It has been claimed in a report that Valve earned almost $1 billion from Counter-Strike case openings in 2023.
  • Crikeste@lemm.ee
    441·
    10 months ago

    And yet, Valve is touted as being among the most ethical and moral of gaming companies.

    I think it’s funny that while Stake was getting blasted on Twitch, CS:GO sat quietly in its corner hoping no one would look its way.

    There are people who have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on this shit.

    It’s a problem.

      • Crikeste@lemm.ee
        9·
        10 months ago

        Because society has deemed gambling a problem requiring regulation. These things exist outside that regulation while being psychology the same.

        Also, gambling addiction has the highest rate of suicide of all addictions. And I think we should be trying to lower the amount of people that kill themselves.

        • Mango@lemmy.world
          29·
          10 months ago

          I’ve never given two shits about what society has decided about my psychology. It’s nobody’s place to decide for me. If someone wants to kill themselves, let them. Help them even.

  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.ml
    72·
    10 months ago

    If Valve didn’t have this dosh stream, they would make more single player games. Simple as.

    • lorty@lemmy.ml
      1·
      10 months ago

      This is barely anything compared to the cut they take from every steam sale

    • theonyltruemupf@feddit.de
      17·
      10 months ago

      Apart from exploiting gambling addicts and you not really owning most games, Valve are rather consumer friendly. Or at least they appear to be because their competitors are even worse.

        • LwL@lemmy.world
          52·
          10 months ago

          Given human nature I find it hard to blame rich people for using their money on themselves. We need laws to change (aka much, much higher taxes)

          Someone’s perspective on what’s an appropriate standard of living changes with what they’re used to. That’s just how the human brain works. I constantly hear people that make the same or more than me, that live in the same country as me in an area with similar cost of living, complain about how little money they have, while I feel like I have all I really need and more. They just consider different things as “necessary”.

          Is it incredibly disconnected to consider owning even one yacht as anything close to necessary? Absolutely. But anything you want, your brain will take it for granted once you get it and make you want even more.

            • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
              22·
              10 months ago

              I don’t thinks that is greed actually, Gabe gaining more and more money is greed but spend that wealth in random shit is just like people do, if you have billions the random shit you can buy is more pricy.

              Fuck billionaire anyway

                • ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
                  22·
                  10 months ago

                  Billionares creating politics and buying politicians so they can continue to be rich is greed totally, but unless yatch is a scheme to avoid taxes that I don’t know they buying it is like me buying toys to put on my desk in a large scale.

        • theonyltruemupf@feddit.de
          1·
          10 months ago

          No he can fuck right of, nobody should ever own that much. I was saying Valve is consumer friendly, relatively speaking.