What Valve is doing with Counter-Strike 2 should be illegal, and I’m sure as if I could predict everything that can happen from now on that Europe won’t move a finger to regulate this in any capacity. Europe is hellbent in censoring video games as fast as they can, and trying to impose such regulations all over the world because this is the new world order they wish to establish. It is a disgusting period to live in being a gamer, being told what you can or you can’t buy, meanwhile actual harmful material such as lootboxes and microtransactions get scotch free with 0 consequences to be seen.
Valve searches for legal holes
Valve is getting very greedy, they should be focusing on the fact that they still have children on their platform, children that are susceptible to these types of changes. They are totally aware, is the worst part, they know that children are very easy to corrupt with the ways of gambling on skins and other types of fake currencies. Regulators should be focusing on banning these practices instead of banning video games as a whole, we live in an upside world where games for adults are wrong yet gambling is completely right.
The Genesis Terminal in Counter-Strike 2 is a new system that is even worse than Lootboxes, because its even more addictive and manipulative than them. You get to see what items you get from a pull, but you have to pay for them or else they will disappear forever. This is literally time gated FOMO built specifically to target people who are impulsive and suffer from anxiety issues, it is malicious. Players are angered due to this and they are asking for Valve to give answers about this decision, their take is yet to be seen, but after Gaben just decided to bend and accept censorship and now he doubles down on greed, should we trust him?
