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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The guy could be more charitable, but aside from that, what do you want him to do? If he lowers the cost of steams cut per purchase he'll get in trouble for monopolizing the industry. Yeah, he's too rich, but he got there without exploiting or hurting anyone. Even after he passes away, the company is already employee owned.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Youโ€™re missing the part where they make the vast majority of their money from the gambling, not from the cut they take from sales. They donโ€™t have to run the gambling service. But they do because itโ€™s a money faucet.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I like how when valve does it, it's 'gambling,' but every other company out there it's just 'microtransactions' and 'monetization.'

Valve somehow gets 99% of the hate online for lootboxes, despite having one of the most transparent and fair implementations of them.

Like, have you people never seen a gacha? Half of them don't even fucking publish the rates for what you can get, and make far more money than Valve does.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

No, there are actual gambling sites for counter-strike items that are run by scammers who hire a youtuber, give them a huge (deliberate) win to entice kids to bet their parents wage on some stupid cosmetics' slot machine.

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