Apparently valve gets sued a lot, most of it just doesn’t hit the news. One of the perks of being so successful!

It's likely the reseller marketplace aspect that made them select valve, because it's only gambling in the jurisdiction they are pursuing the case if the gambling rewards have real-world value.

So the fact you can buy and sell the loot you win from gambling in the official steam marketplace with a $$ amount explicitly associated is somewhat good proof that not only is there a real value, but Valve themselves have already admitted there's a real value.

But yeah. I don't personally have any dislike for steam in particular, but I'd love to see loot boxes disappear.

Honestly, I'd love to see absolutely everything that encourages compulsive and addictive spending in games made illegal. No random loot boxes, and no "pay to win" either (even if it's guaranteed what items you get)

The only things game publishers should be allowed to charge for in my opinion are cosmetics that have no function, and content updates and expansions.

I'm willing to bet a decent chunk of this is getting spurred on by Microsoft and Sony in the background to take down Valve before they can help get Linux in a position where it can overthrow both Windows and Playstation for gaming.

Epic's probably playing a part too, since Time Swiney is a petty bitch

By whom though? The competition does this shit too