Today’s replace features a host of changes to Nuke, Dust II, and Canals, so leap right into a match and see what’s new!
Along with these map updates, we’re additionally making an adjustment to CS:GO merchandise buying and selling, described under.
For particulars, click on here.
Revisiting Trade
Steam buying and selling was created to permit clients to simply alternate objects with one another, and every day we see 1000’s of consumers utilizing Steam Trading on this method. Recently we’ve been wanting into methods to cut back some detrimental unintended makes use of of buying and selling in CS:GO (equivalent to fraud and scams), with the purpose of preserving commerce between gamers.
Starting right now, CS:GO objects obtained in commerce could have the identical seven-day commerce cooldown as objects bought in-game or through the Steam Community Market.
Over time, third-parties have developed companies that use automated Steam accounts to imitate gamers and make use of Steam’s buying and selling performance. Unfortunately, a few of these third get together companies have turn out to be a vector for fraud or scams. Unlike gamers, these companies depend on the power to commerce every merchandise very regularly. In distinction, a given merchandise strikes between precise gamers not more than as soon as every week within the overwhelming majority of instances.
We need to guarantee that Steam merchandise buying and selling is a helpful function that continues to supply clients with the liberty to provide and obtain objects as they want. However, we understand right now’s change may additionally be disruptive to some gamers. We’ll proceed to guage buying and selling insurance policies as time goes on, and if in case you have any suggestions or considerations concerning the change you’ll be able to e-mail us at CSGOTeamFeedback [at] valvesoftware.com.
