• Bonesince1997@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    “Luck be a Landlord is a roguelike deckbuilder about using a slot machine to earn rent money and defeat capitalism. This game does not contain any real-world currency gambling or microtransactions.”

    For those curious about the game. Game details from Metacritic.

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      11 months ago

      So it’s literally a slot machine simulator…

      And the guy who made it doesn’t understand why it’s being taken down for gambling?

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          11 months ago

          Similar to some countries banning games that depict skulls or blood, these countries have banned games that depict gambling. This is different from banning games that contain loot boxes or actual gambling.

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        11 months ago

        Anybody who has played the game will know how much of a dumbass take this is. It’s no more a “slot machine simulator” than Doom is a “military training simulator”.

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          11 months ago

          Too bad lootboxes are banned in a lot of countries so you couldn’t make a closer analogy…

          • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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            The only loot boxes in Borderlands are the actual boxes of loot you find in the game world playing the game like any other box of loot in an RPG. Unless there’s a new one I haven’t heard of that contains MTX loot boxes.

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              11 months ago

              Even for someone with a username made out of emojis…

              Come on man, you can’t be that stupid

              Edit:

              Nevermind, saw that post history. That’s what I get for being an optimist

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                11 months ago

                It sounds like you have no fucking clue what you’re talking about. Have you ever actually played any of the Borderlands games? Or are you like @Detheroth and considering the event/pre-order exclusive codes needed to unlock golden keys as a lootbox, despite them not actually selling them for money? FFS, you can cheat to obtain these things by just copying your save file, since they’re stored locally on your profile.

                If you had argued over the season pass shit, you’d have somewhat of a point, though not anything to do with gambling. But you decided to focus on lootboxes.

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                11 months ago

                For someone who calls everyone else stupid, you’re pretty damn ignorant yourself.

          • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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            11 months ago

            The only loot boxes in Borderlands are the actual boxes of loot you find in the game world playing the game like any other box of loot in an RPG. Unless there’s a new one I haven’t heard of that contains MTX loot boxes.

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              11 months ago

              Google “Borderlands Golden Keys”. Been in the game since BL2 and was causing a stink even back then. Sure there is nothing exclusive to the Golden Chests (that I know of), but they are a quintessential Lootbox.

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                11 months ago

                You mean the event exclusive shit you don’t actually have to pay for (outside of attending the events/seeing social media posts/the few that come with a DLC pack)?

                Per Gearbox’s official site for the game:

                How do I get Golden Keys? Golden Keys can only be unlocked by redeeming SHiFT codes. You can get SHiFT codes from official Gearbox sponsored events and social media accounts.

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          His is less gambling. In starfox, it’s purely random. In his game, you strategically select the symbols that can appear on the machine to make combos more or less likely.

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        It’s not even a slot machine simulator. It’s more like a deck builder card game with a slot machine theme.

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    11 months ago

    This is a new low if we are banning games like this in this world. I’m just gonna assume the people who banned it have never been to a casino once in their life, let alone seen a real slot machine.

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      11 months ago

      Look at the list of banned countries. Do you think those countries have many casinos?