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Titas Khan

Valve’s CS2 skin update leads to massive exodus with over $1 billion wiped from marketplace

Counter-Strike 2’s economy has just gone through its most shocking crash to date, following a controversial update from Valve that reshaped the entire trading landscape overnight.

The Oct. 23 patch introduced a massive change to the game’s “Trade Up Contract” system. Within just 24 hours, it erased an estimated $1.7 billion in market value while igniting one of the most heated community reactions in the game’s history.

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