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Valve, the gambling company?

• strictnein 2y ago
  I don't think enough is made of this aspect of Valve. Who knows if it's accurate, but a report claimed they did $1 billion in Counter Strike cases last year. https://insider-gaming.com/valve-cs-cases-earnings/ https://insider-gaming.com/valve-cs-cases-earnings/ And you have a skin that has sold for over $1 million now. https://www.ign.com/articles/counter-strike-skin-sells-for-over-1-million https://www.ign.com/articles/counter-strike-skin-sells-for-o...
  • jprete 2y ago
    Based on the first article, it's all cosmetic items, which I think matters a lot to the ethics.
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• solardev 2y ago
  Are you talking about lootboxes? That's only for one or two of their games, isn't it? Meanwhile Steam single handedly remade the PC gaming industry.
  • dataflow 2y ago
    > That's only for one or two of their games, isn't it? What difference does that make when the magnitude for one game was on the order of a billion cases?
    • solardev 2y ago
      This is like saying Microsoft is an evil company because Overwatch has cosmetics. It's just one of their products. Counterstrike doesn't define Valve. They do so much more than that, especially for those of us who don't even play CS. The lootboxes were something they added much later. It was originally just a Half-Life mod.
• numpad0 2y ago
  Looks like rich companies tend to look respectable