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This is well done and much needed, Valve pretending nothing is happening because they’re sitting pretty with cs is pretty disgusting. It’s a monster they created and they need to cut it off in the backend even if it means a huge loss of revenue.
Thoughtfully punctuated by the video author’s note of how far self-regulation will ever possibly go.
Counter Strike’s online market is the 1.0 alpha build of memecoins.
Asking valve to police this is like asking the national Treasury to police gambling.
The fact that skins can be traded is a good thing. Just needs actual laws and enforcement.
Not allowing gambling on skins is such a knee jerk reaction to this. As you see there’s sites that do the same thing with irl items.
I would like to see the comparison to real sports more heavily highlighted. You cannot find a single sports event in America that’s not sponsored by gambling sites.
You’ll have a hard time finding a jurisdiction where minors gambling (even behind the veil of “we don’t check who our customers are”) is legal. The “IRL item gambling” site in the video was in fact blatantly illegal in Denmark despite the lengths to which they went to pretend “it’s not gambling because the house always loses”.
Asking Valve to police gambling is the next best thing to do if governments won’t step in. You say it like it’s an impossibility, ignoring the fact that “state-run gambling” is quite a common setup. In France for instance all money games are run by la française des jeux, a state-owned monopoly whose profits are meant to go to charity. In the US it wouldn’t be a crazy idea either, given how many US states already have state-run monopolies for alcohol sales for example. It’s not like historical precedent is lacking to show that regulating a parasitic industry is possible…
Maybe you can find examples of other industries that are heavily infected with gambling bullshit, but that’s whataboutism and in no way relevant to the discussion.
CS2 has been the worst update to a game I’ve ever seen in my life. The game runs so much worse and doesn’t look as good as you’d expect with how bad it performs. Deadlock barely runs too well too
I really thought valve wouldn’t fall into this crap but damn. I remember back when any source game was so well optimized it ran on my core2duo integrated graphics.
It runs at 1080p 100 fps on a 1060. Are you still gaming on the core duo igpu?
CS2 has been the worst update to a game I’ve ever seen in my life. The game runs so much worse and doesn’t look as good as you’d expect with how bad it performs.
Are you playing CS2 on a Game Boy? 🤣
CS2 runs absolutely fine on my notebook that’s approaching 4 years of age, at least on Win11.
