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Earlier this month the Washington State Gambling Commission set its sights on Valve, accusing the Steam developer of facilitating gambling as a number of illegal sites use Counter-Strike: Global Offensive skins as a form of currency for gambling. Since some skins are very rare, they get assigned high values of real-world currency, making them convenient for gambling sites to use as chips, so to speak. Valve has retaliated against these accusations, claiming that it's been compliant with the law and has previously collaborated with the Gambling Commission to crack down on sites using Steam services for nefarious means."The operation of Steam and CS:GO is lawful under Washington Law," Valve said in a statement sent to Eurogamer. "We were surprised and disappointed that the Commission chose to publicly accuse Valve of illegal activity and threaten our employees with criminal charges. There is no factual or legal support for these accusations. Notwithstanding, as you know Valve has taken its own steps to discourage skin gambling on third party websites. We are open to further cooperation with the commission."
Indeed Valve has sent out cease and desist requests to various skin gambling sites.
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