Valve likely made over $1bn last year from loot boxes in Counter-Strike 2. That’s according to data from CS2 Case Track…

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    10 months ago

    Me either, although a few years ago I sold some weapon skins and loot boxes that I received from playing CS Go when it first came out for enough Valve bucks or whatever to buy a couple of new games!

    Loot boxes should not be in computer games.

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      10 months ago

      Loot boxes should not be in computer games.

      As much as I like Valve, Valve is one of the major player bringing and normalizing Lootboxes into games. Even before the Lootboxes was a thing on smartphones, let alone before they arrived on other AAA games as well. I think this is the worst contribution of Valve to videogames. And this statement comes from someone who usually defends this company.