Valve crashed the skin market with a major update: losses have already exceeded half a billion dollars

After a major update from Valve, the CS2 skin market literally collapsed, losing more than $615 million in a few days. The reason was a new feature that affected the trade security system.

This was reported by the PriceEmpire portal, a service for monitoring prices of in-game items, on its page on X (Twitter).

On July 15, a trade protection feature was added to CS2: now, if there is a suspicion of hacking, the owner can cancel any transactions with items made over the past 7 days. Because of this, the liquidity of skins has sharply decreased - especially on third-party sites, where they relied most on quick resale.

Credits: PriceEmpire

PriceEmpire analysts note that the market has begun to recover gradually, but it may take time to return to previous volumes. Skin owners are now afraid to sell them to third-party traders, and large sellers are in no hurry to withdraw items so as not to end up on the list of "non-tradable".

It is interesting that before the update, the growth of skin liquidity literally reached its maximum, and the market itself reached $5.13 billion. However, many players hope that the situation will soon completely stabilize and skin prices will return to their usual values.

Recall that a possible release date for the Compendium 2025 dedicated to the upcoming Dota 2 World Championship was previously announced.