Valve Made $1 Billion From CS Cases Last Year, Data Claims - Insider Gaming
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It has been claimed in a report that Valve earned almost $1 billion from Counter-Strike case openings in 2023.
  • msageEnglish
    49·
    9 months ago

    But also casinos have an actual payout, while lootboxes give you in-game stuff.

    • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
      31·
      9 months ago

      Here are the options as I see it: fun + chance of money, or likely disappointment. The first is regulated, the second is not.

      Between those two, I don’t know why I’d ever pick the second.

      • msageEnglish
        10·
        9 months ago

        I would never pick the online version of casino either. Your money will do you better in a piggy bank.

    • EvokerKingEnglish
      53·
      9 months ago

      That’s not how cs works. You can sell the items either on steam market (which steam makes even more money from) or to a 3rd party website where they will give you actual money (sometimes in the thousands, the most we’ve ever seen was an item going for ~$675,000).

      • HATEFISHEnglish
        42·
        9 months ago

        Does anyone actually know anyone thst can provide a first hand account of selling an item for upwards of 10k in the past 3 years? Everyone I know just repeats Twitter posts as evidence

        • EvokerKingEnglish
          10·
          9 months ago

          Idk about 10k but a kid I met a few years younger than me opened a $1.5k karambit, sold it on steam market for a valve index and a steam deck. That means a child was gambling…

      • msageEnglish
        21·
        9 months ago

        But market determines value based on demand/supply. And if you unload too much supply into the world, the price will drop. I have no clue why people try to argue that regulating this will change anything.

        Remove it all, sure. But regulating the odds won’t do a single thing. Unless you don’t like super-rare items, that is about the only thing that regulations can change.

        • EvokerKingEnglish
          10·
          9 months ago

          The larger problem is the presence of children and other young people using it to gamble. Check my other comment to see what I mean with a first hand account of it.

          • msageEnglish
            10·
            9 months ago

            Look, my point is: we should just ban any gambling. It never does any good, any regulations and taxes end up being paid by the poorest ones. Children or not, just stop it altogether.

            • EvokerKingEnglish
              10·
              9 months ago

              There should be regulations on it to prevent addictions but I don’t know about banning all together.

              • msageEnglish
                10·
                9 months ago

                What’s the point?

                Fun? Please, casino games are hilarously bad.

                Money? It takes from the poor, and even those who win end up wasting it away.

                Thrill? I hope not.

                So why? Money laundering? Data collection?

                • EvokerKingEnglish
                  10·
                  9 months ago

                  Idk some people like to do it as a kind of activity during vacation or something.

                  • msageEnglish
                    10·
                    9 months ago

                    Just scroll Lemmy