Like, if Valve do want to keep item trading in (and potentially be used this way is an understatement, these are multi-million dollar gambling businesses), they

Like, if Valve do want to keep item trading in (and potentially be used this way is an understatement, these are multi-million dollar gambling businesses), they could at least try to stop them. Valve's enforcement was one round of C&Ds in 2016 (!), and then some technical measures [0] in 2024. For Valve to take heed the problem, they literally had to have a stage invasion at their esport event [1]. [0]: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/730/view/4185606994270578440 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/730/view/41856069942... [1]: https://internettalk.xyz/blog/cults-vendettas-gambling-how-a-ten/ https://internettalk.xyz/blog/cults-vendettas-gambling-how-a... - article I published, Coffeezilla also has a video on this event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q58dLWjRTBE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q58dLWjRTBE