Balatro creator LocalThunk is determined to ensure his game will never find its way into the hands of gambling companies or casinos, so much so that he's had it explicitly written into his will.
Responding to a tweet which (I assume jokingly) theorised that Balatro's poker theme was "actually a psyop to get younger generations into casinos," LocalThunk expressed just how badly he does not want that to be a thing. "From the outside this might make 0 sense but I hate the thought of Balatro becoming a true gambling game so much that when I recently created my will I stipulated that the Balatro IP may never be sold or licensed to any gambling company/Casino," he replied.
