Valve reveal reason behind CSGO case key ban on Steam market Valve has made the shock decision to block Counter-Strike: Global Offensive case keys on the Steam Community Market, with the developer cracking down on trading fraud. Trading in CSGO is a common occurrence. Whether you want to sell your entire inventory for one epic knife skin, or look to trade up slowly, most players have had an interaction with the market. However, players will now be restricted in what items they can use to get their next best skin. Valve will be blocking keys from trading and the Steam Community Market in an attempt to crack down on fraudulent accounts. In a blog post on October 28, Valve announced that they were taking CSGO case keys off the market. It won\u2019t impact any keys currently sitting in player\u2019s inventories, but any future key purchases will be unmarketable and untradeable. Read more: Complexity drop dephh, ShahZaM – \u201cStarting today, CSGO container keys purchased in-game can no longer leave the purchasing account,\u201d it said. \u201cPre-existing CSGO container keys are unaffected \u2013 those keys can still be sold on the Steam Community Market and traded.\u201d While Valve recognized that key trading was once used for legitimate purposes, the rise in fraud involving keys has forced them to crack down on how they move between accounts. \u201cWorldwide fraud networks have recently shifted to using CSGO keys to liquidate their gains,\u201d it said. \u201cAt this point, nearly all key purchases that end up being traded or sold on the marketplace are believed to be fraud-sourced.\u201d Today we\u2019re making changes to CS:GO case keys. Full details in today\u2019s blog post: https:\/\/t.co\/OkiQ9Gl8aJ \u2014 CS:GO (@CSGO) October 28, 2019 Keys were a valuable form of currency to be used in CSGO skin trading. They had a baseline value that could be scaled up, meaning people would often trade keys for skins. While this meant that it made for an easy currency to trade off, it could just as easily be exploited by people looking to defraud innocent players. The change means that players \u2013 legitimate or not \u2013 will have to look for alternative in-game items to trade, or resort to risky out-of-client trades. \u201cUnfortunately this change will impact some legitimate users, but combating fraud is something we continue to prioritize across Steam and our products,\u201d it said. Fraud has been a massive issue in the CSGO trading community, dating back to the start of the Community Market. As Valve looks at finding more permanent ways to catch suspects, the key ban has set the tone for their approach towards the subject. While the popular currency is now slowly going out of circulation, players should still always be vigilant about trading. Be sure to check over the trade before you accept to make sure you haven\u2019t been duped, and be very wary of clicking any links in chat with anyone you trade with, even if you trust them, as your account may get compromised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Valve reveal reason behind CSGO case key ban on Steam market Valve has made the shock decision to block Counter-Strike: Global Offensive case keys on the Steam Community Market, with the developer cracking down on trading fraud. Trading in CSGO is a common occurrence. Whether you want to sell your entire inventory for one epic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}