It is important to note that Valve’s promotion of games that glorify violence and guns helps fuel the dangerous epidemic of gun violence, particularly among young gamers who can become numbed to grave violence before their brains are fully developed," the attorney general alleges.
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All boomers need to be met with peer review. When they say shit like this they need adequate sample sized studies or shut the fuck up.
People were constantly saying this when I was a little kid. I’m 35 now.
Good, I think it’s absolutely insane that children have been able to gamble real world money in video games for so long. Honestly surprised it’s just valve though. Plenty of other companies using a loot box system out there.
Valve started a lot of bad practices and then stopped doing it themselves after making bank, like cosmetic mtx through hats, skin gambling/trading, paid mods, etc.
The Super Bowl (American football championship game) promotes betting. What’s the problem? Is gambling legal in the United States outside of Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and Native American reservations, or isn’t it? They need to make up their mind about that. Either allow it everywhere and post gambling help lines like the casinos do… or don’t allow it.
I’m not a fan, personally. I don’t gamble. Period. I have no real opinion on whether it should be legal though, where I am, where you are, or in the state of New York.
Maybe valve can lean into this logic and ship the steam deck with a pack of smokes and a bottle of jack.
These are state laws, not federal.
On top of that, casinos and betting apps and race tracks tend to have their own extra tax rate to pay, which valve is assuredly not currently paying on their illegal gambling revenue.
So would you classify Pokemon/MTG/Yu-Gi-Oh/etc. as illegal gambling as well?
I think technically, yes. However, the one potentially redeeming point those have that these skins do not are that they’re actually a functional part of the game.
These skins serve no purpose, and have turned into the same loophole that those Japanese pachinko bars use to get around the gambling laws there - give a useless trinket as a prize and just coincidentally be located next door to a place that will buy certain useless trinkets for absurd amounts of money.
Have you seen MTG players? There’s literally a site that tracks card prices like a stock market.
I’ll give TCG’s one iota of credit. If Hasbro goes bankrupt and shuts down, nobody can stop you and a friend from playing magic with the cards you have.
If Valve shuts down, or shuts down CS2, your and your friend’s skins disappear forever and you have no way of playing with them again.
Children are still not allowed to gamble anywhere, and the specific gambling laws vary by state.
Good. Next do roblox and draft kings
