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The lawsuit aims to "stop Valve from promoting gambling features in its games, disgorge all ill-gotten gains, and pay fines for violating New York\u2019s laws."

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[โ€“] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The lootboxes are a Counterstrike thing. They're like Labubus except with digital guns and knives.

[โ€“] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Ok, so I looked into it further and looks like they also take a tax on every trade, meaning they are actually profiting off of people's auctions after they run their slot machines.

Seems to be quite a bit of ill-gotten gains to be found here.
Gabe might have to pass on a few of his future yachts.