They were all originally direct sales anyway. What drives the volume of keys being moved (and by extension new key purchases) is the need/demand of the players consuming them, so whether those keys come to the players directly from Valve or indirectly via the market it matters not. Unless there was regional pricing on keys and no region restriction on them for market sales then I don't see how this benefits Valve from a monetary standpoint aside from reducing the cost of dealing with fraud and other illegal activities involving keys.īasically what you are saying is that Valve will somehow sell more keys if players buy from them directly but I don't agree.
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It seems to me like Valve gets their full value for them either way and in the case of the market even an additional cut on top of the original sale, which they now lose out on by making them non-marketable. And whatever stock of keys there is on the market is not just going to sit there unsold. Are you saying that if I buy them from the market that Valve only receives 20% of their total value in the end? What happened to the amount that was paid when they were sourced from Valve? Did it vanish into thin air? Were they free? Valve isn't losing out on a sale just because someone may buy from the market as opposed to a direct purchase. So let's say I am a CS:GO player and I want to get a few keys to use in the game. This will be significant for trading, where they were a common currency. Unfortunately this change will impact some legitimate users, but combating fraud is something we continue to prioritize across Steam and our products.
They simply can no longer be traded or transacted on the Steam Community Market. As a result we have decided that newly purchased keys will not be tradeable or marketable.įor the vast majority of CS:GO users who buy keys to open containers, nothing changes keys can still be purchased to open containers in their inventory. At this point, nearly all key purchases that end up being traded or sold on the marketplace are believed to be fraud-sourced. However, worldwide fraud networks have recently shifted to using CS:GO keys to liquidate their gains.
Why make this change? In the past, most key trades we observed were between legitimate customers. Pre-existing CS:GO container keys are unaffected–those keys can still be sold on the Steam Community Market and traded. That is, they cannot be sold on the Steam Community Market or traded. Starting today, CS:GO container keys purchased in-game can no longer leave the purchasing account.