Thread 724058538

How can Valve legally do this? They ruin lives.

>>724058538 (OP)
>father works hard all his life
>expect to live life in easy mode because of it
>instead of working spend it on pixels on a videogame.
Its not even your money that you earned, why would you kill yourself when you can go work like your dad did and teach your son not to be an idiot like yourself? Kind of selfish.

>>724058538 (OP)
>they ruin lives
not as much as a coward kills himself and shits on his own family over a mere 70k, what a cunt

>>724058538 (OP)
>How can Valve legally do this?
they own counter strike

>>724058538 (OP)
his father should have read him some kipling

the only place 76 grand would last you a lifetime is some peasant third world shithole hwere you could survive on $1500 a year

>>724058538 (OP)
>I had invested
stopped reading there

>>724058864
These "suicides" are just fake news to get valve to reverse the change by guilt tripping

buying jpegs doesn't sound like a good investment plan

Okay, lets say Valve didn't do any changes to the skins, what exactly was this guys plan here?
Money transferred to steam wallet cannot really be refunded, so the only solution was really selling his account to someone, right?
But who exactly is gonna buy it? If someone is rich enough to buy an account worth 76k, then said person is most likely rich enough to just buy any games and skins they want, no?

>>724059165
Boooo.
I wanna see market crash suicides.

>>724059287
You're really far out of the loop. Sites for selling your steam items for real money have existed forever.

>>724058538 (OP)
>I invested in digital vidya knife skins
you love to see it

>>724058538 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unRldLdllZ8

>>724059165
No 1st world person types 76050 $ with no comma and a space between the dollar sign after the number

>>724059574
how do you even remember this.

>>724058538 (OP)
Guess his father didn't invest in quality education for him

>>724058538 (OP)
>announcing his death instead of just fucking doing it
woman behavior

and people were taking NFTs serious
lmao

>>724059287
>so the only solution was really selling his account to someone, right?
He trades the item to a buyer through steam and buyer sends real money directly to his bank account

>>724059560
For a FREE videogame

Did these people seriously invest in cs skins? Still finding it hard to believe

>>724059778
>buy skin for $10
>sell skin for $20,000
yeah a real brain baffler

>>724058538 (OP)
looks like CS2 is an hero shooter now!

>>724059670
>the 2025 virgin cry for help
>the 1929 chad takes a shot of bourbon and jumps out the fucking window

>>724059778
>Did these people seriously invest in cs skins?
No, they got scammed in cs skins

>>724059843
seems more like they bought it at 20 000 and now theyre selling it at 10 dollars lol

>>724059550
>>724059698
...so none of this is valve's problem?

>>724059448
least psychotic libtard

>>724059843
I mean 10 bucks wouldn't bankrupt you unless you seriously put all of your eggs in one basket

>>724059670
You have to feel guilty for this for him to waste all his money on pixels

>>724058538 (OP)
do you think valve anticipated people literally offing themselves over this change
no way they'd still go through with the change if they anticipated this sort of response, right?

What happened to everyone making fun of gachafags for literally burning money for .jpegs?
Isnt this like a million times worse?

>>724059957
Exactly.

Pajeet_nation is also seething at the changes.

>>724058538 (OP)
it's a copy pasta you stupid newfag niggers

>>724059843
>sell skin for $20,000
wouldnt this require someone to buy it for 20k?
you can say your knife skin is worth as much as you want but isnt it worthless if no one buys it in the end?

fuck em
burn

>>724060059
Not only is it worse, it's been an obvious criminal money laundering scheme for a decade.

>>724060059
Apparently you could profit off of these skins, until you don't

>>724059698
This seems ripe for fraud, who in their right mind would "invest" in such a model? I would assume that any attempt to cash out would just leave me with nothing

>>724058538 (OP)
Sue Valve, now!!!

>>724060059
Not really, they dont have this grand scheme around getting rich off of skins in a free videogame. They just want to goon and they know it.

>>724060124
This is why I never got into crypto.
>Your faggotcoin is worth $600,000,000!!!!!
>okay great so I cash out now and turn it into real money right?
>........

>>724058538 (OP)
Why would you treat cosmetics in a game as an "investment"? It's not, and it never will be.
He deserved what he got.

>>724058538 (OP)
I actually hope this is real. I'm not exactly the best son in the world, but this little faggot taking his dad's hard won money, putting it all on some gay videogame and then getting sad and killing himself when it doesn't go his way makes me very angry.
Fuck these "people", and fuck gen z in general.

>>724060206
Imagine if gacha games let you sell your rare characters and items that you pulled instead of account locking them.

>>724059870
fuck off faggot people have been repeating this same joke for over 24 hours

>>724060192
can reddit make a class action suit?

>>724058538 (OP)
Mentioning that the bourbon is expensive is too blatant, really bad trolling attempt. Remember to always re-read your bait for obvious tells before posting.

>>724058538 (OP)
deserved. You'd have to be a genuine retard to not only invest your entire inheritance in a single place without spreading amongst companies, but also to put it all in a fucking video game.

>>724060214
not sure if bait but you know crypto is brought through exchanges that instantly buy and sell at market value, right?

>>724059870
Lol good one

>>724059870
Yes yes, we all saw the thread.

>lol NFTs are so fucking stupid
>NOOOOOOO MUH VIRTUAL KNIFE!

>>724060214
Cashing out crypto is easy unc, it's not 2008 anymore.
but why cash out when you can just stake and get 7%-10%~ return.

>steamdrones now pretend to be anti gambling from the start
lmao what a bunch of lying shills

>>724058538 (OP)
>laughing emoji reaction

can you imagine writing a goodbye message and someone just does that to you lmao

>>724060303
I think we'd make fun of them even more.
Because them killing themselves after their waifu "drops in value" they too "drop in value" making their love for their waifu a lie they sign with their life.
Truly poetically heartrending.
So what ARE people fucking ending it over? I know its knives but do they at least look cool? The ones that are worth dirt now.

Artificial scarcity mixed with artificial value driven mainly by money laundering isnt a good recipe to have. Valve did the right thing by deflating the prices.

>>724058538 (OP)
Can someone please explain to me what lead to this mindset in the first place?
At what point did a rational human brain consider that CS skins would be a viable alternative to real investments?
Did he buy skins directly for that money or did he buy lootboxes hoping that he would pull some million dollar skin?
When he says he invested that money it sounds like he planned for the value to go up over time was that ever realistic at all?
And how easy is it really to convert skins in the game into real life money worth tens of thousands, normally it is bound to your steam account and you can't have them pay it out so you'd need a 3rd party site to make your big sales but then again those only work as long as there is a buyer ready and willing to purchase your ingame skins or am I understand something wrong here?
I stopped playing Counter-Strike at CS:S where skins were free shit you could download from random fan sites and paste into your game files so this is all utterly beyond my comprehension

>>724060421
i cashed out my eth in 2017 and bought dj gear, good times

Oh no, anime posters, redditors and third worlders are killing themselves over skins to the fucking game.
Based Valve I guess?

>>724060553
Valve is the ones that invented this jewish scam in the first place
What's best you think "they did the right thing" by rugpulling their own addicts instead of "they did the profitable thing" by getting more people to buy keys

>>724060059
>Isnt this like a million times worse?
not really, it's just an investment to make money, a stupid one, but still.
gachatards actually enjoy spending their life savings on PNGs and gain nothing from it

>>724058538 (OP)
Do shartmerilards really?
t. never played CS

>>724058538 (OP)
How can valve enforce their ToS that all users agree to? Pretty easily, really.

>>724060059
Not only is it worse than gacha, it's even worse than Scam Citizen. At least the guys "buying" shios for thousands of bucks expect they will be able to play them in a completed game one day, this is still dumb of them but way better than using CS skins as some sort of meme investment portfolio.

>>724060501
of course it's a fucking german, toxic piece of shit

>>724058538 (OP)
>Valve sees how people have to gamble for the skins on off-sites and how the prices are bigger than max sale price on Steam
>People want the knife and glove skins
>Makes them accessible for everyone without a ridiculous price point
>This is somehow bad
I don't get it
>"But muh traders..."
Why should people who don't even play the game be catered over people who actually plays it? Might as well have Nintendo listen snoys opinions on Nintendo games and pander to them.

>>724060669
The best part is its NOT the anime posters.
Its the 'hardcore' gamers that wouldnt touch anime because who would spend money on a shitty anime girl lol lmao.

>>724060581
Low IQ drugs & gambling addicts. Bossmanjack is the best example.

>>724060753
It's like Pokemon card scalpers. These niggers don't actually like the skins or CS or whatever, they just want to scam someone out of money and while doing so absolutely ruin the fun of anybody who genuinely wanted to play the game and interact with the system.

>>724059891
Kek

>>724060687
And you fell for it. You didnt need to you know? Plenty of people have warned you but you ignored because your greed was too great. Whos the jew now?

>>724060124
>>724060124
>>724060124
This

No one has ever been able to explain this part of it

>>724058538 (OP)
counter strike skins are a bad investment, sorry

>>724060412
That wasn't even the originalq you fucking newfaggot.

>>724060124
It’s the same with retro games. One retard will post a listing for like $400 and a bunch of other retards follow and post theirs for $400 and suddenly the game is “selling for $400!” When in reality nobody is actually buying

>>724058538 (OP)
Based Gayben causing the Scamjeetocaust

>>724060952
It was the one in the thread the mods stickied.
If you have an earlier one, please post it.

>/v/ turns their back on Gabe after the CS skin "fiasco"
Fake PC gamers. Shame on all of you. I thought we were all brothers here, how could you dislike the lord of gaming himself? How dare you? How fucking dare you???

>>724058538 (OP)
>"investors" getting fucked
Best day of my life. All boomer line gamblers, real boomer line or not, deserve this.

>>724060059
You can at least jerk off to your gacha character. What do you even do with a virtual knife skin? You can't really run to the store and buy a girlfriend but you can definitely go buy a knife in real life that would actually have value and uses.

>>724060817
This
>"Hahaha! Unlike your tranime games or gacha, MY gambling is profitable!"
>"Hello everyone, Gaben here, we made skins accessible for everyone instead of people who just speculates on our trading system. Have fun everyone."
>*Does the Hitler exit*
It's funny.

>>724060801
truth
this change is good because it makes knife skins more affordable for people who actually play the game but don't want to spend thousands of dollars on them
this change is harmful for the people who sat on large inventories of skins in hopes of their value perpetually increasing
the former actually plays the game, and benefits from this change
the latter does not play the game, and is harmed from this change
i think it makes sense for the developers to make their game a better experience for people who actually play the game, and not prioritize the people who treat in-game cosmetics as investments

>>724060303
>the NTR market

>>724060059
it's only worse because they treated it like an actual market, these people don't realize that irl markets are regulated and that they shouldn't put their livelihood in the hands of a private company, especially when it's valve where they literally do whatever the fuck they want because they dreamt about it the night prior

>>724058538 (OP)
People laughing about skins and shit but still believing in money. lmao

>invested on shit even more volatile than bitcoin
derseved

>>724059957
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. It's a little bit their problem. The existence of the Community Market is them endorsing and facilitating the idea that skins have real money value. Even if real money doesn't pay out, people 100% pay in. Tanking the value of knives would also break the trust of the community they intentionally fostered even if RWT wasn't involved, and be a bad move. They can't be held culpable for people investing, but they can be for their losses, although the only recourse is that people just won't trust them any more

>>724060391
>>724060421
>SAAAAAAAAR BUY MUY FUCKING BAGS BENCHOD BASTARD SAAAR

>>724061249
>Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. It's a little bit their problem
It's really not. People just really, really wish it was their problem.

>>724061076
The button on the pokeball made me think she had hyper tits, I'm now disappointed.

>>724059981
Saaarrrrrr

>>724060874
>And you fell for it.
Sorry to disappoint you but I never did
take meds

Valve won and gamers won, speculators and money launderers lost.

So let me get this straight, all those tens of thousands of dollars that they boasted about and now lost is and always was akin to pic related?

>>724061352
Don't reply to me unless you actually want to back up your statements

>>724061426
Same to you, kid.
You didn't back up a single thing you said. You just made statements and hoped I'd belive them.

>>724061007
faggot

>>724061364
Here's booba for you

>>724061416
Yeah thats what happened in 1929

>>724060351
22 hours

>>724058538 (OP)
Why is Valve responsible for these degenerates? Tell me why? They buy some over inflated skin, and sell it in some blackmarket?

>>724061517
based

>>724061510
Thanks! Why are you being so hostile? Did I upset you?

>>724061482
>I just made statements
I posted the actual logic behind the statements. You just went "nuh uh." You are not equipped to actually discuss this issue.

>>724061517
thats a child

>>724061510
ZOZZLE

>bought SKINS
>cries about lost money
lol sayonara

>>724058538 (OP)
All he lost is the illusion that he had a future.

>>724060165
I bought a knife for around 60€ in 2016 and ended up selling it for around 750€ in 2024 when I was done with CS.

>>724060687
First lesson in gambling is that the house always wins.

>>724061732
Who the fuck is unironically buying that shit?

>>724061760
Kash Patel

I feel anybody who put the totality of their financial investment into Counter Strike knife skins could probably stand to leave the gene pool.

Requesting a Bogdanoff Gaben edit

>>724061646
You didn't prove a single statement you said was true. I don't have to do anything more than say "nuh-uh" until you do this, and I'll still win.
If you want to win, prove your claims to be true.

The burden of proof lies in your lap, not mine. Don't be scared.

>>724061760
Criminals looking to money launder investing in skins driving up the price then dumping it on some gullible retard on a 3rd party skin site.

>>724061760
Chinese bots
The chinese state has strict controls on personal finance, they have to find other ways to get their money out of the country undetected.

>>724061760
Whales who control supply artificially prop up the price and retard third worlders buy it as investment.

>>724059843
But you do have to realize that it's completely artificial, bigger fool market, right? Collector aspect is minuscule and majority of this shit is tokens for gambling and "market makers" inflating the perceived value by an absurd margin? You could make less risky "investements" by yoloing futures.

Crazy someone would kill themselves like this
>I am massively ashamed that I have lost the fortune my father gave me
>For this reason I will kill myself, even though I know that my father wants/would want me to live
Do people not have more in their lives than money and work? Like yeah, you might be a completely broke retard now, but is that worth killing yourself over?

>>724061249
Nope, it is legally 1000% not their problem. It was not only their legal right but it behooved them to make this change.

>>724061760
Rakesh and his buddy Jin

>>724059448
It’s not a recession party until I see bankers and investors flinging themselves from buildings

>>724060059
Gacha players will spend maybe 100 to 200$ to get the latest waifu. Statistically you're not spending more than that.
Definitely a waste of money, but when you go to a casino you're expected to pay to play, not to win.

Sometimes you gotta learn the lesson the hard way if you dont listen to reason and let yourself be blinded by greed.

>>724061608
>>>/reddit/

>>724058538 (OP)
I'm so glad that natural selection finally found its way into our digital era. It was high time that it returns to wrack havoc on all these abominations our systems kept alive till now.

I might accommodate this good cluster fuck by selling my howl.

I want to see a post like this from an electronics scalper.

Bonus points for saying it denied their children happiness and calling the manufacturer a piece of shit for releasing more stock while they still had stuff to shift.

>>724058538 (OP)
>Valve can't legally add more items to their games

>>724061992
Come on bro it sounds made up, deliberately mentioning the "father" over and over for emotional effect. Its just a degenerate speculator who wants to drum up public support against valve and reverse the change. Not falling for it personally.
NOTHING WRONG WITH ME

>>724062202
I guess I did upset you.
Why are you so upset kid?

>>724060952
Yeah but in order to get maximum attention they had to make a new thread so their repost would be the first reply. Note how there was just 16 seconds between the thread being posted and that first reply.

>>724061760
Nobody
It's all fake imaginary money

>>724061608
Where the fuck do you think you are? fucking newfag, be thankful he spoonfed your pathetic ass and sit the fuck down, FAGGOT.

>>724058538 (OP)
>people believing this shit is real

>>724060391
lol

lmao

>>724058538 (OP)
>gave gayben his father's inheritance and expected to get it back
lmao I hope steamcucks learned their lesson

>>724062317
You can't reply to your own thread in 16 seconds. There's a cooldown.

>>724058538 (OP)
I thought these retards would've learned after the whole NFT retardation

>>724062357
>He's this mad
Why? Did I hurt your feelings somehow? It's okay kid, you can talk to me.

>>724059448
saw this gem

>>724058538 (OP)
can someone explain the an hero joke i dont get it lol

>>724060412
Reminder

>>724062404
Hahaha good one. Not only are you completely new, but do you seriously think that within the space of 16 seconds someone genuinely found the thread, came up with that joke, browsed for an image, filled in a captcha, and hit post? All in the space of 16 seconds?

Rubes like you are why Discord trannies do this shit in the first place.

>>724059287
Stop ruining the awesome plan with your "logic" and "rational thought"!

>>724062404
like thats an actual problem that can't be easily avoided

does just happening to update the catalog, noticing a thread and choosing to open it, reading the image, choosing an aqua pic AND thinking up a joke and writing it and then posting all in 16 seconds sound more likely?
aquafag is the first post all the time and makes the threads

>>724061649
Out of 10!

>>724062556
become an hero = commit suicide
hero shooter = tf2, overwatch, paladins
cs2 become an hero shooter = mixup of the these terms based on the context of cs skin investors killing themselves

>>724062589
>Aquajew got more replies and sticky
You lost.

>>724062365
I'm glad Ken-sama made it

>>724058538 (OP)
>77000k
>More than I could hope to recoup in my lifetime
That's ten years worth of savings, maybe less. What the hell?

>>724059021
hell, even some Shakespeare

Whomst

I know people are gonna laugh at me but I was gonna use the money from skins to fund my gender transition surgery

>>724062589
those (You)s are worth more than csgo skins now LOL

valve willfully and knowingly doing this is evil though. no matter if it was a stupid decision of him or not. knowingly destroying a market like that is just a conscious act of evil.

NO CRYING IN THE CASINO

>>724058538 (OP)
>>>/biz/
this doesn't effect gamers only chinese scammers

>>724062856
Sorry you avoided a lifetime of dilation for a functional feminine penis

Valve let people resell their shitty mtx skins and people immediately turned it into illegal money laundering and gambling. Everyone who got burned on csgo skins fully deserved it.

>>724058538 (OP)
Selling skins for money was always against the terms of service. The people who kys themselves should have their Steam accounts banned too.

>>724062856
What money? It's all imaginary lmao

>>724062885
Try investing in something real next time.

>>724058538 (OP)
It's inevitable that valve is going to have a kyoani situation eventually

>>724060501
>People are taking their lives because of the market crash
>LOVE valve, LOVE counterstrike and LOVE YOU GABE N

Based

>>724062885
That was an evil market full of scammers, bots, whales, and retards looking to dump their bags on each other and get rich quick without contributing to society and doing anything of value in life. They deserve to all get wiped out by a nice sweet crash like this. BOOYAH

>>724062856
US funded it for years why did you wait until a guy who said he'll stop funding it take office?

>liquidated my entire CS inventory months ago after seeing the direction of CS2
>now watching this shitshow as traders melt down and skin collectors cry about their fake pixel value

>>724063074
nope
kyoani happened because of righteous anger from a scorned artist
this is just meltdown from degenerate retards who cant even draw a circle
they all got fucked good by good guy gaben

>>724062589
lmao steamcucks are embarrassing

>>724063061
Why is investment strategy so complicated?

I could learn it but I feel like I could also just use that time to learn something that could be useful for my career instead.

>>724058538 (OP)
This doesn't even affect the very rare items that are still unobtainable in any way. People on this board are VERY out of touch on this subject.

>>724058538 (OP)
>planning my future entirely around a single investment
yikes.

No crying in the casino, retards.

No crying in the casino :)

>>724060092
>>724059957
Nah it is steams problem because they changed the rate of getting these "rare" items. So prices dropped like a rock.

in 1.6 there were no skins and no female models and no matchmaking and no rank. ppl played it anyways.

>>724063542
Yeah the game fucking sucked.

>>724062623
>Proves nothing to be true
*yawn*

>>724063598
Agreed, 1.5 was better.

>>724063495
They made items easier to obtain for average players? Sounds based how is it a problem?

>invest in a virtual gun png
>Gets to 10k
>Don't look at your inventory and seriously wonder why the fuck you'd keep it instead of flipping it
You honestly deserve it

post your reaction to the suicides

>>724061008
Nice alternate reality. Most of /v/ are enjoying this.

>>724058538 (OP)
This can't be real kek

>>724058538 (OP)
Got what's coming for him . I have no sympathy for skin traders or gamblers in general.

>>724058538 (OP)
Digital knife skins or whatever are not currency. I can hardly spare any sympathy.

Goldchad keep on winning

>>724063303
What are you even talking about. "Don't invest in an unregulated marketplace where all value is derived from Valve's goodwill" is common sense, and if it isn't common sense to you then you shouldn't be allowed to handle money. It literally could not be simpler than this.

Not that Valve's hands are clean, to be clear

>>724063703
What is the point of memecoin investing anyways? It is just pure gambling where everyone knows they will get rugpulled eventually and just gamble how long to stay abroad before becoming a bagholder?

>>724063703
muh moon

>>724063686
yeah easier to obtain basically. its a problem since it means prices came down. i think valve wants more transaction but at lower prices than a few transactions at a higher price. they get a cut each time. naturally the people who bought somethign that was rare and now isnt as rare are butthurt.

>>724058538 (OP)
>>724059448
>>724060059
>>724063981

HAHAHAHA

>>724058538 (OP)
I honestly don't know what you were expecting

>>724060059
it's just as funny

>>724058538 (OP)
>invested

>>724064101
Memecoins have the potential to 10x in months, if you.junp on and jump off at the right time you can make ridiculous bank

I made a great return on PEPE

>traders overwhelmingly used 3rd party sites to trade skins
>strictly against valves TOS
>wonder why valve pulls the plug
Ahhhhh I'm reaping nooooooo

>>724058538 (OP)
Anyone investing in video game markets is a fucking retard and deserves whatever happens.

Losing all your money in the kike rigged stock market or cryptoscams is already bad enough
If you put all your money into a weapon skin fad you deserve to be broken

>>724059550
3rd world nigger sites. Like I said, you deserve whatever ill happens if you deal in this shit.

>>724064449
Like all ponzi schemes

>>724059698
Any MMO from 2000 would tell you how dangerous and retarded it is to use systems like that.

>>724061249
A little bit? It's not at all. Skins are inherently given value by the community. Why were there reds worth a few bucks when they're absurdly rare to get? Why were ST reds worth less than a knife if it was more rare than getting a knife? The community places the value. And fixers made prices so high that the only way to have any monetary value thrown at it was to use third party websites. Because steam has limits on how much you can sell for (which they buffed a long time ago to try and get people back in their ecosystem only for traders to respond by making everything even more unreasonably expensive) you end up in a scenario where what should be happening isn't happening. What should happen is either prices are within that limit, or people trade tons of items for something with absurd value so they can actually make money on the market. And the entire point of it all is that it's entirely done within Valve's ecosystem. You should only be making steam bucks. You shouldn't be selling items to get real money back on third party websites. You should only be using steam currency to redeem new skins, emotes, backgrounds, games, blah blah blah. The community created the problem. Valve allows people to use their API for reasons that were never intended to be used for trade botting or connecting inventories. It's entirely on the people for creating this environment. Do you really think knives should be worth more than they were back in 2015? That the most basic butterfly should be a minimum of $400? Do you really think Valve set those prices, forced everyone at gunpoint to keep trading and inflating the market and fixing everything?

>>724064486
What valve is doing with their skin lootbox gamble mechanics is barely even legal
HE is only allowed to breathe because of absolute state of clown world
Any other world and he and rest of his microsoft buddies would be hanging for breaking social trust by pushing gambling on kids

>>724058538 (OP)
https://litter.catbox.moe/qxsh6r.mp4

>>724063495
All of this is entirely the fault of the literal brain dead retards spending real money on this shit.

>>724058538 (OP)
>my father worked all his life to earn this money
>I spent it on video game knives

thank fucking god maybe now ill stop getting random steam friend requests that immediately try to get me to trade boxes to them.

ive been collecting cases since they began dropping in cs and ive never opened a single one. ive had like 15 people randomly add me trying to buy them and i never sell.

>>724065161
Sir can u pls add me on steam. I wanna trade.

im so glad I'm too white to gamble with my money.

>>724065220
5k you can have all my cases.

None of this shit is true. They're just coping that if they make it seem like this change actually caused people to kill themselves Valve will roll it back.

>>724058538 (OP)
looks like hes now investing on sneedposting

>>724058538 (OP)
>>724064867
The best thing is: Even if valve reverses the decision: the prices are fucked. It's not gonna go back to where it was, at least not for a while, if ever.

The house always wins, boys.

I might be dumb to buy games on Steam and expect assurances I have ownership of them, but you have to be a special person to have treated a video game as an investment platform. I totally thought it was just skinfags having a melty, I didn't know people treated skins as actual financial investments. My expectations of humanity dwindles every year.

>>724065749
Wait until you find out how real life money works

THEY'RE BROWN!
THEY'RE FELTED!

>>724058538 (OP)
>I'm all in on CS go skins
Should've gone all in on peepeepoopoofart coin. Fucking retard nigger.

Seriously though. If you're not willing to lose it, just put it in high yield savings. 500k garunteed safe by gov per account.

>>724065517
It's seems like a good change though from a player perspective. I don't see why giving people more options to obtain rare skins is a bad thing. It's not Valve's problem if certain idiots have decided to turn the thing into some kind of third world stock market.

>>724058538 (OP)
>betting his live savings on fucking CSGO skins of all things
Holy shit, what a fucking retard. That's even more retarded than spending all of it on crypto.

>invested in knife pngs
do thirdies really?

>>724061965
It really is. Just as with NFTs I honestly don't even think most CS skins look good in any way. Like, I've seen videos of people opening crates, and going: "OOOMGMGMJASDNKDSAIKNUDUJ HOLY SHIT YOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" totally chimping out, and then it's just pink related. An ugly ass knife with a purple blade that I probably wouldn't equip in a game if I got it for free. It's fucking retarded. What's this skin worth? I dunno, maybe like.. a buck? Certainly not more than 5, and certainly not fucking thousands. It's clearly a speculative scam. "hey, I was retarded enough to buy this for 15k, please buy it for 20k? You can sell it on for 25k".

Valve and its employees will pay with blood... in minecraft

>>724058538 (OP)
What a fucking imbecile.

MINUS THREE BILLION IN 38 HOURS

I FUCKING KNEEL

>>724066192
kek I really hope some terrorist attack occurs over knife skins and trump declares war on whatever dumb retards actually decide to attack.

>>724058864
>father worked hard all his life
possible but kind of irrelevant since 100k~ is probably just his life insurance policy.

>>724066391
>"terrorist" attack on trump and his pedophile friends
what now?

>>724066056
it's probably a better way to make money than working 12 hours a day for a 3 dollars. and you can do it anywhere.

haha lol

>>724058538 (OP)
>Invest life savings in volatile grey market that could collapse/be banned suddenly
>It collapses/is banned suddenly

>>724059165
I hope Valve sees all this suicide stuff (real or not idgaf) and doubles down and deletes the entire marketplace
never happening I know, but I wish it would

>>724066192
>s-someone w-will do something!
>s-something p-please do something!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA LONG LIVE VALVE STEAM GABEN AND HIS DESCENDENTS
YOU LOST DUMB FAGGOT

>>724058538 (OP)
Should have cashed out earlier instead of being stupid

>>724066462
it can't be that difficult for them to purchase bitcoin in current year, right?

I've been scrolling skincel twitter for a while now and it's fucking hilarious.
All these retards who only used skins as some crypto investment licking each other's wounds seething at Valve. Meanwhile some guy will post howhappy he is that he got a knife for cheap and all these retards dogpile him LMAO.

I never thought Valve wpuld ever do it but this shit is based.

>>724066056
Yes, Vincent because unlike you we know wageslaving is a waste of time.

>>724059698
>buyer sends real money directly to his bank account
money transfer goes outside of valve control, scammers got rekt for a good reason

>>724058538 (OP)
The question you should be asking about the law is why they were ever allowed to create the skin market to begin with, it shouldn't have had to come to this ugly conclusion but it did need to come to a conclusion.

>>724066848

definitely respect tanking a 6 billion dollar bubble

>>724066860
>he didn't nepomaxx
TondoCHAD I....

>>724066860
>investing in pngs instead of shady indonesian crypto groups on facebook
Kuya naman

>>724061215
Its even worse than that because its a 3rd party market independent of valve that operates against steam ToS.

>>724066860
Juan my son, yuo must choose
banana plantation or csgo pngs

Dota won, Gabes favourite game

>>724066326
The funniest thing to me is that people are treating (even if only pretending) that this "market cap" ever actually existed. "CS had a six billion dollar trade economy" they say. No, it didn't. It never did. One Saudi oil baron buys one knife for one million dollars once, and the entire rest of the market decides that it can do the same so its knives are worth one million each, too. "6,000 knives, six billion dollars," they think.
No, retards, that is not how it works and that is not how it ever worked.

>>724066973
Why should it be illegal for people to sell things? It's video game assets not real life weapons or harmful drugs.

Watch as Valve's next move includes a trade safety feature that requires trades to match within a minimum threshold that kills all these 3rd party selling sites.

>>724060096
I'm only surprised I haven't seen at least one thread on this reposted topic made with a screencap of his twitter as the OP. Is he so assblasted by the change he forgot to ritualistically advertise his blue checkmark (meaning he's paid for engagement on twitter btw) twitter account here?

>>724059870
get your own joke nigger

>>724060391
Yeah sure
>any transfer of funds with an exchange involves paying a "gas fee" meaning some third party gets paid an excessive, inconsistent, and arbitrary amount of money by (You) to do nothing but exist as an entity in the general area of a transaction.
>cryptids STILL acting like crypto hasn't 300% been turned into a massive scam with full fledged stock market levels of value arbitration

>>724067569
Entire thig was propped up by chinks lmao

And now that those chibks are folding with paperhands the entire veil is being revealed

>>724061992
Yes? What kind of dumbass question is that? If you can't live your life comfortably having fun there is no point in living it at all. Wallowing in misery for few more decades to maybe turn it around is not a good time.

>>724058538 (OP)
How has the literal face of CS skins aka the biggest CS streamer not said a single word yet?

>>724067587
It shouldn't be illegal to sell weapons retard, but skin trading shit sure should be

>>724068179
Hard to say anything with a noose on your neck

>>724064867
is there more?

>>724067569
>>724068057
this
if these digital skins were worth 6 billion then only the individual item prices would change, not the market cap
the market cap vanished because there is not actually billions of liquidity its all a farce propped up by botters scammers and whales

>>724068179
cause he's smart, he knows it does not matter what he says people would hate on him anyway

>>724068520
And skincels are still seething at Valve for popping it.

>>724061965
>But you do have to realize that it's completely artificial, bigger fool market, right?
the same can be said about crypto, you can always profit from these retarded markets if you play smart and get out before it crashes

>>724064867
>"losing" 40k literally makes him retarded

>>724068654
Bubbles shouldn't be popped.

>>724068764
Why?

>>724068654
Bubbles should be popped.

>>724058538 (OP)
Do gaymers not really know about pic related?

>>724058538 (OP)
gaben saw how traders werent playing the game and decided to end that foolishness

>>724058538 (OP)
Fake and gay post you made yourself, fag
https://steamcommunity.com/app/730/discussions/0/595163560549820092

>>724068874
Because it upsets and destabilize the market, creating volatility that shouldn't be there.

>N-NO ONE IS GONNA TRUST THE MARKET ANYMORE
Good. Investors trusting the market was always a fucking mistake.

You know who's actually going to trust this market now? Casuals who play the game and just want a cheap knife to buy.

>>724066192
>fedposting on twitter
that's a really dumb move

>>724069059
The market was already destabilized. There is no real world where the skin economy looks like this ___/ without people manipulating it and just hoarding skins like retards.

>>724069069
Casuals neither play cs nor want the knives.

>>724069069
the market is made of up of chink and russian whale scammers and bot farms
its not trustworthy to begin with and should be shut down asap

>>724069140
No it wasn't, market was extremely stable and predictable before valve took sledgehammer to it.

My pixels aren't worth money any more noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

>>724069059
>>724069246
Stability and predictability that are founded in lies should not be permitted to exist. Bubbles are, by their nature, hollow and fragile. They exist to be popped.

I don’t get why people invested in skins or whatever. You could’ve just invested in stocks and invested in any top company and have guaranteed returns.

>>724062856
You can kill yourself anytime for free

>>724069494
Because they fell for the meme

>>724058538 (OP)
>How can Valve legally do this?
Freely. This is like if they start printing rare pokemon cards in giant quantities. Pokemon cards are not registered, not stocks and not a secure investment
>They ruin lives
good, if your entire life saving are stored in form of a virtual pokemon card you deserve this
They can try to sue Valve, but good luck, law and terms of service are not on their side

Why do thirdies look at the white mans' vidya and immediately try to exploit it for financial gain instead of just having fun?

>>724069437
Then we should pop every economy on earth right now, as they all are founded on lies.

>>724069246
The bubble is stable
The lie is stable
But they are not meant to be stable because theres nothing real backing them
Valve did nothing wrong
Gaben is fucking based

>>724058538 (OP)
>They ruin lives.
Like a dozen chinks in some "investors" syndicate killed themselves over this.

Haven't stopped laughing.

>>724069630
In your dreams. Our economy depends on people exchanging money for value and labor
Your fake economy exists to get popped for our amusement

>>724069630
You fucking get it bro.

>lose 3B
>still in 2023 levels

This shit was always fucking retarded. Literally fucking meme'd up by people sucking each other off.

>>724063495
So what you're saying is people were retarded and made investments out of something a single person could one day go in and tank the value of in less than a minute, with zero recourse?

>>724069494
CS skins were actually seeing decent returns before the earthquake Valve created and Chinese people are limited from buying stocks. Plus a lot of thirdies and gamblers got greedy and assumed they wouldn't get fucked by the arbitrary whims of a private company.

With the new update can a cheap ass like myself finally obtain a knife?

>>724069246
>No it wasn't, market was extremely stable and predictable before valve took sledgehammer to it.
If the market was stable and predictable why didn't you predict this instability or think for a second that it's a video game that can change with every patch?

>>724061510
>>724060412
>>724062589
i didn't think it was possible for aquanigger to be anymore of a faggot

>>724069876
Yep wait for the trade ban to lift next week.

>>724064867
>>724068747
LMAO

>>724069642
Stocks are no more real than crypto or cs skins, everyone just pretends that they are including government.

>>724069745
No economy on earth operates on that for last century. Exchanging money for value and labor died as concept after ww1 and was buried with ww2.

>>724069630
Since long time

>>724059957
Valve changed how the skins work to crack down on scalpers making them unavailable to people who actually play the game and said scalpers who don't play and use skins like a investment are now shitting themselves to death.

Gaben has blood on his hands. Time to crucify that fat fuck. HE HAS KILLED at least 10+ people confirmed so far all over the world.

The items have no value. This is entirely land of make-believe shit cooked up by people outside of both the game and platform.

>>724061249
What trust?

This entire fucking economy was just propped up by manipulative chinks.

>>724070090
Stocks come from the company which is built on labor value and exchange for value.
Valve did nothing wrong.
I am so glad you retards got wrecked pretending your little csgo portfolio made you better than everyone else who learned skills and brought value to society
GET FUCKED :)

>>724067628
If valve wants to stop this, why dont they just disable the trading API?

>>724059021
Nice quote aside, I never understood the huge ass 3 line high first letter in typesetting. It looks cool in handwritten texts but certainly not in type.

>>724070154
Gaben is based and zased
I am gabenpilled

>>724070256
>Stocks come from the company which is built on labor value and exchange for value.
LMFAO

>>724061249
>Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Can't wait to buy duct tape glove for 5$

>>724058538 (OP)
These are all fake right? Like nobody actually seriously invested money in a fucking game, right?

>>724066192
Am I the only one who thinks this is a cs_office joke?..

So what happens to the skin market now?

People just trade 50-100 bucks knives and call it a day?

>>724070090

Kek this is so fucking stupid.

Stocks are participations in companies that actually do something. You buy a solid stock and, even if everyone else sells and it sells for 1 cent, you'll still make money from dividends. Or from it eventually becoming more expensive. Because it is a real world business that makes something people want.

Cryptos are currencies. They are not productive, but they have value for the same reason gold or dollars do, just to exchange. They are not supposed to be an investment, the "to the moon" "investors" are just idiots and most of them have lost and will lose money. But they're still real money.

cs skins are just retarded because they were a bunch of low IQ pajeets "investing" their savings on a videogame that can change any time the devs want, and if the "investment" is a problem for the game, you already know what the devs will do

>>724070226
>The items have no value. This is entirely land of make-believe shit cooked up by people outside of both the game and platform.
The items absolutely have value, a portion of which Steam takes as a fee every time an item is traded and Gaben buys yachts with.

They're literally skimming off of digital transactions of digital goods knowing people will pump money into the system for pixels.

It's fucking hilarious how jewish it all is.

>>724060124
You now understand the connection of fine art and money laundering. You can just say "this is worth X" and someone who wants to shield their money from the government agrees, gives you the money, then tells the government it's worth ten times less before selling it back to someone else for the original price.

>Buy knife for 20k
>20k of your money is no longer in a bank / easily taxable investment
>Potentially sell knife for 25k later all while not paying taxes on it because it's a fucking fake code knife and the IRS cannot possibly find out you own it
>Repeat for however much money you have

>>724070256
Companies aren't built on on labor value for awhile now anon, they are built on investment bubbles propped by shareholders.

>>724070351
Where do they come from then? Did you actually think your "csgo skins are exactly like stocks!!" cope woould hold water? Go join your steam suicide group of you dont like hearing the truth.

>>724058538 (OP)
lol, but also (and I cannot stress this enough) lmao

>>724059550
Ok but how feasible is is to actually be able to sell your SSSSSSSSSSRRRRR 15k png quickly enough when you need the money? Because no real rational person will take your pretty pixels as a real warranty of payment.

Fake

>Gaben manages to kill more Chinese and Russians in the last few days than the US military in the last few years

>>724069531
Would be nice to know if anyone has bothered researching how liquid the RMT market was. I could value my own shit at billions of dollars, but that's irrelevant if I can't sell it at that price.

>>724064107
Maybe it's better for them to appeal to their huge customer base than the pittance they get out of their stupid pixels on their internal market

>>724070534
>already back in the game like a good little paypig
Grim.

>>724070575
nah maybe 1 or 2 dumbasses who borrowed money from loan sharks suicided but everyone else is getting a sweet dose of reality
Yes you should have studied in school
Yes you should have started building your career and skills
Yes you LOST

>>724060412
I don't get it, why is it a hero shooter? Do people kill themselves in hero shooters?

>>724069630
Yes, we should. We can only benefit from returning the economy to things founded in nature, like exchanging labor for goods and backing currency with gold reserves.

>>724070256
>>724070442
Stocks are no less speculative than crypto now, anon. You're decades late to them being founded in reality.
>Elon owns xx% in Tesla
>buys 1% more, inflating the prices
>sells 2% at the inflated price, instantly makes hundreds of millions of dollars
>lets it drop down a bit, buys back the 1% at the lower rate, pocketing the difference
>whoops, this is an infinite money glitch

>>724070518
>Where do they come from then?
jewish speculation and manipulation of the markets and global economy.

>>724070467
The lesson? House always wins
All these young poor fucks who refused to participate in society thought they could beat everyone from high school who succeeded with csgo skin gambling
GEEEEEET FUCKED :))))

>>724061245
>fiat-currencies are just like digital barbie dressup items... because they just are, ok!

>>724070534
Lmao what a fucking a loser

>>724070406
people invest in anything so long as they can make money, no matter how stupid it is. the Great Depression wasn't necessarily caused by the stock market crash. it was caused by people taking out loans to BUY stocks since the roaring 20s made everyone think that stonks always go up.

at one point, there were more loaned dollars out than actual dollars in circulation. eventually everyone realized how inflated stock prices were and began to dump shares, which caused panic (margin calls) and bank runs, and started the GD.

>>724070730
>>724070741
Wrong. They depend on earnings and profits. There is no such thing as infinite money everything is a trade off. If you knew this you wouldnt lose your entire youth and future on fucking csgo skins HAAAAAA
GEEEEEEET FUCKED DUMBASSES :)))

It's almost entirely cynical and envious third worlders who are impacted negatively by this, so I really don't give a fuck, they likely pirate 80% of their games and just do the steam CS shit wholly to get skins to sell

Thirdies deserve to be shit on mercilessly

>>724070707
I'm not spoonfeeding you, newfag.

>>724070825
>There is no such thing as infinite money
Where were you 5 years ago while the money printer was going BRRRR full speed?
The US (my country) absolutely generates infinite fiat currency that is backed by nothing except the implied threat that we will dethrone any country that questions our authoritah.

>>724070882
Good goy

>>724070707
turn 360 degrees and walk away from this thread

>>724062726
Curse Vishnu

>>724070707
take this clue

>>724070730

That's their problem, just buy other stocks.

This is like when people say "crypto is a scam! it's a bubble!" - No it's not, some idiots are just buying it to "hold bro! to the moon!" but it's still a very good idea for payments.

The stock market is real and a good way to invest in principle. If some companies are inflated just buy unknown ones.

Similarly, crypto is real and a good idea, just not to be used as an "investment". I don't even know who came up with the idea of calling it an invesment but that's a total scam.

>>724060501
>I’m leaving this game because my cosmetics aren’t worth real money

>>724059035
>>724060165

yes, those are the kinds of people who trade videogame skins for profit. its thirdies and poorfags, or literal children. i knew a nigga that basically funded his vidya playing by trading skins and shit before he was old enough to get a real job. over time this little side gig evolved into its own economy similar to crypto or nfts and some people take it to extreme lengths because the average 80 iq third worlder cant comprehend more than a few hours into the future so the idea of skin prices tanking over night is about as inconcienvable as thinking about how they would feel if they didnt eat breakfast this morning.

>>724061760
other thirdies. the third world economy is insane. you have like 5% of the population with wealth and power and the rest are poorfag peasents. What often happens in online games is the children of these richfucks will make guilds/clans/ect and bankroll their army of poorfag peasent 'friends' as a way to flex/show off their own wealth and power.

so like you go to play a mmo, you see a brazilian guild, and you wonder how these people living in mud hutts can afford the 15$ a month fee when thats the entire monthly salary of the average worker... the answer is their guild leader is paying it for them, which is why the thirdies have such strong loyalty to their guild/country/countrymen. They have to bow and suckup to the rich players in their guild so they can get vidyagame welfare in the form of gear/cosmetics/ect.

>>724058538 (OP)
Why don't these idiots just dump the money in some basic ass safe stock?
Like why fucking videogame hats? Why? There's no fucking security in the market, Valve is allowed to do whatever they want with it, and videogames fucking die eventually.
Holy shit, fathers out there with retarded children, give me your inheritance I will not fucking waste it like this holy shit.

>>724071048
>No it's not, some idiots are just buying it to "hold bro! to the moon!" but it's still a very good idea for payments.
I haven't followed crypto in like five years... have they fixed the transaction costs yet? When I was last interested it was still retardedly expensive to perform a transaction on BTC or ETH, and (at the time) bitcoin cash was being touted as a solution

>>724059035

He only lost 2/3’s, he can cashout now at 20k and have 12 good years. What a coward

>>724071082
Cosmetics shouldn't have been tradeable if valve didn't want to assign to them real value, neither marketplace should have been a thing in that case. This shitshow is entirely on valve.

>>724058538 (OP)
>How can Valve legally do this?
Well let's see.
>They own Counter-Strike
>Fucking over traderfags is morally and objectively the right thing to do
>It's your own fault if you're a retarded enough nigger to "invest" money in pixels
If anything I'm hoping Valve comes out and does something similar for TF2. Let me crash some oldschool halloween Unusuals. I would LOVE to see the trade_plaza kikes neck themselves after having hoarded all the nice items to rot away in their inventories all these years.

>>724071048
It doesn't matter what stocks you buy - the stock market is never going to "gain" you value because it is nothing more than a hedge against the ever-inflating money supply, which is backed by nothing except the threat of violence. The stock market never actually goes "up." The value of the currency pouring into it only goes down.

So when does the market stabilize? China went full paperhands and shat themselves in a panic.

>catcha: G0YS
LMAO

>>724071145
no idea i havent used it much either. because most people don't, unfortunately.

>>724058538 (OP)
>76050 $

Is this the power of 3rd world shit posting?

>>724058538 (OP)
>Valve decides to let players trade gun skins for knife skins in a video game
>this directly leads to multiple suicides
This shit is so funny. How can you read posts like this and do anything other than laugh?

>>724069005
People don't want returns that are basically tied to inflation and the stock market, they want a get rich scheme

Unless someone can provide definitive proof (ie dead body) as evidence, I will just assume all these "suicides" are just attention whores on social media.

>>724070938
They can print it but there is a trade off for that
If you knew this you wouldnt lose your youth and future on csgo skins and nfts LMAOOOO
GET FUCKED ;)
AND STAY FUCKED :))))

>>724071237
it is literally companies that make things people buy. come on.

if the stock market can't make you money then neither does owning a business

>>724070825
>Wrong.
Not wrong, and i'm laughing at retards who believe the stock market is real as hard as i'm laughing at these CS skin retards.

>>724058538 (OP)
Steam marketplace isn't advertised as a money market. Everything you do there for cash is likely ILLEGAL in your country.

>>724071143
>Why don't these idiots just dump the money in some basic ass safe stock?
Lack of understanding + gambler's mindset. Why put $1,000 into SP500 for a measly 16% YoY when you could *maybe* double your money on a $1,500 butterfly knife over 5 years (hope you don't do the math on what 16% + reinvested dividends over 5 years results in tho...)

>>724071281
pretty much
these dumbass bag holders are desperate to try any tactic for valve to revert the update so they can get their money back
;) no way LMFAOOOO

>>724071281
Funny enough that's why Youtube and others started censoring the word and demonizing people over it. The amount of click bait made about suiciding was absurd in traffic pull comparable to those weird Spiderman and Elsa raising Shrek baby shit from the 2012s.

>>724059448
>anime
every time

>>724071338
Its real thats why youre assmad about not investing in it. Because you cant.

>>724070486
Meanwhile, on the IRS
>hmmmmmmm anon's just got some random 25k deposit on his bank account from CSKNIFES.COM surely this is nothing to be worried about...

>>724060096
I wonder how many rupees he lost.

>>724058538 (OP)
Lmao Clown
Anyway it's probably fake. Just creative writing

>>724071483
Wake up, Americans aren't getting the deposits, it's thirdies and the IRS isn't involved

>>724071143
Barrier to entry i'd assume.

To trade stocks you need thousands, you need to be approved for an account, there's a ton of ID requirements etc, to trade skins in CS you only need to be a third worlder with an internet connection. Steam is free, the game is free, trading is easy as fuck.

>>724071046
Did he really have such shit taste in music?

>>724071185
>20k
>12 good years
What about living in a third world county would be "good"?

>>724058538 (OP)
>investing 76k on pixels
tardmaxxing meta has peaked

>>724064867
Olofmeister is shocked because it was such a high % drop. The dude is a former pro player and multimillionaire, he wipes his ass with 40k.

>>724059870
I dont get it

>>724071531
Then why mention the US IRS at all?

>add gambling to online games
>governments do nothing to stop it
>gaben: fine, i'll do it myself
>he hits ctrl + a and ctrl + v on all expensive skins
>market value drops like a rock
>gambling addicts mad

The best part is is that these nerds will be eaten alive in their third world shithole for losing money

>>724071531
even worse given turdies have no civil rights
oh and the premise assumes any illegal grey market gambling on skins would do any real payouts

Do people really kill themselves because they lost money?
It's okay to be poor.

>>724071675
Anon you're not mentally healthy if you're gambling with skins in a video game.

>>724071374
1000$ is literally nothing for any kind of serious investment that will gain you money and thirdies on the average can't even legally invest into foreign entities.

>>724071374
true, keep it up for 70 years and you'll finally be able to afford a property of your own

>>724060214
>This is why I never got into crypto.
>>Your faggotcoin is worth $600,000,000!!!!!
>>okay great so I cash out now and turn it into real money right?
>>........
Not saying crypto isn't a bubble or suss as fuck, but i've literally been using it to pay my bills for half a decade and I bought my property with it.

People will give you things of tangible value for the useless shit, how long that will last, no fucking idea. I've long since cashed out and I only store my weeks wages in crypto to fuck with my bank and leave zero sitting in there.

>>724071756
>1000$ is literally nothing for any kind of serious investment
Sure but I needed something in the ballpark of a CS knife
>thirdies on the average can't even legally invest into foreign entities.
Some of these retards are domestically-grown though. They see streamers get LEGENDARY PULLS on crates and gotta be just like them.

>>724071675
Statistically it must have happened but I imagine it's not because they lost money, but because of the sudden realization that they wasted a decade of their lives gambling with pngs and planning their retirement in 40 years as if they ever had any real value or any chance the servers will still be running then.

>>724071590
if its eastern europe? no blacks for starters

>>724071756
Every time Trump farts on xitter and stocks drops 3% I "lose" thousands of $$, never bothers me since it normalises again after a few days/weeks.

>>724071675
>t. was never poor

>>724071210
Valve isn't to blame for retards killing themselves. no matter how much you try to pin it on them.

>>724071887
>if its eastern europe? no blacks for starters
LMFAO where I grew up is all churka muslims now, worse than blacks.

>>724058538 (OP)
GABE YOU FAT FUCK ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?
YOU ARE A MURDERER!

>>724071902
I'm not saying it's great or comfortable, but I think I'd rather be alive and poor than dead?

>>724071887
>no blacks for starters
plenty of gypsies, jeets, pakis and nafris to make up for them

>>724072114
Trust me, the difference is minimal.

>>724071983
Maybe not legally liable but they are absolutely at a blame for that, they made marketplace, they made steam funny money, they made it possible to buy shit on steam with it, they did everything to have the most fertile ground for rmt possible and they did it knowingly.

>>724072114
Yeah, but it's the crushing realization you are not a super smart guy but you are actually dumber than a lifelong poor who simply saves their money in low-return bonds or a HYSA, it's the sudden shame and emotional pain that you're NGMI

>>724072114
No, you rather be dead than poor, especially if you knew life of not being poor before.

Reminder Aqua chads won
sharty teens lost
steam drones lost
niggers, jeets, kikes lost
Good guys won

>>724072263
Please, show me exactly how Valve are responsible for their customers actions.
Please tell me exactly why Valve is responsible for people wasting all their money on skins.

Did people finally realize that skin market was literally just an altcoin for chinks.

>>724072363
Being poor and debt free is not that bad

>>724071784
Get a better job, invest $1k a month, within 3 years you'll have enough for a 20% downpayment in some places and 10% + PMI nearly everywhere else. It's not that hard but retards love wasting their money while underemployed

>>724072263
>knowingly
lol.
It's like blaming Miyamoto for Speedrunning.
Dumb people do dumb stuff. That's why they are dumb.
Valve created the marketplace as a gaming feature that would bring him revenue, as the for profit gaming company he runs should do, not his fault assholes used it for something else.

>>724072497
>Get a better job
You say that like its just that easy

>>724070534
>boo hoo i'm gonna kill myself because i lost money on steam market nooo
>goes back playing cs2 like a boss

what a fucking retard kek

>>724072691
It's easy if you lie on your resume

>>724072497
>how to live a good life according to anon
>step 1: get a job that gives pays you enough to have 1k+ left over after all your expenses including rent
>step 2: live the good life with the excess money
Yeah I think I see a few flaws on your logic anon.

>>724058538 (OP)
>the laughing emoji reaction

Holy zased.

OP here

Wow all!

Didnt expect this many replies

Its my biggest thread yet

Thanks all !

>>724072691
>>724072860
>Get a better job
>You say that like its just that easy
No, I say that like it's *possible*. Lazy retards always get pretend that progressing in life is impossibly difficult. Of course it's tough. Plenty of people do it.

>>724072901
So now that the dust has settled, who's dumber:
>people "investing" in unique monkey jpeg NFTs
>people "investing" in Counter Strike cosmetic items

>>724072431
Because they deliberately built a platform for those actions, valve was providing api access for trader bots for fuck's sake.

>>724058538 (OP)
Based Valve, hoarders amd scalpers deserve the rope.

>>724072953
Retards don't realize you have to start planning your life out when you're 12 even if the plan changes, not just goon and game into your 30s

>>724073040
And that means they killed those men?
It doesn't. They aren't responsible for your poor spending habits. Just like the casino isn't responsible for your debt.

>>724073040
The api is for everyone. That's what api means.

>>724072953
It is impossible and most people don't.

>>724073020
They both dumb but it's very sad that the only way to get out of poverty is legalized gambling with inevitable rug pull moment

>>724073150
>It is impossible
Not if you're good at what you do.

Guess we just found out why you didn't get that promotion, huh anon?

>>724073020
Tough pic but I'll have to go with the CS skin buyers, at least Chimp pegs could be exchanged on semi-trustworthy brokers and had a degree of permanence, CS skins were always in a mutable Valve controlled database, they should have foreseen this kind of thing potentially happening

>>724073150
How many jobs that don't require a nametag or hat have you applied for in the last two years?

>>724058538 (OP)
>Can't make back 76k in his entire life
What

>>724073020
Both are retards.
But monkey is worse, at least the CS items can be used in the game.

>>724062589
Real question is the aquajeet a janny/mod? Is this why xhe is able to shit up the board without being rangebanned?

>>724073115
No, as i said they aren't legally liable, but they sure as fuck were okay with skin gambling. You can't held casino responsible for people killing themselves when they gamble everything to their name and lose, but you still can find their allowed existence abhorrent.

>>724073150
I imagine for most people it's more "it's not worth it" than "it's impossible".
Why bother losing half your life on the stressful promotion line when you can still live a semidecent life if you just reign up your spending a bit?
You can literally download enough stuff to do in a lifetime in a week and put it in cheap drives. Get some cheap hobby and you are set.

>>724058538 (OP)
>build your house on sand
>wonder when it gets washed away
I really hope every single faggot trying to make money from CS skins kills itself. It would not make the world a worse place in any way or shape.

>>724073150
You want a return for very little time invested, it takes years and you have to be willing to climb that fucking mountain

>>724070707
an hero is how people here say suicide

>>724073421
>No, as i said they aren't legally liable
Thanks for confirming that I was correct (and you were wrong).

>>724073503
nigga why...

>>724071547
the ipod is the clue not the music

>>724073020
CS2 investors are literally the NFT investors. Its the same people, and the same money, moving to the Valve Brokerage NFT exchange. And they are getting rugpulled again.

>>724073086
I get what you're saying but adaptability is key. My college degree ended up being useless but I still have a great job because I applied like a fucking maniac in a city where there are *plenty* of office jobs willing to take a risk on a retard contractor. First step is getting that $20/hr contract gig for data entry, then you just apply like a motherfucker for any FTE work

>>724058538 (OP)
WE HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU NOT TO BUY MICROTRANSACTIONS SINCE THE BEGINNING
WE HAVE TOLD YOU YOU DO NOT OWN THEM, WHEN THE GAME OR SERVICE DIES THEY GO WITH IT. IT'S YOUE FAULT FOR STAYING ON A SINKING SHIP JUST BECAUSE IT MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD

>>724058538 (OP)
You people have no idea what the word "invest" means.
Get a real job.

>>724058538 (OP)
>76k
>Life savings
Just how small was that guy's business if that's all he had in savings at the end of his life? That's fucking sad dude

>>724061008
Wtf are you talking about, everyone is laughing at the retards "investing" in fucking skins lmao

>>724073703
>just live to work lol
How about no.

>>724073421
It isn't abhorrent. Would you also consider speedrunning abhorrent and blame the devs for creating a game where millions of manhours are dumped for completing a video game one second faster? Those people are also ruining their lives inside a bubble.
>>724073545
Search for Golden iPod and then read some more random Enciclopaedia Dramatica articles and get yourself up to date newfriend. Remember, you can only post after lurking for 2 years.
>>724073597
I still wonder, do we know soemthing about that kid's music preferences?

>go to cs2 forum on steam
>out of 15 items on the first page, 6 are in russian
were russians selling video game items to get dollars under sanctions?

Ohne is live bros

>>724073150
>it is impossible
>most people
Stay poor if you want, nobody cares if you do, they're just pointing out that you're coping over your reluctance to try harder.

>>724073879
Yeah, it's part of the new sanctions anon.

Honestly the only thing this whole incident has taught me is that 4chan is post mosque shooting 8ch tier dead.
Which sort of sucks because there aren't any real good places elsewhere to discuss videogames.
Not that 4chan is particularly good, it's been shit for a decade now.

>>724073708
>WE
Why would I waste time trying to convince 3rd worlders of anything?

>>724073967
how many drones worth of dollars are locked in here?

>>724073703
Yes, like I said plans can change, it's better to wake up and start and fail early

And for example it takes 5 years to get through a IBEW apprenticeship program to become a journeyman electrician and you're making fuckall for those 5 years

No one should have any sympathy for a failed man, just another swinging dick, easily replaced

>>724073996
>post mosque shooting 8ch tier
QRD?
Is it the guy who was listening to Wataten's ED?

>>724058538 (OP)
sure thing bud

>>724070327
It's 1895. You just expect that sorta thing.

>>724072363
Fuck off subhuman. Imagine living life and thinking the only thing that matters is making more money than others. Literally a golem mentality. Kill yourself for spreading that shit way of thinking here

>>724073810
>>just live to work lol
Yeah for a short period of time. Now I get paid a great amount of money to do about 10-15 hours of work a week, 100% WFH. My boss is very chill, doesn't give a fuck about when I work, I get 37 days paid off per year. It took a few years of hard work to get here but now I'm coasting, I'll take that over NEETdom any fucking day.

>>724061249
Nope because paying off site is against ToS.

>>724059870
It would be 'A' hero shoot 'AN' makes no grammatical sense.

never did pixel trading, was there a way to cash out all that money or was it locked in your steam account?

>>724059448
>Some people are so terrified of the thought of living like a pleb, like the majority of all people in a country do, that they would rather kill themselves than become lower-middle class and work to get wealth again.
Nothing of value was lost.

>>724074260
NewNigger, commit sudoku

>demand refunds!
>we will sue valve!
>boycott!
NFT bros are hilarious.
How many people thought Valve runs an NFT brokerage, and CSGO is an NFT market only masquarading as a video game to avoid regulations? How many "investors" who don't play video games were there?

>>724062728
Quite the jump for him

>>724074308
If they were "adults" already when they started getting into this they are 30+ already and with no prospects, they are not getting "wealthy" again ever again.

>>724074260
lurk more faggot

>>724073906
I lost gene lottery, i rather enjoy life till i can't and then an hero than waste time and effort trying.

>>724058538 (OP)
what even happened?
did valve really kill their biggest money maker? are they stupid?
not to mention there are literal mafiosi involved in CS sqkins, they're risking their lives

>>724074398
This is particularly funny because I'm pretty sure Valve has always maintained that trading outside of Steam is not allowed, which where all of this money was circulating. I doubt anyone who exclusively trades within Steam was hit particularly hard.

so how do people extract real money off of the steam market place? selling to some random guy online is an obvious way to get scammed so how exactly do these 3rd part exchanges work?

>>724061249
>It's a little bit their problem.
No its not.

>>724074384
>>724074518
Call me names all you want, you know I'm right.

>>724073391
fallout3 schizo has been at it for years, they just don't care

>>724074028
For the sake of the industry, for the sake of the art.

>>724074529
>what even happened?
They made it possible to trade up items into the highest tier rather than only getting them from boxes with a tiny drop %.
>did valve really kill their biggest money maker? are they stupid?
They didn't, all of the money was being spent on 3rd party sites since Steam has a limit to how much you can sell items for. Valve loses nothing.

>>724074481
Still won't stop me from not caring in the slightest if someone kills themself over lost money. Most of the population on Earth, even in first world countries, have little to no disposable income and are generally content or even happy.

>>724074615
yes fellow 4channer i also shop the whopper, do a spinning flip, do you know where I can find any cheese pizza or dsfargeg?

>>724074632
Giving the faggot a pin is just terrible though because his ego must be fucking bursting at the seams now.

>>724074529
6billion makret cap is a meme

>>724074214
No the only thing that matters is living life comfortably, which involves having money to make it happen. If you are forced to be poorest of poors by any circumstances it means you aren't living your life comfortably anymore therefore there is no point of living it in the first place.

>>724074615
That has been a meme since before you were born my little grammar nazi.
>>724074663
I think exactly the same as you, but someone who really thinks their png is worth a car probaby can't be rational.

>>724074087
>QRD
Some retarded commie "accelerationist" things he can make the "inevitable" world wide communism happen faster by shooting up a mosque in new zealand and screaming that 8ch and pewdiepie made him do it
The guy who used to own 8ch but sold it (without realizing selling it means he no longer owns it) who was pissed about not owning it anymore goes to cloud flare and tells them HAY NO MORE DDOS PROTECTION PLOX
This starts like a 2 year burn out of him spending basically ALL of the bitcoin donations he got ddosing the site for years
Eventually the boomer who bought it gets a new mitigation host (and the feds broke into his house to kill him but he wasn't there)
But it's been like 2 years and all the posters have migrated back to other forums and shit
Guy that "owns" the /v/ board and leaked Sonic Mania and is why every Sega game has denuvo now is told to quit being a nigger and banning the few people talking about videogames he doesn't like and using /v/ as a booru for child porn
Gets mad and picks a fight with the q boomers
There are WAY WAY more qboomers than 8/v/ posters that stuck around.
8/v/ dies and the guy who ran it begs a transgender gorilla on wikipedia to PLS PLS PLS PLS LINK MY ALT 8CH (which is also dead, nobody likes mark)
That's basically it.
You know minus now there's shit like LLMs to fill 4/v/ with shit to make it almost appear like it's not dead.
But it's pretty obviously dead as fuck.

>>724074398
>was the most stable
>was
famous last words for every subhuman speculator

Fuck Valve for this. You can say whatever you want about whales and whatnot, but Valve know what this means and they know what it means for the whales. It's so utterly irresponsible to make this change out of the blue without any consideration for anyone else.

It shouldn't have been this way from the start but that's also on Valve.

>>724066326
ALMOST 50% OF IMAGINARY NUMBERS DOWN
woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

>>724074529
They probably gain more complying with upcoming regulations and avoiding lawsuits than the pittance they lose skimming off transactions

>>724063436
Yes poor people are retarded

>>724074850
>>724074679
>>724074570
>>724074518
>>724074384
I genuinely cant believe this baited so many people so fast, who the fuck doesn't know what an hero is?

>>724058538 (OP)
>>724066453
Is 100k really that valuable to the average person? I make about 220k and hardly even spend 40k on yearly vidya/car stuff.

>>724074852
>You know minus now there's shit like LLMs to fill 4/v/ with shit to make it almost appear like it's not dead.
>But it's pretty obviously dead as fuck.
To be fair, compared to 10 years ago the vidya industry is kind of dead and there isn't anything to talk about

>>724074553
I would guess they do some escrow thing and are full of exit scams, like darknet markets used to do

Thirdies just love that shit

>>724074953
Valve is not responsible for what people do outside of Steam. They outright ban people for trading Steam items for cash through 3rd party services. This is the gamblers' own damn fault.

>>724059165
I'm upset that Suicide is treated so blazle in this modern world. Suicide is a *very* fucking serious matter. So for people to either guilt trip with it, or to actually go through with it over this is just pissing on the subject entirely.

It is not a joke. I've been there twice at separate points in my life.

>>724059698
But then what does the buyer do with the knives and gloves? Or if the item server eventually shuts down?

>>724074802
Do you need to hunt wild animals to eat? Can you get killed from a simple scrape?
Do you need to get water from a well?
Do you need to dig a hole outside to use as a toilet?
Nope
You also have instant continuous access to the internet the greatest resource for learning and entertainment ever conceived on this planet
Kill yourself you subhuman. You have plenty. More than enough. Spreading your shit "i gotta have more than everyone who works hard and contributes for doing nothing!!" mentality. Get fucked you degenerate. Long live Valve and Gaben.

>>724074964
Look, you're just not getting it. So imagine this instead: what if 50% of your (You)s suddenly disappeared overnight?

>>724059448
Don't worry you'll see plenty in the coming years. Just not Counter Strike ones.

>>724059870
>all these buttmad monkeys in replies
never change anon

My comrade Bulls, please sign the Bull Petition to reverse this bear patch.

>>724075094
And the couple games worth talking about the admins ban you and/or intentionally let people shit up the threads of.

>>724059870
LMEOW

>>724060110
They don't care catnon. They just want the happy schadenfreude sparkies in their brain. It's real enough to them.

Really it's all just loud noise.

>>724065272
gambling is an aryan thing tho

im just surprised so many of you faggots remember "an hero"
i thought this site only had newfags left

>>724058538 (OP)
>turdies use third party sites to sell their pixels so Steam doesn't get a cut
>Valve strikes back by fucking with the market
You reap what you sow

>>724075592
>casinos run exclusively by jews and indians
yeah I'm thinking it's not

>>724075932
LMAO
based gaben
imagine thinking you can beat the house
LMAO

I hope the little guys who are just happy that they can get knives through tradeups are happy. Lord knows how expensive even the shittiest knives were prior to this.

>>724076061
Most of the people are happy

>>724076061
I don't care about skins. I gave mine away all the time, and used default guns. Much more fun to pick up other people's tatted up rifles from their corpses anyway.
However, NFT bros getting fucked is VERY FUNNY. Premium keks in the Steam forums.

heaven gained a lot of angles today. they sellin skins in the sky now for lots of space bucks

>>724075205
:)

>>724075205
someone will eventually have to hold the bag at the end of time, duh.

is the Dragon Lore finally cheep?

>>724075205
Just don''t be the last man standing it's that easy

>>724076254
>a hundred million spacebux?!