What’s worse is that despite him spending $32,000, he’s still not obtained all of the best cards in the game.
This is ok, but balatro is gambling.
NBA 2K26 also releases on Setpember 5, 2025, which will make all of his purchases pretty useless if he was to move on to the next game.
bruh
It’s because Balatro and small indies that catch fire threaten the bloated dinosaurs that are the AAA franchises.
“We’ve spent 30 years underperforming and manipulating our customers to get where we are today! We’re not about to let some noob take a slice of our pie just because they came up with this wacky idea of a ‘Fun game that’s reasonably priced!’”
I think that’s a bit farfetched. I don’t think any AAA dinosaur feels threatened by Balatro, and if we talk specifically about sports games Balatro is not a threat because that genre has formed its own thick bubble that Balatro could never penetrate.
The more obvious reason is probably true, lawmakers are simply too stupid to tell the difference between using gambling motiffs and actual gambling.
Or more likely, some Karen somewhere saw face cards and complained, and lawmakers/regulators didn’t bother doing any actual research.
Numb-nuts like these people are why every game is riddled with microtransactions
These games are designed to take advantage of addicts. The fact that you don’t know how much it will cost to get what you want, the fact that there is no limit on how much you can spend, is a feature.
addicts and/or people who have more money than they know what to do with.
Usually they don’t have more money than they know what to do with, what money have have gets funnelled into their addiction, the rest becomes debt.
Don’t think of this as an individual making stupid choices with a game. Think of this as a game with thousands of players designed to target and take advantage of the neuro-divergent or those susceptible to problem gambling.
Micro-tranactions are a predatory gambling mechanic and this person was robbed of this money.
It’s him, John Microtransaction.
If he’s a YouTuber and it’s a work expense I’d think the videos he made on it more than offset the cost, pretty sure that’s how it works with the gacha creators that spend $200K on genshin impact
