I’m talking about gambling, because you can sell the skins for real money. There’s an expectation of a financial prize.
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ignotum@lemmy.world 3 days agoGambling? Don’t give steam credit for EAs hard work!
azalty@jlai.lu 1 day ago
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 3 days ago
CS:GO started it.
theangryseal@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Man, looked at my bank statement many years ago and noticed several little charges. A few cents here and a few cents there. The biggest one was maybe .80 cents.
My son had fallen for some scam ran by a YouTuber and was buying and trading skins.
I will say though, now that time has passed, some of those skins are worth insane amounts of money. I’d sell them if I wasn’t so stupid sentimental.
My son got in trouble for doing that, but it still takes me back to a pleasant time when I look at the inventory.
azalty@jlai.lu 1 day ago
That’s partly because the kids that entered after yours lost a lot of money, and partly because some people gambled a lot, got addicted, and lost a ton of cash.
theangryseal@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh it wasn’t a small amount by the end of it. He’s a smart boy and he learned right then what that was all about. He won’t even buy a lottery ticket as an adult.