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Comment by rak

It gets even better.

With CSGO third parties were essentially selling games for actual currency instead of credit with Valve and using skins as currency for gambling on esports matches. A few of them also came up with other gambling games that didn't even involve esports.

It was also a great vehicle for money laundering: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/oct/30/counter-strike...

Wild times.

parent rak 4 years ago

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