• rtxn@lemmy.worldOP
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        Solitaire too. The entire game is based on cards’ relative values and matching suits. A player might recognise the connection to other games where a French deck is typically used and use that knowledge to learn several hands used in games of chance. Extremely dangerous, I’m sure you’ll agree.

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          AFAIK, yes. But could be other reasons too, I havent played the newer ones but I heard they made them even more focused on kids, could be that too

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        They actually already did change the rating for the virtual console release of Red/Blue. I always thought it was stupid, because the game corner was explicitly run by the bad guys.

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    Simulated card game with no actual betting = BAD

    Actual gambling with real money loot boxes targeted at kids = GOOD

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    I knew things were rigged, when I saw the legally binding german rating board USK give it a 12+. This usually never happens, that PEGI gives a game a higher rating than the USK

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    I wonder if anyone on this forum has played the game enough to realise that the entire rating is entirely justified just on basis of the bloody wheel of fortune, which while pragmatically only 0.05% of the game is the bit that keeps me up at night and regularly makes me make poor decisions that hurt both myself and the current run.

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    Is there a way to request a re-review? The game has zero actual gambling in it lmao. It’s amazing to me that somehow in 2024 I see sports betting plastered everywhere, but Balatro is the problem. Idk when things changed but gambling used to be relegated to specific places so that it was out of reach of kids. Now there’s like 100 sports betting sites that seemingly cropped up overnight.

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      They already requested to re-review it and got shut down. All my homies hate PEGI and their bs.

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        Lazy ass PEGI. You’d think they would employ people to actually play the games instead of half-assing it.

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          The ESRB isn’t any better either. They rate games based on a few minutes of footage (IIRC 8 minutes minimum) of what the publisher considers to be the worst offending elements.

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              I could easily showcase the worst examples of real gambling in modern games in eight minutes (except maybe Diablo Immortal because the microtransaction hell they’ve created is actually impressive). The problem is that publishers get to select what parts of the game is presented to the board, so they can simply not include the real gambling parts.

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      Things changed when greedy capitalists realized that they could get literal children addicted to gambling on devices that have their parents’ credit card saved.

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    So like what about all the casino and poker video games released for PS2, Wii, Xbox, GameCube, and every system since 2003 that pegi has accross the board given 3+ ratings to? I think world series of poker would be more of a “Gambling” game than Belatro.