• hubobes
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    17 hours ago

    Valve is such a weird company, on one hand they do things like this, on the other hand there is CS gambling.

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      24 hours ago

      I just don’t see how they are responsible for CS gambling.

      They created an open market, where people can trade and sell their items. Just like people want, instead of being locked down in the game you play at the time.

      Of course people are going to gamble with the items, just like they do with anything else you can trade. but how is that not a regulatory issue and instead paved on valve?

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        22 hours ago

        Lootboxes.

        Players have a random chance of getting crate while playing the game. Each crate is a pool of item cosmetics with various levels of rarity. To acquire one of them the player must purchase a one-use key with real money. Expending the key on a crate initiates a die roll that determines which cosmetic is unlocked.

        That’s the gambling they’re responsible for. What gambling players may of afterward is not the same conversation.

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        22 hours ago

        You kinda missed the part where you get the skins by gambling in the first place. A ton of the gambling sites just emulate that and be done with it.

        And then Valve uses the same underhanded tactics to get around gambling regulations. In France, players had (have?) to buy a certain skin before they can gamble open cases, and they can see the result of the case before “actually” opening it (but they can’t open anything else before they do), because all this makes it not gambling, I guess.