Quote Originally Posted by Avoidy View Post
I kinda wish the gold saucer had more actual IRL casino games (maybe games like poker or BS or actual slot machines but that might be illegal lol) with gil betting instead of MGP. Or if they've gotta do the MGP thing, maybe update the MGP shops more often 'cause there's nothing in there I even want so you could hand me 1 million MGP and I wouldn't feel a thing. Like, maybe instead of putting a new hairstyle/mount in the shop for 20 dollars during a content drought, put it in the gold saucer instead and more people will actually give a shit about make it rain.
blame CERO (Japanese video game rating system) and PEGI (European video game rating system). Both are extremely strict on ratings as soon as emulation of gambling comes into play. It's the same reason we got Voltorb Flip in place of the slots in the game corner in Fire Red/Leaf Green, and why there hasn't been a game corner at all since Diamond/Pearl/Platinum and Heart Gold/Soul Silver (even in the Ruby/Sapphire remakes, the Game Corner was removed, and it was replaced with a different shop in Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl)