Key Highlights:
- A new Counter Strike 2 update has obliterated the Knife skin marketplace overnight.
- This is while boosting the value of weapons along the way.
- The change is nothing short of controversial.
Counter Strike 2 carried over the legacy of the original Counter Strike: Global Offensive (affectionately known as CS:GO), bringing with it many fundamentals of the original – including the entire skin economy/market.
However, a recent update from Valve resulted in unforeseen chaos, with the introduction of a Knife crafting system. This completely changed how rare items were procured, and turned the entire market inside out.
Counter Strike 2 Skin Market Crashes After New Update that Lets Players Craft Knives
In a rather seemingly small update, Valve introduced a new feature to CS2, which now lets players trade 5 semi rare weapons (StatTrak Covert Items) against one StatTrak Knife.
Alternatively, players can also choose to exchange 5x regular Covert items for one regular Covert Knife instead.
This change completely invalidates the need for a Knife marketplace, given how easily most of them can be crafted for and/or exchanged against. On the other hand, the price of weapons skyrocketed overnight, causing total chaos amongst those who collect cosmetics in CS2.
Before this update, there were only two ways to obtain a Knife in CS2 – either by purchasing it outright on the Steam Community marketplace, or simply getting lucky while opening a cosmetic case, with very low chances.
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This made Knives the most valuable cosmetic, with many players using them as a means to measure account validity and worth.
This change has not been without its fair share of controversy (which is to be expected), with many calling Valve out for this outlandish change, which was carried out overnight with little to information being shared beforehand.
Hundreds or thousands of players had their collections rendered useless with an update, and have taken to social media to voice their discontent. Some have seen the change as a cause for celebration instead, mentioning that it might be the first step in removing blatantly obvious gambling economies from the platform.
No matter how you slice it though, this is a massive change whose ramifications will be felt throughout Valve’s other games and naturally, CS2 itself.
