I started playing csgo in 2014 when I was 14 years old and I never really thought about how exposed to gambling I was as a kid. Good thing I was poor so I couldn't get addicted
witnessed my friend lose thousand back then, he even gave me a karambit tiger tooth but asked for it back after he lost all his winnings. right now all that stuff would've been worth tens of thousands of dollars.
I'm actually glad I learned my lesson young. it was only $300, but now I know gambling is bad. If I had to learn that lesson as an adult, it could have potentially cost me thousands.
The most important reason why CSGO skins became so expensive is third party trading sites .. no one would buy a dragon lore for 14000 dollars on the damn steam market . And the gambling sites wouldn't exist in such a scenario . CSGO skins .. valve's cases .. third party sites .. gambling sites .. all are working together like a fine mechanism to keep the entire thing running .
@@asdzsolt6442 The problem is that people don't recognize how well the gambling sites capitalize on a huge portion of the casual/underage market to suck them dry of marketable assets. You can talk all you like about how to be aware of and manipulate the skins market but that's addressing maybe 10 percent (on a sunny day) of people who engage with the system. We don't define populations by their exceptions; we define them by their medians.
When I was 15 I bet 35 dollars and ended up peaking at 1.8k, I ended up losing it all in the end thinking I could be a skinillionare, one of my biggest regrets
Same story. Was in middle school and turned a 20 dollar redline into an m4 howl (around 2k at the time) in a night on CsgoGem when that was a thing. Lost it all in the end.
Same here. Opened a case and got an ak empress. Gambled it all the way to a MW Crimson web talon worth around 800 aud at the time then lost it all. Worth over a grand today. Really sucks.
i used to be real big on gambling in csgo back in 2017. But it was mainly because i was WINNING. Idk why, I was just like, insanely lucky. I think I deposited a little under 150 dollars and withdrew over 1700 in total over the course of 2017. I did however find a shitty strategy - you deposit on sites that have just opened, or when a website has just restocked on skins, as thats when the odds to get something nice are the highest (especially on crash or multiply) as some websites only give you your winnings in skins, and you can only win skins that they have. At some point I had some of their bots on my chrome favourite tab so i could check when they restocked. As a third-world country high schooler that money was quite nice to have in crypto throughout 2017-2020, as it was rare for me to spend any money on anything. There's a girl i like? I can ask her out to a nice restaurant. An event is coming up that requires a nice bit of cash? No need to ask my parents, I can withdraw ethereum. It also helped that throughout 2017 the prices kept rising. 2018 was quite rough with the price drop all the way to 200$, but because I didnt really need 200$ and felt bad withdrawing all of it, i got through the crypto winter and came out with something like 3-4 thousand dollars in the winter. I will graduate school this summer, and I just used the last of my crypto to buy myself a 1000$ suit and a pair of 200$ shoes, and it feels absolutely awesome when my mom tells everyone i somehow bought it myself, however i probably wont tell her I used gambling money for that lmao.
@@chemrot931 just so the kids dont gamble thinking theyll get lucky i think i have to note that if we dont count net gain, at some points id lose hundreds to thousands of dollars a day because i was thinking "I HAVE TO GO OUT ON A WIN" I quite honestly only withdrew because my mom needed cash for an MRT(like 50 dollars at the time), and i decided to man up and do something for my family for once I wouldve definitely just gambled it away overtime if not for that and the fact i quit cs in 2018
It's insane that this is still legal. Fortunately I was in my mid 20s when these sites came out so I was a little more aware of the dangers of gambling but it's horrifying to think of children losing tens of thousands of dollars on gambling
yea it really sucks how much everything was targeted to kids, i was lucky and couldn't afford gambling at all at the time so i was able to not get hooked by it
It's insane that it's so unregulated. I think UA-cam and Twitch have a part to play, too. Valve doesn't need to pay a cent on advertising cases when there are tons of UA-camrs that do it for them. I can sink $100 into cases, open it and get shit all, look at CSGO unboxings on YT and get duped into thinking I just need to go a few more. Insane.
the example at 45:00 is what activision was just caught doing if anyone was curious. They are also giving discounts to newer players with less cod points in their account rather than vets who might have more cod points in the account and spend more. Absolutely disgusting
In my country even the smallest casinos in the smallest cities are acting the same way as you mentioned on 12:12. Whenever you try quitting your addiction or just don’t visit for some time the up mentioned casinos, they start sending you money gifts, with sometimes unusually high prices. Hooking up on gambling is one of the worst addictions. If you want to gamble wether in areal casino or a skin gambling site be aware that you will most probably lose your money and do it only for fun (pretty much be fine with the amount that you might lose). Always keep in mind that this is not investing by any way. Maybe buying the skins right up from markets is some sort of investment due to the prices getting higher, but giving you money blindly on a slot machine is meant to be a pure entertainment.
Yeah, I rarely ever gamble, but if I do go in a casino I do it expecting to lose all of the money I bet, and just look at it as it costs $150 to play card games with friends for a while.
@@lukasg4807 I was one of those dump kids in 2015-2016 willing to pack a knife or beat somebody on a coin flip and I lost my inventory consisting of max 30 euro skins. They were not much especially looking how much money some people have in their inventories but back then they were a lot for me. I vividly remember how I lost a couple of times and out of frustration I just quit. I hate losing especially on poor bets and off odds like casinos and gambling so I just simply dont bother trying my bad luck cuz I know imma lose my money ;D
I can really relate to this video. I started doing csgo/rust gambling when I was 12. It all started when a friend of mine told me about a site where i could earn more skins with the skins I have. I was so clueless and didn't really even know what gambling was. I started with my 20 dollar inventory than won 50 bucks. The adrenaline rush from that win exploded me to gamble thousands more over the years. I finally confessed to my parents about it after I won 1300 dollars on one bet and cashed out. I really think that there needs to be A LOT more awareness towards this community. I don't think I will ever not feel that adrenaline rush from winning a bet. And I really do blame these sites for sprouting that in me.
There is literally no difference between online gambling casinos and the in-game CS:GO cases lol and if anything a regular kid will most likely just go buy a paysafecard and open official CS:GO cases he got from Valve instead of going to some random ass gambling website, at least at first. Valve would also never even state the odds of receiving rare special item if Chinese government didn't force them lmao (and I mean, they still don't show it in-game anyway)
this is all relatable tbh, i remember being 15 and having a karambit fade (dream knife), karambit marble fade, bayonet fade and several other high tier skins, i gambled them all on csgowild, won a medusa and dragon lore and some other mid tier knives, then lost it all within 2 minutes while at school. i felt so sick
I can still remember when valve added the 7 day trade cooldown every csgo site involving skins were in utter chaos like it was ultimately opskins downfall but in the end the marketplaces adapted while gambling sites now just showcase the withdrawable skins on their website and move about with their days.
It honestly will be appreciated by your community that you don't cave into the gambling offers. Everyone looks at Sparkles as if he's some kind of super generous guy, getting people to do mad trade ups, Kato capsules, giveaways or whatever, but he can only do all that kind of stuff because of scummy sites and codes he's shilling to his community. I just can't see past that and I have zero respect for him. You definitely earn at least my respect for not taking them if that means anything.
@@axelshawAk The money he puts on the line is from someones loss somewhere on the scummy sites, potentially is viewers money. How is this so hard to comprehend? "Charity videos." Seek help, you're not wired up right.
@@axelshawAk It's also what happens when you take some random Joe's info about cases and start telling people it's a good investment, all the while having a stash of your own. Not saying that's what he done, but it really isn't a good look. Crypto influencer level of scummy.
i remember spending every single skin i got, worth either cents, sometimes dollars, on csgo lounge. i was like.. 15? 16 maybe? in total i think i lost something like $600? it could be way more now, since some skins were pretty rare or went in price like crazy. for me, at that age - this money was everything. i stopped a few years ago and im afraid i might get there again.
I'm mainly just curious on why people would even gamble in the first place, Like they know they are gonna lose money, 99.999% of gamblers lose money, what makes people just think so irrationally that they are the 0.0001%, cause I'm for not thinking about that. The statistics are soooo one sided that I don't even know why you would just want to donate money to gambling sites.
@@zoxl345 i dont really think the percentage is that bad, many of my friends nowaday gamble and a decent percent of them has already built a nice collection of skins
@@theziomsmedia well depends on how much you gamble rly ig, if it just one bet probebly 60 40, and the more you gamble the lower your chances. and long time gamblers always lose to the house. So if you wanna gamle only do it once.
As someone at the target age of these markets and has recently started to spend money on csgo. This is a massive wake up call even just buying normal skins on the market it is such a waste. Thank you for this
i agree. i was actually considering how i could potentially make money off this, but this video is such a wake up call that this is essentially just gambling
There is a huge difference between opening cases (Which can be preseeved as gambling) and or using a therd party website. So yes you are correct, that he gambles, but where you are hugely mistaken, is when you think that a first and therd party is the same. I can go into more detail if you want me to. I am happy to educate.
I live a 30min drive from Valve in Bellevue, I visited the office a few years back for a tour. It is a very chilled out calm place and everyone does seem free in what there goals are. My stepdad is friends with a few of their employees and he tells me that they are frustrated in how things will just not get done because organizing a project is difficult when you are working with a bunch of free spirited individuals.
in middle school, I somehow turned a well worn AWP hyper beast into a fucking field tested dragon lore with csgoempire roulette. A week later I deposited the d lore and lost everything, I still have the trade history to prove it and every time I think about how much that skin is now I feel genuinely sick to my stomach.
I showed my dad a picture of a 27k dollar skin and asked him "how much do you think this is worth" he answered 5 euros. When I told him and showed him the price he couldn't believe it
23:30 this part is so real, me and 3 of my friends in middleschool, all 11-13 year olds would gamble like crazy when we played. Within the first month of us playing we were opening cases almost everyday and begging our parents for chores to do for money or just straight up for "items ingame". Before i even had 10 competitive wins I had a FN ST 96% bayonet fade and some random weapon skins, by the time I had 10 wins I had a mw karambit crimson web all from gambling up on skinhub or someshit like that. By the time I had 20 wins I had been scammed out of everything cause I was fucking stupid but I learned a lot about gambling and how bad it can be
I had a very short phase of my life where I was really into CS skins and not only spent a very large chunk of money on buying skins and opening cases, but there was also a short time where I went onto 3rd party gambling websites and did stuff like Crash or opened stupid cases like 0.00001% D-Lore $0.05 cases. Thankfully I never gambled with anything more than like a couple bucks and didn't get addicted, but it was definitely designed to feel fun and I could see how people could very easily become addicted. Those sites are scummy and very predatory, I'm glad I only liquidated like $40 in skins, probably at like a 15% fee or some dogshit.
My introduction to csgo was watching faze rain opening cases and gambling on his site. I didn’t have a pc so I never got the chance to play or gamble so you could say I was lucky. You couldn’t trickshot like in cod on csgo so I never even cared about the game itself. But was intrigued and enjoyed watching him play and gamble.
I think if this went to court, valve could say that the person has the opportunity to sell the case to buy more games in steam. Thus the gambling is purely choice and not incentivized
fuck, watching this made me so depressed… i remember being 14 years old and coinflipping the knife i got for christmas on csgowild, eventually making it up to 5k and losing it all. at one point i even coinflipped a flip knife fade my friend gave me as a gift when i lost all my own $. literally 6 hours ago i put in $700 onto csgoroll, i shouldve lost it all and i am extremely lucky that i got a 0.02% chance win, making 1.5k. i’m never gambling again, fuck this i even still have gyazo gifs from when i was 13-14, gifs of me coinflipping dragon lores, medusas, fire serpents… i remember crying myself to sleep when i lost $5000 in 20 minutes on csgoroll. ironic that 6-7 years later i am gambling on the exact same site i lost everything on
Gambling took advantage of how easy it was to trade items in CSGO and as a result forced Valve to have to restrict the hell out of trading. Also devalues individual skins for more liquid prices. Gambling is jeepers.
What's the difference between .. revealing the odds and not revealing the odds ? As they revealed the odds .. am I going to get some better drops now ?
@@rahatzaman8120 kids don’t realize they have literally a .01 chance of getting a gold and they used to have the gold fly by at the beginning of a case. It’s about transparency
@@rahatzaman8120 I was told back in the day that you "just need to spend $600 to get a knife" I got a job a mickey Ds and saved my money for 6 months at my parents home so I could open cases. I didn't get a single knife but I had crippling depression for 3 years after that.
I’m 14 rn and i have never spent a dollar on cases and I’m glad that I haven’t. i just sell drops and i get skins i want by simply being patient and saving up. Was able to get a WW M4 Desolate Space and it looks pretty nice so I can say that i’m glad i didn’t fall into the gambling addiction that most people had at my age
I started when I was like 15.. I'm 23 and still have such an urge to gamble.. Both cases and keys have gotten more expensive though and I've wasted thousands, so I've chilled out. I only open cases with knives in them that are dropped. So like 1 per week max. investing is the way to go and I regret not getting involved earlier.
@@bruh-im7gi Its hard not to. Especially when the prices of everything are so ridiculous. It just forces people to look for better/faster ways of getting items and it usually ends badly. I dont even want to know what Ive spent thus far and I have nothing to really show for it.
started playing csgo when I was 14 and always had earned cases but never had the money to open them. Stopped playing for about 4 years, got onto cs2 to realize all the cases I had collected were worth over $400 now
Is this a joke? You don't only lose 100% you lose -5000% or -20000 Cause that 100% you lose as you just mentioned people put more money in after they lose and they keep losing and majority of people never win that 1000%
In Denmark, all CS:GO gambling sites are banned, because none of them have a license to operate. If some did have a license, then you would only be able to login if you were 18+, since requires an authenticator, which only 18+ yro people can acquire. It should be like this all over the world
Gambling is apart of life, every aspect of life involves risk. Gambling is in human nature. No matter what valve does there will always be CS gambling sites. It’s ultimately up to kids parents who should monitor and understand what there kid does online. I’m with valve the blame is not on them. p.s i dont want my skins to lose valve and i want to continue my hobby of opening cases
i remember when i was 14 my friend who was also 14 was so lucky to win 2000 dollars from a daily log in on a cs gambling side. he ended up loosing all of it again
parents need to learn to pay actual attention to their children and their interests. The fact parents dont know what your doing is very concerning. It doesnt take a genius to see this is gambling.
That Dynamic odds explanation explains why I win so much from gambling. I legit go years without gambling, but whenever I try it again, I win pretty fucking big.
opened one case that i got from a drop. I could have sold for 1 dollar but opened it and paid 2.50. when i got a blue .1 cent skin i stopped opening cases in csgo and just bought the skins i wanted.
I wish I was interviewed by this guy. I had an inventory that today would've been worth around $100,000 today back in 2017 when I was 19 years old... I wasn't even old enough to gamble at my local casino during that time.
@@grxxvxxs Probably a StatTrak MW M4 Howl, or even the FN DLore… I wish i wasnt so greedy as a kid lmao. That was the most money Ive ever had at one time.
I lost my $30 AWP Boom back around 2014 on a gambling website when I was then only 15 years old. I was so upset. Since then, I still have not gambled to this day. I think I’m one of the few lucky ones that lost and realized it was impossible to win. That $30 loss felt huge at the time. In hindsight, it was extremely small. I truly feel for those who don’t quit after a loss, especially those who are under age.
crazy how i didnt even think of this til earlier this year. Back when the arms deal came out me and my cousins were ecstatic. i opened 20 cases and got 2 knives. then those sites started showing up. We started betting and it got crazy. we all eventually had 5k inventories and we all back in like 2018-2019 stopped playing and sold most of our skins. One of them had poseiden, ruby, emerald, and saphire gut knife. I had full fade low float karambit, m9, bayo, and flip. All in all we all had crazy skins and now we regret selling cause most of our inventories 3x or even 4x. My other cousin even had hedge mazes when they were cheap and now theyre 8k which is crazy.
Once i bet 50$ on keydrop to open 50$ case and i got skin for 55$. After this i felt that this was too risky so i have just withdraw skin to my inventory and ended gambling. Now once a month i put 1$ into keydrop and i do a battle case, if i win i just withdraw those skins, if i loose i know it's not my lucky month.
Lost around 4K about 1 month ago on clash and told myself I’m not stopping until I have enough to pull out a knife, I ended up reaching my goal and could’ve got a knife for around 900 gems and ended up playing it all away, stay away from gambling, its not worth it find happiness in something else.
Nah, kids didn't think like: "I have the urge to gamble" when they never gambled before, they get dragged into it, in this story dragged by a game developer using pretty colorful skins for their videogame. 15yo's didn't think: "I can't play slots in the casino, lets find alternatives online."
My whole inventory is from giveaways from those streamers. I did like one time losing a win and then i never touched it again bc we all know - at the end the casino win all the time. I started like in 2018 and iam so happy i invested in stickers and not shady casinos.
26:00 big fucking nostalgia for me on that. I loved Battlefield Heroes. Really cool to see Battlebit doing so well nowadays, it really feels a lot like a slightly more realistic Battlefield Heroes now that I am thinking about it.
On the bright side some of the kids learn young that gambling is bad and you cant win with not so serious money, Casinos have been robbing generations of adults out of everything
I remember back when i was in school, i think in 9-10th grade, when we were in the computer room, i used to play csgo roulett. I never put something in, just the 0,50€ for free and i won twice like 5€. Cashed out 2 skins, still have them, both ~50€ each now and never touched something like this again
My parents let me gamble as a kid to see for myself its not profitable, I learned quick after losing “a lot” of my money as a kid that its never worth it
i started csgo around 12 years old and i remember clearly by 13-14 i was buying a m9 bayonet ultraviolet ft off a market website for like 72 bucks, then gambling it on wild or something because the real value was like 142 on marketplace and gambling sites. i did that easily 5-8 times with birthday or christmas money, what a waste of cash. My friend at the time ive known since grade school also went through the entire roller coaster. he went from 200 to 400 to 800 with a nice slaughter then got up to 3.2k and i shit you not next day easter morning he lost all of it off of wild.
At min 43:46 the attorney just confirmed that new accounts that have never opened boxes are "luckier" than older established accounts that have opened many boxes. YIKES.
Yeah if I wouldn’t of learned im a gambling addict before I was 18 I would of damaged myself much more as an adult. I remember throwing around $500 in skins into gambling websites. Better than 5k at a casino as an adult
This video is very important to make visible a huge problem with gambling in csgo and kids. I only put once 10€ and I just lost 2/3€ and never deposit again. I am grateful that I didn’t win that time, because when you hit at the first is when you play again and get addicted. I think that this sites should be ilegal and governments of the US and other countries should do something to stop them
what? all real life casinos, lotto games, scratching tickets are the same...even worse because they have so much worse odds....the underage thing is the only downside here but nothing more and if parents would look after their children better there would be so much less incidents like those when a stupid kid spends their money on cases or gambling...i mean dont give your credit card to your idiot kid dumbass parent
@@ADRIANOS259 Bro I think that the problem is not the father that put some steam balance in the account of his son, or the kid that gamble the money that her parent punt in his steam account. Because a kid is a kid and you can not pretend that they think rationally like and adult and also is not father fault because not everyone have the time to supervise everything their kid do in the internet or they are conscious about the dangers and risk that internet have in their kids.
@@whatsthatasmr140 even most adults don't think rationally about gambling . When different religions and cultures all over the world taught .. you should not gamble . They were not preaching to kids . They were preaching to adults .
@@whatsthatasmr140 Why isnt the fathers fault that he put balance on his son steam account? dont put money on there if you dont want him to open shit cases...if you do put money than watch him where he will spend it
Sometimes I feel like just doing a twitch or something just for like 5-10 years and then disappear. There seems to be so much money involved it's crazy.
Went from a free affiliate code to a FT m4 golden coil back to 0 around late 2015. Heart shattering to see my precious skin go away even if i hadnt even paid for it. Havent touched a gambling site since. Learned that lesson early and cheaply. Nowadays i open the occasional cases for fun. I think its important to look at the money you gamble with as SPENT and not invested or some other bullshit. To not expect to make money. But its fun to open some cases with friends every once in a while and i find this mindset made my knifepull feel so much more special since i wasnt expecting it
This is a great vid with really important and eye opening information. I gamble because I think my odds are better than gambling against crates Valve gives. I believe the right answer to this would be to do what riot did where you can’t trade em so people can’t really gamble but then the people like Ohne wouldn’t have a career.
I do like the armor pass system more, I just think you should get armor pass rewrds for setting personal competitive goals. rather than only having money as the deposit. Like if you are a 5k elo premier player and you set a goal to obtain 7500 and accomplish it, then you get some pass credits. like 2-3 but there is a minimum goal.
The GGBET only sponsored the qualifiers and i think the last chance qualifiers, not the main event. The main event remains sponsorless, and it should be that way forever, taking to account how much valve makes with the TI compendium.
Thankfully I never got addicted. I'd opened a few cases, done some trade up contracts, and bet on a couple of sites. But I've always been so well aware of how much of a scam gambling is, so I didn't get effected by it.
its crazy how much money youtubers can get from gambling site sponsors ive talked to rust youtubers and they said that they get offered like 25k-100k for a video highest ive heard was 120k for a single video and its only like a 15 second clip
I know its old af vid but Huge probs for watching it through. Awsome video. 43:25 !!! I think we are not aware that alot of games/companys are doing dynamic odds, I see examples for this alot on my self friends and streamers. Delta force for example, streamer with not alot of viewers grinding the game bought alot of skin bundles, opens up 2 mandelbricks and gets THE SAME 3 cent 2 times and goes "oh shit I HAVE ONE MORE" realises he doesnt and goes "ahhv noo i would have opened up another immeditely" Another example from myself: I stopped playing tf2 for 1 1/2 years didnt spend anything, came back opened up about 35 boxes and got 3 unusuals, (sold them and didnt spend again, gottem xD)
I think the esiest solution is to not ban trade bots for these sites, and instead to ban the players choosing to participate. It would work, users wouldn't like it. but it would work
I started playing csgo in 2014 when I was 14 years old and I never really thought about how exposed to gambling I was as a kid.
Good thing I was poor so I couldn't get addicted
me rn
i lost 3k when i was 15, all my savings, im now 19 and poor lol
@@meerlux1174 lol
@@meerlux1174 get a job😂😂😂😂
witnessed my friend lose thousand back then, he even gave me a karambit tiger tooth but asked for it back after he lost all his winnings. right now all that stuff would've been worth tens of thousands of dollars.
99.999% of gamblers quit before hitting big.
Or they go broke .
Just a hobby 😢
FACTS
@@rahatzaman8120 thats the reason why they quit
@@rahatzaman8120just take a loan then😊
I'm actually glad I learned my lesson young. it was only $300, but now I know gambling is bad. If I had to learn that lesson as an adult, it could have potentially cost me thousands.
same here! Very thankful for making this bad decision at an early age. Crazy how some teens manage to still get addicted even though they lost it all
@@jan_hxm they abuse certain condtions people with adhd as example are more likley to get addicted because they have lower dopamin
cmon bro you’re 1 spin away from a karambit blue gem trust
I'm rolling until katambit blue gem 💎 💙
Dont quit bro. Ur one case away from a 🎰
The most important reason why CSGO skins became so expensive is third party trading sites .. no one would buy a dragon lore for 14000 dollars on the damn steam market . And the gambling sites wouldn't exist in such a scenario .
CSGO skins .. valve's cases .. third party sites .. gambling sites .. all are working together like a fine mechanism to keep the entire thing running .
yeah, but gambling site != market sites and cashout sites. Those could operate separately.
@@asdzsolt6442 The problem is that people don't recognize how well the gambling sites capitalize on a huge portion of the casual/underage market to suck them dry of marketable assets. You can talk all you like about how to be aware of and manipulate the skins market but that's addressing maybe 10 percent (on a sunny day) of people who engage with the system. We don't define populations by their exceptions; we define them by their medians.
gamba sites keep their % takes up, cut n dry
idk dude.. even on steam lots of expensive skins sell often
When I was 15 I bet 35 dollars and ended up peaking at 1.8k, I ended up losing it all in the end thinking I could be a skinillionare, one of my biggest regrets
Same story. Was in middle school and turned a 20 dollar redline into an m4 howl (around 2k at the time) in a night on CsgoGem when that was a thing. Lost it all in the end.
Same here. Opened a case and got an ak empress. Gambled it all the way to a MW Crimson web talon worth around 800 aud at the time then lost it all. Worth over a grand today. Really sucks.
i used to be real big on gambling in csgo back in 2017. But it was mainly because i was WINNING.
Idk why, I was just like, insanely lucky. I think I deposited a little under 150 dollars and withdrew over 1700 in total over the course of 2017.
I did however find a shitty strategy - you deposit on sites that have just opened, or when a website has just restocked on skins, as thats when the odds to get something nice are the highest (especially on crash or multiply) as some websites only give you your winnings in skins, and you can only win skins that they have. At some point I had some of their bots on my chrome favourite tab so i could check when they restocked.
As a third-world country high schooler that money was quite nice to have in crypto throughout 2017-2020, as it was rare for me to spend any money on anything.
There's a girl i like? I can ask her out to a nice restaurant. An event is coming up that requires a nice bit of cash? No need to ask my parents, I can withdraw ethereum.
It also helped that throughout 2017 the prices kept rising. 2018 was quite rough with the price drop all the way to 200$, but because I didnt really need 200$ and felt bad withdrawing all of it, i got through the crypto winter and came out with something like 3-4 thousand dollars in the winter.
I will graduate school this summer, and I just used the last of my crypto to buy myself a 1000$ suit and a pair of 200$ shoes, and it feels absolutely awesome when my mom tells everyone i somehow bought it myself, however i probably wont tell her I used gambling money for that lmao.
@@daneemadee good on you for having the foresight to pull out the money.
@@chemrot931 just so the kids dont gamble thinking theyll get lucky i think i have to note that if we dont count net gain, at some points id lose hundreds to thousands of dollars a day because i was thinking "I HAVE TO GO OUT ON A WIN"
I quite honestly only withdrew because my mom needed cash for an MRT(like 50 dollars at the time), and i decided to man up and do something for my family for once
I wouldve definitely just gambled it away overtime if not for that and the fact i quit cs in 2018
It's insane that this is still legal. Fortunately I was in my mid 20s when these sites came out so I was a little more aware of the dangers of gambling but it's horrifying to think of children losing tens of thousands of dollars on gambling
yea it really sucks how much everything was targeted to kids, i was lucky and couldn't afford gambling at all at the time so i was able to not get hooked by it
It's insane that it's so unregulated. I think UA-cam and Twitch have a part to play, too. Valve doesn't need to pay a cent on advertising cases when there are tons of UA-camrs that do it for them. I can sink $100 into cases, open it and get shit all, look at CSGO unboxings on YT and get duped into thinking I just need to go a few more. Insane.
Something is properly wrong if children have that much money to lose in the first place
There are other casinos anyway
I lost like 1-2k at 15
6:53 ayyy
Why aren't You on the top of the comments? Btw love your vids, losong money is entering
brooo haha
Counter-strike was a Mod for Half-Life and became popular. Now, betting sites are like Mods for Counter-strike and make CS popular.
They are the only thing keeping CS2 alive being that it’s worse than a mobile game
cry
most gamblers are 1 bet away from gazillion dollars win
Honestly not sure if most people say this sarcastically anymore
@@motorizedpedestrian they dont. look at his name lmao
gamblers are as delusional (or EVEN MORE) than drug addicts
the example at 45:00 is what activision was just caught doing if anyone was curious. They are also giving discounts to newer players with less cod points in their account rather than vets who might have more cod points in the account and spend more. Absolutely disgusting
In my country even the smallest casinos in the smallest cities are acting the same way as you mentioned on 12:12. Whenever you try quitting your addiction or just don’t visit for some time the up mentioned casinos, they start sending you money gifts, with sometimes unusually high prices.
Hooking up on gambling is one of the worst addictions. If you want to gamble wether in areal casino or a skin gambling site be aware that you will most probably lose your money and do it only for fun (pretty much be fine with the amount that you might lose). Always keep in mind that this is not investing by any way. Maybe buying the skins right up from markets is some sort of investment due to the prices getting higher, but giving you money blindly on a slot machine is meant to be a pure entertainment.
Yeah, I rarely ever gamble, but if I do go in a casino I do it expecting to lose all of the money I bet, and just look at it as it costs $150 to play card games with friends for a while.
@@lukasg4807 I was one of those dump kids in 2015-2016 willing to pack a knife or beat somebody on a coin flip and I lost my inventory consisting of max 30 euro skins. They were not much especially looking how much money some people have in their inventories but back then they were a lot for me. I vividly remember how I lost a couple of times and out of frustration I just quit. I hate losing especially on poor bets and off odds like casinos and gambling so I just simply dont bother trying my bad luck cuz I know imma lose my money ;D
I can really relate to this video. I started doing csgo/rust gambling when I was 12. It all started when a friend of mine told me about a site where i could earn more skins with the skins I have. I was so clueless and didn't really even know what gambling was. I started with my 20 dollar inventory than won 50 bucks. The adrenaline rush from that win exploded me to gamble thousands more over the years. I finally confessed to my parents about it after I won 1300 dollars on one bet and cashed out. I really think that there needs to be A LOT more awareness towards this community. I don't think I will ever not feel that adrenaline rush from winning a bet. And I really do blame these sites for sprouting that in me.
Trust me you will win just keep gambling
i yeeted 150 euros yesterday to draw some shitty anime skin i didnt get.but your words inspired me so i will throw 50 euros on the game tommorow again
one day, you'll get it back
repent to God
Fun fact 99% stop before the Big win
fuck it guys imma yeet 50 down the drain right now
There is literally no difference between online gambling casinos and the in-game CS:GO cases lol and if anything a regular kid will most likely just go buy a paysafecard and open official CS:GO cases he got from Valve instead of going to some random ass gambling website, at least at first. Valve would also never even state the odds of receiving rare special item if Chinese government didn't force them lmao (and I mean, they still don't show it in-game anyway)
Lol exactly .. only delusional case gamblers say it's different to justify thier gambling .
But they have released The odds
@@kruk0 so what though ? It's still gambling .. game of chance .
@@rahatzaman8120 yeah its gambling but they have released odds still
Remember the odd of becoming gambling addict is 1-5% surely this is not problem.
this is all relatable tbh, i remember being 15 and having a karambit fade (dream knife), karambit marble fade, bayonet fade and several other high tier skins, i gambled them all on csgowild, won a medusa and dragon lore and some other mid tier knives, then lost it all within 2 minutes while at school. i felt so sick
I can still remember when valve added the 7 day trade cooldown every csgo site involving skins were in utter chaos like it was ultimately opskins downfall but in the end the marketplaces adapted while gambling sites now just showcase the withdrawable skins on their website and move about with their days.
It honestly will be appreciated by your community that you don't cave into the gambling offers. Everyone looks at Sparkles as if he's some kind of super generous guy, getting people to do mad trade ups, Kato capsules, giveaways or whatever, but he can only do all that kind of stuff because of scummy sites and codes he's shilling to his community. I just can't see past that and I have zero respect for him. You definitely earn at least my respect for not taking them if that means anything.
Sparkles also does blatant market manipulation
Sparkles is still a skin God for the money he puts on the line and you can tell he his genuine happiness with his charity videos so I still love him.
@@axelshawAk The money he puts on the line is from someones loss somewhere on the scummy sites, potentially is viewers money. How is this so hard to comprehend? "Charity videos." Seek help, you're not wired up right.
@@axelshawAk It's also what happens when you take some random Joe's info about cases and start telling people it's a good investment, all the while having a stash of your own. Not saying that's what he done, but it really isn't a good look. Crypto influencer level of scummy.
@@processpepe4909don’t gamble, have personal responsibility. Nobody’s fault except the people betting their money
i remember spending every single skin i got, worth either cents, sometimes dollars, on csgo lounge. i was like.. 15? 16 maybe? in total i think i lost something like $600? it could be way more now, since some skins were pretty rare or went in price like crazy. for me, at that age - this money was everything. i stopped a few years ago and im afraid i might get there again.
If you cant controll your addiction stay away from anything that can trigger it
yup thats ur own fault, just stay away its really not that hard, you did it to yourself too, you knew you needed to be 18 to gamble
I'm mainly just curious on why people would even gamble in the first place, Like they know they are gonna lose money, 99.999% of gamblers lose money, what makes people just think so irrationally that they are the 0.0001%, cause I'm for not thinking about that. The statistics are soooo one sided that I don't even know why you would just want to donate money to gambling sites.
@@zoxl345 i dont really think the percentage is that bad, many of my friends nowaday gamble and a decent percent of them has already built a nice collection of skins
@@theziomsmedia well depends on how much you gamble rly ig, if it just one bet probebly 60 40, and the more you gamble the lower your chances. and long time gamblers always lose to the house. So if you wanna gamle only do it once.
As someone at the target age of these markets and has recently started to spend money on csgo. This is a massive wake up call even just buying normal skins on the market it is such a waste. Thank you for this
i agree. i was actually considering how i could potentially make money off this, but this video is such a wake up call that this is essentially just gambling
We love your vids since your not a sellout, and actually care about what you do.
he is, censoring entire fucking videos making them sound like the audio is fucked
Lmao the same dude who opens up tons of revolver cases at a dollar a piece isn't gambling 🫂🫂
@@mazera_sushi I mean, at least he shows these videos, which is already a lot instead of showing you "USE CODE xxxx TO DEPOSIT IN xxxx"
He gambles(case opening) himself to a large audience of kids hes not better than any other gambling site
There is a huge difference between opening cases (Which can be preseeved as gambling) and or using a therd party website.
So yes you are correct, that he gambles, but where you are hugely mistaken, is when you think that a first and therd party is the same.
I can go into more detail if you want me to. I am happy to educate.
The biggest gamble in csgo is really the matchmaking teamates you are getting
when i was a kid.. i had an option open a box.. or sell it for 0.5€ .. i sold them after a while i bouth a skin i liked.. or even a game
Kind of glad I’m older I was 20 in the army when the arms deal update dropped. I’m really only learning how big this industry is now.
Russian?
I live a 30min drive from Valve in Bellevue, I visited the office a few years back for a tour. It is a very chilled out calm place and everyone does seem free in what there goals are. My stepdad is friends with a few of their employees and he tells me that they are frustrated in how things will just not get done because organizing a project is difficult when you are working with a bunch of free spirited individuals.
It's not a addiction it's dedication
Your mother work on the street, addiction or dedication you would say?
in middle school, I somehow turned a well worn AWP hyper beast into a fucking field tested dragon lore with csgoempire roulette. A week later I deposited the d lore and lost everything, I still have the trade history to prove it and every time I think about how much that skin is now I feel genuinely sick to my stomach.
I showed my dad a picture of a 27k dollar skin and asked him "how much do you think this is worth" he answered 5 euros.
When I told him and showed him the price he couldn't believe it
because he sees the skin as it is, pixels on a screen
23:30 this part is so real, me and 3 of my friends in middleschool, all 11-13 year olds would gamble like crazy when we played. Within the first month of us playing we were opening cases almost everyday and begging our parents for chores to do for money or just straight up for "items ingame". Before i even had 10 competitive wins I had a FN ST 96% bayonet fade and some random weapon skins, by the time I had 10 wins I had a mw karambit crimson web all from gambling up on skinhub or someshit like that. By the time I had 20 wins I had been scammed out of everything cause I was fucking stupid but I learned a lot about gambling and how bad it can be
"Back To School". Was wild 🤣😂😂
This jsut shows me how lucky i am that i never tried these websites. I only ever opened 4 cases
I had a very short phase of my life where I was really into CS skins and not only spent a very large chunk of money on buying skins and opening cases, but there was also a short time where I went onto 3rd party gambling websites and did stuff like Crash or opened stupid cases like 0.00001% D-Lore $0.05 cases.
Thankfully I never gambled with anything more than like a couple bucks and didn't get addicted, but it was definitely designed to feel fun and I could see how people could very easily become addicted. Those sites are scummy and very predatory, I'm glad I only liquidated like $40 in skins, probably at like a 15% fee or some dogshit.
My introduction to csgo was watching faze rain opening cases and gambling on his site. I didn’t have a pc so I never got the chance to play or gamble so you could say I was lucky. You couldn’t trickshot like in cod on csgo so I never even cared about the game itself. But was intrigued and enjoyed watching him play and gamble.
I think if this went to court, valve could say that the person has the opportunity to sell the case to buy more games in steam. Thus the gambling is purely choice and not incentivized
fuck, watching this made me so depressed… i remember being 14 years old and coinflipping the knife i got for christmas on csgowild, eventually making it up to 5k and losing it all. at one point i even coinflipped a flip knife fade my friend gave me as a gift when i lost all my own $. literally 6 hours ago i put in $700 onto csgoroll, i shouldve lost it all and i am extremely lucky that i got a 0.02% chance win, making 1.5k. i’m never gambling again, fuck this
i even still have gyazo gifs from when i was 13-14, gifs of me coinflipping dragon lores, medusas, fire serpents… i remember crying myself to sleep when i lost $5000 in 20 minutes on csgoroll. ironic that 6-7 years later i am gambling on the exact same site i lost everything on
holy shit the battlefield heroes drop caught me off-guard. Huge part of my teenage years as well.
I'm surprised Ohne is so against gambling in cs. never knew he had that perspective huge respect
Gambling took advantage of how easy it was to trade items in CSGO and as a result forced Valve to have to restrict the hell out of trading. Also devalues individual skins for more liquid prices. Gambling is jeepers.
he is literally gambling on stream xd wdym
Valve needs to put the odds in the case for the kids. They used to even bait you with the knive and stattrack reds
What's the difference between .. revealing the odds and not revealing the odds ?
As they revealed the odds .. am I going to get some better drops now ?
@@rahatzaman8120 kids don’t realize they have literally a .01 chance of getting a gold and they used to have the gold fly by at the beginning of a case. It’s about transparency
@@rahatzaman8120 I was told back in the day that you "just need to spend $600 to get a knife"
I got a job a mickey Ds and saved my money for 6 months at my parents home so I could open cases.
I didn't get a single knife but I had crippling depression for 3 years after that.
@@GlobalEl1te lmao
@@BestWaifus not rly funny but k
losing so much money as kid playing csgo gambling taught me to be weary of gambling now
I’m 14 rn and i have never spent a dollar on cases and I’m glad that I haven’t. i just sell drops and i get skins i want by simply being patient and saving up. Was able to get a WW M4 Desolate Space and it looks pretty nice so I can say that i’m glad i didn’t fall into the gambling addiction that most people had at my age
You're on the responsible side gg
I started when I was like 15.. I'm 23 and still have such an urge to gamble.. Both cases and keys have gotten more expensive though and I've wasted thousands, so I've chilled out. I only open cases with knives in them that are dropped. So like 1 per week max. investing is the way to go and I regret not getting involved earlier.
I appreciate this video. I am one of these players who have gotten caught up in these sites, and I needed to hear some of this right now.
Same but I got away in 2021 yet it's still callin' me back to gamble
@@bruh-im7gi Its hard not to. Especially when the prices of everything are so ridiculous. It just forces people to look for better/faster ways of getting items and it usually ends badly. I dont even want to know what Ive spent thus far and I have nothing to really show for it.
@@CyberOptek yeah I’d rather not know either you’re not alone dude just make sure you can afford what you’re betting.
started playing csgo when I was 14 and always had earned cases but never had the money to open them. Stopped playing for about 4 years, got onto cs2 to realize all the cases I had collected were worth over $400 now
Watching this really makes me want to buy some crates
broooooo lmao
Watching this while flipping cases and stickers on steam market hits different....
it's actually crazy how all the faze guys, tmartn, syndicate and joshog got away scot free
and phantomlord aswell tho, m0e is different imo because there you played vs the site and not player vs player
Did you know, while gambling, you can lose only 100% or win 1000%. Do the math, keep gambling
Is this a joke?
You don't only lose 100% you lose -5000% or -20000
Cause that 100% you lose as you just mentioned people put more money in after they lose and they keep losing and majority of people never win that 1000%
When Valve somehow ban these casinos it'll be a time to buy skins
sad to see so many people in this video stopping right before they hit it big :/
yung lean
In Denmark, all CS:GO gambling sites are banned, because none of them have a license to operate.
If some did have a license, then you would only be able to login if you were 18+, since requires an authenticator, which only 18+ yro people can acquire.
It should be like this all over the world
I think the CSGO third-party gambling websites are very predatory. My one buddy was pretty sucked into it
Gambling is apart of life, every aspect of life involves risk. Gambling is in human nature. No matter what valve does there will always be CS gambling sites. It’s ultimately up to kids parents who should monitor and understand what there kid does online. I’m with valve the blame is not on them.
p.s i dont want my skins to lose valve and i want to continue my hobby of opening cases
Pure copium lmao
25:52 OMG!! That was such a fun game back in the day lol..
Since Flobby died recently, this topic looks even more important
i remember when i was 14 my friend who was also 14 was so lucky to win 2000 dollars from a daily log in on a cs gambling side. he ended up loosing all of it again
parents need to learn to pay actual attention to their children and their interests. The fact parents dont know what your doing is very concerning. It doesnt take a genius to see this is gambling.
That Dynamic odds explanation explains why I win so much from gambling. I legit go years without gambling, but whenever I try it again, I win pretty fucking big.
h3h3's early reporting on csgo gambling in 2015 saved me
as a 15y guy. i NEED to open cases when i get them
opened one case that i got from a drop. I could have sold for 1 dollar but opened it and paid 2.50. when i got a blue .1 cent skin i stopped opening cases in csgo and just bought the skins i wanted.
I wish I was interviewed by this guy. I had an inventory that today would've been worth around $100,000 today back in 2017 when I was 19 years old... I wasn't even old enough to gamble at my local casino during that time.
Can't imagine 😭
What was your favorite skin you had?
@@grxxvxxs Probably a StatTrak MW M4 Howl, or even the FN DLore… I wish i wasnt so greedy as a kid lmao. That was the most money Ive ever had at one time.
@@heyitzbloo7914 What happened
@@Le4end I was younger, stupider and greedier. Thought I could make more and with gambling, you’re luck is bound to run out at some point.
@@heyitzbloo7914 did you never think about cashing out man? 100k makes no sense to not cash out unless ur rich already
I lost my $30 AWP Boom back around 2014 on a gambling website when I was then only 15 years old. I was so upset. Since then, I still have not gambled to this day.
I think I’m one of the few lucky ones that lost and realized it was impossible to win. That $30 loss felt huge at the time. In hindsight, it was extremely small. I truly feel for those who don’t quit after a loss, especially those who are under age.
crazy how i didnt even think of this til earlier this year. Back when the arms deal came out me and my cousins were ecstatic. i opened 20 cases and got 2 knives. then those sites started showing up. We started betting and it got crazy. we all eventually had 5k inventories and we all back in like 2018-2019 stopped playing and sold most of our skins. One of them had poseiden, ruby, emerald, and saphire gut knife. I had full fade low float karambit, m9, bayo, and flip. All in all we all had crazy skins and now we regret selling cause most of our inventories 3x or even 4x. My other cousin even had hedge mazes when they were cheap and now theyre 8k which is crazy.
Once i bet 50$ on keydrop to open 50$ case and i got skin for 55$. After this i felt that this was too risky so i have just withdraw skin to my inventory and ended gambling. Now once a month i put 1$ into keydrop and i do a battle case, if i win i just withdraw those skins, if i loose i know it's not my lucky month.
Lost around 4K about 1 month ago on clash and told myself I’m not stopping until I have enough to pull out a knife, I ended up reaching my goal and could’ve got a knife for around 900 gems and ended up playing it all away, stay away from gambling, its not worth it find happiness in something else.
I think the reason so many younger kids would gamble skins is simply because we could. We were too young to gamble at casinos so this our alternative.
Nah, kids didn't think like: "I have the urge to gamble" when they never gambled before, they get dragged into it, in this story dragged by a game developer using pretty colorful skins for their videogame. 15yo's didn't think: "I can't play slots in the casino, lets find alternatives online."
My whole inventory is from giveaways from those streamers. I did like one time losing a win and then i never touched it again bc we all know - at the end the casino win all the time. I started like in 2018 and iam so happy i invested in stickers and not shady casinos.
26:00 big fucking nostalgia for me on that. I loved Battlefield Heroes. Really cool to see Battlebit doing so well nowadays, it really feels a lot like a slightly more realistic Battlefield Heroes now that I am thinking about it.
Battlefield heroes was so good
What’s sad is that I was scrolling twitch and found a csgo gambler streaming within 15 seconds
It's weird seeing Quinns and Ohne on the same screen, worlds colliding man
On the bright side some of the kids learn young that gambling is bad and you cant win with not so serious money, Casinos have been robbing generations of adults out of everything
Battlefield Heroes and BFP4F were peak gaming enjoyment.
I remember back when i was in school, i think in 9-10th grade, when we were in the computer room, i used to play csgo roulett. I never put something in, just the 0,50€ for free and i won twice like 5€. Cashed out 2 skins, still have them, both ~50€ each now and never touched something like this again
If parents actually did their job and watched what their kids did this wouldn't be a problem.
true
My parents let me gamble as a kid to see for myself its not profitable, I learned quick after losing “a lot” of my money as a kid that its never worth it
i started csgo around 12 years old and i remember clearly by 13-14 i was buying a m9 bayonet ultraviolet ft off a market website for like 72 bucks, then gambling it on wild or something because the real value was like 142 on marketplace and gambling sites. i did that easily 5-8 times with birthday or christmas money, what a waste of cash. My friend at the time ive known since grade school also went through the entire roller coaster. he went from 200 to 400 to 800 with a nice slaughter then got up to 3.2k and i shit you not next day easter morning he lost all of it off of wild.
csgo lounge brings back memories of being 14 betting my skins I bought with pocket money on NiP and Titan
i do appricate that it seems ohne is a honest streamer its of the only reasons i trust his sponsors
At min 43:46 the attorney just confirmed that new accounts that have never opened boxes are "luckier" than older established accounts that have opened many boxes. YIKES.
like wtf holy shit
He wasn't talking about cs though
Yeah if I wouldn’t of learned im a gambling addict before I was 18 I would of damaged myself much more as an adult. I remember throwing around $500 in skins into gambling websites. Better than 5k at a casino as an adult
Him saying it’s not gambling is straight up ignorant
thats why u can't open csgo crates in the netherlands u cannot get addicted if u cannot do it
I literally have to watch commercials for skin gambling websites while watching this. 😂
first opened a crate when i was 13 and found sites at 15, lost like $300 and now never play the game
This video is very important to make visible a huge problem with gambling in csgo and kids. I only put once 10€ and I just lost 2/3€ and never deposit again. I am grateful that I didn’t win that time, because when you hit at the first is when you play again and get addicted. I think that this sites should be ilegal and governments of the US and other countries should do something to stop them
what? all real life casinos, lotto games, scratching tickets are the same...even worse because they have so much worse odds....the underage thing is the only downside here but nothing more and if parents would look after their children better there would be so much less incidents like those when a stupid kid spends their money on cases or gambling...i mean dont give your credit card to your idiot kid dumbass parent
@@ADRIANOS259 Bro I think that the problem is not the father that put some steam balance in the account of his son, or the kid that gamble the money that her parent punt in his steam account. Because a kid is a kid and you can not pretend that they think rationally like and adult and also is not father fault because not everyone have the time to supervise everything their kid do in the internet or they are conscious about the dangers and risk that internet have in their kids.
@@whatsthatasmr140 even most adults don't think rationally about gambling .
When different religions and cultures all over the world taught .. you should not gamble .
They were not preaching to kids . They were preaching to adults .
@@whatsthatasmr140 Why isnt the fathers fault that he put balance on his son steam account? dont put money on there if you dont want him to open shit cases...if you do put money than watch him where he will spend it
Sometimes I feel like just doing a twitch or something just for like 5-10 years and then disappear. There seems to be so much money involved it's crazy.
Reminder that TheOriginalWeed aka JoshOG needs to be in jail
what do you mean?
Went from a free affiliate code to a FT m4 golden coil back to 0 around late 2015. Heart shattering to see my precious skin go away even if i hadnt even paid for it. Havent touched a gambling site since. Learned that lesson early and cheaply. Nowadays i open the occasional cases for fun. I think its important to look at the money you gamble with as SPENT and not invested or some other bullshit. To not expect to make money. But its fun to open some cases with friends every once in a while and i find this mindset made my knifepull feel so much more special since i wasnt expecting it
This is a great vid with really important and eye opening information. I gamble because I think my odds are better than gambling against crates Valve gives. I believe the right answer to this would be to do what riot did where you can’t trade em so people can’t really gamble but then the people like Ohne wouldn’t have a career.
At this point if they made CS skins untradable I think there would be hell to pay for valve
I do like the armor pass system more, I just think you should get armor pass rewrds for setting personal competitive goals. rather than only having money as the deposit. Like if you are a 5k elo premier player and you set a goal to obtain 7500 and accomplish it, then you get some pass credits. like 2-3 but there is a minimum goal.
i lost most of my skins during the ibuypower scandal... lost my skins there, and that was it. im done.
The GGBET only sponsored the qualifiers and i think the last chance qualifiers, not the main event. The main event remains sponsorless, and it should be that way forever, taking to account how much valve makes with the TI compendium.
A gamblers reasoning: Both types of skin gambling is bad, so im just gonna make my brand marketing it to kids. Reasonable take
It just a hobby wasting 20k for a sticker lootbox
man I try to enjoy these vids but this man jumpscares tf outta me with his screams of enthusiasm
Thankfully I never got addicted. I'd opened a few cases, done some trade up contracts, and bet on a couple of sites. But I've always been so well aware of how much of a scam gambling is, so I didn't get effected by it.
its crazy how much money youtubers can get from gambling site sponsors ive talked to rust youtubers and they said that they get offered like 25k-100k for a video highest ive heard was 120k for a single video and its only like a 15 second clip
Bought the wheels and coilovers for my car w skin money, good times, just thankful I didn't expect to do that every time and had fun w it.
I know its old af vid but Huge probs for watching it through. Awsome video.
43:25 !!! I think we are not aware that alot of games/companys are doing dynamic odds, I see examples for this alot on my self friends and streamers. Delta force for example, streamer with not alot of viewers grinding the game bought alot of skin bundles, opens up 2 mandelbricks and gets THE SAME 3 cent 2 times and goes "oh shit I HAVE ONE MORE" realises he doesnt and goes "ahhv noo i would have opened up another immeditely"
Another example from myself:
I stopped playing tf2 for 1 1/2 years didnt spend anything, came back opened up about 35 boxes and got 3 unusuals, (sold them and didnt spend again, gottem xD)
The online casinos have better odds than the cases in the game so it’s ridiculous to say it’s a problem
I think the esiest solution is to not ban trade bots for these sites, and instead to ban the players choosing to participate. It would work, users wouldn't like it. but it would work
Legit felt like a Coffeezilla video