There are literally thousands of website in this new era of CS:GO skins market which has been the talking point of more than a year now and nothing seems to be amicable as it sounds. Thus, Australian officials are warning parents about their kids which might be involved and addicted to CS:GO skins gambling which has destroyed lives and banks of many already.
The virtual item which has real life values always holds an obligatory problem as far as commercials are concerned. The skins which have a value ranging somewhere between less than a dollar upto $2000, (yes, some are even over that figure) they can be en-cashed in real money and can be used as a way of money laundering.
The ABC has spoken to a number of young gamers who have gambled skins. In one case, a teenager stole his parent’s credit card and gambled away thousands of dollars. Jordan Bruce, an 18-year-old gamer from Brisbane, said he played CS:GO for about a year before he started getting into the gambling.
“I bet all my money on skins, I was that much into it, then it started getting bad,” one said
“I just had that urge. I hated it and I hated myself after it, but at the time I just thought ‘I won’t get caught’,” Jordan said.
Rahul Sood — founder of US-based eSports gambling betting website Unikrn — said the ease with which children can watch and get involved in the gambling makes him seriously uncomfortable.
“It’s just so easy to do and because there’s no oversight and no regulation, there are sites from all over the world that are accepting bets and nobody seems to care,” he said. Mr Sood said he wants to hear from Counter-Strike’s developers Valve about where they stand on children gambling using the marketplace they created.
“We would love for them to work with good operators and come up with a system that can solve some of the issues that are happening out there but I haven’t seen anything publicly from them,” he said.
