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Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12 (www.eurogamer.net)

submitted 6 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Also I would say, balatro is like 2 or 3 very minor changes away from easily being a “suck crazy amount of money from gambling addicts” game.

That's an interesting point.

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Countries do have various restrictions, and because there's only one store (in Apple's case) or only one default store (in Google's case), it's fairly-easy to raise the bar to what users have access too. A number of countries have restrictions on gambling games. My guess is that if a country wants to tamp down on mobile gambling games, it probably can.

PC is harder, but fewer people play PC games. Web games are harder too, and there's a very low bar to using those.