Unfortunately that is not going to hold up. The way the system works is Player Gifts items for “betting”to a 3rd party. The 3rd party holds the items and awards them after the tournament. Valve is not complacent in people who are use the trade system.

1. Just chill out dude. Go grab a Snickers, you get angry when you are hungry surfing the web.

You actually can sell TCG cards and it is a common practice. MTG cards can go for thousands of dollars much like CSGO skins. The 2.3 billion dollars is based off of items bet and includes repeat betting of the same item. If I bet on 10 matches with a 99% chance odds with the same $10 skin and the skin gets returned to…

Valve is not making any money from these sites. They are not affiliated with valve. Valve has its own market with fake money and anything sold in the market is stuck there, as you can buy things trade and sell but you only get fake money from the sell with no way provided by valve to turn it into real money. The suit…

“They are not taking a direct cut of the winnings”?

You keep stating false things such as Valve explicitly stating they sell weapon skins solely for people to resell which is utter bullshit. They made a joke in bad taste about their own system which allows people to trade weapons similar to how they could on the black market which has nothing to do with these 3rd party…

Stop making a straw man argument about keys and cases. That isn’t what is being argued by anyone here including the guy suing Valve. They aren’t considered gambling in the same way opening a TCG card pack isn’t considered gambling. I have never said Valve doesn’t make a cut from Steam Market transactions because they…

You are still wrong. The lawsuit has nothing to do with the random boxes and everything to do with the websites you can gamble items received on. The guy is suing Valve because he lost items that he gambled on said websites. Valve does not see a profit from some jackass betting his items on these 3rd party websites.…

Yea, Valve has always made a killing off of the community market, but that happens independently of Gambling Sites. Valve isn’t responsible for age gating their API and they are in compliance for reporting community market transactions with the IRS. You are basically holding the bank responsible for an 18 year old…

Valve has zero ties to the gambling sites. They do not take a cut of anything sold for real money. I gambled for two years on CSGO lounge and I know how it works. OPskins doesn’t even have gambling on their website. It exists so you can cash out your skins into a paypal account instead of steam funds and are able to…

The issue with your argument is that Valve runs a separate marketplace. The only cut taken from a sale between two people on the market Valve runs is to facilitate the transfer. A better example example would be paypal. Now if Valve knows exactly what transactions on the marketplace are for gambling then they are a…

They don’t take a cut.

No, it’s a very apt counter argument. Your argument is underdeveloped and oversimplified. You talk about Steam as if they were charging these gamblers directly, but all these stupid, fucking weapon skins are are a stand-in for real currency that a third-party has repurposed for their own designs. The fact that Steam…

So you are saying Steam made those websites?

they still make money on a deeper level. The fact you dont realize this means valves plan is working. Every skin you see out there steam made some money off of someone in some way.

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You are wrong. Just because you “heard it” doesn’t mean they were right. Typical argument with no actual facts that are applicable. As others have said you can trade items without Valve seeing a dime. Valve only makes a profit if you sell items on their marketplace. These websites use the trade system which doesn’t…

They aren’t though, they don’t make anything for trading skins to, in this case, bots. They only make money if someone sells the skin on their community market, where they charge a 10% or something “tax” on the transaction.

Except as far as I’m aware Valve only takes a cut if it’s sold on heir store, items sold via trading “using pay pal & then sending the item through” Valve gets no cut in those as it’s not sold on their market place.

Say me and you made a Bet that Kim Kardashian will divorce Kanye and one of wins. The terms of the bet was the other person has to buy Big Macs for the other person for 1 month. With your statement McDonalds can be held accountable for profiteering from illegal gambling.