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> There's no evidence they've done everything in their power to eliminate grey market transactions. It's in their power, for example, to remove transferability of items (or maybe just items from loot boxes, though I'm insufficiently familiar with them to know if that could be gamed).

Why do they have to remove legitimate features?

> his questions seems immaterial, since Steam is both the game developer and the operator.

Steam is not the operator of the sites converting steam items into money, so it is very relevant.

> Steam is operating every single part of the casino, except the very last little bit of cashing out the chips.

So if you can transfer items in a video game between users it is now a casino? That is ridiculous and covers every MMO and a lot of other online games.