de_news | The Lawsuit that Could Kill CS2's Skin Market, Explained

Описание: New York Attorney General Letitia James just filed a 52-page lawsuit against Valve Corporation — charging them with a felony for operating Counter-Strike 2, Team Fortress 2, and Dota 2 loot boxes as illegal gambling.
I read the entire complaint. Every page. Here's what nobody else is telling you.
The AG's office has been investigating Valve since April 2023. They have internal emails where Valve employees call third-party marketplaces "cash out services" and "real money out sites." They have proof Valve deliberately protected cash marketplaces while publicly claiming they enforced against them. They have a Valve lawyer giving a pro player guidance on how to start a skin marketplace while telling him gambling sites were forbidden. And an AG investigator personally converted a CS2 skin into $180 cash to prove the entire loop.
Three charges. Constitutional violation. Criminal misdemeanor. Felony bookmaking.
The AG wants a permanent injunction on loot boxes, full restitution to consumers, disgorgement of all profits, and a fine of THREE TIMES Valve's total gain.
In this video I break down:
→ The three criminal charges and why a felony matters
→ The legal theory: how loot boxes satisfy every element of gambling under NY law
→ 7 smoking guns from Valve's own internal communications
→ The "near miss" deception in the case opening animation
→ The financial numbers: $4.3B market, 96% loss rate, 1 in 146,625 odds
→ The child protection case and why Valve's age verification is a checkbox
→ What the AG is actually demanding (treble damages are nuclear)
→ 4 scenarios for what this means for the CS2 skin market
→ Why content creators are named in the complaint
Full complaint: https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files...
Press release: https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2026/...
This is the biggest legal threat the CS2 skin economy has ever faced.

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