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Valve Made $1 Billion From CS Cases Last Year, Data Claims - Insider Gaming (insider-gaming.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Here's one: Trading cards are something you own. Skins are limited to a game you're licensing.

Here's another: trading cards are portable; they can be put in a collection for display, put in a safety deposit box, etc. When CS goes, all the skins go with it.

Another minor one: baseball cards are informational, the skins are cosmetic only.

Mind you, I think both are forms of unregulated gambling and trading cards as well as loot boxes should have better societal scrutiny, but they aren't identical.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Yepp, while there are some fundamental differences, I think all these things are a form of unregulated gambling.

Fuck it, throw blind boxes in too.