Recently, Valve has cracked down on CS:GO skin gambling after it was used to scam people out of a lot of money. This has led to numerous sites closing down, and a couple of notable streamers involved with them getting stuck in a class action lawsuit for their crimes.
But it seems another type of gambling involving the game has taken its place. Case opening sites. These are third party sites where you can pay to open cases in game, and have a lot of problems of their own:
How Case Opening Sites Scam Their Customers - RLewisReports
Indeed, as the article states, the sites are even doing stuff like explicitly ripping off players, lying about the odds of winning and letting influencers get better results than normal users. It's quite the racket if you ask me.
So yeah, is this the next skin gambling controversy just waiting to happen?
But it seems another type of gambling involving the game has taken its place. Case opening sites. These are third party sites where you can pay to open cases in game, and have a lot of problems of their own:
How Case Opening Sites Scam Their Customers - RLewisReports
Indeed, as the article states, the sites are even doing stuff like explicitly ripping off players, lying about the odds of winning and letting influencers get better results than normal users. It's quite the racket if you ask me.
So yeah, is this the next skin gambling controversy just waiting to happen?