Hello everyone!) Here I will write about one way to abuse the DotA 2 lounge. (Perhaps some of you know it, but here it will be described in a little more detail)
Need:
1) At least 1 account with a Russian marketplace.
2) As many steam accounts as possible, the more the better with the working exchange.
So, let's begin
The method consists in betting on the DotA 2 lounge.
On an account with a Russian trading platform, you will need to purchase common jewelry, they now cost from 0.36 rubles there. Dota 2 lounge sees them as
0.04-0.05 $ This is about 2.72 rubles /) (Many probably already understood what the abuse was after that, but still I advise you to read to the end)
We buy boxes, the more the better, but the usual dota inventory is limited to 600-800 items. (I bought a lot of bundles and threw 100 pieces per account) Proof(Do not buy comonki for the doctor, which of the sets does not accept DotA 2 lounge)
Next is the most important. After we bought the boxes, we waited 7 days and transferred them to the account / s, we proceed to the rates themselves. It is best to bet only on low coffees (0% -39% so that the sum of $ when winning is not lower than 0.2-0.3) because if you bet on 40-100% of the team, then if they win, they will most likely give the same hedgehogs as you bet . It's not very good to bet on qualifier matches where low coffees are rarely won.
On the night of July 20, Valve sent letters to the owners of popular roulette sites demanding that they stop their activities. Otherwise, the developer intended to start a lawsuit. Among them were CSGOLounge.com and Dota2Lounge.com - sites that are not roulette, but also use Steam bots to carry out operations with the transfer of things.
Official statement from Borewik, founder of CSGOLounge and Dota2Lounge:
From the very beginning, lounges were conceived as an entertainment service for the Dota 2 and CS:GO esports community. We never considered it a real money betting service. Dota 2 and CS:GO in-game items have no tangible value, and any interaction with these items is intended for fun, not profit.
We did not take any commission until June of this year, when a small percentage was set to improve the mechanism for issuing prizes and tracking their quality, compensating for the loss of items due to possible problems with our product or mechanism for exchanging in-game items (trading), holding sweepstakes for items among members of the gaming community, and adding new features.
Following recent events and an official letter from Valve, we needed to make a decision on how to deal with lounges as community spaces and entertainment services. The situation is confusing: we do not offer users gambling or conducting any transactions with real money and do not engage in the purchase or sale of in-game items. Despite this, to be clear, we have decided to obtain an official license in most countries of the world for the purpose of accepting bets with in-game items as bets with real money.
Starting August 1, we will restrict access to the betting functionality for users from countries and regions where online esports betting is prohibited. We will add additional registration and verification processes and require users to accept new terms of interaction with the site. We remind you that our service is intended only for users over 18 years old.
We will operate under the new rules, processing all future transactions related to the placement of bids for in-game items, under the updated terms of use of the service. The service will work only in countries that do not prohibit our activities at the legislative level.
Users from following countries and regions will no longer be able to use our service, but will retain the ability to collect the contents of their accounts and winnings: Belgium, France, Guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey, Martinique, Reunion, Mayotte, Turkey, Spain, Scotland, Israel , United Kingdom, USA.
The list of countries may change in the future, and we will notify users of this. We are working on a solution for affected users to continue using our services.
Please be aware that we do not guarantee the safety of your items beyond the ten day deadline set by Valve. We would like to thank everyone who has been and remains part of our community over the years. We would love to continue this journey with you and embrace these changes together. Our team has a lot of new features planned and is ready to implement fresh ideas, and we will be very happy to present them to you in the near future!
The in-game item exchange service, as before, will work worldwide without any restrictions. We also plan to improve this functionality of the service in the near future.
Dota2lounge.com is the most popular site for betting on Dota 2 matches. Understanding how to bet is quite simple, especially since the site has Russian language. However, we will write a small guide on how to place bets on dota2lounge correctly.
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After that, you get to the actual authorization page, where you need to enter your Steam login and password:
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Attention: Before entering a password, look carefully at the site address. The browser line should be dota2lounge.com. If the address is different, then this is a phishing site that was created to steal your access to Steam ( similar cases have already been).
On the right side of the screen there will be a schedule of matches, both future and current and past. If the name of one team has a green check mark, then it has won. See example:
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The percentage shows the probability of winning one or another team, which was predicted before the match. By the way, many recommend betting on outsiders, but we will talk about this in another article. Next, we will actually bet, for example, take the match OG vs EHOME. The following window appears:
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As you can see, we are required to specify the Steam trade URL. To do this, click on this link, you will be redirected to the steamcommunity website, where this link will be indicated at the very bottom:
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You need to copy and paste it on the dota2lounge website, after which a window will appear where you can place a bet:
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In order to place a bet on the Lounge, you need to click on the logo of the team that will win (in your opinion) and click "Place a bet". After that, a window will appear in the lower left corner, in which the security code will be indicated (you need to remember it) and two buttons: "Cancel" and "Add bot and wait." Click "Add Bot".
When it's your turn, the bot should send you an invitation to trade. After receiving an invite, you should not wait long, if enough time passes, the bot may revoke the invitation, as it will decide that you are not at the computer. Keep in mind that each player in the Lounge can place no more than 4 items. If you agree with the terms of the exchange, click on the "OK" button.