"Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism about" gambling in its video games, says DayZ creator after $6 billion Counter-Strike 2 market crashes New Counter-Strike 2 cases are free to open, but keeping skins will cost you – and the FPS community isn't thrilled: "Valve will literally reinvent the gambling industry before adding a random fun game mode" Counter-Strike 2 community left in shambles along with Steam marketplace after Valve's new "Trade Up" update turns $10 skins into $1,000 skins and vice versa: "This update has made some collectors very rich" An outline of the coming tweaks is then provided, starting with "online gambling content" – specifically within the realm of video games. "Our current policy prohibits content that directs viewers to online gambling sites or applications that are not certified by Google," it reads. "We're expanding our enforcement to now cover online gambling with additional items that have monetary value, including digital goods (e.g. video game skins, cosmetics and NFTs)." It's hard not to think of the ongoing Counter-Strike 2 skin fiasco, and the $6 billion market that Valve's cosmetics created. "We're updating our approach to casino-style games where nothing of real-world monetary value is wagered or cashed out," continues the announcement from Google. "Content that depicts, promotes, or facilitates social casino sites will now be age-restricted." "In addition to our existing guidelines around graphic gaming content, we will age-restrict an additional small subset of video game content featuring realistic human characters that focuses on scenes of torture or scenes of mass violence against non-combatants," as stated in the new policy post. Take-Two CEO calls generative AI "the future of technology" that "will increase employment," months after saying GTA 6's "creative genius is human."