This was maybe the most pathetic coup attempt in recent years (excluding jan 6th and brazil’s jan 8th because they both wouldn’t have worked as actual coups regardless). At least some part of the military was clearly in on it too, but they didn’t even stop the representatives from voting to invalidate the declaration, and even worse, it was attempted while the opposition nearly had a supermajority, and with an incredibly disliked president.
Maybe this is overthinking it, but why would you ever try a coup without at least some popular support? Yeah, it doesn’t matter what the people think as far as making it happen, but lack of popular support often leads to a lot of instability, and the first one to die in an unstable dictatorship is often the guy at the top.
I feel like it’d be wise to wait for further developments. Valve is notorious for being horrible at communication, but even then it’s rare that they do something like this without some sort of reason. It still sucks that Valve shut this down after 8 years, but it’s hard to know anything for certain until either side comes out with more information, especially with how stupid Valve’s legal team can be sometimes. Could be that they just backpedal and say it’s alright in a few days, who knows.
Of course, trusting Valve is always as risky as trusting any other corporation, given they have a bit of a track record with tolerating and even outright allowing gambling with skins, but this could easily be their legal team being overzealous yet again as well.