Didn't one of the ea sport games have a literal slot machine you buy tokens to spin as part of their MTX?
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What? Did the playing cards have their tits out or something?
It was imagery of gambling. And yeah, that tracks.
Sure, but there isn't any actual gambling, and Balatro works a lot differently to actual gambling. It's not the gateway drug PEGI seems to think it is...
Their reasoning is because it uses poker hands, it teaches you poker which could lead to gambling. Pretty ridiculous.
Crazy. The benchmark for age ratings should be based in the game design, not solely aesthetics. Balatro doesn't tell you to enter your credit card details and use psychologically manipulative tactics to maximise player spend, like other games good for ages 3+.
Of course, then PEGI would need to do some actual research into the games they're rating.
Yeah, the hands are what make poker dangerous...
My concern with poker has to do with betting, and therefore risk-taking, and Balatro doesn't have that. Learning how poker hands work is an academic exercise, and I absolutely encourage it, since it's such an important cultural thing (i.e. shows up in lots of movies).
So yeah, absolutely ridiculous.
It's really more like a poker themed maths game. Would probably be good for a kid to pick it up. (They may or may not turn into a poker pro later in life too!)
It's a shame this gets 18+ while the MTX fuelled FIFA games all get 3+ ratings.
It's E in America according to IGN.
If it's E in NA, then why is it rated 18+ in Europe?
"Gambling," because it uses poker hands, I guess.
Which is completely stupid because there's no gambling in the game at all, poker hands are simply used to score points. It's completely nonsensical.
NA mostly uses ESRB while most of Europe uses PEGI as their rating board. They're different organizations so they can have different criterias for rating as well as different inspectors actually doing the rating.
Doesn't E stand for Everyone?
I'm not sure if this is satire, but America isn't everyone. :)
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