Valve; listen to your community on this one. Restricting trading doesn't hurt anyone more than actual everyday traders. People aren't going to swarm to your community market with 13% tax and much higher prices than anywhere else; this is not how you get a bigger piece of the market. Either revert the latest change or drop your tax by at least half of what it is currently; and make the trade ban on items 24 hours or even better; remove it entirely. Skins are a huge part if not the biggest single thing to get this game to where it's at; and crippling trading doesn't do anything positive even to yourself. Scamming is the exact same if not more prevelant due to people panicking that their skins aren't worth much; they can get desperate and sell to some paypal salesman which is such a prolific scam but people will actually be willing to try it. Similarly if people can't trade their items in any reasonable amount of time some might resort to gambling.

This update does not do anything that you have set out to resolve. People have been waiting to see when they are going to rank up/derank for 6 years, people have been waiting for the MP5 to return to CSGO for 6 years too. 128 tick servers, source 2 engine, M4A1 buffed so it's more in line with the M4A4, these are just a few of the things the community has almost unanimously agreed they want to happen to the game.

Instead we got the R8, gloves and this trade ban.

We might not be polite a lot of the time, but please listen to your community before you kill it.

Valve; listen to your community on this one. Restricting trading doesn't hurt anyone more than actual everyday traders. People aren't going to swarm to your community market with 13% tax and much higher prices than anywhere else; this is not how you get a bigger piece of the market. Either revert the latest change or drop your tax by at least half of what it is currently; and make the trade ban on items 24 hours or even better; remove it entirely. Skins are a huge part if not the biggest single thing to get this game to where it's at; and crippling trading doesn't do anything positive even to yourself. Scamming is the exact same if not more prevelant due to people panicking that their skins aren't worth much; they can get desperate and sell to some paypal salesman which is such a prolific scam but people will actually be willing to try it. Similarly if people can't trade their items in any reasonable amount of time some might resort to gambling. This update does not do anything that you have set out to resolve. People have been waiting to see when they are going to rank up/derank for 6 years, people have been waiting for the MP5 to return to CSGO for 6 years too. 128 tick servers, source 2 engine, M4A1 buffed so it's more in line with the M4A4, these are just a few of the things the community has almost unanimously agreed they want to happen to the game. Instead we got the R8, gloves and this trade ban. We might not be polite a lot of the time, but please listen to your community before you kill it.