Coffeezilla does a third part of his CS:GO gambling expose...where he squarely puts the blame on Valve

Honestly, Valve should just ask for proof that you are 18+ if you want to sell items on Steam market or trade them.

Easiest solution IMO.

As an old person who only kinda knew that lootboxes exist, this series was a huge eye opener to the insane amount of money and industry that has emerged around them. 10/10 would recommend to my fellow olds.

Now to head back to Bioshock where the only cost to looting boxes is that I might get attacked by a splicer.

Honestly, in a lot of ways, I think this video is a miss. In both this video and to a lesser extent the last, he put a lot of the blame on Valve, but also provides a higher standard to Valve than the other companies covered. So much of this video boils down to "Valve uses lootboxes too," and "Valve needs to do something about this." without addressing Valve's position as a market player nor providing any solution for Valve to actually tackle the casino problem. He even says in the video that Valve previously issued takedowns but nothing changed and many of the casinos didn't even respond to the cease and desist. No other course of action is suggested, and frankly, I don't see any from Valve that wouldn't punish victums and unrelated users far more than the casinos.

This isn't to say Valve is blameless, but Valve is fairly tame for their direct involvement with lootboxes and is competiting directly against companies that use them far more agressively - exactly the reason Coffee previously gave the casinos and those involved with them leniency, and encouraged looking further up the chain. In the same way, I'd say the actual solution here would be for governments to ban underage gambling and enforce those laws - because the more Valve trys to crack down on this or even just avoid it, the more of an advantage the worse players in the space have. Ubisoft and EA have already been attempting to dislodge Steam for years, and its not because they think they can be more moral than Steam.

It's not up to Pokemon to ban pack opening gambling any more than it is valve to ban item gambling.

It's up to the us government to ban gambling.

I don't think CSGO skin gambling is worse than draftkings or whatever else runs ads on American tv 24/7

Valve just needs a way to ensure you are over the age of 18, and I know a way they can do that WITHOUT collecting IDs. They need to incorporate an age quiz like leisure suit Larry.

I know Valve would never do this...

Surely if the items hold no real-world value, putting it on hiatus for an indefinite amount of time would be the answer. The casinos which depend on Valve can't really sue the loss of the feature, as it's always in Valve's purview to remove it at any point from the game & platform.

If they made it a limited time feature in CSGO in a year, they would still achieve the "stickiness".

Jeff made a video on it too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpvePQVscUQ

I've heard more stories about CSGO over the years compared to other gambling games, but never heard people criticize the game like they do FIFA. It's just my corner of the world, where Valve is a holy corporation.

where he squarely puts the blame on Valve

I know G*mers are far to Stockholmed by the monopolistic hell scape that Valve is responsible for.

But it's nice to see someone say it.

Valve are the ones that have the most power to put a stop to it, but everyone involved is guilty.

Still it’d be better if the government stopped pretending this gambling loophole didn’t exist.

Getting tired of these "shock" youtube channels drumming up drama for views. It's only a matter of time before someone points the youtube cannon at these channels.