Valve faces suit alleging role in gambling on video games

[Arekan]

I'm still not seeing why you're assuming that my hours in CS:GO is me constantly attempting to make money off of it. I've said time and time again, I don't play CS:GO to make the money off of it. This is where your argument falls flat.

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[TheABELBOTO]

I wouldn't go around flaunting your e-bucks if i were you arekan; that's practically begging some skiddie to jack your account.

[Arekan]

I wouldn't go around flaunting your e-bucks if i were you arekan; that's practically begging some skiddie to jack your account.

True. I've had a couple of my friends get themselves scammed out of their stuff and someone tried scamming me once.
I don't think it's that easy to hack into a Steam account once they've got the mobile authenticator on it though.

[SeventhSandwich]

I'm still not seeing why you're assuming that my hours in CS:GO is me constantly attempting to make money off of it.

This goes back to what I originally said about video game item markets not being volatile enough. People are only willing to bend slightly on item prices because they never shift and the community has established relatively fixed, well-publicized spreadsheets telling everyone how much to sell things for. The only conceivable way to make a 1000% return is to spend literally thousands of hours making hundreds and hundreds of transactions whereupon you only make a <10% profit on whatever you've sold.

The other possibility is that you've actually spent far more on your items than you originally let on.

[Rykuta]

Wait, there are people who actually claim to enjoy CS:GO and not just play it for skins? Haha since when?

In seriousness though; it will be interesting to see what this lawsuit does to Valve's "literally make all the money from vanity items" strategy, if anything.

[TheBrickBuilder]

I used that uncrate simulator and on one of the crates I got this on the first try:

[Ipquarx]

The people that are suing are accusing valve of financially supporting the gambling sites, and whether or not that's even illegal is beyond me. Opening loot crates does not count as gambling any more than stock market trading counts as gambling.

[Bisjac]

just because its being discussed.

i have owned property (with a castle) on entropia universe for over 10 years. its now worth nearly $6000

[SeventhSandwich]

just because its being discussed.

i have owned property (with a castle) on entropia universe for over 10 years. its now worth nearly $6000

It's not impossible to make money on online economies, but kids like Arekan grovelling for hours over pennies are wasting their time.

[Rally]

Would be funny if Valve ripped a lot of high-return items off the CS:GO market. Suddenly the national Self Delete watch list grows by 100,000+ NEETs

[Arekan]

It's not impossible to make money on online economies, but kids like Arekan grovelling for hours over pennies are wasting their time.

Bruh

[Conan]

It's not impossible to make money on online economies, but kids like Arekan grovelling for hours over pennies are wasting their time.

dude chill lol

arekan plays games for fun - he just happened to make money off of it. he's not trying to make some statement that gaming as a career pays off. you're taking this way too seriously
like you might as well argue gaming is a waste of time - people may agree with you but they're doing it for fun, not cause they got nothing better to do. its just a different way of using spare time - you can use it to make money, you can use it to have fun.

[SeventhSandwich]

arekan plays games for fun - he just happened to make money off of it. he's not trying to make some statement that gaming as a career pays off.

That's literally exactly what he did.

I hate how people always make a big deal about items costing money. Sure, I might have spent a couple hundred dollars on some virtual items. I've also made about a thousand dollars in return. Stay mad. It all depends on how wise the spender is.

The whole reason we're having this conversation is because of his roostery hubris.

[Arekan]

The whole reason we're having this conversation is because of his roostery hubris.

Nothing in that states that I'm trying to make a career out of it or anything. :V
The only thing you could take out of context is that I said that it depends on how wise the spender is, but even at that, I never even hint towards it being a 'main source of income'

[SeventhSandwich]

Nothing in that states that I'm trying to make a career out of it or anything. :V

Them goalposts.