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>Anyway, ignorant article with a dishonest attempt at trying to spin two things together "illegal betting!" "valve" and failing. How is a system where you spen
by Goronmon 11y ago
>Anyway, ignorant article with a dishonest attempt at trying to spin two things together "illegal betting!" "valve" and failing.
How is a system where you spend real money in the hopes of receiving a valuable item by random chance not considered betting/gambling? Because that's effectively what system like the skins in CS:GO is at its core.
- Houshalter 11y agoAs someone pointed out above, that's not different than trading card games. It's arguably more restricted than real world trading cards because you can't sell them outside valves market.
- Aelinsaar 11y agoYou play with those cards, you don't play a game with the skins. The cards are the game in a CCG, skins are the not the game in CS:GO
- paulddraper 11y ago> you don't play a game with the skins Except you do play a game with them. (though they affect that gameplay aesthetically)
- Aelinsaar 11y agoThat's what I meant. The game is not centered around skins. It is not a "Collectible Skins Game", but an FPS. CCG's are, as the name implies, all about the cards and what you can do with them.
- imtringued 11y agoYu-Gi-Oh does have identical cards with cosmetic differences. Are those not part of the game?
- Aelinsaar 11y agoI have to admit to knowing nothing at all about Yu-Gi-Oh, and therefore have no basis to make an informed response, sorry.
- eterm 11y agoBut now imagine there's a company that lets you bet on card games using those cards. There are two main gambling themes in CSGO which people here are conflating. There's the slot machine like gambling of buying keys and opening cases. But there's also sites which literally let you gamble on sports or even just virtual roulette etc using skins as currency.
- Houshalter 11y agoI'm aware of the gambling sites, but that's not Valves doing. If people gambled with pokemon cards, no one would care.