you used to be able to resell the ship skins, and there was a thriving reddit scene dedicated to buying and selling these limited run jpegs, until they realized there was an unfathomable amount of scamming and abuse going and shut it down.

they were the first NFT for sure.

it’ll be curious if this is will be When Prophecy Fails situation where half the true believers gtfos, and the other half triples down. Following the RSI cult for the last decade(holy shit lmao) has been a very fun experience.

Big number worse, ok? 

that is legit nightmare fuel. RCE is like defcon 5 for code fixes, and the fact that Bandai ignored it? a a a a a a a 

and what happens when you enabled the cosmetics to be bought and sold between people like the stock market, giving them real world value?

good point. who created csgo and built monetization into it?

you are discounting the role of heavy advertising. valve provides the ecosystem, streamers advertise the cool looking skins, and official tournaments are sponsored by skin gambling websites. It doesn’t matter where in the monetization stream they join, Valve is the root of it all.

Yeah, I’d argue pogs and TCG are the same concepts....

no they just sell the shiny lootboxes filled with skins that attract the children to the child gambling.

That’s still horseshit, because skin gambling websites did not require a Steam account to use. It’s a shame this won’t put a dent in their child monetization abilities.

just because I know the causes and the causes are obvious, doesn’t mean it can’t also be shitty and dispiriting. I still have a foundational belief that the beautiful nature of pre-web 2.0 open source collaboration was one of humanities most important projects, and is largely why our internet is so useful today. with…

I hope everyone involved loses their shirt

fraud is ok if its stealing from a millionaire

wow thanks for explaining capitalism but thats not my point

yeah the only people worth supportimg are those who pay enough money as a group. 

copyright isn’t real and if you snitch on this I hope someone hits you with a sock filled with nickels.

It’s video game high scores, not school districting.