The lawsuit aims to “stop Valve from promoting gambling features in its games, disgorge all ill-gotten gains, and pay fines for violating New York\u2019s laws.”

    • FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 hours ago

      Unpopular opinion but valve is way worse than EA when it comes to gambling.

      Not only did they invent the concept of loot boxes but they also allow real money trading of the randomly dropped items which fosters an entire underground of secondary gambling markets that are literal digital casinos.

      Markets that currently sponsor the majority of esports teams.

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        4 hours ago

        Well, this precedent is going to end up helping all the pro-rootkit companies a lot.
        Here’s hoping GoG still stays on its own tracks.


        And when they end up doing EA and others, they will get no more than a few million in fine.

        Although, I am now interested in knowing the extend of these “ill-gotten gains” Valve has…