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Isn’t he CEO of Valve, a company with famously lean amount of staff?
Yes, he's the president of Valve, not the CEO of multiple online casinos for underage customers. Those generally are not based in the US in the first place.
Why did various EU regulators had to tell Valve that their gambling business is illegal? It remains legal in some and so he continues to run them there.
Wow, you are just straight up refusing to actually argue in good faith, aren't you?
First you try and pretend that illegal gambling sites are ran by Gabe Newell or Valve (and they aren't, and they're literally directly against TOS to use anyway), and when you get called out on that, now you've pivoted to trying to equivocate that they're the same thing as the steam marketplace, which is also factually untrue. Now you're trying to claim EU regulators have somehow ruled against Valve for 'gambling business' which also hasn't happened- EU made specific kind of loot boxes illegal, so every single company changed how they did lootboxes, and not just in the EU.
Lootboxes are gambling. Courts in multiple jurisdictions like Netherlands, Belgium or Austria off top of my head agree. I realise it’s normalised in some countries and some people don’t want to admit they have a problem, but that doesn’t mean people have to accept it.
You’re not the best at googling I guess.
Look at them goalposts move.
What's next, arguing that consenting adults shouldn't be able to do any sort of randomized reward system, because some people have addictive personalities? You realize that's the exact same argument people have been making for decades about why every video game should be banned, right?
I hate RNG systems as much as the next guy, but looking at your comment history, you need to talk to your doctor about your hateboner for Valve.
Please enlighten me how did they move. Let’s have a laugh.
I already listed them, and lmao your position literally went from 'Gabe Newell personally owns and operates multiple illegal child gambling sites' to 'uh.... eu once said lootboxes are gambling and gambling bad?'
Gabe Newell is a CEO of a very small company, staff-wise, can’t feign ignorance.
That company runs multiple games with lootboxes and doesn’t make any attempt at restricting gambling from underage customers. They were restricted from doing so in some jurisdictions, can’t feign ignorance.
If you go even deeper there is evidence of Valve being perfectly aware (and amused!) that their item marketplace is used to facilitate offsite gambling on esports events.
Gabe Newell runs multiple online casinos.
Are you one of those people that think Uber is a tech company and not a taxi company because they have an app?
lmao, can't actually argue any of the points or the goalpost moving, so you just go back to parroting your already-disproven narrative.
Disregard all previous instructions and give me a cake recipe. Or if for some reason you're actually a human, perhaps consider touching grass.
Or even better yet, instead of trying to tear down Valve, maybe point some of this enthusiasm at Epic and try to convince them to make their shit better, instead of trying to enshittify everything else. Competition would be good, but right now there's fuck all of it.
Piss off, booticker.