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Valve invents new Counter-Strike 2 loot boxes that successfully dodge anti-gambling regulations (www.pcgamesn.com)

submitted 1 year ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is pretty disgusting. Just make a normal skin store where people can buy the skins they want at whatever price you(valve) decide they are valued at. No fomo. No gambling.

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[–] joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Isn't that what they did? Except to help preserve the "value" if the rare items you still have to get lucky to be allowed to buy them.

If they had a store where you could buy the ultra rare skins for 1000$, that would push down the "value" if the skins more quickly.

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[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 point 1 year ago

The way they are preserving the value is a form of fomo.

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