu rather than car bombs annoys me.

RogueBanana,

They added micro transactions and ads to fucking solitaire? How have I not heard about this till now…

TriflingToad,

iirc it’s a subscription too

iAmTheTot,

This isn’t really new. Solitaire has had ads for over a decade now since Windows 8, and there is a monthly premium subscription to remove them. As I understand it they also don’t show during offline play, but might be wrong about that.

redhorsejacket,

Offline play? It’s SOLITAIRE. Offline play should be the ONLY play, by default.

Feeling like I took crazy pills this morning…

ggtdbz, (edited )

If it makes you feel better/worse, the subscription is shared across multiple games. I was playing a bunch of Microsoft Jigsaw at one point (don’t ask), and while you could play as much as you’d like for free, the fact that they squeezed ads into it to extort you (or more likely, clueless older people) really cheapened the whole thing.

They had a lot of pretty photos which were probably not free, but come on, this is Microsoft, they have the money. I think this should’ve been bundled with Windows for free. I truly think a lot of people might even look back on it fondly the way they do with a lot of the older bundled-in games. We will take for granted how much the default option with any sort of technology around us has an impact on us as kids. Maybe not everyone, but not everyone loved pinball or inkball.

Actual textbook enshittification: what was once a space for a nice default thing to fall back on if you were bored and had their operating system has now become an “opportunity” to “generate more business.” Very sad. Computers are impossibly wonderful machines, everyone who has access to one should be able to enjoy a few basic things, packed in, for free - with no strings attached (looking at you candy crush).

I’m sure there’s a nice free or paid jigsaw game made with love out there that could satisfy that itch I felt that one week in 2020. Hm.

Edit: I have now redownloaded Microsoft Jigsaw and might just expand this comment into a full post/rant about the state of modern consumer software through the lens of Microsoft’s current casual games suite

iAmTheTot,

There are daily challenges and things like that which is what I would refer to as online play. Not that crazy imho of you’ve put thousands of hours into vanilla solitaire that you may welcome something to spice it up.

RogueBanana,

Damn I have fond memories of those games back in xp and 7 era but ig enshitification is evitable when it comes to Microsoft

AwesomeLowlander,

You’re being funny, right? Tell me you’re just kidding

the_post_of_tom_joad,

I can’t see any news that you can ‘pay to remove ads’ but lots of “how do i remove ads in solitaire” with settings instructions or registry edits so i think op is only half right

AwesomeLowlander,

Jesus I’m so glad I moved to Linux

pixelscript,

I also don’t think it comes pre-installed anymore, you have to get it through Microsoft’s meme store that no one uses.

absquatulate,

MTX and ads? Then it’s clearly only 3+ and should be allowed lol

Maggoty,

Because you don’t place bets on your solitaire hand.

ech,

Maybe look into the game being discussed even a little before commenting on it.

Maggoty,

I did. I’m not going to go buy it for this though. They literally use poker terms, poker imagery, and real poker hands. Saying it’s just because there’s cards involved is disingenuous.

ech,

And yet you say it’s cause of “gambling”. So you’re either lying about looking into it or lying about what you saw.

Maggoty,

This is all on their steam page dude.

ech,

So lying about looking into it. Got it.

Overshoot2648,

You could use the same for majong or pachinko like games like Peggle. The issue is the actual gambling, not just the game elements or risk, reward, and points going up. Loot boxes are 10× worse.

Maggoty,

No, we know that stuff that glorifies addictive activities can recruit or cause relapse as well.

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