Valve has been encouraging a gambling mafia - Coffeezilla expose; Valve used legal workarounds to finance a gambling mafia with CSGO skins

[ZMOT]

"Banning drugs won't work because they'll find another drug anyway"

yes, because that's how humans work. banning shit never has and never will be the solution to turn people into responsible adults without any vices or need for distractions.
if your kid fucks up you're on the hook as a parent. if your kids takes drugs, guess again who's on the hook for that? and in case you didn't notice, there are already all kinds of laws to protect kids, didn't stop them from smoking and drinking before 21.

this is literal "we need stricter gun laws so criminals will commit less gun crime" tier stupidity.

 

[iceteayo]

You can kill the entire skin market really simple like another person has said you just need to kill the API for inventories and close the market to only be used on the steam market transactions can only go up to $2000 per listing then or Valve should sell the knives with no skins for like $20 becasue honestly the plain knives still being in loot boxes is dumb its unobtainable content at that point.

Nuclear Take -
The entire market is an extremely toxic system that has ran rampant for too long. You guys cant defend it with "erm stupid kids im smart gaben is always correct I sell shit for free games" they hired an economist for Christ's sake at most all of these skins should not even break $15 yet the community dictates the prices and for the last couple years speculators have just destroyed the market or people rig shit through youtube videos. Valve can do anything with counter strike, for instance valve let you rebuy a battle pass 5 times....becasue they can for more skins. Kids are not playing counter strike its a strawman argument they play fortnite...maybe Russian kids are getting scammed at most.

 

[Administrator Flotsam]

there are already all kinds of laws to protect kids, didn't stop them from smoking and drinking before 21.

Same question to you: Do you think its ok to do bad things as long as you can get away with it by weaseling and shifting liability to someone else?
Because if laws and morality are pointless, you're better off not living in a civilized country.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

Isn't this crap since TF2?

 

[Insuficiencia renal]

 

[Male Idiot]

At least with GFL2 you can get skins for the guns that show oppai.

This much of a rustling of jimmies over a pink knife lol.

 

[Gravemind]

Kiwifarmers are faggots that hate children, are you really surprised by this? This website is filled with feminist cunts and their unironic suporters

You're right, but that's neither here nor there.

 

[Evil Peter Griffin]

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Ok ill bite. Please explain how retards wasting their money affects me.

 

[30+GameOvers]

>6 pages of steam spergs defending Valve breaking the law and selling gambling to kids/retards
>"It's okay when OUR e-daddy does it!"
Valve drones, not even once...

 

[Day of the Cope]

Banning drugs won't work because they'll find another drug anyway"

Literally the War on Drug and Prohibition, retard.

Do you think its ok to do bad things as long as you can get away with it by weaseling and shifting liability to someone else?

Define "bad things", you dumb cocksuckers. I said it plenty of times: the government is not your tard wrangler. Raise your own fucking kid. Take care of your own fucking health.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

Ok ill bite. Please explain how retards wasting their money affects me.

I’ll start. It affects me by making linux gaming and steam deck better.

 

[Insuficiencia renal]

Ok ill bite. Please explain how retards wasting their money affects me.

Defending companies using scummy business practices to profit at the expense of vulnerable populations decreases the social cohesion and encourages further usage of scummy business practices in the future. Living in a society where corporations are expected to adhere to a moral standard is better than living in a society where they are not.

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

Man that was a shitty documentary conclusion. I think he went way too hard on trying to make steam seem like this malevolent greedy corporation and make it seem like there was more to it to get real money from gambling on it. Steamdeck is what? 2 years old now?
This shit is way older than that.

I hated the boxes when they added them into TF2 and I never played CS Go so I can't say how it was, but I've seen those gambling services based around it for a while now and its scummy as all hell.
I've been giving valve the stink eye since the licensing shit came to light. Moral of the story physical ownership is key. The closest we have in current hellscape is GoG.
Daddy GabeN wants your money and isn't your friend. When he is gone and he will be gone eventually. It is only going to get worse.

 

[Evil Peter Griffin]

Defending companies using scummy business practices to profit at the expense of vulnerable populations decreases the social cohesion and encourages further usage of scummy business practices in the future. Living in a society where corporations are expected to adhere to a moral standard is better than living in a society where they are not.

So we should also go after companies that make alcohol, cigarettes, porn, sugar and basically anything that's bad for you cause muh social cohesion. Junkies are going to get addicted no matter what. If you care so fucking much get off kiwifarms and go help your local junkies.

 

[iceteayo]

the entire market is money laundering at worst with some retards caught in the crossfire. It’s mostly just bots running the show now.

 

[Gravemind]

So we should also go after companies that make alcohol, cigarettes, porn, sugar and basically anything that's bad for you cause muh social cohesion.

Some folks unironically seem to think so, yes.

I'm not one of them, but some people do.

The closest we have in current hellscape is GoG.

Even GOG has its issues. Questionable customer service to boot as well from personal experience.

 

[GR8 B8 M8 I R8 8/8]

I love TF2 but I haven't played it too much in recent years and CS;GO was boring as fuck to me.
Do these skins actually provide any gameplay benefit other than looking cool and having non-existent clout?
If I remember correctly, the skins in TF2 didn't really do much.

 

[Gravemind]

I love TF2 but I haven't played it too much in recent years and CS;GO was boring as fuck to me.
Do these skins actually provide any gameplay benefit other than looking cool and having non-existent clout?
If I remember correctly, the skins in TF2 didn't really do much.

Nope. Last I checked, it's all cosmetic.

 

[Thiletonomics]

So we should also go after companies that make alcohol, cigarettes, porn, sugar and basically anything that's bad for you cause muh social cohesion. Junkies are going to get addicted no matter what. If you care so fucking much get off kiwifarms and go help your local junkies.

Some countries actually ban those said things, i.e. porn bans in China and South Korea, but those bans don't do anything to fix their fucked-up societies, and in some case lead to people doing things themselves, i.e. Korean men becoming IRL voyeurs.

 

[Local Wordmason]

Fuck this shit, I'm going back to the comfy retro vidya threads.