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by JBlue42 3063 days ago
I was only superficially aware of that type of stuff (I play CS:GO every now and then) but not what skin trading actually was nor the money laundering aspect of it. Seems that if Valve wanted to do something about it, they would, right? e-sports are very popular now and they make you use their Steam phone app if you do want to trade something on the Community Market. I guess since it's not technically illegal and they get a cut of it, they don't mind looking the other way (or maybe don't think of it as a negative).
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It's becoming quite obvious that Valve has very little interest in making their community in any way "good". Given how badly Steam Greenlight (and now Steam Direct) have gone -- with cheap (to produce, not to purchase) asset flips just dumped on the front page with no real vetting from Valve or the community -- I wouldn't put money on them even giving enough of a toss to notice that they're encouraging children to develop addictive tendencies via online gambling simulators. And if they have noticed it's "not their problem".