Small update, huge impact. Valve has released a small update for Counter-Strike 2, which caused a shock in the virtual skins market. The value of the entire market fell by more than 28% in a matter of days, reports the analytical website Price Empire. corresponds to a loss of almost two billion dollars.
The reason is a new exchange option. Players can now trade five common Arcane skins for relatively rare cosmetic items for knives or gloves. This radically changes the situation. Previously, getting these skins was a matter of luck and a lot of investment.
Knives and gloves only drop from paid boxes with a small chance of success (1 in 385), so their prices on the public market often range from hundreds to thousands of dollars. For example, popular Stiletto massacre On October 9 it was sold for approximately 770 euros, but after the update its price dropped to 237 euros.
For casual players who have never been able to afford expensive skins, this change is a welcome one. Now it has become much easier and cheaper to buy the knife or gloves of your dreams, so the market has partially “democratized”. On the contrary, those who invested real money in skins as in shares are talking about a disaster. Some collectors have seen the value of their inventory drop by as much as a third. There was a wave of criticism in the community that Valve, without warning, “destroyed” a long-standing trading system that had been built around Counter-Strike for over a decade.
But there are those who are grateful for the changes, because on the contrary The cost of cheap skins has skyrocketed – many of them are ten times more valuable today than before the update. Not long ago, players considered them worthless because they couldn’t be traded for something they really wanted. But today the situation is completely different – some of these skins cost up to a fifth of the price of a knife or gloves. So it’s not surprising that players are buying in bulk whatever is left cheaper.
So that we are not talking only about the market, after a long break the mode returns to Counter-Strike. Retake is one of the most popular game modes in the community, which fans remember from the CS:GO era. He has been absent since the release of Counter-Strike 2, and players have often criticized his absence.
At the same time, Retakes is one of those game modes that are great they combine fun and education. On the map, four members of the CT team are confronted by three terrorists who already have a planted bomb. The goal of the defenders is to regain control of the stage – just like in regular matches, only at a faster pace and without extra starting rounds.
This same update also includes slight modification of the Inferno mapnamely the location of the balcony, where the developers have improved visibility and viewing angles. Although this is a small change, it can affect the balance between teams, especially when attacking the A bombsite.
Source :Indian TV
