The Counter-Strike 2 skin market is currently in uproar. Developer Valve released a new patch to its free-to-play shooter on October 22, bringing back Retakes mode, a 4v3 match where players must defend or destroy a post-plant location, and some refinements to how some skins are collected.
In a refinement to the Skin Trade Contract, a way to legally trade these cosmetics in Counter-Strike 2, players can now exchange five Covert items to earn a guaranteed knife or a pair of gloves. This one change has upended a big part of the CS2 marketplace, with parts of it losing over $1.