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[ZOONAMI]

Do they need steam accounts to run the sites? Seems to be the immediate work around.

 

[Laughing Banana]

Valve: "We're not guilty! We're not involved! Our hands are cleannnn!"

*Sweat drop*

 

[Andrew Evenstar]

this sucks, i was making fat cash and investing in bitcoin. oh well

 

[xevis]

this sucks, i was making fat cash and investing in bitcoin. oh well

You were running one of these scam casinos?

 

[rrs]

Yeah I never got the impression that Dota 2 Lounge was a shady million dollar/ fraud site but then again I didn't even know of the CS:GO/ youtube shenanigans until now.

the lounge sites are betting rather than game of chance gambling, and didn't appear to be owned by greedy fools who wanted more than 10% off the top

 

[DeathSparks]

There were articles dating back like a week stating that valve was going to crack down on these sites. The letter appears 100% legit.

Here:

http://steamed.kotaku.com/valve-says-theyll-start-going-after-gambling-sites-that-1783609659

and now:

http://kotaku.com/valve-issues-cease-and-desist-letter-to-23-counter-stri-1783975845

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Thank you for the clarification, I knew it was 100% legit but I just wanted to make sure.

 

[Iorv3th]

Do they need steam accounts to run the sites? Seems to be the immediate work around.

Yeah that's how they hold your skins. They get you to turn trade your skins into the website (a steam account). They then gamble and if you win you get more skins on that account until you take them out. Or they trade from that account to the account that won.

You were running one of these scam casinos?

Buddy of mine won like 3,000$ (in skins) on one site and ended up being like "fuck it I haven't lost much yet" and ended up losing everything.

 

[Radec]

No more "urn reel moni" ads during dota 2 streams.

Nice.

 

[Ploid 3.0]

Tomorrows headline:

Jilted CS:GO gamblers try taking down Salty Bet only to find out there's no actual money involved

Oh wow, I forgot all about salty bet. Good to see it still going, so fun.

 

[Bluth54]

rip market value, rip csgo viewership and rip csgo

There isn't a really a TF2 gambling scene and yet there are TF2 items worth hundreds and thousands of dollars. The market valve of CSGO skins isn't going to go down, they weren't valuable because of the gambling, people were gambling with them because they were valuable.

Also I doubt this will put any sort of dent into the CSGO player base, there was probably only a very tiny percentage of CSGO players that did any sort of gambling.

 

[VariantX]

rip market value, rip csgo viewership and rip csgo

Let it die and bury it 100 feet deep then. If people actually weren't watching the game because it's interesting to watch, If people weren't playing the game because it was fun to play, then it should die like any other game in the market that doesn't succeed in those categories. That being said, the game itself must be fun to play and fun to watch on some level otherwise, those items wouldn't hold any value whatsoever on their own. Because who gives a shit about items in a game no one likes?

 

[Triggerhappytel]

only because they were caught and valve needed to do some pr

tmartn stuff never happens and valve keeps taking in all that money.

Pretty much. They sure seem to have done the bare minimum regarding all this and I don't think they deserve any credit at all.

 

[Ban Puncher]

csgoatse.com?


Seems like a stretch.

 

[Justinh]

csgoatse?


Seems like a stretch.

Just where did you think all those skins went?

 

[SmartWaffles]

good fucking riddance.