A new Counter-Strike 2 update has left the community in shambles over skin prices and the entirety of Steam's marketplace crashing, as players scramble to sell their skins at high prices to avoid ...

Counter-Strike players turned cosmetic skins into a bona fide secondary market over the past decade, but a recent update pushed by its developer, Valve, appears to have brought it crashing down.

The Counter-Strike 2 community was sent into a tailspin when its in-game economy crashed, causing a loss of almost $2 billion of real-world money. Like many other live-service games, Counter-Strike 2 ...

TL;DR: Valve's new Steam Trade Protection feature safeguards in-game items and cosmetic skins by allowing users to reverse trades within 7 days. Enabled by default for Counter-Strike 2, it provides ...

CS2 skin market trends for 2026 shaped by supply changes, Steam Market rules, and the October 2025 update that altered rare ...