A lawsuit against Valve for gambling violations was really a long time coming and I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner. For those not familiar, CS:GO contains cosmetic items which are distributed through chests. Chests cost real money and will randomly give the purchaser a cosmetic item. These cosmetic items have real-world values ranging from pennies to hundreds of dollars and can be sold at independent online stores [0] (against Steam's policy, although this rule is unenforced) or used to buy Steam merchandise (ie. video games).<p>Of the two people I know who play CS:GO neither play for the matches, but only use it to gamble. It's worth noting Valve isn't the first or only game to have these illegal markets built around them [1] but it's by far the largest.<p>[0] <a href="https://skinxchange.com/" rel="nofollow">https://skinxchange.com/</a><p>[1] <a href="http://iskmarket.com/" rel="nofollow">http://iskmarket.com/</a>