Blåhaj PieFedAnother roguelike success story has hit Steam: D&D flavored slot machine Slots & Daggers sells 100,000 copies in 10 days, "a surreal number for a solo dev like me"
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Congratulations on their success and condolences for the massive legal hurdles they’ll inevitably face as another “gambling game”.
Let’s be honest here … because it looks like the dev is trying to be. The name has “Slots” in it so they seem to be pretty up front about the mechanics involved.
Oops, meant to reply to Brobot or whatever. Leaving it.
Can we please stop making games out of gambling mechanics.
If you’re talking about games with lootboxes that cost real money, then I agree. What’s the harm in a game with slots that don’t cost real money?
Normalizing those toxic mechanics. Makes it easier to release scams that will cost players money when they are less distinguishable from good games.
All these slot machine and balatro clones are only going to make the actual scam games that ape them more profitable.
Do shooting games normalize killing people? Is someone going to get their first experience with slot machine mechanics through a video game?
Then be against the games that actually are scamming people. Do you have evidence for your slippery slope mentality?
No shooting games don’t obviously.
But yeah I could see playing a “slot machine style game” lower your inhibitions and lead you to play an actual slot machine, especially with kids. “It’s just a game, what’s the harm, I’ve played this before, it’s only a few bucks.”
I am against actual scam games too but I don’t see embracing addictive mechanics from gambling as a positive and it will only obfuscate and blur the line between the good games and scams.