Its about steam itself not what valve does in CS or TF2 and the market isn’t their fault.
The loot boxes are entirely cosmetical stuff and the market is 100% player run, when nobody buys the stuff, steam wouldn’t loose a penny, they profit from transactions on their platform, but that’s because they are acting as payment processors.
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Call me when they show predatory behaviour to establish their monopoly. I don’t think steam has exclusive deals as epic has for example.
Loot boxes and what is essentially a market of nft’s. Otherwise they’re pretty cool I guess.
Its about steam itself not what valve does in CS or TF2 and the market isn’t their fault.
The loot boxes are entirely cosmetical stuff and the market is 100% player run, when nobody buys the stuff, steam wouldn’t loose a penny, they profit from transactions on their platform, but that’s because they are acting as payment processors.