Deception, Lies, and Valve

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PinkSheep · 2025-01 · Strong recommendation

The above commenter was probably inspired by the recent investigative(!) video series by Coffeezilla (and decided not to mention it?). It was either in part 2 or 3, where C-z alleged/suspected Valve's legal actions to have been mostly about good PR and to send a signal to those ~websites~ businesses to keep them in check. However it is indeed the case, that Valve has introduced greater and greater restrictions on inventory handling. The measures obviously go far beyond just counteracting possible scammers and phishing. Still, I am inclined to believe, they could've implemented all these features many years ago, if only they had wanted to. I highly recommend the videos. You can maybe skip the first one. It's mostly about casino owners' drama. [1]: [LINK] [2]: [LINK] [3]: [VIDEO]

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BargirPezza · 2025-10 · Recommendation

Coffeezilla makes an interesting series of videos about casinos in the csgo community and also makes a video against Valve themselves. Worth a watch imo [VIDEO]

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abejfehr · 2025-10 · Reference

It seems to me that they (Valve) are complicit. Don't they provide the API that those sites use? I don't think they tried very hard to shut them down, they could be doing a lot more. Edit: based on what I recall from this Coffeezilla video ( [VIDEO] )

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