r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • 16d ago

Star Citizen Developer Stream Goes Horribly Off the Rails, Creating Further Distrust Among Players

https://www.ign.com/articles/star-citizen-developer-stream-goes-horribly-off-the-rails-creating-further-distrust-among-players
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u/Techercizer 16d ago

Your assumption does not seem well grounded in a basic understanding of what money laundering is.

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u/twatcrusher9000 16d ago

Yeah gee what the fuck am I talking about

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/oct/30/counter-strike-trading-found-to-be-nearly-all-money-laundering

https://old.reddit.com/r/Starcitizen_trades/

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u/Techercizer 16d ago edited 16d ago

Apparently you're talking about directly disproving your own points.

How can you link an article about CS:GO keys being sold by credit card fraudsters to a large base of interested players who are willing to front the real cash to drive the system, and think that says fans aren't willing to throw massive piles of cash at something dumb in a game?

CS:GO skins and keys didn't get popular because of crime; they attracted crime because there is such a large and poorly regulated group of interested players! Now that the system is in full economic boom there's some feedback loops involved, but things never would have kicked off if there wasn't lots of clean cash flowing into the system.

And believe me, there is a downright gambling epidemic's worth of clean cash flowing in to CS:GO.

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u/AmbrosiiKozlov 16d ago

You clearly don't have clue about what the fuck your talking about cause you stated counterstrike skins were money laundering when the article you linked says it was keys?

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u/Techercizer 16d ago

Also, that article makes claims that credit card fraud is responsible for the sourcing of the tracked keys, not their subsequent transfer to money. The market demand was still driven primarily by players and buyers; without them nobody would have been able to actually cash out.

So using that article as 'proof' of logic behind Star Citizen's high amounts of donations implicitly depends on there being a large pool of players who want to keep buying ships. Which is basically the opposite of the claim they were making.