Balatro creator Localthunk𒉰 has never shied away from sharing his 🃏opinions on anything topical, and in that grand tradition hꦬe's now railing against one of🅠 the most universally hated aspects of modern video games: microtransactions.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Balatro's wild success story can be attributed to a range of factors, not least of which is its engrossing roguelike/poker gameplay loop, but surely its clean, ad-free UI and lack of microtransactions didn't hurt. There's also little doubt that Localthunk could make a pretty penny by opening up Balatro to optional pur𓆏chases, but thankfully the solo dev hates that sort of thing just as much as the re𒁃st of us.

"Like I get why people add those things but you're shooඣting your UX in the foot if players are having their first impression and also being bombarded 𓃲with a bunch of nonsense that isn't actually the game."

As a mobile-friendly game, and an extremely successful one at that, it's rare and refreshing that Balatro is such a straightforward buy-and-play experie𝐆nce. As Localthunk said elsewhere, "there's like a 95% chance that if the game is [free-to-play] then the main menu UI is more complicated than the actual game UI."

And if you're wondering, Localthunk says this wasn't a targete💯d dig at any specific game. But when asked about Marvel Snap, the dev added "I'm not letting them off the hook either."

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