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this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2024
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I mean, we can point at the legal system, but as you said, casinos just find new loopholes to circumvent the law. Ultimately, Valve is the group with the power to remove any gambling-adjacent mechanics from their games, but they have been pretty flaccid regarding changes because they know that they will lose money from it.
Crackdowns won't stop the gambling on CS, legislation and enforcement won't change it, but making items non-tradeable, or damaging item value or appeal through any method, can stop the gambling - but at the cost of CS's financial success and overall appeal.
Is there a proposal to do this that doesn't gut other legitimate parts of their trading system?
No, there we’ll always a way to work around the trading system to have gambling. The current proposal I have seen is doing an ID check before trades but that would hamper legitimate trades since people don’t want to hand out their ID info like that.
That's the same thing I was thinking, and I'm really not a fan of the idea.
Considering the outcry from mobile auth back then, I dont think valve will ever try for id check.
They don't "find new loopholes", they explicitly lobby/capture the agencies/courts that write/interpret the rules and carve out loopholes.
Might as well say "You can't keep money in a bank, the robbers will just find a way in" while a guy in a ski-mask walks through the front door, hands the teller a $20, and is lead directly into the vault with a complementary tot bag.
There are countries that impose limits on what tech companies are allowed to advertise, distribute, and collect revenues on outside of the US. These countries don't have President-elects who are joined at the hip with their country's most wealth individuals, bending over backwards to make the billionaires happy.