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That's probably a day's income from those boxes for them. It should be completely removed, adding an age restriction is merely a bandage. Steam is also extremely notorious for exploiting their user base on "loot boxes" by hiring specialists for making it as addictive as possible

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> Steam is also extremely notorious for exploiting their user base on "loot boxes" by hiring specialists for making it as addictive as possible

As well as allowing off-platorm gambling markets in their games (CS:GO) to thrive, when they could very easily shut them down within a day without inconveniencing non-gambling players.

This is the real killer. Gambling in the CS scene is absolutely rampant, you will only find a handful of CS influencers that do no accept gambling sponsors (As they offer much more than other companies).

I was happy when Belgium banned loot boxes, but it was not nearly enough.

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