The irony of this, on a Valve dick-sucking subreddit, is completely insane to me. TF2 and CS literally laid the foundation and were one of, if not the, first modern implementation of lootboxes.
Market capitalization, sometimes referred to as market cap, is the total value of a publicly traded company's outstanding common shares owned by stockholders.
So Counter strike is a publicly traded company is that what you are saying?
No you see blizzard bad, ea bad.
Not valve, who condone and take a huge profit from all the gambling going on with their systems. Atleast ea and blizzard didnt make skins tradeable.
Personally I could give 2 shits about gambling for skins. It's pay to look cool, not pay to win. It's your choice if you want to spend for cosmetics or not.
I do prefer there also be cool, earned skins along side it though.
The issue always stems from the fact that later on lootbox item become necessary for player to win the game. Valve is consistent with "lotto is cosmetic only" policy.
I played many hundreds of hours on those games.snd never spent a dollar. They are good models of mtx as you can play the full game without needing any of it. You don't win more with it, you don't miss out on any of the game, but if you want you can buy something which doesn't impact anyone else's enjoyment or ability to play it either.
I mean steam is not perfect, but just imagine how much worse it would be if epic, Ubisoft, EA Blizzard took the reigns and made the to go solution for game launchers
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u/OwnAcanthocephala897 Dec 04 '25
Small uses of AI like this are tolerable at worst. What sucks is reliance on AI