2023-08-04 11:56:45
These rare and negotiable cosmetics at a price of gold very quickly led to the creation of gambling sites, on which players could use these virtual objects as currency to make bets. It must be believed that the business quickly became profitable since according to Wikipedia, it was estimated that in 2016 gambling sites managed around 5 billion dollars of virtual goods on Counter-Strike.
First on professional Counter-Strike matches, the bets very quickly spread to things as banal as coin tossing, in short the casino had just been reinvented. Very quickly, ethical questions targeted these sites, in particular because they partially targeted minors and contained games of chance.
Note also that the example of Counter-Strike is the best known and visible, but other video games fall into similar faults, such as the famous FIFA.
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