Trainwreck explains why he turned down millions for CSGO gambling sponsors Twitch: TrainwreckstvStreaming star TrainwrecksTV has explained why he turned down CS:GO gambling sponsorships as he wanted nothing to do with the affiliate codes that some sites use. Counter-Strike\u2019s skins and stickers market has been booming recently following Valve\u2019s announcement around Counter-Strike 2. Inventories from CS:GO will carry over to the new game, but it has sent prices skyrocketing given the graphical upgrades CS2 will have. That\u2019s benefitted a number of collectors who still have some incredibly rare items stored away. Trainwreck is one of those, with the streamer having a collection of skins, holo stickers, and rare sticker capsules worth around $1 million just stored away. Naturally, Train is big into his case openings to try and add skins and knives to his ever-growing collection. And, while he\u2019ll regularly spend hours opening cases on stream, he\u2019s turned down sponsorships that could have been incredibly lucrative for him in the past. Trainwreck won\u2019t do CS:GO gambling sponsors despite being offered millions The Kick streamer joined CS:GO content creator ohnePixel during his May 3 stream, revealing that he\u2019s been offered \u201cmillions of dollars\u201d but isn\u2019t a fan of affiliate codes that some gambling sites give to their partnered streamers to entice their viewers to join. \u201cI really don\u2019t like the codes, any sort of code. Codes would be ok if you could distinguish a pre-existing gambler who is gambling anyways versus a non-gambler,\u201d Train said, adding that some have made it \u201cpredatory\u201d with how they act. \u201cIn my opinion, how I go about it is, I\u2019m a gambler, I enjoy doing it. I go live, I don\u2019t sell a false reality, I don\u2019t do this code bullshit, I don\u2019t tell people they can win or only show wins \u2013 I\u2019m losing a large percent of the time.\u201d Train added that the codes are \u2018manipulating\u2019 people who believe they\u2019re getting free money for registering with it but then need to continue playing to withdraw any winnings. He noted that it \u201cpassively and unintentionally\u201d accesses an addiction for players who wouldn\u2019t have previously accessed it without using a code as a way in. \u201cGambling is already bad but that predatory s*it is what I think makes it really really bad,\u201d Train added. There has been a clamp down on streamers advertising gambling on Twitch, but it doesn\u2019t quite extend to Counter-Strike or any other games where you have to open cases or packs with real money. It remains a grey area with regard to gambling laws and regulations, but Train has laid out his thoughts and won\u2019t get involved it seems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Trainwreck explains why he turned down millions for CSGO gambling sponsors Twitch: TrainwreckstvStreaming star TrainwrecksTV has explained why he turned down CS:GO gambling sponsorships as he wanted nothing to do with the affiliate codes that some sites use. Counter-Strike\u2019s skins and stickers market has been booming recently following Valve\u2019s announcement around Counter-Strike 2. Inventories from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}