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Biggest issue in this business is minimal control. Accounts get banned? Trades get reversed? Hackers using your site to liquidate game items? Outta luck.
Kudos, though as Flammy pointed out, this could become very obscure sort of niche if the game changes something or decides to move some option around. I had a few friends on this game called APB (All Points Bullet In), These guys were making legit money selling MOD cars, guns and tattoo designs. However, in their case, they became an actual known group that some of their design and tattoo's were sold outside of the g…
The difference here is that he created a marketplace, he doesn't sell directly skins that he made or mod. It is impressive to see that kind of money for virtual goods in my opinion.
And yes, it's pretty cool tying a part of that virtual world to real money in this way.
I'm interested in creating a web app that allows auth via Steam account too, but I'm not seeing any docs about how to make that happen.
Anyone know how that's done?
[follow up edit] This seems to be it → https://steamcommunity.com/dev
Looks like there's a Steam Web API that allow auth via Steam OpenID. Likely workable. :D