Valve Made $1 Billion From CS Cases Last Year, Data Claims - Insider Gaming
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It has been claimed in a report that Valve earned almost $1 billion from Counter-Strike case openings in 2023.
  • Aurix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Deranged to spend the money on a case where you don’t even know what you get. I chose to pay a much more reasonable $50 for a Valorant knife. Elden Ring’s production value is great, but have you seen these 5 animations?

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Fuck them kids. This is a scam perpetrated against adults. They’re the ones with fat wallets ready to be siphoned.

      Games making you value arbitrary nonsense. That is what makes them games. There is no ethical form of attaching a real-world price tag to that fiction.

      • cooljacob204@kbin.social
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        10 months ago

        That is simply not true, why would you think that? Lots of young teans and kids play cs. My entire friends group were into cs and the genre starting at around 12.

        When I use to play many years ago anytime I smurfed my matches were full of kids.

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Only legislation will stop this.

    This is the dominant strategy. You were never going to shop your way out of it. It’s in every genre, every price point, every platform. It’s in single-player games. If we allow this to continue, there will be nothing else.

      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        10 months ago

        “Nobody put a gun to your head” will never excuse exploiting people for money.

        This business model is inherently abusive, and spreading. I don’t fucking care how little you think anyone needs what it offers. I am explaining why it’s a scam. Nobody should be offered this. They are victims.

          • Jrockwar@feddit.ukEnglish
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            10 months ago

            Which is why many of these things are regulated, especially if they include addictive substances.

              • Jrockwar@feddit.ukEnglish
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                9 months ago

                As of 2022, 54 countries had implemented special taxes on sugary drinks and/or sugar in general: https://www.obesityevidencehub.org.au/collections/prevention/countries-that-have-implemented-taxes-on-sugar-sweetened-beverages-ssbs

                In many cases that covers sweets, snacks, etc. as well. Food is usually quite heavily regulated (in the sense that there’s lots of regulation, not that it’s actually strict or as much as it should be), even if it’s not immediately obvious to us as consumers. E.g. there are ingredients that get banned because of being addictive or having certain harmful effects.

                Porn is age gated worldwide, and in some cases censored. I’d class that as regulated pretty much all over the world, regardless of how hard/easy it is to circumvent the regulations (e.g. for a 17-year-old to access a porn website).

                I think that actually covers all of the items in the list!