Valve are being sued by New York attorney general Letitia James, with the lawsuit alleging loot boxes in games like Counter-Strike 2 violate gambling laws,
I think technically, yes. However, the one potentially redeeming point those have that these skins do not are that they’re actually a functional part of the game.
These skins serve no purpose, and have turned into the same loophole that those Japanese pachinko bars use to get around the gambling laws there - give a useless trinket as a prize and just coincidentally be located next door to a place that will buy certain useless trinkets for absurd amounts of money.
I think technically, yes. However, the one potentially redeeming point those have that these skins do not are that they’re actually a functional part of the game.
These skins serve no purpose, and have turned into the same loophole that those Japanese pachinko bars use to get around the gambling laws there - give a useless trinket as a prize and just coincidentally be located next door to a place that will buy certain useless trinkets for absurd amounts of money.