07-24-2016, 02:32 PM
(07-24-2016, 02:15 PM)Eclipse Wrote: It should have never been a thing, online gambling for real money in the states (Nevada and New Jersey are legal) is illegal, and this is a form of online gambling seeing how the skins hold real money value.
Just like how Draftkings and such got shut down too since it was a form of online gambling, except these are for skins, which isnt much of a problem for the government.
However, the skins do not OFFICIALLY hold real monetary value. There is no first party way to turn skins into real world money via steam. Steam wallet currency =/= real world money. You can't use steam wallet cash to go out and buy something in the real world.
If skins had true monetary value people would have to pay taxes on them if they sold them via steam, and just opening cases would be online gambling because it's similar to slot machines.. That's the loophole, and why it was never that big of a deal for people of age to do it. It only became a big deal because of the scumbags, and parents that let their kids use their credit cards to buy skins who then proceeded to gamble with them.
I had no major issues with it, people should be able to do what ever they want with their skins, but the gambling websites should've all confirmed the age of a person (some tried to), but then again, even on steam you don't have to be 18 to open cases.. But yeah, even valve never said it was illegal to do, they simply said it's against their ToS to use BOTS on their API to run a gambling business, they didn't say it was against it to use skins or any other steam Inventory items in such a matter.
Loophole = get LIVE people to accept the trades and manually deposit peoples skins for website currency. It would mean longer deposit/withdraw times, but technically it's not against steams TOS at that point. So I expect websites to pop back up pretty soon, I don't think the gambling scene is RIP'd just yet. I hope the scumbags are though.
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