Over 90,000 CS:GO Players Sign Petition Against Valve's New Trade Rule
By Nicholas Barth ·
Many members of the CS:GO community are not pleased with a change that Valve has made to its item trading system and are doing their best to have it reverted.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players are not happy with the recent change that Valve has made to the in-game item trading system, as one petition calling for the change to be completely reverted has already gathered tens of thousands of signatures. The change in question was made on Thursday when Valve announced a new update that included changes to CS:GO's trading system, along with adjustments for the maps Nuke, Dust II and Canals.
"Starting today, CS:GO items received in trade will have the same seven-day cooldown as items purchased in-game or via the Steam Community Market," stated Valve in the their announcement.
The reasoning behind the change is to stop third-party sites who have developed services that use automated steam accounts to trade items quickly, as these sites have become hotbeds for frauds and scams. The company stated that they understood the change would "be disruptive to some players," and it was not wrong. At the time of this writing, 96,872 people have signed a petition calling for Valve to revert the trading system changes back to what they were before Thursday's update.
"Our whole community would like the trading rules to be completely reverted to what it was before the most previous CS:GO update on the CS:GO blog," the petition explained, "This update essentially destroys trading interactions as a whole."
This change effectively eliminates the lucrative business of skin gambling, as these sites rely on the ability to immediately transfer skins from accounts. However, not only are gambling sites are affected, as skin marketplace sites will also now see their business affected by the cool down period, along with individual players who might trade skins as a hobby or to make small profits.
Nicolai "dev1ce" Reedtz, a professional CS:GO player for Astralis, took to Twitter to voice his opinion on the matter. Explaining that the update will do nothing to stop scamming, dev1ce stated that he believes the update was made in order to help generate more profits for Valve. "The only winner of this update is Valve and the money the market will generate from this."
Only time will tell if the large amount of support for the petition to revert the trading change by the community will have any affect.
(cover photo courtesy of Tyrak)