• @[email protected]
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    4310 months ago

    And yet, Valve is touted as being among the most ethical and moral of gaming companies.

    I think it’s funny that while Stake was getting blasted on Twitch, CS:GO sat quietly in its corner hoping no one would look its way.

    There are people who have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on this shit.

    It’s a problem.

    • @Arbiter
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      2410 months ago

      Yeah, it’s literally unregulated gambling.

        • @[email protected]
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          1610 months ago

          I would say yes, they are unregulated gambling. People also spend ludicrous amounts of money on cards. Though I don’t think that should factor into whether or not something is or isn’t unregulated gambling. It’s the chance product, not the money spent on it.

            • @Arbiter
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              910 months ago

              Valve literally runs a marketplace that allows people to sell their skins for cash.

              This is like playing for tokens that the store across the street will conveniently purchase from you.

            • @[email protected]
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              810 months ago

              Trading cards and gambling addiction have been studied for years. TCGs may not function the same as a slot machine, but it does trigger the same thing in your brain.

              And that is what’s dangerous.

            • ampersandrew
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              310 months ago

              You’re right. TCGs with blind draw boosters are also bad. I didn’t complain about Pokemon cards back in 2000 because I was a child and didn’t comprehend that that was what I was doing. I definitely stopped partaking in Magic: The Gathering as an adult though when I realized it was a neverending gambling treadmill. Today I frequent fighting game locals that are kept afloat by Yu Gi Oh gambling addicts who fill the trash cans with booster wrappers as they go back to the counter over and over again to buy more packs.

            • @[email protected]
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              010 months ago

              So those cards have been around forever, and no one complained about them.

              There have definitely been complaints about gambling in relation to collectible cards. I don’t think anything has come of them in legal terms, but many complaints have been voiced.

        • @[email protected]
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          110 months ago

          Many would say so. Wizards of the Coast, the makers of Magic the Gathering, have worked very hard at balancing the two sides of the coin. On one side, they design cards such that power levels determine the demand (and thus price) for rarer cards on the resale market, and on the other they argue that the cards have no intrinsic value so that buying packs can’t count as gambling since there’s technically no expected profit for the buyers.

    • @Mango
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      210 months ago

      Why is it a problem?

      • @[email protected]
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        910 months ago

        Because society has deemed gambling a problem requiring regulation. These things exist outside that regulation while being psychology the same.

        Also, gambling addiction has the highest rate of suicide of all addictions. And I think we should be trying to lower the amount of people that kill themselves.

        • @Mango
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          -710 months ago

          I’ve never given two shits about what society has decided about my psychology. It’s nobody’s place to decide for me. If someone wants to kill themselves, let them. Help them even.

          • @[email protected]
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            210 months ago

            I’ve bee there I can assure you…
            No
            My depression took over I did something stupid I would have hurt my loved ones.

            • @Mango
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              -310 months ago

              You play your character. I’ll play mine. If you play my character, I’ll kill both of them.