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@sun why wouldn't this work? it sounds plausible
@kaia @sun I'm not seeing anything online that says you can't buy a Deck with Steam Funds, but there's absolutely no fucking way you can get 180$ from a skin (you'd have to have been exceedingly lucky or gambled on waiting for years) > 180$ Steam Deck > 180$ money, you'd 100% lose some while selling the Steam Deck, the market would be oversaturated
They're making at as if you can gamble and instantly cash out, but there's no way man
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They're making at as if you can gamble and instantly cash out, but there's no way man
CC: @ooignignoktoo
@coolboymew @kaia @ooignignoktoo @sun there's lots of drops bigger than that, but the cheapest deck is also more than double that
lots of the examples are taken out their ass and no longer true, another easy "stop wasting time with ai" judgement awaiting
lots of the examples are taken out their ass and no longer true, another easy "stop wasting time with ai" judgement awaiting
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@i @kaia @ooignignoktoo @sun Yeah, I thought the price to be weird too, pretty sure it never even reached that in most first world currency even on sale. The amount of people that transferred CSGO winnings into a deck into money is probably extremely negligible
@coolboymew @i @kaia @ooignignoktoo I don't know about steam but I've seen similar things where there's a disclaimer that explicitly says you can't purchase hardware with the funds
@sun @kaia @coolboymew @ooignignoktoo and steam definitely allows it, every market dump and pump there's people gloating about getting an index/deck and soon frame/machine from a price jump
@sun@shitposter.world @coolboymew@shitposter.world @i@declin.eu @kaia@brot.eus @ooignignoktoo@shitposter.world i bought the docking station with wallet funds so i don't know why there would be a prohibition on the deck itself. i even went to the store page now and while i didn't have enough to buy another one, i could use my wallet funds for partial payment if i wanted to.
also back when the steam controller went on a $5 firesale a few years ago, im pretty sure loads of people did sell of cheap csgo and tf2 items to buy it.
@lolitechengineer @i @coolboymew @ooignignoktoo @kaia yeah I was wrong but I have seen it before on other platforms probably exactly to avoid this legal liability
@coolboymew @kaia @ooignignoktoo @sun they will probably add a scanner like they did in France a few years ago
but the amount of money shuffling people have done with CS items is no joke, it's a whole shadow economy
but the amount of money shuffling people have done with CS items is no joke, it's a whole shadow economy
@i @kaia @coolboymew @ooignignoktoo valve used to pay that greek commie economist to manage their economy