Well, very few people but enough to drive an economy of gambling. Don’t underestimate the power of a few thousand wealthy individuals.

The lootboxes themselves are not gambling but they absolutely are designed to facilitate gambling in a very obviously deliberate way. Why make the drop rates so astronomically low if not to fuel this kind of illegal activity? This absolutely no other justification for it. If they just wanted the skins to be very rare…

You could sell the ITEMS, precisely. That’s not gambling. You see what you’re going to get, you decide if it’s worth the asking price and then you exchange money for the item. That’s completely different than the kind of gambling that Valuve and CSGO’s skin system facilitates.