Update log
Full Team Fortress 2 update
The complete published notes, normalized for clean reading and source attribution.
Counter-Strike 2 at a glance
Gameplay systems
In an unusual show of candour, Valve have spoken out publicly against a lawsuit filed in New York, USA that accuses them of"letting children and adults alike illegally gamble"via loot boxes in Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2.
With the caveat that I am no Atticus Finch-esque legal expert or even a Louis Tully-grade bumbler, I find Valve's rebuttal to be a mixture of whataboutery and tactical mitigation, with a couple of fair points. It basically sidesteps what I think is the lawsuit's most important argument – that lootbox mechanics are fundamentally manipulative. You can read the thing in full here, or you can read my slapdash summary-with-notes, below.
Source