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Steam wallet funds expressly have no monetary value in the steam user agreement, and it explicitly states in the steam user agreement it’s against their tos to sell items off of their market. So they are covered. Second hand markets exist but it’s without valves support or consent, they aren’t breaking the law. A court can’t compel valve to restrict user freedom (trading digital items) because they don’t shut down websites that they have no ability to shut down.
I don’t think that’s how the law is written though. You can only get steam wallet funds for your skins, steam wallet funds explicitly have no cash value. The transaction at that point is done. A video game also has “real world value” you could just as easily say well I get steam wallet funds and than sell gifted games to other people. I don’t think your argument tracks with the law or steams user agreement.
They are brining up the good argument that this would essentially make baseball and pokemon cards gambling and illegal as well, I’m not a lawyer but with the way the law is written and from my understanding of it valve has a very good chance of getting this dismissed or wining in court. It would suddenly make many other things illegal if they loose.
In its motion to dismiss, Valve continued to heavily criticize the lawsuit. “Can parents purchase packs of baseball cards for their children?” it said. “Can families go to Chuck E. Cheese to play games of chance and exchange winning tickets for prizes? Can a child reach into a cereal box and grab a surprise toy? All these actions and more could lead to chargeable crimes under NYAG’s interpretation of gambling.”
They’ve made substantial progress in the past 10 years. Sadly, the lack of access to EUVL machines is what’s really holding them back from making higher end and more competitive technologies.
They are actively working on making EUVL machines domestically, which would be incredible given ASML is the only organization in the world that currently makes them. Still, it’ll probably not be till the 2030s that they actually can get into production with that.
If this is a topic that interests you, GamersNexus did an awesome hour-long deep dive into a couple Chinese chip companies and what they’ve been making and how they are being unfairly handicapped by the west, and the incredible progress they are making despite that. This is sort of perfect timing for Chinese players to enter the market given Western companies are gouging consumers and losing the good will, pretty much every PC enthusiast in the world would be happy to buy Chinese products over Western ones based strictly on price of performance is up to par.
- TF2
Its just so good, played it a fair bit when I was a young teen and picked it up again a couple years ago and haven’t stopped playing 8 - 20 hours a week. Best game ever imo, never gets old.
- Garry’s Mod
Easily my favorite game when I was in middle school and high school, and it still holds a very dear spot in my heart and memories from that era of my life. Excited for s&b
- Cyberpunk 2077
I remember seeing the teaser trailer when I was a preteen and was so hyped, took like 10 years but when it did come out I had covid (which was lucky for me because I didn’t feel that sick and I got paid leave for 14 days to play the game). Played on PC from day 1 and beat the game In a week or so, it wasn’t that buggy imo. I loved the story and I encountered minimal issues during my play through, and only one that caused me to need to reload a save.
Other favs probably rimworld, gta 4, stanleys parable
Not really copium. OP makes a great point. It’s like comparing Xbox sales to the sales of a specific pre-built PC. The pre-built PC could never compete, but all PC sales over a given period likely outnumber Xbox sales significantly.
I don’t own either, and probably never will, but IMO, you are the one who is coping.
Valve is pretty much cool with everything unless using leaked source code, that’s why releasing the tf2 source code was such a big deal recently. Now all the standalone tf2 mods can be legitimate and live on steam, previously they used leaked source code and valve has no chill for that.
I assume this is the same thing happening with cs, the devs are using some type of leaked code to do something in specific and valve isn’t cool with that.
I don’t have a source but what the guy above described is exactly how valve operates and lines up with previous actions taken with tf2.
Bottom line, valve loves modders, modders are legitimately why they are the company they are today and they know that and in general want to support the modding community. Just don’t use leaked/closed source code
I remember watching him like 6 years ago and he was pretty certain hl3 was around the corner. With him, it’s always around the corner. Eventually he will be right, if it comes out ever.
Edit: Lmao it was actually 10 years ago, the video is private now but I posted it on my steam profile cause I was a hyped teen.
You’re wrong, the ceo of AMD, lisa su, is related to the CEO of nvidia. I just watched an interview Lisa did where she confirmed in video it’s true.
Can’t be bothered to find the time stamp but this was the video https://youtu.be/8Ve5SAFPYZ8
There is no evidence I have seen that Valve supports 3rd party market places, and like I said the steam user agreement explicitly forbids them. There is nothing illegal about their own market place because you are paid in steam wallet funds and steam wallet funds cannot be exchanged for real world money. This case is going to flop, valve will win this one.