BREAKING: Steam banlyser gambling
En af de store samtaleemner i CS:GO er måske et afsluttet kapitel. Steam meddeler i en officiel besked på deres hjemmeside, at de påbegynder en proces, hvor de vil meddele de hjemmesider, som tilbyder gambling med Steam skins, at dette nu ikke er lovligt ifølge Steam.
In 2011, we added a feature to Steam that enabled users to trade in-game items as a way to make it easier for people to get the items they wanted in games featuring in-game economies.
Since then a number of gambling sites started leveraging the Steam trading system, and there’s been some false assumptions about our involvement with these sites. We’d like to clarify that we have no business relationships with any of these sites. We have never received any revenue from them. And Steam does not have a system for turning in-game items into real world currency.
These sites have basically pieced together their operations in two-part fashion. First, they are using the OpenID API as a way for users to prove ownership of their Steam accounts and items. Any other information they obtain about a user's Steam account is either manually disclosed by the user or obtained from the user’s Steam Community profile (when the user has chosen to make their profile public). Second, they create automated Steam accounts that make the same web calls as individual Steam users.
Using the OpenID API and making the same web calls as Steam users to run a gambling business is not allowed by our API nor our user agreements. We are going to start sending notices to these sites requesting they cease operations through Steam, and further pursue the matter as necessary. Users should probably consider this information as they manage their in-game item inventory and trade activity.
Dermed lukker Steam i første omgang muligheden for at folk kan bette med deres skins via hjemmesider. Steam vil nemlig ikke give gambling hjemmesider lov til at bruge deres Steam API, som gør det muligt for folk at logge på med sin steam-bruger på hjemmesider.
- Se hvad de professionelle har at sige til gambling her.
Hvad der helt præcis vil ske med de her gambling hjemmesider vides endnu ikke, og debatten raser lige nu på de sociale medier. Dette vil højst sandsynligt få konsekvenser for turneringer og hold, som er sponsoreret af gambling hjemmesider. Hvad synes du om Steam's beslutning om at lukke ned for gambling?
