Valve is the best of the bunch
really? they were the ones who came up with loot boxes for weapon skins in the first place
Weapon skins is nothing. There are games putting overpowered characters and weapons in the loot boxes/battlepasses. Some of them then allow you to trade them for real money on an auction house. Anything skins is harmless at this point.
And in those boxes I sometimes see < 1% chances on the main item to drop and close to 50% for useless junk…
All games have their methods to leach cash out of players, but some methods are just despicable. Galaxy of FIre: Alliances was a positive exception. Buy a point doubler for $1.99 that’s permanent… Those amounts are within the expendable income part for almost all players. (not > 100 for 1 item or thousand for gambling)