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New York sues Valve for 'letting children and adults illegally gamble' with loot boxes
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Interesting how this just happens after Valve wins against the Rothschilds in court, despite the lootboxes being available for the past 10 or so years in Counter Strike and Team Fortress 2.
Okay, tap the breaks. Can you field a link on that one?
In a lot more games than that. EA, Ubisoft, and Activision/Blizzard have been dolling out lootboxes for at least as long. So targeting Valve exclusively definitely raises some eyebrows.
But I'm curious to know what this has to do with "the Rothschilds" and not an actual financial, business, or government entity.
If this stops loot boxes in general I'm all for it... can we also ban the sale of suprise toys also then because its the same thing as this...
Fuck we can go maximum carnage and stop the sale of card packs like pokemon and mtg and everything else as those are loot crates also
This wouldn't "stop loot boxes" though. They aren't bringing in EA, Activision, Epic, or any other big company pushing loot boxes.
It feels like they are trying to specifically target Valve until they go public and get controlled by the same BS financiers that run the rest of "the market".
My tinfoil hat is getting a lot of use lately. :(
Yeah it's bullshit, you can't say some of the least toxic and manipulative loot boxes are the problem... I understand valve is one step on the edge of evil but for the most part they have used that power to help control the gaming industries greed...
If this goes through I can see them banning any games with loot boxes from steam or some petty shit like that which im all for...
Let people buy the things they want...
Loot boxes allowed valve games to be free to play for most people. I'm fine with sacrificing the people who aren't smart enough not to gamble so that the rest of us can play for free, they weren't going to make it anyways.
So children
You are fine with sacrificing children
Yes I am specifically fine with sacrificing children.. the younger the better.
Not everything is a conspiracy and the jews are not behind everything.
Jews are not, billionaires are
Billionaires like Gabe Newell?
For example
But it seems from the outside that Newell's business strategy is against the push of the billionaire clique that bought the White House, and that's why some people here act like he's a hero.
He just makes his undeserved amount of money without also actively trying to make everything worse using the undeserved and frankly harmful political power that amount of money grants.
Exactly! Where does that get him? Probably to the end of the line if we can ever get the guillotines going again.
Nothing personally against him, except that no one should have that much money. He's not doing anything harmful to society beyond being entirely too wealthy.