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Since its launch earlier this year, the roguelike card game Balatro has become one of the hottest games of 2024, selling well on PlayStation, Xbox, Switch and PC, and has a 97% positive rating on Steam. For such a game, it is inevitable that some people will have crooked ideas, such as gambling companies buying the copyrights of Balatro and using them to promote gambling, and recently the author of Balatro, LocalThunk, took legal action to ensure that this will never happen.

LocalThunk recently made it clear in a new post on X that Joker will not support gambling in the real world. He hates the idea of ​​Joker becoming a real gambling game, so when he recently made his will, he specifically stipulated that the Joker IP can never be sold or licensed to any gambling company or casino.

Given Joker's popularity, it's not too surprising to hear that a gambling company offered LocalThunk a large sum of money to license the game. However, LocalThunk wasn't interested, and he didn't want to give those companies the idea that they could get the license after his death.