derek

@derek@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lootboxes.

  Players have a random chance of getting crate while playing the game. Each crate is a pool of item cosmetics with various levels of rarity. To acquire one of them the player must purchase a one-use key with real money. Expending the key on a crate initiates a die roll that determines which cosmetic is unlocked.

  That’s the gambling they’re responsible for. What gambling players may of afterward is not the same conversation.