[dominick-cc]

Newer versions of counterstrike have skins/loot boxes

[ViktorRay]

Yes but they aren’t wacky or silly

[GlobalElite]

Fun story: when they added skin lootboxes to CSGO they intended to make the dull, serious looking skins rare ones and the flashy wacky ones common. It quickly turned out that the players like flashy skins more and now the wackiness and silliness of a skin is positively correlated with its rarity and price.

[mrguyorama]

Instead they are a transparent system that enables literal children to get addicted to gambling and valve takes a cut of every payout and they are well aware of this.

CS is not a billion dollar game. CS is a fairly unprofitable game with a giant tumor of a marketplace attached, a significant point of which is being a faux currency that escapes most currency controls

[sitzkrieg]

umm... have you seen them lately?

[y-curious]

It's not pay-to-win and the skins are de facto NFTs (with resale value). It's a loot crate system done right IMO

[snapcaster]

>loot crate system done right

Would advise looking into why those skins are so valueable. spoiler: money laundering and hooking kids on gambling

[GlobalElite]

It is worse than the typical lootbox scheme because the entire CS ecosystem is now saturated with marketing of third party skin trading sites and casinos. And at the end of the day it is still gambling. Just because you can resell your skins (and let Valve take a cut in the process) does not make it ethical.