Yep. Thanks for reminding me that he deserves a sub too.HonorTheCall's Youtube subs have tripled since I first learned of this. Good shit. H3 getting all the credit but Honor's work seems not to be going entirely unnoticed.
Valve literally controls the economy within which these grey market gambling sites function. If anything happens using their systems with their ecosystem, they are responsible for regulating it.
And yet there's still people in this thread defending them + Valve for enabling this shit.
How are they controlling them? They have direct control over every single steam account. They can ban and manipulate accounts as they like. They can make skins tradeable or untradeable, flood the economy with them or make them rare, etc etc. Endless ways in which Valve controls the skin market that these sites abuse. It would be as simple as valve explicitly denying the use of bots for trades (since these sites rely on them, even a captcha to trade would be effective). Valve could also inhibit sites from accessing inventory information, or any number of other things.
throwing the baby out with the bathwater with that strawman.
They can do that, but how about false positives? Can they filter out who's legit and who's not? There are non gambling sites which operates solely on bots too like tf2scraps, should they ban them? Laws are absolute, there is no "exception", if you apply a rule which would shutdown both illegal and legal activities, would you do it?
Valve is only thinking $$$, and they will continue to look the other way as long as people keep spending.
The video is 4 times on the reddit front page, these guys are fucked.
