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Loot boxes suck. Don't monetize games with loot boxes.

Extremely rare Valve L incoming

ah yes, the really big bright buildings that always stand out in rural Japan where you can buy metal balls to make them fall over a specific hole so you can win more balls. Riveting gameplay. They're so garish and awful.

as long as you don't ban it until I've sold all of my cases 😅

Good, fuck lootboxes and their fake “scarcity”

I think the card game stuff should be legislated under the same rules I don't think allowing gambling in an 18 rated game should be allowed - gambling should be kept to the highly regulated casinos and be completely separate from everything else

I think this is because gambling is just entirely illegal in New York. The probable outcome is that Valve just prevents anyone in New York from buying keys and then nothing really changes.

I mean yeah there should be actions against this across the board. Though I don’t think saying those games are 18+ is a good argument when that age restriction clearly is not working. Gambling in general needs way way stronger regulation in most countries.

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LEAVE BRITTANY ALONE!

I really respect Valve and a lot of what they do, but they get way too much of a pass on this stuff. It’s nice to see some action about it.

About time.

Yeah, that seems to be the main argument being made - that Valve has somehow designed the entire Steam trading system with the explicit intent of it being used by scam and gambling websites.

The casinos sponsor the eSports teams. Most of the trading goes through them. They pay for streamers to promote gambling skins to children. Valve has known about the issue for years, they designed the case opening to be "sticky". They could stop this but they earn millions by enabling this circus

And how does Valve verify that you are over 18 when you buy the game?