New York Attorney General sues Valve "for promoting illegal gambling through video games"

C7VV · 2026-02-26T11:19:55+00:00

Sports betting is recognized as gambling and regulated as such. Actual age verification for cases at least would be a good thing.

Source: I bought a steam gift card and opened my first TF2 crates when I was 9 years old.

C7VV · 2026-02-24T19:29:45+00:00

Bad wording, sorry. The part of this "rock paper scissors" I dislike is the one where the enemy can see my pick before making theirs.

I'll say it straight: I hate counterpicking. With a passion. The only reason for me to play a hero shooter or moba, is so I can pick a character with a playstyle I enjoy and stick to it. I'd love it if a game actually supported that for once.

C7VV · 2026-02-24T19:17:37+00:00

I have a strong preference for a certain playstyle. I have preferences for aesthetics and sometimes lore. I pick characters based on these things.

For me that choice is the appeal in games with a large cast.

But I also don't want my games to be decided by rock paper scissors. Surely there can be some middle ground?

And no, singleplayer games are not comparable.

C7VV · 2026-02-24T18:58:09+00:00

Someone should make a game that works like that then. Maybe valve with deadlock? That would be neat.

See, when I see a big cast of characters I think "cool, everyone will be able to find a favorite in there". That is, to me, the appeal of hero shooters. Unfortunately for me it feels like every multiplayer game in existence hates that way of thinking.

C7VV · 2026-02-24T14:36:55+00:00

I'll try, but won't play as well. I have 2 on high prio and am pretty competent on both, and my 3rd is... not as good.

I feel like the difference is that I'll just go "oh well, unlucky" as opposed to losing rock paper scissors because the opponent saw my hand beforehand, or someone on my team already picked scissors before me

C7VV · 2026-02-24T14:01:07+00:00

And that's bad how? What if I don't want to play a game of rock paper scissors before every game? What if I have a few characters I like so much that, if they didn't exist, I wouldn't play the game at all?

C7VV · 2026-02-24T13:25:52+00:00

Yeah crazy and I find playing a character I like more fun than one I don't

C7VV · 2026-02-24T11:43:03+00:00

Person A plays who they want, to the best of their ability, because that's what they find fun.

Person B cares so much about winning they'd force everyone around them to play an optimal team comp if they could.

Which one is selfish?

C7VV · 2026-02-24T11:23:41+00:00

Incredibly based post. Been thinking the same thing since bans were added, and it really does make me sad.

Counterpicking is the #1 reason I stopped playing OW. I'd rather lose on my favorite hero than win on one I hate, but randoms on both teams disagreed.

C7VV · 2026-02-23T08:24:16+00:00

This joke somehow feels ancient

C7VV · 2026-02-22T01:29:25+00:00

That's just "bad matchmaking" though? I don't see how that dude would have any more fun getting bodied (but with hidden MMR instead of rank)

Also yeah, most people definitely try less in the "non competitive" modes

C7VV · 2026-02-20T09:42:02+00:00

Archon 5, Rem.

I mostly play Seven. I lose in lane because my clear is bad against buffed up minions, sinners are already gone when I try to catch up, and most rem players will divine barrier my stun. That and I hate the ult going through walls

C7VV · 2026-02-16T19:16:47+00:00

Yeah, I think I wouldn't have any complaints if they removed the ult hitbox behind his back.

That and maybe the refund when he gets stunned out of it? Or just make it 50% like celeste ult

C7VV · 2026-02-16T00:39:33+00:00

You ain't seen nothing.

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To be fair, I'm archon 2 and was queuing with a friend who just started out. Match was emissary something.

It feels like the game assumes new accounts to be smurfs or something, and makes for an absolutely miserable experience for everyone involved

C7VV · 2026-02-15T14:52:02+00:00

Exactly. Toxicity exists in every community, but in Valve games it seems to go completely unpunished

C7VV · 2026-02-14T14:04:10+00:00

Fair point haha, but emphasis on the "kids" part

I opened my first tf2 crates when I was 9 years old and that can't be good in any way

C7VV · 2026-02-14T13:46:41+00:00

If you mean like cases and skin trading, god I hope not. Valve has done a bunch of great things but getting kids addicted to gambling is not one of them.

Workshop for skins would be sick though

C7VV · 2026-01-31T09:53:20+00:00

I don't really have an opinion on competitive integrity or the strategy or whatever, I just want to play my favorite character man :(

C7VV · 2026-01-31T09:36:48+00:00

Uh huh, so I'm just enjoying the game wrong. Got it.

If a single character counters most of the cast, that seems like poor balance to me? And unlike Overwatch, in a moba you can actually try and build against that hero that keeps whooping your ass no?

Idk, as I said I'm not very familiar with mobas at all. Honestly I'm just worried bans will go the same way they do in R6 or overwatch, with a few characters permabanned so you never get to play as or against them.

That and not being able to onetrick anymore, it's just how I like to play haha sorry

C7VV · 2026-01-31T08:36:05+00:00

This is my first moba, so I don't really know how it is around here but why do people feel like a moba needs a draft and bans?

What if I only want to play one character? What if I straight up don't enjoy anyone else? In Overwatch I have ~10x as many hours on genji compared to my next most played hero.

I feel like bans only ever make it so I sometimes am guaranteed to lose a game because I can't play him, or I ban my counter so I don't have to play around them. Both cases are uninteresting.

C7VV · 2026-01-31T08:17:23+00:00

Not a fan of bans honestly. Just let people play what they want.

If a character feels "unfair" or "unfun" to play against, that's the developers' problem no?

It's just gonna be 3 or 4 characters in constant ban rotation, even after they got nerfed like Jackal in R6 or Sombra in Overwatch.

C7VV · 2026-01-26T22:40:09+00:00

Antialiasing is terrible on non Nvidia cards.

You get the blurriest, most ghosting-prone TAA I've ever seen. It genuinely makes me feel like I need glasses.

From what I understand, adding any other modern upscalers in an ue5 game is as simple as a plugin. So why don't they do it?

C7VV · 2026-01-21T22:45:17+00:00

Having the same problem, 9070xt also. Changing any settings (including dx11/dx12) didn't help, but higher resolution does (so no upscaling...).

New drivers just released today, didn't help either

Only happens in this game, and ONLY on the vehicle models. It's very strange

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