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“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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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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So you think an FPS should be taken down for murder?

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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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No because that’s not killing anyone.

But a slot machine simulator is still gambling even if it doesn’t really pay out.

So a slot machine simulator getting banned in countries that ban gambling makes perfect sense.

But the creator apparently thinks it’s because those countries just love capitalism so much…

I don’t know what’s hard to understand

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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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Uh oh, looks like all the Borderlands games are illegal. Gearbox better watch out

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

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Star Fox has a secret level with a slot machine as a boss and the only way to beat it is to successfully get a jackpot. It’s as much of a gambling sim as this dude’s game is.

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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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Not FIFA though.

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

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