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 right here.
Revisiting Trade
Steam buying and selling was created to permit prospects to simply alternate objects with one another, and every day we see 1000’s of shoppers utilizing Steam Trading on this method. Recently we’ve been trying into methods to cut back some unfavourable unintended makes use of of buying and selling in CS:GO (comparable to fraud and scams), with the objective of preserving commerce between gamers.
Starting in the present day, CS:GO objects acquired 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 providers that use automated Steam accounts to imitate gamers and make use of Steam’s buying and selling performance. Unfortunately, a few of these third celebration providers have turn into a vector for fraud or scams. Unlike gamers, these providers depend on the flexibility to commerce every merchandise very incessantly. In distinction, a given merchandise strikes between precise gamers not more than as soon as per week within the overwhelming majority of circumstances.
We need to make it possible for Steam merchandise buying and selling is a helpful function that continues to offer prospects with the liberty to offer and obtain objects as they need. However, we understand in the present day’s change might also be disruptive to some gamers. We’ll proceed to judge buying and selling insurance policies as time goes on, and you probably have any suggestions or considerations concerning the change you possibly can electronic mail us at CSGOTeamFeedback [at] valvesoftware.com.
