Sure it would be nice if measures were put in place to stop underage gambling but basically everything with not guranteed rewards and rng is underage gambling. Pokemon cards. Literal gambling kids can do irl. Lootboxes in other games. Mojang running literal real money casinos in minecraft. As an underage I just sold valve “evil lootboxes” and used it to buy games I could’t have otherwise.
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bob_lemon@feddit.org 2 days agoSteam is partially funded by underage gambling. They know about this. They could literally shut it down within hours.
They’re better than most, but that is a major moral failure they don’t get nearly enough flak for.
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JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I’m truly failing to think of any major game publisher not making money from children gambling. Nintendo does it, so do Sony and Microsoft. Unless it’s an indie publisher with a small handful of games, basically every single company is guilty of this.
sonori@beehaw.org 2 days ago
A lot of game publishers have micro transaction gambling, most don’t have a mult-million dollar real money casino’s built on their infrastructure and a business model based on teenagers watching CSGO gambling streams.
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