Back before my gaming group fell apart we had this one teenager in the group. I watched the crate system (original CSGO) turn her into a full blown gambling addict for a while. It was pretty fucked up.
On the other hand I once upboxed a factory new knife and when I sold all my skins last year I paid off my credit card. I got lucky. Most don't.
That girl though, she was incredible, turned into a predatory scammer, seducing nerds and "borrowing" their skins. Factory new bayonets with rare skins, only to turn around and lose them in further trades and gambles. I was quite impressed with the first part, not so much with the way she failed to make a bag out of her grift.
She's doing really good now though. Grew up, got into medicine, now she works and is a far more valuable contribution to the community than I am. Just figured it was worth sharing the happy ending cuz it was pretty sad for a while there, at the time.
Back before my gaming group fell apart we had this one teenager in the group. I watched the crate system (original CSGO) turn her into a full blown gambling addict for a while. It was pretty fucked up.
On the other hand I once upboxed a factory new knife and when I sold all my skins last year I paid off my credit card. I got lucky. Most don't.
That girl though, she was incredible, turned into a predatory scammer, seducing nerds and "borrowing" their skins. Factory new bayonets with rare skins, only to turn around and lose them in further trades and gambles. I was quite impressed with the first part, not so much with the way she failed to make a bag out of her grift.
She's doing really good now though. Grew up, got into medicine, now she works and is a far more valuable contribution to the community than I am. Just figured it was worth sharing the happy ending cuz it was pretty sad for a while there, at the time.