ParlimentOfDoom
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- Comment on "Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit 1 day ago:
…you said a debit card is required. It’s not. My point: your wrong
- Comment on "Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit 1 day ago:
Your credit card is already tracking and selling all the purchasing data you use it for on steam. Your identity is attached to that account
- Comment on "Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit 1 day ago:
Steam gift cards are a thing.
- Comment on "Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit 1 day ago:
Is it legal for children to be gambling in those places?
I bet they’re not paying the same taxes that those casinos are.
Regardless, this is a story about an American company bring
- Comment on "Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit 1 day ago:
Probably, sorry if that hurts your nostalgia.
The one possible redeeming difference is that those cards are an integral part of playing the game.
A lot of these loot boxes are for worthless cosmetics that can then be sold for real money using the same company that sold the loot box as an intermediary.
Japan deals with the same issue with pachinko parlors. Gambling is illegal there, so they give out useless trinkets as prizes. And they all just happen to be located next to a shop (owned by the same company but legally distinct) which will buy those useless trinkets for a set amounts of money. A casino with extra steps. Sounds familiar?
- Comment on "Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit 1 day ago:
No. Defending someone doing something illegal and profiting off of it because you hate someone else more is not how you get good results. All you’ve done is keep corporation in the system.
- Comment on "Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit 1 day ago:
You ARE the gambling site. That’s the issue.
- Comment on [TheGamer] Pokemon Pokopia Players Playing After Work Are Being Forced To Wake Pokemon For Hard Labour 3 days ago:
They only have those weapons if you make them for them.
- Comment on Team turns DNA into a rewritable hard drive 3 days ago:
you weren’t home, so I gave the files to your mom
- Comment on New lawsuit wants Valve to repay "billions" earned from "illegal gambling" lootboxes in Counter-Strike, Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2 3 days ago:
gestures furiously at the mountain of gacha games built around this exact mechanic on mobile
- Comment on Marathon's credits include the artist whose work Bungie used without permission 1 week ago:
…it was publicly announced they had come to an agreement.
- Comment on Slay the Spire 2 becomes the biggest roguelike deck-builder on Steam ever 1 week ago:
So many qualifiers to get to a headline…
- Comment on [Serious] Can a fire atronach, a elemental bound by magic to you, give consent? 1 week ago:
Depends, Is your campfire a sapient demonic entity from another plane of existence?
- Comment on Well, that looks like it could be a Fallout: New Vegas remaster tease from a Fallout 76 support studio 1 week ago:
How about they try releasing a new game?
No more remake/master/releases, holy shit…
- Comment on Upcoming California law to require operating systems to check your age 1 week ago:
Wow, another fail for California. What is their legislature doing? First the 3d printer monitoring bullshit, now this
- Comment on Valve accused of "letting children and adults alike illegally gamble" via loot boxes in New York state lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
I think technically, yes. However, the one potentially redeeming point those have that these skins do not are that they’re actually a functional part of the game.
These skins serve no purpose, and have turned into the same loophole that those Japanese pachinko bars use to get around the gambling laws there - give a useless trinket as a prize and just coincidentally be located next door to a place that will buy certain useless trinkets for absurd amounts of money.
- Comment on Valve accused of "letting children and adults alike illegally gamble" via loot boxes in New York state lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
These are state laws, not federal.
On top of that, casinos and betting apps and race tracks tend to have their own extra tax rate to pay, which valve is assuredly not currently paying on their illegal gambling revenue.
- Comment on A former Rockstar dev is making a Satisfactory-style survival game about doomed expeditions on a strange planet 4 weeks ago:
That’s…just the premise of satisfactory.
- Comment on Valve’s Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing 5 weeks ago:
Didn’t AMD just say they were on track…like yesterday?
- Comment on Ashes Of Creation director quits over decisions he "could not ethically support" as staff report mass layoffs 5 weeks ago:
It certainly looks that way. He left. Then half of the rest of management left in solidarity. Then the board stepped in and fired everyone else for the hell of it.
- Comment on GDC 2026 Report - 36% of devs use generative AI, while 28% target Steam Deck and 8% Linux 1 month ago:
In fact, the same poll showed that 3/4 of devs are against the use of AI
- Comment on Microsoft's gaming division flounders while the firm makes more money than ever — Xbox consoles sales drop 32% 1 month ago:
They fucked up with their gamepass pricing big time. I was a 24 year subscriber. They lost me after raising the price 50%.
- Comment on Pirates director Gore Verbinski is iffy on Unreal Engine in movies: "I think it doesn’t work from a strictly photo-real standpoint" 1 month ago:
Davy Jones is often cited as an exemplary CGI fx, and it still holds up to this day.
The problem with most modern movies is they don’t give the artists the time to do good work. Verbinski is blaming the wrong thing here. It’s not the rendering engine that’s the issue (mandatories put it to good use with their real time stage screens), it’s directors wanting magic, but on a shoestring budget, while also wasting that cg budget on fixing stuff they did poorly during the initial shoot.