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New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 15 hours ago

Assuming that they are seems like a leap, but since we don't really know exactly what consciousness is,

Which is no different that trading card games and also not valve's fault.

I have no love for loot boxes, at least when real money is used to get them, but from what I've seen across the board Valve is far from the worst with them. Valve also doesn't allow you to sell the skins you get for real money, only steam credit. That is still real-world value, but they are also not the only company that does that.

Outside of real-world money for loot boxes, most of the issues with the skin market are not anything Valve did. It was third party sites popping up that allowed people to sell their skins for cash.

Valve have even made changes to their side that crashed the market and caused a ton of "value" to disappear.

The fact is that this lawsuit is pretty obviously not actually about gambling. If it was there are far worse companies they could go after.

And I do want something to be done about them across the board, but this is not going to do that.