Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production

rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Valve banned shitcoins and blockchain scams

  would’ve been nice if they banned gambling, too, but that’s part of their business model unfortunately.

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  • psycotica0@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I hear people say this sometimes, but I don’t know what they mean. Is there part of Valve’s system that has a gambling mechanic I’ve just never engaged with?

    Or is it one of their games that has gambling?

    Because I’ve been using it for years as basically my sole gaming interface and haven’t seen any gambling.

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The short version is that an enormous, multibillion dollar industry has been built around Valve’s item marketplace, and in particular around CS:GO skins. If that sounds completely insane and stupid, I’m with you, but it exists. Valve takes their typical cut off of all of these trades, and thus derives massive profits from it.

      Here’s the long version: https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/videos/watch/a8e6d20c-3003-4b14-b9c4-cb6a25b238e7?isPeertubeContent=1

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There is a massive secondary market for in-game items (primarily CS skins) that Valve refuses to combat or even officially acknowledge. Some of it is legitimate, some of it is literal lottery for children. And since every transaction takes place on Steam, they get a cut of that.

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    • technohacker@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Mainly Team Fortress 2 and Counter Strike GO/2, cuz both of them have cosmetics with rarities obtained via what effectively amounts to lootboxes. In one sense they also have an out-of-game economy around these things where these items are traded for actual money

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    • missingno@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      TF2 was the original gacha game.

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    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      All their own games have lootboxes and stuff like that.

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    • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Loot boxes in Counter-Strike

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  • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    LordGabn has to buy Aston Martin’s so how.

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    At least the shit is all cosmetic not like EA sports games with their UT packs I guess. Low bar.

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    • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It might be cosmetic, but it can be sold, which fuiels the addiction mechanic. EA is bad, too, but this whataboutism.

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• flamiera@kbin.melroy.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tim's strategy seems to be "Whatever Valve drops, we take because we feel Valve is missing out on something BIG! It'll make US look great!"

  And while the sad truth of the matter could very well be a maybe, depending on how the pure-epic userbase are over there towards it, it still pales to everything Steam has been built to be.

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