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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Hassam Nasir

Ludicrous $6 billion Counter Strike 2 skins market crashes, loses $3 billion overnight — game update destroys inventories, collapses market

Counter-Strike skins market crash cover.

Valve pushed a "small" update to Counter-Strike 2 yesterday that mostly consisted of minor optimization tweaks, along with changes to how hard it is to acquire certain skins in-game. A lot of you will be familiar with how Counter-Strike's market works — it's player-to-player, meaning anyone with a rare item can sell it to another person for real money. These transactions often land in the hundreds of thousands range for the most desirable items, with an AK-47 skin even crossing the $1 million mark recently. Therefore, a sudden change dismantling the entire economy could not be foreseen.

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