They generate 1 billion dollars a year online in digital skins.
Thats fucking wild, and counter strike/dota2/tf2 are in the worst state they have ever been.
Must be nice to just float on the pacific ocean all day not a worry in the world.
Based on 2025–2026 data, the claim that CS2 skins generate massive amounts of revenue is accurate, with recent estimates suggesting Valve's revenue from in-game cases and keys alone approaches or exceeds $1 billion annually
I dont know if you guys are paying attention but gambling is destroying lives right now, and valve is playing a huge role in that. Its so weird that you guys give them a free pass for it. Most players ive seen agree thats its a casino first, game second.
Thats fucking wild, and counter strike/dota2/tf2 are in the worst state they have ever been.
Sure, but valve stopped being a video game company a long time ago. They make way more money selling other people's games on their glorified file server.
I dont know if you guys are paying attention but gambling is destroying lives right now, and valve is playing a huge role in that. Its so weird that you guys give them a free pass for it. Most players ive seen agree thats its a casino first, game second.
I'm not here defending loot boxes or gambling. We're just smart enough to realize they're not doing this for the noble causes they're pretending to care about.
It's about extracting money from a privately held company, and forcing surveillance on all their customers, or whatever hidden nefarious purpose they actually have. CatoTheElder said what their actual motivations are earlier.
You really think a jew named (((Rothschild))) and some nigger AG from NYC really gives a fuck about saving people's lives from gambling?
Idiots with no self control are destroying their own lives. And that kind of person will always find a means to do that to themselves.
Tagging. Drugs. Booze. Shoplifting. Sexual degeneracy.
Literally doesn't matter what the means is. You have a people problem, namely the fact that most people are morons. You're never going to plastic wrap life enough to let those idiots live in a consequence free environment. Take that leftoid utopian nonsense somewhere else, and let the adults live like adults already.
Ehh, I think cigarette companies not being able to actively lie to you and say that tobacco is good for you (the Surgeon General's warning) is a good thing, as an example.
I personally just want gambling treated the same way as tobacco, legal, but advertising is banned/restricted to right outside of the locations they're sold at
That is straight up false. The entire "market cap" is 2.5-3 billion depending on sources. And that is for all skins since they were introduced in 2013. Since valve only gets 30% of that to begin with its only 69 million a year, tops. Or about one Slay the Spire 2.
Edit: Oh and, Valve's games have always been trash. It's only purpose is Steam. And Steam is the only games store that allows negative player reviews. Or reviews at all.
They generate 1 billion dollars a year online in digital skins.
Thats fucking wild, and counter strike/dota2/tf2 are in the worst state they have ever been.
Must be nice to just float on the pacific ocean all day not a worry in the world.
I dont know if you guys are paying attention but gambling is destroying lives right now, and valve is playing a huge role in that. Its so weird that you guys give them a free pass for it. Most players ive seen agree thats its a casino first, game second.
Sure, but valve stopped being a video game company a long time ago. They make way more money selling other people's games on their glorified file server.
I'm not here defending loot boxes or gambling. We're just smart enough to realize they're not doing this for the noble causes they're pretending to care about.
It's about extracting money from a privately held company, and forcing surveillance on all their customers, or whatever hidden nefarious purpose they actually have. CatoTheElder said what their actual motivations are earlier.
You really think a jew named (((Rothschild))) and some nigger AG from NYC really gives a fuck about saving people's lives from gambling?
Wrong.
Idiots with no self control are destroying their own lives. And that kind of person will always find a means to do that to themselves.
Tagging. Drugs. Booze. Shoplifting. Sexual degeneracy.
Literally doesn't matter what the means is. You have a people problem, namely the fact that most people are morons. You're never going to plastic wrap life enough to let those idiots live in a consequence free environment. Take that leftoid utopian nonsense somewhere else, and let the adults live like adults already.
Ehh, I think cigarette companies not being able to actively lie to you and say that tobacco is good for you (the Surgeon General's warning) is a good thing, as an example.
I personally just want gambling treated the same way as tobacco, legal, but advertising is banned/restricted to right outside of the locations they're sold at
That is straight up false. The entire "market cap" is 2.5-3 billion depending on sources. And that is for all skins since they were introduced in 2013. Since valve only gets 30% of that to begin with its only 69 million a year, tops. Or about one Slay the Spire 2.
Edit: Oh and, Valve's games have always been trash. It's only purpose is Steam. And Steam is the only games store that allows negative player reviews. Or reviews at all.
Not entirely true, GOG has player reviews on it. I couldn't tell you how heavily curated they are though, so the point probably still stands.
I dunno, HL2 and portal were pretty good lol.
Eh, I've never played HL2, Halflife1 was eh, and portal is a one and done 5 hour game. Fortunately I didn't pay for it.
TF2, whilst not everyone's cup of tea, was great at what it wanted to be.
And that makes it a better game than the bland please-everyone type of games to me, even if it isn't in my personal top 50.
Heb if I ever saw one.