• Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    But if you put all the necessary systems in place to be a casino

    I don’t even see that.

    What I see is valve offering random items in chests and third party sites gambling your skins away. But these things are not linked in the slightest. I just don’t see how valve is responsible for third parties misusing their platform.

    In general, I much prefer the valve system because if I pull an item from a chest that I don’t like I can sell it and potentially get something I need instead of having a dead skin lying around (and therefore literally losing money).

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      3 days ago

      I don’t think we are going to convince each other, I am glad that you find value in being able to sell skins that you don’t want on the marketplace for credit. That is why the system was designed, not for it to be abused by others for gambling.

      I more-so have problems with how the system is rife for abuse, and I think that it should be up for debate whether valve should have to do anything about it.

      I actually don’t think they should have too, I think more responsibility should be on the individual and responsibility on the parents for minors.

      I do think that we should expect easier parental controls with more granular settings to be able to allow parents to protect their kids from risky trades rather than basically just enable or disable the entire social features.

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        2 days ago

        I think more responsibility should be on the individual and responsibility on the parents for minors.

        At least we can agree on that.

        I do think that we should expect easier parental controls with more granular settings to be able to allow parents to protect their kids from risky trades

        Steam has an entire parental control setup with family view where you can completely restrict your children from purchasing or selling anything without your consent.

        https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/4149575031735702628