From nowadays, Counter-Strike: International Offensive‘s loot box keys can no longer be resold on Steam’s marketplace. Valve are placing a lock on their keys due to the fact of the worldwide gangs of evil-doers who have been applying the keys to launder dollars. From now on, any important purchased will be bound to the purchaser’s account.
If you purchased keys for the goal of unlocking a container to get at the sweet loot inside, this will not have an effect on you substantially. You can fairly substantially carry on getting disappointed by the skins you unlock. But these who have been trading keys to cleanse their ill-gotten gains are now locked out from undertaking so.
Valve stated:
Keys purchased ahead of this modify can nevertheless be sold on the market place.
Reading into this on Reddit, it appears like the keys have been applied due to the fact they had a constant value across all of Steam, so traders, each reputable and heinous, applied them as a base currency. It appears like with CS:GO’s keys no longer in play, they anticipate persons will switch more than the Dota 2’s Arcanas or TF2 keys to carry on trading. Nonetheless, they do look to recognize that it was as vital, and even anticipated, move.