Thread 723989674

Hello. I’m Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve, and I just successfully scammed my entire user base for two billion dollars in one night.

Thanks for the money bozos

>>723989674 (OP)
>entire user base
Only the third worlders, so literally no one.

is investing really a morally right activity?
you are trying to earn money without producing anything of value
why shouldn't your investments lose all value?

>>723989674 (OP)
>Making a bunch of oxygen thieves kill themselves by relying on an unstable predatory digital market that could easy fold at anytime

Based Gabe.

>NOOOOOOO MY HECKIN' SKINS
Deserved.

>>723990549
>is investing really a morally right activity?
No it's jewish.

>>723989674 (OP)
I made 50 bucks last night

>>723991184
so cryptofaggots are jewish too?

>>723989674 (OP)
holy shit is that really gabe? where did all the fat go

>>723991571
ozempic

>>723991496
>so cryptofaggots are jewish too?
Yes, NFT, stockmarket, banks, all jewish and maniupluated by jews to benefit jews.

>>723989674 (OP)
based
keep it up, unc

>>723989674 (OP)
russians and chinks aren't people

imagine investing in video game knives

>>723990549
In this case, it's not even investing. It's straight up gambling.

KEK

He finally found a way to kill cs gambling dead
based

>>723992787
you stole my crop

I hope this finally knocks Valve and Steamfags down a few pegs.

>>723993283
I'm pegging you until you get knocked up

>>723989674 (OP)
all financial speculators deserve to die

>>723990549
>800 years of stock market and still no better transferal of ownership than letting your firstborn son inherit everything
>Want to diversify anyway for a laugh? We have a solution for that, it's called polygamy.
>"Hello, yes, I want you to lend me these stocks so that I can sell them now, and then give them back to you later when they're hopefully worth less"
>"I am willing to sell you this contract for the right to sell these stocks at a specific price before a specific date"
>These are real sentences uttered by real stock brokers
>They've played us for absolute fools

>>723993346

Don't be gay.

>>723993283
They just pulled the rug from every faggot who acted like gamble crates were an investment. This is the best thing Valve has done since the Steam Deck.

>>723994146
Aside from all the suicides.

>>723989674 (OP)
Steamies schizo might be dead and you just laugh.

>>723994146
This
>>723994718
That's the best part of all this. Natural selection at it's finest.

>>723990549
I mean, it lets the average person get in on companies that produce something Of value for the world, so yes I’d say so. You buy a share of a company and own a small piece of it, maybe even get some dividends. It’s not correct to say “you do nothing” as you worked for that money and then you put it in the hands of another company, so yeah you did do something. You worked and you put your money into a company you did research on and had good fundamentals.

>>723993146
Not him but I personally I feel warm inside when people repost something I posted.

>>723989674 (OP)
Can I get a TL;DR on this shit?

>>723989674 (OP)
Most decent thing this man has done in 7 years.

The more concerning fact is that there were 2 billion dollars in digital toy knives to begin with.

Could Valve get sued for the suicides?

>>723995873
Theres probably some shit in the ToS/EULA for the game that says Valve can do whatever the fuck they want

>>723989674 (OP)
>allows you to buy digital goods
>thirdies decide they can scam white people by holding on to these goods and charging increasingly higher prices for them.
>eventually the bubble bursts with how many poos try this
>thirdies are now crying their eyes out because they are seeing the natural consequences of their actions
Good. You indian turd mongers are scum.

>>723995873
What obligation does valve have to people who invest real money into video game digital assets they don't actually own that get are almost always being traded on third party websites?

>>721596783
Don't care, buying reds.

>bants the fuck out of gaben
>he tells me to kill myself
Don't know how to feel desu

>>723995871
Money's fake dude, the digital toy knives were bought with digital toy currency. It's all a self-sustaining zozzle to keep people busy now that we don't need 75% of the population working in agriculture. We live in a period of civilization-level treading water until we finally embark on either UBI or eugenics. Anyone who kills themselves over this clownish period in history was too weak to survive the winter anyway.

How can knive skin even be worth thousands? Who actually fucking buys them
90% of these skins have been catching dust for ages. I fell there was never hat much you can get in on these people are morons for investing so much into digital rainbow knives
Now the 1$ skins, that's where the money is

>>723995724
It's even better when it's OC you made
Sometimes in Pokemon threads I see my old zamn edits of sneedshrew. It warms my heart

>>723996075
What happened exactly?, They kill key reseller? Or is something about CS skins and shit?. Because that market is owned by Venezuela and Russian people

>>723997470
>Who actually fucking buys them
Retarded whales. Hundreds of millions of third worlders just lost their income selling videogame skins to retards.

>>723989674 (OP)
I know nothing about legal stuff, could people sue for something like this?

>>723998628
No, they have absolutely zero guarantee of the value of any in game items.

>>723998694
Somehow I get the feeling some lawyer will find a reason.

>>723998628
what other anon said. plus, they get the skin for "free" from drops and such. it's never actually worth $1000 until it is sold, a realized gain. until then, it's only worth the electricity that powers the item's pixels of a screen. they were never truly assets.
in bizarro world, gabe only gets in trouble because he added "this is financial advie and i recommend you invest in knife skins" to the TOS.

>>723989674 (OP)
>>723989735
Retarded shitposter-kun, no ones gets money when a cryptobro NFT's (which the CS2/TF2 skins ARE) value vanishes into thin air. The money already changed hands, often through a third-party site Steam didn't gain anything from. What's there now just deflated into nothing.

On the one hand this is beyond scummy and Gaben is a huge piece of shit for even allowing microtransactions to be a thing in his games at all, the MANNconomy update was a mistake.

On the other hand, the only people getting harmed by this are terminal retards ruining videogames by promoting the sale of in game items for real life money, something which never should have happened in the first place.

My only hope is that this leads to a wave of distrust and hatred towards microtransactions in general and they stop being a thing in the future.

>>723993283
But stuff like this is exactly why valve is cool. Are you dumb?

>>723999365
horse armour was financially successful despite the clowning and outrage. so there shouldn't be any question of how it got from A to B

>investing in digital gun skins and knives
You would have to be insanely retarded to have actually done this. Also, owned lmao.

>>723989674 (OP)
based gabe teaching kids a lesson, gambling is wrong kids

>>723995873
Absolutely not. RMTing the skins are explicitly against ToS and thus using them as a form of investment is as well. Valve isn't liable for this in the slightest.

>>723989674 (OP)
Good thing GabeN would never do this to the dota community, bless him for that

>>723991571
>where did all the fat go

you mean where did all the soul go

>>723997937
>mfw someone used a drawing I made to start a shitpost thread the other day
>it's one of my worst drawings too

>>723994718
That's a good thing. Bye Pajeet.

>>723990549
>you are trying to earn money without producing anything of value
The value is in providing liquidity so businesses can grow and produce more value.

OP is a third worlder NEET who is gunna kill himself because he can't get free money anymore.

>>723998360
CS Skins, I'm not sure of the exact mechanics since I don't play but apparently you can now exchange 5 lower quality skins for a higher quality one which is tanking the price of the rarest skins.

>>723999043
Of course, some yid will launch a frivolous lawsuit to scam money from their client knowing there is no real legal foundation. Like three quarters of lawsuits are absolute bullshit that get thrown out. Lawyers will literally always find a reason, they're paid to.

>>723989674 (OP)
Can anyone explain this to me? I never played counter strike in my entire life and I have no knowledge about it all

>>723999696
Its crypto with even less safeguards

>>723989735
np
thank you providing a great service i really enjoy

>>723993585
That's an ironic post for you to make mr tripfag

>>723989674 (OP)
>retards got fucked in the ass raw
>valve finally did something that may actually get them in trouble
It's a win-win as far as I'm concerned, it's always funny to see clowns running around on fire while the circus burns down.

>>724001879
I am genuinely flabbergasted that anyone on the planet would pay even a cent for a videogame skin, much less invest so much money into them.

Did everyone just forget the 2000's when you'd download a ton of skins for free from FPSbanana or ModDB? Why the fuck are they paying cash for that now?

>>723990549
Separate from any ethical issues, it's a system inherently built off of usury, which makes it against the scripture of most currently living world religions.

>>723989674 (OP)
My favorite class is the spy

>>723989674 (OP)
He didn't make 2 billion, the market lost it to nothing.

>>723990549
day trading isnt morally right
investing long term is. I have like 300k dollars in heavy industry stocks like caterpillar and deere etc

hmm today i will invest my entire savings into jpegs of knives in a videogame and the only way to cash out is using sketchy russian trading websites

>>723990549
>>724002393
The only reason you consider it to be immoral is because you suck at it.
>t. made 40 bucks selling robocrates after stockpiling them for a decade
Now i just need someone to buy my strange festive flare gun that i got for like a dollar and is now worth nearly another $40.

>>723995575
>companies that produce something Of value for the world
lmaooooooooooooo

Loot boxes are scummy, but investorfags have ruined every collecting hobby and im happy to see them get fucked even if it's with digital collecting.

>>724002617
Way to build your house on sand.

>>724002318
can you value a NFT? no, a digital knife?. he lost 69 trillions

>>723991652
lol no. no billionaire is using shit tier GLPs like ozempic, it's not 2020 anymore. they are using tirzepatide or retatrutide

>>724003074
bungalow NFT worth millions in maldives

>>723991184
Jews did not invent "putting money into something so it grows and pays out later"

>>723991571
he lost weight a while ago

>>723990549
>investing
this is pure speculation
the digital equivalent of beanie babies or collecting comic books
there's nothing financially sound about it

>>723989674 (OP)
LOL GET FUCKED THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T STORE YOUR MONEY IN A FUCKING VIDEO GAME YOU STUPID APES

>>724002927
Like it or not, companies are responsible for everything. You can either get in on it or wallow in your pride and stupidity.

>>724001637
You can get cosmetics for guns and knives of varying rarity. You can also trade those cosmetics with other people. The rarest ones could be sold for insane money (literally millions).
In the latest patch Valve made it so there is now a way to trade in skins that you have for skins that you want. Since there is now a guaranteed way to get some of the rarest skins their value immediately tanked.

So what actually HAPPENED?
or did the OBVIOUS bubble just finally pop and these non-existent goods dropped in value?

>>723991652
he lost the weight before ozempic took off
and ozempic isn't a wonder drug, you can be taking it and still maintain or gain weight

>>723989674 (OP)
Gabe probably has good private security, right? He might need it.

>>723989674 (OP)
>and I just successfully scammed my entire user base for two billion dollars in one night.
lmao, no he didn't, these retards scammed themselves

the only people who scammed themselves out of 2 billion dollars are the people who were stupid enough to pretend knife jpegs were worth billions

>>724003815
Valve made it so that anyone can get the super rare special knife skins worth millions

>>724003747
good, retards who put all their money into virtual items shouldnt be calling the shots on what valve gets to do with their game and dont get to decide if something should remain rare

>>724003815
you can now use trade up contracts to turn 5 red guns into a knife or gloves
speculationfaggot market immediately imploded

what do you mean scammed? the terms of service agreement you sign playing the game/getting skins explicitly states that not only is trading the items for real world money prohibited, but you do not actually own the skins or the games etc.

no one was "scammed" here

>people don’t like me
>it’s their fault

Girls love me and I’m a racist. Gabe is a fucking faggot

>>724003957
hopefully this is another step away from artificially rarity in gaming, fortnite has been taking steps to remove its fomo too as well as other games
people who treat these videogames like the stock market shouldn't be the ones calling the shots, we're not beholden to them just because they tied all their money up in speculative markets

>>724003815
>super rare skins are worth a lot of money
>valve makes it so not less rare skins can be traded in for super rare skins
>super rare skins now worth much less
>for some reason CSfags tie their childrens' college funds up in video game knife skins instead of bonds or ISA's
>hilarity ensues
Retards deserve it tbdesu

How did we get to the point where billions of dollars are spent on visuals

>>723989674 (OP)
Its funny because this was babby's first economy for so many midwit retards and didnt understand any concept beyond buy low, sell high, which they still have trouble grasping.

>>724004252
>this cost $2.50 and was considered comically outrageous in 2006
I want to go back...

>>723989674 (OP)
Based Gabe causing mass strikedrone suicides.

>>724001431
Im pretty sure you can do that in TF2 since 2014, but I'm not even sure how that works because I never bother with skins

if i worked at valve I would start randomly dropping Dragon Lores to thousands of people just to witness the investorfags seethe

>>723989674 (OP)
He already had your money. If you think this act was the big scam you are missing the forest for the trees.

>>724004252
Human nature. It has happened before and it will happen again.

>>723989674 (OP)
How did he scam anything. You retards are the ones who made an external market.

>>723990549
>investing
>CS2 skins
This nigga thought skins were a genuine investment.

Look what I just got from tradeups

Anons, if you get so depressed about this and commit suicide, just know before you go that it was knife to know you.

>>723990549
>is investing really a morally right activity?
There's no morality involved, it is neutral. If you wish to sell or trade what you own, if you wish to stockpile for the chance it will become more valuable tomorrow than it does today, that's your perogative.
Now scalping, the act of buying up goods for the sole sake of flipping for profit at the cost of others not acquiring the goods easily, could be argued as morally dubious.

two billion dollars of SPECULATIVE wealth = not real money. No real money was gained or lost today. People are crying over money they never had in the first place

>make skins actually attainable
>this is somehow a bad thing

46% from Chinese users, 24% from Russia. Large amounts from South American

>>724005253
most of these kids don't even realize how deep in the brainrot they are

>>724005253
We aren't saying its bad, we are just laughing at the idiots who treated this like a fiat currency

>>724005253
>>724005443
t. thirdie poorfags who can't afford expensive skins but still want to feel special

>>723989674 (OP)
>nuke the scamconomy
>lower prices across the board
>this makes rare skins more accessible
>more people buy crates because now the dogshit drops can be put to use
This is a universally good move and all it required was the will to step over the broken corpses of a few dysgenic subhumans

>>724005583
ACKSHUALLY, most of the skin trades were happening off steam and using other forms of payout (Direct bank deposits, paypal, shitcoins etc.)

>>724005583
>(of manchild toy money that can't be used outside of steam)
Underage or retard. Probably both

>>724005253
What you have to understand is that while to you and I buying skins in a video game is either seen as a hilariously stupid thing to do or a recreational way to throw away uneeded cash, it's not seen that way by third worlders. To them RMTing in online games and in this case, dealing in CS skins, is a way for them to make a living. With how poor wages are in their region they can realistically make more money by dealing in crates and skins, it's why every online game today has to deal with a cataclysmic flood of RMT as their regions of the world have been given even easier internet access.

The only people who are angry are the actual scammers, third worlders, or that guy who bought a $500 knife 6 years ago and forgot about it.

>>724005692
sounds like an excellent way to get scammed out of your money
>dude trust me bro just paypal me the money and I send you the skin

>>724001879
I don't see how it could get them in any amount of trouble. At no point did they advertise skins as some sort of virtual currency or stocks to invest on.

>>724005739
Fuck you pajeet nigger you ruined aqua with your avatarfagging.

>>723991652
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4cDy0YsaYWU

>>723990549
Not at all, it is morally and ethically wrong especially when senators "coincidentally" buy up stocks of armament companies right before war is declared somewhere in the world, shorting is straight up evil since you're betting on a company going under, more often than not the people responsible are on it and they dont care about the hundreds of thousands of jobs that dissapear as long as they make profit.
but nowadays it's the only way a regular joe can afford to own a place to die, we're all mulch in the late stage capitalism grinder so might as well embrace it

>>724005765
>throw away uneeded cash
>cries about skins being expensive
Lol.

>>723989674 (OP)
>Man Who Couldn't Possibly Be More Based Turned Out To Be Even More Based Than Previously Expected
>Experts Flabbergasted

>>724004945
A red rocket...

>>723989674 (OP)
Im still baflled people were risking their financial well being on cs virtual items, it seems like such a dumb move.

>>724004586
TF2 has unusual skins and we havent had a new weapon paint case in forever so at least those can hold their value. What this CS:GO update is doing is essentially allowing you to trade red skins for KNIVES AND GLOVES which are some of the highest value items in the game. The equivalent would be trading 5 shitty red tier hats in TF2 for an unusual.

>>724005852
Aqua has always been Takao-lite.

I'm tired of the jewish money games bros, we're basically living in a 200 year old monopoly board.

>>724005583
almost none of this trading crap is happening on the steam market genius

This just in, Barron Trump sold his entire knife collection yesterday. How did he know?!

>>724005765
>or that guy who bought a $500 knife 6 years ago and forgot about it.
What does it matter? You can only use this money on Steam and it's not like the site doesn't have a million sales where everything's dirt cheap

So what's the motivation? Is this Valve's way to stop the digital casino allegations while also still having people buy cases?

>>724006197
He's destabilizing Russia to show he's a true patriot.

>>723989674 (OP)
>scammed
lol you are so fucking retarded

>>724002087
Because Valve doesnt allow many clientside mods on their """""OFFICIAL MATCH MAKING SERVERS""""" anymore, they got so ticked off by the possibility of custom sprites being used to plaster CP on the walls at Dust2 they removed them entirely and only meticulously pick a few shitty ones to sell for a couple of cents, for example.

>>724006165
vast majority of people use shady trading sites so they can cash out for real money, that's why the thirdies are seething so much

valve didn't even make money from doing this they just thought it was funny to shit on the top .1% of accounts

>>724006165
see
>>724005692
It's all shady shit. You should have seen how bad it was when people were making actual gambling sites where you could bet your skins (and get them legitimately scammed away via streamers).

Red shit is now expensive.
So even if you're poorfag mutt without 5090 you can't win this game.
Cheap skins are still for poors. You will always chase that unreachable grape.

>rugpulled csgo skins
can't wait to see their redjaks on /biz/

>>724006197
betting scandals are going crazy everywhere in the world thanks to the deregularization of online casinos, it won't take long until some country starts making laws against online gambling and this is valve's way of telling people to fuck off before retarded boomers starts pointing fingers at the gray market that is the CS skin market.

>just traded up to a doppler butterfly just from the reds I had laying around
lmao this shit really is worthless now

>>724006435
it will probably make them sell more keys since red guns suddenly have more value and you're way more likely to get them from gamba cases
collapsing the knife faggotry makes them more money if anything bc none of that stuff was happening through steam

BASED
HE SAVES GAMING AGAIN

Can someone explain this situation to a person that has never touched CSGO and knows absolutely nothing about its trading economy?

>>724006502
Red skins that were expensive are still expensive, no one is throwing their Dragon Lores and Fadeds at the trade up to get a shitty new knife. The skins that shot up in value that are red are the ones nobody wants like the red Glock or R8 skins.

>>724005874
Looks like you'll have to get a real job now bud.

>>723989674 (OP)
>NOOOOO NOT THE ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY!!!
>I LOST ALL MY SAVINGS I SOLD MY HOUSE AND WHORED MY CHILDREN, JUST TO BUY A KNIFE!
>AND NOW IT'S WORTH NOTHING! HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO ME?!!

>dumb newfriends think it some sort of conspiracy
This happened multiple times in different games with active trading market. It's literally nothing new. The lesson is always the same: never play with top value items like those knifes.

>>724006671
tl:dr
>all items have rarity just like most f2p slop
>previously you could "trade up" i.e turn in 10 items of 1 quality to get 1 item of the next highest tier
>you couldn't do that for knives or gloves, so the only way to get them was cases so their value got speculated to absurd levels
>today valve changes it so you can also trade up to knives and gloves
>retards who spent their entire savings "investing" in fucking jpegs of knives seething and on suicide watch bc now you can get them by just playing the game a ton

>>724006671
>rare skins worth lots due to artificial scarcity
>people get the skins and sell them on shady third party websites for thousands and thousands of dollars
>gabe gets pissed at thirdies scamming the system
>now makes it so that anybody with a few semi rare skins lying around can trade them up into the super rare skins
>reduction of scarcity leads the already price gouged items to decrease in price
>thirdies and retards who tied all their money up in knife skins mass suicide

>>724006671
>In CS:GO, there's lootboxes that allow you to get skins for your weapons, tiered depending on their drop rates and in very rare instances, knives and gloves
>Not every skin that is at a high rarity tier like pink or red is valuable, some are stuck on bad guns no one uses or have a pattern/color no one cares about
>You can only get knives by unboxing thousands of cases and hoping to get lucky, or buying them for thousands of dollars on the Steam market or gambling sites outside of Steam.
>Valve introduces an update that allows you to trade in 5 red skins for a knife
>Red skins no one cares about shoot up in value because they can be converted into knives
>Knives that were expensive now tank in value, knives people dont like as much are as cheap as pink/purple skins
>people who used CSGO skins as a way to invest like crypto or to make money in general are seething because their inventories are worth thousands of dollars less than they used to.

>>723989674 (OP)
>retards investing in digital goods cry after getting rugpilled
every fucking time

Anyone know where the market cap is at now?

>>723989674 (OP)
Gabe's a jew. I distrust him with my money even with all the discounts Steam is famous for.

>>723991571
>>723991652
>billionaire who is getting older decides to lose weight for the sake of his health
>"OMG it must be le drug"
Burger moment

>>723989674 (OP)
He scammed them from the day he made microtransactions for pixels a thing and caused teenagers to sink thousands of dollars into this pyramid scheme.

>>724007247
gotta be smart about your minimum wage

>>724006738
Nah I'm fine. I will keep selling $2000 skins to John Counter Strike. And you will always be jealous when you see John Counter Strike in his $$$$ drip in your game. John Counter Strike is real patriot and family man who, unlike 4chan browns, can show fashion sense and wealth of First World Citizen.

>>724007407
>He posted with tears rolling down his cheeks, eyes blurry, nose running

>>724006197
>So what's the motivation?
It was funny.

The funniest part is how they didn't warn anybody

>>723999567
Never, EVER, forget the CoD boycott.
Gamers are the stupidest motherfuckers alive.

>>723989674 (OP)
Based Gaben, ruining the life of parasites effortlessly.

>>723989674 (OP)
>entire user base
More like 1% of the CS playerbase which itself is like 1% of Steam's userbase.

>>724007831
>ruining the life of parasites effortlessly.
he ruined his own life?!

This just means the people who enjoy the digital knives and gloves as actual in game consmetics can do so at a reduced price. This is once again proof that valve is a pro consumer company.

Should I keep my reds or uptrade?

>>723989674 (OP)
I should be mad at Gabe for this, but it's also a situation where I can't sympathize with anyone affected.

>>724003858
Yeah ok.
And what are you gonna pay the hitman with now that you're broke?

>>723989674 (OP)
>and I just successfully scammed my entire user base for two billion dollars in one night
>Buy expensive digital goods to speculate about their pricing
>Somehow the market crashes thanks to the goods becoming readily available
>People committing suicide en mase because their speculative assets lost all value
Are you niggers for real?
You really bought a thousand dollars knife and thought it only could go up forever?

>>724008010
uptrade while recording and if you get something that was worth a lot before the crash then post the video wherever it'll cause the most tradertroon seethe.

So does this shit affect crate or case prices at all? I haven't touched this game in over a decade, should I have cashed out on my old ass 2013-2014 e-sports cases and crates that have just been sitting in my inventory?

I don't feel anything for some reason, this is supposed to be something big and yet, nothing? maybe when I was younger I would have been hyped and looked around for more news

>>724008185
I think cases themselves would be fine, it's only going to affect gold tier items.

>all those third worlder suicides
I see Valve finally found a solution to the cheating problem.

>>724007937
I'm sure he's crying all the way to the bank over that one.

>>724005946
So shitty items now have a new value as material to make more valuable items making expensive items to lower their prices because of over supply.
That's fucking genius, that will make newfags to think they have hope to get good shit and just add a new tier later that is impossible to get through this medium.
Of course this sucks if you already wasted millions on those item but this will keep the market moving

>>724008327
kek

>>724008314
>>724008185
Theres still a crash happening so everything going down but cases are going to be the most stable unless fucks with them too

>>724008090
A couple of years back there was an organized *paid for* invasion of a major (cs world championship event) match because of one gambling lunatic that viewed it as some sort of divine mission to punish valve for introducing people to gambling and losing their houses and shit. Do not underestimate the CS skin schizos. They are loaded with crypto and mentally unwell.

>>724007802
If you examine trading right before the change you would likely find a few outliers who must have knew, somebody stockpiling reds and offloading knives. Telling people it was going to happen would have the exact same effect as it happening. Warning everyone it was about to happen would have just crashed the market when they warned everybody instead of when the update dropped. Warning some people would open themselves up to some litigation as those who knew profited while those who didnt lost out.

One of the dudes I play with has like 11k worth of knives/gloves. He's been completely silent since

>>724007487
Tears of joy maybe.

>>723998628
Selling these things outside of the steam marketplace is against tos. If anything they'll just get banned bye evidence lmao ggwp

All crypto niggers
All game skin niggers
All meme token niggers
All real estate niggers
Alll stock trade niggers
All retro game collector niggers
All scalper niggers

Say it with me!....DESERVE TO GO BROKE!

You are everything wrong with the world. You didn't create any value in the world, you didn't go out and install a septic system for someone or build them a house, You didn't go do someones electrical or plumbing and work on your feet all day, You didn't go and make a desk for someone or help them level a driveway or pour concrete.

YOU PROVIDE NOTHING OF VALUE TO THE WORLD. YOU ARE A SPECULATIVE PARASITE WHO MAKES MONEY BY DOING NOTHING. EVEN A FREELOADER NEET HAS MORE HONOR AND VALUE THAN YOU BECAUSE AT LEAST HE NEVER MADE A BUCK OFF SOMEONES LOSS OF MONEY AND SUFFERING. YOU DID NO REAL LABOR TO EARN MONEY LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. FUCK YOU. THIS IS WHY PEOPLE NEET AND ARE DEMORALIZED. WHY GO TO WORK FOR $16/HR WHEN SOME FAGGOT MAKES A MILLION OFF CRYPTO?

>>723989674 (OP)
>my entire user base
Kek
This is what these freaks actually think

>>723989674 (OP)
Thank you GabeN, you really do understand me. Funniest shit you've done in years.

>>724004252
You literally posted it.

>>724008215
That's just being normal.

>>724008713
>You didn't create any value in the world
So why don't you just rent something for free? No value.

>>724008624
What is that, like $50 in real money?

>>723989674 (OP)
>NOOOOO AHHH THAT TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS I COULD'VE GOTTEN FOR MY KNIFE THAT I WAS NEVER GONNA SELL... THAT COULD'VE BEEN EVERYTHING...
get a job brokie lmfao $2k is nothing

>>723990549
It is if you are a fucking retard. Companies need money and your money devalues over time. Keeping cash is for illiterate retards. Investing in worthless shit like crypto and fucking game items is for gambiling retards too.

>>723990549
>you are trying to earn money without producing anything of value
Production of value =/= moral unrighteousness.

>>724008928
>$2k is nothing
Post your rig and steam library.

>>723989674 (OP)
>scammed my entire user base
But this benefits people actually using steam for video games and you should have seen this coming when he made Chinese review scores seperate

What even happened? Can't you trade items anymore?

>>724008976
*righteousness.

>>724008713
>nooo everyone deserves to wear a nametag and make $7.15/hr just like me ahhhhhhhh this isn't right this isn't fair my white trash parents told me I was SMART, everyone in my podunk rural town said I was SMART why aren't I RICH why am I working an unskilled job AHHHH

>>724005765
Maybe they shouldn't have populations of minimum a hundred million people in nations where they have a budget for ten million at best.

>>723990549
Investing is supposed to enable others to produce value.
This shit is just faggots playing a game of chicken and then crying when they lose.

>>724003393
They literally did

>>724009026
>post ur rig
I'll do you one better

>>723989674 (OP)
>rentier tradecucks BTFO
Based gaben

>>724008624
>actually a third worlder
the callout was accurate

>>724009162
Post your rig. This is /v/ - Video Games.

>>724009086
They made rare skins more obtainable. That's it. Chinese and Russians were using said skins as a form of money laundering, now they've been devalued.

>>723990549
>is investing really a morally right activity?
Its not investing, it was market manipulation, should've read the terms of use nigga.

>why shouldn't your investments lose all value?
90% of the investments never turn into proffit, it's only for the insiders to get richer and it's highly illegal. Jews jewing wannabe jews.

>>724009094
>>nooo everyone deserves to wear a nametag and make $7.15/hr
Yes. If you haven't worked a shit job to contribute to society then you literally do not deserve to be rich.

>>723990549
>giving a shit about individual morality when we're in this situation because of greedy corporations and nations
anyone who doesn't exploit the same systems that exploited them is a brokie retard

>>724009086
See >>724006964

>>724009218
Read reply chain poorfag. You can't even afford $2k skin LMAO. I bet you cry about tariffs and $90 video games too.

>>724009094
Its simple. If crypto niggers exist and some kid becomes a multi millionaire for doing the nothing but clicking a button in doge coin because some fag like elon pumped it then at the minimum I deserve the same or I just won't work. Keep coping.

Over 90% of gen alpha, zoomers and zillenials people aged 14-30 all live in their genX parents houses.

Nobody is working in 2025 the wealth inequality and comedic influencers are making normal people break down.

>>724001879
This couldn't get them in trouble at all. Selling skins via third party sites for real money is against TOS.

>>723991652
Fuck, now how will we know if half life 3 will be worth the weight?

>>724009162
>post right and video games
>posts savings instead

Everything but posting video games huh

>>724009283
>contribute to society
Posting on 4chan isn't contributing to society. You need a second job.

i have never played cs but i've always found it insane that there's a sizable amount of "players" who do nothing except open cases and gamble
there's 1 dude on twitch who i don't remember the name of but he shows up in my recommended for no reason sometimes and he is ALWAYS opening cases. I have not once seen him actually playing the game

>>724009347
We can hear the tears hitting the ground.

>>724009243
>>724009312
Oh, so basically nothing.

>>724009162
>359k

LMAO. YOU ARE POOR. You cant even afford 1000 acres and a house. Looks like you leveled up buddy but you're not quite there. You need to level up some more.

>>724009476
No knives are high because it costs an average of 1000$ to unbox a knife, they were actually approaching the price they should be to get ROI to 50%

>>724009481
>parroting same shit
Take F, poorfag.

>>723989674 (OP)
good, fuck traders lol

>>724006165
>You can only use this money on Steam
are you retarded

>>724009283
My first and only job was minimum wage, because 16 year olds don't deserve to make more than minimum wage. Why are you still working at a grocery store anon?

>>723991571
It's called getting elderly.

>>724009513
Already own my house outright wagie :) This is in addition to that, toss $850k onto the net worth

>>724004507
The downfall of gaming can be traced to this horse armor.

>>724009510
Pretty much. The real news is someone whining they got bullied in CS for being a faggot here yesterday and then a mod tried to coincidentally make a sticky blowing this up into a big deal then got embarrassed and removed it.

>>724009635
Let me guess, you "need" more?

>>724005765
Yes and those thirdies who wanted to make a living off of Aryan recreational activities deserve to get blasted

>>724008504
Did it actually happen or did he get caught because he was looking for assassins on the dark web.

Pro Tip: every hit man and assassin on the dark web is a police sting.
You either know a guy who knows a guy or you're doing your own dirty work. You can't just ask around.

>>724009543
You might be able to get a job separating plastic, I saw a documentary about that on TV. You guys do have television in your country right?

>"$2k is nothing"
>"look at my mom savings"
>"I own a house!"
>posts shit prebuilt rig with 5070
keked

>>723990549
Investing in Bitcoin is morally correct because fuck letting banks have power over your transactions. The stock market can be morally correct if you wish to support a company in their endeavors, but most publicly owned companies are not worth investing in for the sake of morality because they are anything but moral.

Investing in digital skins and NFTs? Not just morally incorrect (for fucking up the market), but also incredibly retarded. Bitcoin means something. Stock in Apple means something. Skins don't.

>>723990549
>morality

>>724001431
>>723989674 (OP)
Oh so that's it? Did gabe in any way, in any form somewhere state that their skin policy will stay the same and those "rare" skins are forever unobtainable? Or was this entire CSGO skin business built on this assumption that because it didnt happen before, it won't happen now? I think not?
Isn't that hillarious? All of those "investors" thinking they control the market they made up themselves while in reality big Steam man never cared about them and their little shady business at all. They have absolutely no way, no power to change anything and watch all their shitty business practices crumble and they blame Gabe who really has no reason to care about those filthy parasites.
>"noo i lost money because of gabe reee!!!"
No you lost money because you are fucking retard who belived in the system you made up in your head.

why don't these skinfags just go to a casino
it's equally degenerate but more fun

is gambling illegal in russia or something

>>724009807
nta but if you think owning a house or having a 5070 isn't good you need to be taken out back and shot

>>724005765
And why should we, or god forbid, GABE care about how turd wordlers make money? He never promised that skins will stay rare and unique forever.

>>724009807
>"$2k is nothing"
$2k *is* nothing
>"look at my mom savings"
Both my parents are alive and when they die I'll get about $600k so stay tuned :)
>"I own a house!"
What, you don't?
>posts shit prebuilt rig with 5070
Not a prebuilt :) Didn't need to upgrade anything but the GPU so I decided to only upgrade that for BF6

>>724010026
>it's equally degenerate but more fun
It's not.

>>724008713
No one is obligated to make anything for anyone.
Your anger at ethically questionable people who are smart enough to not be normal sort of cogs such as yourself is misplaced.
You are out of touch with reality.

The thing I find particularly funny is that it's not the first time this happened, remember when TF2 economy crashed because of a simple bug that caused unusuals to always drop when opening crates?
It all it takes for this sort of shit to break, so anyone who lost all their savings to fucking knives jpgs deserve it for being retarded.

>>723991184
The Templars invented business investment, you liar.

>>724010026
Because crying is forbidden in the casino

>>724010026
gambling is illegal in india

>>724010083
>Not a prebuilt :)
Only underage retards and jeets buy x070 series. You can't trick anyone here. Well maybe some retards because this is thread for retards.

Economics doctorate here
Valve probably wanted to boost the price of red skins, thus boosting the sales in the Steam market place, there isn’t a lot of knives sales per day in comparison to red skins, in short, boost the price of the smaller thing that sells a lot each day instead of having one big overinflated thing selling way less.

The issue is that the consumer is just scared of investing in Counter Strike now, which will surely result is a key sales crash in the upcoming weeks and months, I’m not sure who is in charge at setting up the economics forecasting at Valve, but I would surely do a better job

My personal opinion on the reason of this move is that they are doing it for a judiciary reason, and want to slowly move away from the lootbox business model somehow ? It’s going to be a total mess to manage out as a company in the upcoming years in most countries, minus the USA under republicans

>>724007802
Why would Gabe care about warning turdwordlers and their shitty skins? It's just some dumb pixels after all

>>724010210
>The Templars invented business investment, you liar.
Sumerians and ancient Bharat were there first.

>>724007802
>they didn't warn anybody
They did.

>>724010320
>Why would Gabe care about warning turdwordlers and their shitty skins?
99% of expensive skin owners are not turdwordlers.

>>724010523
1). I dont believe you
2). Still doesnt change the fact that it's not Gaben's problem

>>723993283
this made me like gabe more and made up for CS2 being an utterly dogshit release

>>724010254
>y-you didn't buy it
mm
>Only underage retards and jeets buy x070 series.
Why would I buy a 5080/5090? I don't play gaytraced games and my 5070ti was on sale :)
post you are hand btw I'm not convinced you aren't a seething thirdie

>>724010271
>investing in Counter Strike

>>724010271
You're missing an important piece of the puzzle: the most you can sell something for on the steam market is 1.8k USD. Anything worth more than that will only ever appear on third party sites, which means valve doesn't get their cut.

>>724010346
Proto-Finnic Holy Roman Khaganate did it first, you uneducated swine.

>>723989674 (OP)
Time to get a real job, Poojeet.

>>724010702
The ROI in Counter Strike was extremely decent and stable for years, despite it being purely speculative pixels
Normies don’t get that the key of a good investment is to hop the fuck out at the right moment, scam or not, just like the current AI bubble, investors know it’s bullshit, and they are ready to sell soon

>>724010662
>still trying to damage control
Poorfag can't even buy GPU without sale LMAO
the absolute state of /v/

>>724010803
Not to mention valve takes 30% of all market transactions so most transactions above $1,000 are happening off-platform to avoid the fee

>>723989674 (OP)
maybe third worlders shouldn't create a pseudo economy with the artificial value of video game skins if they don't want the rug pulled out from them with a single QoL update.

>>724011056
it's been fun, wagie. Remember to get some sleep so that you can be well-rested when you stock the shelves tomorrow

The amount of newfags calling Skins investors thirdies is alarming.
I’m 100% German and I know a couple of other deutsches who expanded their portfolios to CS2 skins a few years ago.

Wow its fucking nothing

Should have slurped the dip

>>724000715
You're subtly defining investment as something that exists for the sake of itself. That's not surprising considering almost all "liquidity" it generates goes straight into the pockets of people who don't work and don't produce anything of real value.

>>724010638
>1). I dont believe you
Thirdies are biggest boogiemans for mutts for some reason. Do you really believe RMT (which is profitable and existed for decades before thirdies had access to internet ) is something that only thirdies do? Do you really believe someone form Jeetsania hoarding $300000 worth of expensive knives? Arabs and chinks do. Normal people make money out of normal mid skins.

>>724011257
>expanded their portfolio
>into cs2 skins

Why would any zoomer work when some retard makes millions off BTC or doge coin or got rich off of CS skins?

That's why 95% of young adults aged 15-30 in america live at home with their gen X parents because nobody can live anywhere else in america.

That's why nobody works, only 18% of peopled aged 15-30 have a job.

We are waiting until we get UBI or until north america collapses.

This is the age of the zoomers now.

UBI is coming. We just won't work otherwise.

>>723989674 (OP)
I’ve always hated this fat faggot and Steam as a whole but honest props to him or whoever it was that ended that skin bullshit in CS. Games are meant to be played and enjoyed. Why the fuck was there a massive skin trading economy worth millions of dollars in this shit?

>>724011406
>who don't work and don't produce anything of real value.
>real value
Pseud meme. Your entire existence is nothing. Your votes don't affect anything. Posting on 4chan doesn't produce value. Yet you're here. How about be a little more useful for society and work for 16 hours without a weekends?

>>724011257
Germany is the third world now

>>724011558
>I'm not going to work because someone won the lottery
absolutely no one cares what you do

>>724011558
>That's why 95% of young adults aged 15-30 in america live at home with their gen X parents
This is a good thing. Society is literally healing. Think about it why back in old days it was normal to live with parents. The concept of home was different. Family is what matters. But THEY want you to work yourself to the bones and pay rent.

>>724004949
underrated

>>724011283
>He thinks it's over
All of this shit will be bottomed out in a month, you'll see one desperate bounce and it's dead in the water. Anyone with a brain is exiting and the only people left with be bag holders who need that shit to survive and people who actually like the game

>>724011923
>I'm not going to work
But I don't care what you think about that. Its already happening. Zoomers aren't working and are all NEETING nobody has a job in 2025.

UBI is coming whether you like it or not. Most zoomers are below the poverty line in america. This has never happened in american history for a generation to be this priced out and poor

I feel nothing about this for some reason

>>723990549
>is investing really a morally right activity?
The bible says it's a sin.

>>724011974
Its not good. Its a sign of decline that zoomers and gen alpha can't afford homes, and nobody is working.

UBI is literally garunteed in the next 15 years or america collapse.

>>723989674 (OP)
>scammed my entire user base
the user base of a f2p dont matter especially when 90% of the players dont buy other games.

FUCK YOU IT COSTS NOTHING RIGHT NOW
LOST MY $2000

>>724012049
The only thing coming is the next war to send them off to be cannon fodder.

>>724012049
Yes that's why you are being replaced with niggers and thirdies, you have an expectation above yourself. Why didn't you win the lottery? You didn't buy the ticket. You will get eaten by a nigger cannibal before you get a middle class wage from the government

>>724011257
>I’m 100% German
Those went extinct thanks to the war.
You're either a Slav/Anglo creole or a Turkish guest worker.

>>724012049
>Its already happening. Zoomers aren't working and are all NEETING nobody has a job in 2025.
and no one cares

>>724012049
>he thinks plebs won't be ideologically optimized
Whatever you'll get shall be the same either eventually or from the start. For all its deceivingly great social accomplishments, US isn't late Russian Empire or France, and this is the age of information.

>>723990991
>an unstable predatory digital market that could easy fold at anytime
I tried making this point just a few weeks ago to someone and they said I was retarded and didn't understand what I was talking about. As if skins in a video game are equivalent to having a bar of gold or something lmao. Hope that person I was talking to lost a bunch of money anyway.

>>723989674 (OP)
Yacht fuel ain't cheap kids, man runs a business.

>>724012191
A draft isn't happening not in this age. Zoomers won't even show up to a job they aren't going to comply with a draft. It will be mass desertion

Age 15-35 in america is 100 million people approximately and boomers/genX are only dying more and more. The youngest genX is 52 and the boomers are all but dead.

The elites have two options.

Either give UBI to us to eat and game on PC or society collapses and you have 100 million zoomies, millenials and gen alpha who are poor with no homes all angry.

>>723989674 (OP)
>Gabe scams the scammers
Truly out lord and saviour

>>724012464
>he thinks gayben cares about the third party cs market
lmao

>>724012118
>Its a sign of decline that zoomers and gen alpha can't afford homes
They will inherit their homes. Times change. We're back in family era. Like in old paintings.
THEY're losing their grasp. Can't trick anyone into loans or rents. Peer pressure is toning down in society too.

>>723998509
Do you think Gabe browses /pol/?

>>724009310
Shalom rabbi

>>724012575
You have to have a salary to have kids. To buy food. You don't understand. Zoomers have ZERO money. They get maybe $2000 a year to buy food zelled from their genX parents. How do I know? Because this is my life. I have no job. Its not possible to raise any children.

This shit is crashing without UBI.

>>724012631
Gabe is Steamies schizo.

>>724012541
100 million is nothing. You'll be fighting off Africans before you eat the rich faggot

>>724012541
Zoomers are extremely easy to brainwash. They show up for the draft if the propaganda tells them to.

>>724012049
>UBI is coming whether you like it or not.
I've never seen anyone address the whole issue of: what happens when prices rise commensurate to the amount given via UBI?
Say you provide everyone with $1k monthly. What's to stop Mr. Goldberg from immediately raising rent by $500 per month (other than Mr. Liebowitz undercutting him by $450)? UBI seems like it'll cause even greater wealth consolidation as the people who own real estate or own storefronts just hike prices to take advantage of the new NEETbux being distributed by the government. UBI in this regard will just reward those who already have the most while providing you with the illusion of independence.

>>723993283
CS2's revenue doesn't come remotely close to the behemoth that is selling other people's games.

>>724012689
>salary to have kids
No one cares about kids. Earth is overpopulated and nature itself signaling you to not have kids or interact with feminists.

>>724012650
just don't trade crypto on shabbat and you're ok with me goy

>>724012464
Why buy expensive yacht fuel, when you can hire CS players and make them power it for skins?
Engines? Hand-powered dynamos? Propulsion? All human powered.
It's a challenging work, outdoors. I guarantee you won't go hungry.

>>724012714
Well you're wrong. America has a lot of weapons and angry young poor NEET men.

Enjoy the societal collapse because the only way they are satiating 100 million poor zoomers, gen alphas and zillenials is with UBI and gaming PC's

Nobody is working in 2025

>>724012778
DW he's a retard zoomer and hasn't the brain to think about that just give him le ubi

>>724011687
I'm sorry you're insecure about it, but investing into future investment is not where value comes from.

>>724012541
You won't find safety in numbers, and US civil war is decades late.

Surely this'll kill the whole game economy right? I mean if Gabe has just done something this big without forewarning who knows what he'll do next? Surely these thirdie crypto bros won't be that stupid they'll still be invested..

>>724012748
Nope even in the 60s there was mass desertion and these people still believed in america.

90% of zoomers live with their parents, eat fast food and have no job. Anyways its a week day which includes (you) and me

>>724012818
>Earth is overpopulated and nature itself signaling you to not have kids or interact with feminists.
Sure, (((nature))). Uh-huh.

>>724012907
You wouldn't know

So. Why are we, /v/ the gamers, hate skin RMT?
Are you the one retard who buys those skins?
Do you really want to work at shit soul crashing job instead of having fun?
Think about it logically.

>>724012915
>US civil war in JUST TWO WEEKS BRO IT'S COMING JUST WAIT
we sidestepped this one by allowing the trump re-election, crisis averted.

>>723989674 (OP)
>entire user base
you have no idea how small your bubble is

ATTENTION EVERYONE: RICH "LOWTAX" KYANKA OF SOMETHINGAWFUL FAME HAS COMMITTED SUICIDE AS A RESULT OF THE SKIN FIASCO
MAY HE REST IN PEACE
PLEASE SEND YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS

>>724009513
To be fair, unless you're a billionaire, you're basically poor.

>>724013007
How do you figure that, exactly?

>>724012907
>investing into future
>posting on 4chan

>>724013068
>Why are we, /v/ the gamers, hate skin RMT?
I don't feel any way about RMT since I don't buy the skins, but I always like watching retards lose their money after a rugpull.

>>724012979
Also I haven't had a job in 10 years.

Last job I had was 16 in highschool was part time, I'm 26 now. 10 YEARS NEETING. IM A ZOOMER through and through.

You have no idea how many are just like me. MILLIONS of men are just like me.

America has no future WITHOUT ubi

>>724012979
They never believed in America. They were the same retarded consumers you are, consistently impotent and bereft of any foresight.
US population was already optimized by that point.

>>724012969
That is the design. Plebs will think it's going back to 50% ath based on nothing but sheer desperation but the reality is third party trading sites were the target and they've executed well. The ath will never come back and retaining 5% of the value will be lucky

>>724011687
>without a weekends
SAAR

>>724013003
I hate women and I hate kids.
Kazahstan in my soul is getting strong with every second.

>>724013068
It would be great if third world countries were kept out of it

>>724013119
we're both way too old to still be here anon

>>724013094
Merely postponed. US has too many systemic problems, and too few honorable people in power, likely none.

>>724013265
Yes and? I get paid for posting on 4chan. It's a legit job.

>>723990549
i agree, american economy is a giant scam
kill it all

>>723989674 (OP)
>entire user base
True, most of steam is third world subhumans like you. So glad you're all getting fucked over, hope you kill yourselves.

>>724013216
Ah yes however will America survive if the neets don't get their gibs

>>724013068
If you're stupid enough to "invest" in skins because you see it as an EZ way to get rich, then you're stupid enough to fall for the market manipulation from the bigger fish. Just work a regular job and skip the uncertainty.

>>724013335
That's very rude.

>>724013216
One of my friends from high school is in your situation. He lives in his parents basement and actually recently got married (she moved into the basement.) He thinks it'll last forever but both of his parents are in HORRIBLE health. Extremely overweight, father has severe emphysema, mom has kidney and liver issues. Once they go the house goes and reality comes knocking. Like you, his entire existence relies on the charity of everyone else surrounding him, but that can't last forever. So enjoy it while you can, because the odds of your support structure dying before UBI gets implemented is pretty much guaranteed.

>>724013561
>Just work a regular job and skip the uncertainty.
Nice try Shekelstein.
What's next? Paying taxes?

fucking hilarious. Glad I never bought expensive knives. Just a case every now and then to see what I'd get on a whim.

>>724013687
>what's next, paying taxes?
Truly there is nothing more jewish than parasitically benefitting off systems that you don't contribute to in any way.

>>724013216
UBI? you'll be lucky if you get free beans and rice, faggot.

>>724009643
>>724009162
>Americans need to be millionaires to own 1 house
The fuck?

>>724013574
We could have fun playing with funny munny and epix, as soon as some thirdies want to build their retirement off it it's time to blow it all up

>>724013068
My job consists of me doing close to nothing to the point I could straight up bringing my Switch to work and nobody bats an eye.

>>724013789
*glows*

>>724013687
Yeah. Tax is a payment for service. It's only fair. If you don't like US gov services and the agendas they pursue, you should gather that fabled American grit and rebel.

>>723989674 (OP)
You retards deserve it for deifying this fat blob who has been destroying the industry for decades.

>>723990549
shhh we have to pretend the jewish knife hoarders are the good guys

>>724013806
House cost $610k when I bought it seven years ago. But if you want to buy a place for $70k you can certainly find an old row house in Cleveland, but then you're living in the midwest...

>>723989674 (OP)
stupid motherfuckers trusting that valve won't just randomly change shit on their platform (which they have done forever)
nothing you have on steam is yours
everything lives in valve's world, and can be changed or taken away from you at any time

the hero worship around steam and gaben needs to stop

>>724013614
Projection cope LMAO. It won't happen to him and it won't happen to me.

I inherit everything I'm an only child but my point is millions of men are like me. The most famous one that got rich was asmongold.

We should be working, millions of us in trades, labor jobs but we can't since we can't buy homes or start families. Its over. Give us UBI and get robots to do the work or america collapses and the old farts genX won't have a pot to piss in when they get 70+ and need to enjoy retirement.

Instead they'll live in a chaotic society, they already do. The Charlie kirk assassination was this chaos. As the old elites designed a society for themselves they also made it volatile for themselves because theres 100 million young people who are angry and poor or just apathetic.

>>724013942
You don't even play video games
Go play with your children or something old man

>>723989674 (OP)
>>723989674 (OP)

Rabbi GabenBerg Newellstein rugs the goyim... I mean gamers 2025 colorized.

>>724013806
In Russia mere city apartments cost ~1+ million rubles and counting.
Welcome to the modern economics.

>>724014007
You think you'll get asmongolded before you go down in "the chaos" like kirk as you say. lol

>>723995809
CIA op to fuck up Ruzzian money laundering

>>723990549
>>724012094
Right. The Old Testament law was incredibly clear on the subject, instructing people not to loan with interest, ever. Then it said if they DO loan money, that debts were supposed to just be deleted every 7 years (the "year of jubilee"), for the whole society. Eventually, a famous rabbi, Hillel, came up with this idea that a rabbi could give a loaner a pass saying that a specific debt was excluded from the 7-year-forgiveness. This eventually evolved into basically every single loan being made with interest and not being forgiven in the years of Jubilee.

Jesus then called these guys out, saying that was bullshit and that people should just give their money away without expecting anything in return, to give to anyone who asks, and that doing otherwise basically means you're worshiping money.

Modern society bends over backwards to explain how investing and rent-seeking behavior is totally-Christian-and-okay, and that it doesn't matter how many people you exploit if you tithe or whatever the fuck, but the Bible repeatedly states the opposite, with the Old Testament repeatedly saying that God "prefers obedience to sacrifice". It's the exact reason given as to why he passed up King Saul for King David, trying to please God by making sacrifices but not actually giving a shit about what he really wants us to do.

I think there ARE moral ways to invest, but it's probably what we would call "charitable giving" in today's world. For example, giving money to some community project that will benefit you in some material way, like funding a playground or community center where you live when you have kids or grandkids. You wouldn't expect them to pay you back, but you do "get something out of it". Similarly, you might invest in a company and then they decide to make you their primary supplier of something because of it. The Bible is surprisingly okay with bribery like that, which is probably a whole different conversation.

>>723990549
This is a socialist-baiting. A term I invented after seeing so many leftists try to make normal people support communism. It's shit like
>"I'm not sure if it's morally right to support company because [out of context shit + Leftist propaganda]"
>"The game industry is broken because the CEOs and middle management..."(takes blame away from the leftists who make shit game, especially now that wokeshit is dying)
>"That company is being unethical because [usually guilt tripping by crying over few forests burned or thirdies dying]"
>"There are so many poors and economy is bad so why can't rich distribute their wealth to stabilize economy?"(slippery slope to communism, trying to make hard workers look bad)
>"Shareholders/investing bad because you don't do 'real work'."(They do more work and have more responsibilities than us)
>"So many people were fired for some company quarter profit, isn't that unfair?"(advocating for unions)
When you can spot your enemy, you can reply accordingly. Usually tranime pic is a dead give away. You can count the percentages to see how leftist someone is. 100% is obvious commie
>Complaining about companies treating developers bad +30%
>Mentions right-wing +10% (degratory term such as poltard +70%)
>Tranime picture +50% (if a girl tranime pic it's +80%)
>Text wall about leftoid politics +40% (over 1000 characters and it's 100% commie)
>"chud, incel" etc. +90%
>"Investors/shareholders/CEOs bad" +70%
>criticizing cars or/and pushing trannytrains or walking +60%(can also be brainwashed europoor who doesn't know better)
>Complains about "idpol shit" +50%
>"election tourists" +100%
>"nazi bad" or making fun of Hitler +100%
>defending trannies, fags, niggers, foids, pajeets, or any kind of immigrants +80%
There are other signs but those are most obvious.

That anon for example
>tranime pic (foid one)
>complains about investors etc.
150% commie. They vigilant and hunt those leftoids.

>>724014007
You aren't as smart as you think you are, address this childish naivete before you miscalculate.

That said
>designed a society
You do realize that the American Dream is a honeypot for migrants, right?
US isn't a proper normal nation, it's an arena, an exploitative system since inception. An enterprise for the ruthless that has incidented into goodness in places.

>>724008713
>All retro game collector niggers
my man. the only people who should be mad at people buying retro games are people who want retro games, who they themselves are collectors meaning you're a hypocrite. Get mad at the actual problem of the people scalping these games.

>>723989674 (OP)
>CS2 Update
>A game on the Source 2 engine
>Removes 2 billion from CS2 economy
>Resulted in at least 2 confirmed suicides

Uhh...guys? I'm not exactly sure, but I think Valve is teasing an Artifact 2!

>>724014438
Bible isn't the moral authority, it's a social cybernetics book.

>>724014145
>~1+ million rubles and counting.
One room out of 2 room apartment in decent commie block costed me 1,2 mil in 2013. Not in the Moscow. Shit sucks

>>724014126
??????

>>724014440
>frog
>"tranime"
go back shartyteen

>>724014440
You sure he isn't just a moron?

>>724012575
Stopped at the first kiss.
Guess only way to fix my life is to reincarnate and try new game

>>723990549
Based unironically investors should be forced to work wage cagies jobs until the end of their days for what they've done to the economy and the working mans ability to provide for himself

McDonald's gigs. A McDonald's in a prison. With no guards. And a constantly broken ice cream machine

>>724014738
>7k hours on Dota 2
You could have stared at a wall for 7000 hours and it still would have been a better way to spend your time instead of playing this shit.

>>724014971
But then he's not a gamer

Should've added complaining about 4chan as +50% but it's pretty obvious. Anyone who complains about Pepe is certified leftoid. Pepe has been raping leftists since 2015

>"$2k is nothing"
>"look at my mom savings"
>"I own a house!"
>posts shit rig with 5070
>7k in dota
I hope your profile is private because I can doxx you from your hours in dota guide and review

>>724014738
This is probably what GabeN's real hidden steam profile looks like

Glad I am not a Steamcuck

>>723989674 (OP)
based fuck scammers

>>724015045
Go back shartyteen.

>>723999696
you'd have to be retarded not to do it
biggest return on investment markets out there

>>724015086
No you can’t.

They're imaginary objects in a video game, they have no value

>>724014690
Quite so.
Then you turn on your TV and listen how some granny got scammed for millions, or how yet another corrupt official owning a dozen estates got caught for 1-100 million bribe.
Where do all these people get all this money?
You know shit's fucked when a general makes a 1 billion bribe. The average money amounts in criminal circulation must be huge.

>>724015190
Not one of them, but they are based for making leftists like you seethe
Unfortunate allies

>>723989674 (OP)
i "lost" 4k off this but i gained like 20k over the past few years from item gains so lol

easy come easy go

>>724014971
>he got filtered by dota
not my problem

>>724014670
Maybe, but at least half of the English-speaking world openly *claims* it to be their moral authority.

>>724015417
Hmm.

>>724015296
>Not one of them
Sharty lingo + frog. Can't trick anyone.

>>724015490
>nooo you can’t play video games here you need to play deltarune and complain about troons
KEK

>>723999365
>be me
>playing skyrim
>riding around on horse
>think to myself "I wish I had like different saddles, or armored plating or something for this horse..."
>kill myself a moment later when I realize what I just fucking asked for
I almost never buy games at release for the simple fact that I KNOW I can get a complete version for much cheaper in 6 months to a year.

>>724015725
But did you look at your horse? Your horse is amazing!

>>724015820
give it a lick

>>723995873
Valve has said that to them all the skins are worthless. Not only that but you can't actually sell the skins for money, you can only sell them to top up your Steam Wallet.

What all these retards did was use third party services that allowed them to trade with real world money, but that's against Steam's ToS.

So what's the angle for a lawsuit? "Our client purposedly broke the Terms of Service of your product and used them in a way they're not intended for"?

>>724015928
Mmmm, it tastes just like raisins!

>>724015980
It's absolutely insane how bad you need my cock.

>>723995873
yes, robinhood was sued for the same thing
>>723996067 >>723996214 >>723999719 >>724015980
you guys are retards, thinking TOS holds any water in law is enough to show how stupid you are

>>723989674 (OP)
He looks like Owen Benjamin there.

>>724009881
based stirnerfag

>>723989674 (OP)
glad to see him lose some weight. It's never to late to get /fit/

>>724015086
>xir is still here and STILL mad
There is no need to be upset wagie

>>724009878
The only good post in this thread

Buy the dip my friends! Reds and skins will disappear fast, being traded into shit knifes. In 18 months the market will be better than ever. Save this comment if you don't believe me

>>723989674 (OP)
>spent the last 4 months on a yacht in international waters
I think he knew his life was at risk because of all these retards that wasted thousands on weapon cases and gambling.
Holy fuck my sides.

>>723999514
can someone murder this newnigger numine kike? he even wanted us to help him install linux. fucking newnigger tranny noob

>>724016258
Unironically true

Valve added another grinder to throw skins into

>>724016291
6 Big Boogey cocks in her pussy and 12 Big Boogey cocks in her Ass dripping cum and x ray and getting Pregnant

>>724015269
Some very ancient 99lvl grannies have pensions above average Moscow wages. They're number 1 targets for scams. They tend to hoard money until own death.

>>724016258
Not buying your bored ape

>>723989674 (OP)
Wait so people were just hoarding digital code and jpegs as investments instead of cashing shit out immediately? In a market that could be changed on a whim by the game devs? Are they retarded?

>>724009878
>investing into a literal glownigger project is morally correct because fuck letting systems controlled by the same glowniggers have power over your now thorougly visible and predictable transactions
lmao

>>724016130
>yes, robinhood was sued for the same thing
anyone can be sued for anything
did robinhood win or lose those cases?

>>724016130
Robinhood sells financial products, Valve sold videogame skins. They were never meant to hold value.

>>724016465
they lost, it's happened multiple times because of how options are shown to users

>>724016415
They think number will only go up because number went up in the past. When number go down they join the 41%

>>724016415
>Wait so people were just hoarding digital code and jpegs as investments instead of cashing shit out immediately?
Yes
>In a market that could be changed on a whim by the game devs?
Yes
>Are they retarded?
Yes

>>724016381
Makes sense.

>>723999514
You're fucking overweight NEET, moeblob. I bet you're RMTing is some shitty MMO.

>>724007258
This, dude could hire a personal trainer and a nutritionist easily

Anyone who is keeping money in video game skins is retarded outright
Everyone who kept money in video game skins after that one TF2 update where crates got bugged to drop unusuals is double retarded.

>>724007258
you're delusional if you think a fat fuck that has remained for decades fat as a billionaire only coincidentally became thin as soon as ozempic was released.

>>724016415
They also rent out the skins to people who only want to use them temporarily. RMT market is blowing up

>>724015490
he saved 7k hours worth of money by not buying other games, that's smart

>>724016581
I don't know what that is from but I hate it

>>724015490
Spread out over nearly 14 years, that’s only about 500 hours a year on dota.

>>724016592
>he saved 7k hours worth of money by not buying other games
He sold skins.
Do not believe his lies.

>>724016581
>6 Boogey cocks
WATCH MY SIX

>>723990549
>producing anything of value
I don't care about external appraisal of "value".
If I plant vegetables and eat them myself they won't have any value to you or anyone else. Would that be immoral?

Heh, about time the fat fuck and his monopoly get knocked down a few pegs.

>>724015513
To me, that means USA, Canada, UK, and Australia, all of which have around to 50-70% self-reporting to be Christian. The UK even has clergy in a branch of its government. Whether they are in practice or not is a separate thing.

>>724016893
are dota 2 skins even worth anything? I remember the dragonclaw hook being a big thing but all the shit I still have that are 10+ years old are worth zero

And still no HL3

DEGENERATE SKIN GAMBLERS AND 12 BIG BOOGEY COCKS

>>724010145
To be fair, artifical scarcity of knives was a norm for over a decade and everyone just assumed that's how it was going to be until the end of CS. Pretty wild that Valve decided to break that status quo overnight with no warnings.

>>724013806
not going into things like inflation and other economic issues, the housing market is just fucked in a lot of areas in the US.
I've heard canada has it way worse, sadly.

>>724016996
They're worth practically nothing compared to CS items. Valve severely limited which items can be tradable so only the ultra rare items from the gacha chests can be marketed. Generally speaking the most expensive dota items are Crimson Witness immortals (red variant immortals that only drop during TI to TI attendees), those typically go for ~$200-250. Otherwise it's about $5-15 for most immortals. You cannot make shit for money selling skins in dota.

>>724016943
How many times are you gonna post this same exact comment? Have you finally switched over to letting a bot make your posts for you?

>>724013806
when I lived in south korea ten years ago a starter apartment in a decent building was $500k USD AND you were expected to have your in-laws living with you. Housing is expensive in most places, genuinely curious where you live where housing is cheap.

The sounds they'll make rattling their wage cage shall serve as a warming to the rest.

>>724016996
>are dota 2 skins even worth anything?
Yes. It's the same market. Pretty much every f2p game with drop loot skin system is profitable. It's never was about selling 2k knife skins or skirts from PUBG. Just simple working man cosmetics. $10-50+. Selling keys etc.

>>724017228

I'unno. Makes me feel better. I've been waiting for this for over a decade.

>>724017385
Have you tried getting a job so you didn't have to seethe over console wars on the internet?

Life is more valuable than money.

To all the edge lords deriding others misfortune, remember that to a select few, words have consequences.

>>724017507

I have a job.

>>724017360
> It's the same market.
It really isn't. Less than 10% of the skins in dota 2 can be sold on the market. Valve will release a chest with 13-20 skins and only 1-2 of them will be marketable (and typically with a 3-6 month delay until they can be sold). What happens is: people autistically buy 20-30+ chests hoping to get the ultra rare items thinking that they'll be worth 20-30x the chest value ($2.99). Instead they are usually only worth $20-30 because of how many flood the market on the day that the market eligibility opens up.

>>724017508
>remember that to a select few, words have consequences
that's why I always tell retards to kill themselves. Even if it's only worked once it's still a massive return on my investment.

>>724017556
If you're still doing console war shit over the age of 18 that's fucking embarrassing.

So let me get this straight...: people are (possibly) killing themselves over some rare knife (one of the most useless weapon if not only) skins which6 Big Boogey cocks in her pussy and 12 Big Boogey cocks in her Ass dripping cum and x ray and getting Pregnant they hoarded to jack up the price?

>"trading strategy"
>portfolio

Also, who dropping them laughing and clown emoji to a death announcement?

>>724017668

I wouldn't really call it that. Its not even what consoles I actually like, they all suck in a way, just what I hate. Hate is always so much stronger and easier to embrace.

>>724004507
2.50 back then is like 250 dollars now

>>724017573
These basement dwelling kids with 0 life experience are making this spectacle even sweeter lmao. They don't know wtf they're talking about. 6 Big Boogey cocks in her pussy and 12 Big Boogey cocks in her Ass dripping cum and x ray and getting Pregnant Got wrapped up in the sickness by influencers who were grooming them and communities to keep profiting off of them.

Thought this was all transparent but it clearly wasn't lol.

my friend has a brain issue which will not allow him to get a job, so flipping skins and trading was the only way he could get money to live, he used to make 3k in 1-2 weeks, and now his 800k inventory just turned into 1k, he broke down in tears not knowing what he will do, he told me that he's thinking about commiting suicide, he has no relatives, his mother is dead his father left him, his sister who used to take care of him is also dead. maybe you think its funny but it isnt

>>724017863
>le enlightened faggot thinking everything sucks
Stop projecting your unhappiness lmao

>>724001431
That's it? If Gabe actually had any amount of dignity left he'd shut down their game's markets altogether. Or at the very least make skins a whole lot easier to get. But he won't because this bullshit that has been killing the game industry is earning him billions without even doing anything

>>723991571
Gaben seems like the type of guy who wakes up and randomly goes "I don't wanna be fat anymore" and just does it.

>>723989674 (OP)
based beyond belief

>>724017991
>But he won't because this bullshit that has been killing the game industry is earning him billions without even doing anything
Skins for f2p games are not killing anything.

>>724017991
He just made skins a lot easier to get, hence the crash.
Also the steam marketplace wasn't his issue, buying and selling happened off of steam

>>723989674 (OP)
when did he stop being fat?

>>724017913
>x-ray
>transparent
yeah yeah nigga I'm picking up what you're putting down

>>724017181
uhh roshan couriers exist bro and so do the stupid ground circle effects with an expiration date on them that you cant even find being sold on the community market

>>723989674 (OP)
Unfathomably based and fucking kneel

>>724017507
>seethe over console wars on the internet?
NOTHING IS OVER! NOTHING! You just don’t turn it off! It wasn’t my war! You asked me, I didn’t ask you! And I did what I had to do to win! But somebody wouldn’t let us win! And I come back to the world and I see all those console fags in the internet, baiting me, spitting. Calling me a pc nigger and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to bait me, huh? Who are they? Unless they’ve been me and been there and know what the hell they’re yelling about!

>>724003747
That sounds like a great update for people who actually play the game, I hope they do it with TF2 so maybe I can get a batsaber or shooting star.

>>724018248
i think it was during the chinese pandemic, i think he was living in UK? must have helped getting off fatty food and sugar drinks

>>723990549
This this this
It's a Talmudic thing to do
May all the speculators rot in hell

>>724018305
No one except saudi princes buy couriers after the update where everyone gets a courier for free
But you're right, the ground effects usually go for about $1k. Those happen once a year or less, so they're not really representative of high-end dota 2 market items

>>723999131
This.

>>724018242
I took a quick look at the market and there are still skins that cost 1k+
>but you dont understand, it was worth ten times that before!
Big fucking deal. Skins should cost no more than 2 digits.

>>723990549
People who make their money through their ownership of capital without performing actual labor with value to others (e.g. landlords, stock brokers, business owners) are human parasites who need to get Mao'd.

These leeches live at the actual working class' expense and need to be disposed off.

Read some communist theory

>>724017507
Fuck off you wagekek ironic gamer.
This is /v/ - Video Games. We rage and seethe about video games. It's serious business.

>>724018590
I have sympathy for those who got hooked on the trading and thinking they would make easy money, but at the same time I just bought my first knife after playing CS for so many years because I 6 Big Boogey cocks in her pussy and 12 Big Boogey cocks in her Ass dripping cum and x ray and getting Pregnant could actually afford something nice. Also why are people killing themselves over a thing that happened overnight, the market is still changing, and it's not like knives are going for cents either, they're still worth a lot.

>>724018652
Comunists are the biggest leeches and parasites and hypocrites in history
They are Talmudic and very Jewish
Said so yes you're right but for the wrong reasons
Regardless all parasites must be killed

>>724017913
>>724018697

>>724018652
Leeches of leeches are still leeches, laborer.
You're conceited, and your working "class" has no prerogative over any other survival tactic of other lifeforms.

I honestly think what Valve has done is pathetic. How many of you didn’t want to open cases but instead bought knives and gloves? Some people worked for a month to afford that, others maybe two. It doesn’t even matter how much someone earns — this is a slap in the face to all of us who play this game.

I invested two thousand euros into this game because I love it and enjoy playing it, and now I’m left wondering — what can I even do with that money? It feels like it was all erased overnight, just because Valve wants more cases to be opened.

How many young people have they ruined with this? I’m certain that many lost hope through this whole situation, expecting prices to rise, not fall. A 50% drop is massive and brutal. I don’t think the market will ever recover from this, and 90% of players will probably leave the game because of it.

This is just another example of Valve destroying the game and slapping everyone who ever invested money into it, because clearly, money isn’t an issue for them — and we, the players, ended up being the sheep who kept giving it to them.
The whole 6 Big Boogey cocks in her pussy and 12 Big Boogey cocks in her Ass dripping cum and x ray and getting Pregnant concept of the game has completely changed, and I believe this marks the end of it.

RIP CS2
RIP Valve
RIP people who invested money

>>724018652
>These leeches live at the actual working class' expense and need to be disposed off
Working class should be replaced with robots and sold into slavery for our amusements.
We need slavery back. Real working class is in Chinese sweatshops. You're not working class. You have time to post on 4chan. No real worker would waste his precious free time here.

I hope Valve employees are proud of themselves and celebrate this as a big win... litteral pieces of shit, what did they think its gonna happen? People have litterally all of their fortune in skins

Death to valve.

>>724018850
He's just pasting the >>724016581 definition of RMT in place of traders lmao

>>724018162
Brainlets. Everytime.
>devs see people paying top dollar for low effort skins
>not even actual content
>fast forward to present
>every multiplayer game is now a live service game designed to sell skins

>>723995575
>you put your money into a company you did research on and had good fundamentals
LOL
LMAO
LINE GO UP, MONEY GO IN

>>724018697
Not for long, none of this shit will be worth more than 1k outside of a couple exceptions.
Were still in the immediate rush after the event, a bunch of bagholders are either exiting or trying to buy to save their bags and a bunch of other people are riding the wave trying to make a bit of cash on shit that was previously worthless or rolling for new shinies.
The market will dribble away as time goes and will honestly probably look closer to dota 2 the longer it goes

>>723991571
He went scuba diving and the fish ate it all.

Long live to gaben

>>724005765
>to them RMTing in online games and in this case, dealing in CS skins, is a way for them to make a living.
America is thirld world now?

>>724018925
Noone invested money, they spent it.

>>723995873
No.

>putting real money on video game cosmetics
>on 3rd party sites
fucking lol
What in the fuck are these people thinking?

>>724019339
>Noone invested money
Noone is quite rich, huh.

>>724019116
>logical fallacy
Maybe you shouldn't play slop in the first place? Maybe the devs of your games are shit?
My multiplayer games are not gaas for example.
I bet you're no gunz too.

>>724019506
Just stupid

>>724018590
>Skins should cost no more than 2 digits.
I don't disagree but that's the world we live in. I wonder what the people spending $2k on a CS knife are like. For every SDE pulling down $300k+ in total comp at Google, AWS, MS there also has to be some speculative retard who legitimately thought daytrading CS knives would make him rich. One of my friends refinanced his student loans during covid to buy $50k of dogecoin when it was at $0.50 (about a week before it tanked). People make retarded decisions all the time.

>>724019310
America lives in echo chamber yes.
>jeets did this
>thirdeis did this
>niggers did this
>trannies did this

>>724018590
>Skins should cost no more than 2 digits.
Wrong. It's a free market. I want to buy my $300 skin and look cool in my game.

>>724019737
>America lives in echo chamber yes.
Every country has always been like this. The issue is that until now these loud retards couldn't figure out that internet stuff so their constant boogeyman shit was mostly contained within dive bars. Overt racists are usually some of the stupidest motherfuckers you can find and I'll never forgive apple for giving these retards a voice by making smartphones mainstream.

>>724012092
same lol and i "lost" money i think it's cause everyone got raped including rich ukranian traders lol

>>724019905
>It's a free market.
nta. I've been thinking about that. What determines the price ceiling on these items? Because it seems to be VERY inflated

>>724019932
Apple didn't do shit, normal phones with ICQ already permitted it, if not as fast typing wise.

Valve are basically geniuses. Basically, the overpriced knives and gloves will drop in price and have a bigger supply, which means more people can actually buy them — leading to a spike in sales and more profit for Valve.

At the same time, regular skins will go up in price and demand, creating even more trading activity.

Overall, this combo will create a massive surge in market volume, and Valve wins big either way.

>>724019905
>"Self"-actualization
Personal needs can be easily imposed as personal.

>>724020189
you forgot to mention how this destroys faith in valve maintaining an economy

>>724020682
Lootboxes are getting regulated out of existence anyway.

>>724000715
>>723995575
>>724005049
>>724018652
I don't care what the end result of investment is
I care only why you did it in the first place
was it to put faith into a corporation or enterprise you wanted to see succeed
or was it just to turn a profit?

>>724019905
The right to do something and the reasonability of the market being healthy from good desicions are not the same thing.

>>724020682
>retards will suddenly stop being retarded
They're gambling addicts who invest their life savings into 1s and 0s, they're not going to get smarter.

>>724020987
>or was it just to turn a profit?
=
>was it to put faith into a corporation or enterprise you wanted to see succeed

While you guys are shitposting, you steamdrones better find out where all that money went to before its too late.

>>724021212
>normalfags are going to want to buy knives now that they saw valve rugpull previous knife buyers
nah even normalfags aren't this stupid, are they?

>>724020987
There are too many varied answers that require context. Maybe I have a rare Charizard first edition card and decided it would be worth more if I kept it safe and held onto it. Maybe I happened across the first edition Charizard at a garage sale and bought it up to flip.
I think the point is well illuminated here- the simple act of hoarding or holding on isn't amoral, but it can be amoral if you commit amoral actions in the process of saving and selling. For example if Al the toy collector stole Woody from Andy's family garage sale. The theivery made it from a man completing a collection to stealing a little boy's favorite toy.

Anymore suicides besides that one guy from china?

>>724021469
>that one guy from china
Probably fake news for engagement.
There is another one from Greece. For 200k eur. Probably fake too