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THE BIGGEST STEAM COMMUNITY MARKET UPDATE EVERAdded:
The CS community market has received major updates to improve item pages, listings, and search filters. Read more.
Chad, what is going on with CS? I saw this yesterday.
They updated the market UX completely.
Look.
This is what the Steam market Does it look like it right now, or will it look like it? We're currently beta testing areas of the market like the item pages.
We welcome your feedback.
Boom.
This is the first time I see it. See it that on terminal?
Okay, this looks almost all the Wow.
Okay, this is nice.
A much improved graph.
You still have the feature of zooming in.
Week, month, year. This is really smooth. And it shows volume easily.
Before it only showed one line of the price, and you had to hover over it, right?
So, yeah, they did change that. What about an item? Oh, oh, am I on CS float?
In-game items.
Okay, that looks nice.
The way it pops up.
Flip to apply, click on it. Wow, it shows the different conditions.
That's insane.
It even have us above it, you see?
Holy clean design, bro. You can switch to StatTrak.
What?
It shows all the different listings.
Don't tell me these are already the patterns. No way.
No, it's just phases. It's just phases.
I thought, I thought.
All right. What is the picture thing?
Wait, what does this say?
This listing doesn't yet have unique or enhanced images yet.
The image shown here may vary slightly from the listed item. Oh my god, it's going to come.
They're going to bring screenshots.
Let me check. What about What about skins like Redline with stickers.
Uh What?
The That's insane.
And you can switch between all the listings?
Just browse like that. Holy You can see the craft how it got applied.
With the in-game scratches and the in-game positioning.
I mean, oh my it shows the actual placement.
This is clean.
Damn, they want to get the share of the marketplaces.
Is that a good thing or bad thing? What if we have no CS float, but everything is Steam market?
They would never They would never let us cash out on Steam, right? It would never be cash out, right? Because they can't with laws and The fee is pretty high, but not the the the worst.
This is insane. Even here in the preview it shows enter custom. What is this?
Like what if I Wait, what is this for?
M4 Ah, it's just for the AK.
So, can I put iBPower?
Wow!
I put iBPower at filter listings, boys, and it shows me skins with iBPower. It filtered a lot of marketplaces don't even have. What if I put Katowice holo?
Nine.
Ah, I see what it's doing.
If one of the stickers Katowice and one of the stickers has 2014 it just connects them, right?
This is Katowice 2015 and this is Cologne 2014. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Can I do it like this?
I programmed, bro. I know how this works. If I do it like this, it should only take Never mind.
No, it [clears throat] doesn't work.
That is still crazy though. Does it show the shams as well?
On this one is a sham applied? Show me.
Wow.
Chat, what?
I see all of you guys saying W. Is this a W? Because my first impression yesterday, maybe I haven't thought about it enough.
But when when I saw it while I was in like with my boys, I was looking at my phone, I saw this update and I was like, "Ooh, I don't know." Because call me nuts.
What they've been doing until now is before this update, what they were trying to do was was we said this for a long time, right? I said like, I don't know, like 3 months ago, they're trying to take over the marketplaces with Steam Market, right? Cuz they what they started doing was not making the Steam Market better, but worsening the product of marketplaces of other ones.
How?
They started implementing things like if you buy cases of a marketplace, you can't open them. If you buy them off the Steam Market, you can.
If you buy a sticker to apply to your weapon from a marketplace, um or a gun that you want to apply your sticker like a sticker onto from a marketplace, another one, it's locked for 10 days. You can't do anything with it. You can't interact with it with anything.
Um if you buy it off the Steam Market, you can. It It It felt like they were just trying to worsen the other products by not improving their own, you know, and and winning over market share that way. Now they started improving their own product as well.
Marketplaces lower the price though.
That's for scams. You're thinking only in terms of CS. This update is good for all games.
Yes, true, true. I mean, this is 99% all for CS, right?
Because like look, all with the inspect and stuff like they This is This is the This is the money machine. Money machine. Let me see. Well, what about other what about other uh like rust.
Boom.
Mhm.
Wow.
Quantity for sale.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
And wow, for everything. What about Steam items?
I mean hey, it's clean. TF2.
Does it show? What if I search burning?
Burning.
Ooh.
Does it show them?
No.
Yeah, the CS one is the most unique, right? It's the most tailored, right?
I mean yeah, of course. Of course. Wow.
I mean this is insane. Katowice holo and pattern base. What do you mean pattern base? Including description like this.
Wow.
I can see all cattle's listed on the Steam market now.
For this before you had to use like Did you have to use weird tools? I don't know if this was possible before. I think it was.
Mhm.
Let me sort lowest to highest. Yes.
I mean they're all kind of ass, but still it's nice to see. Clan mystic holo on this one. And it even shows the sticker scrape level. Wow.
Before this before this update you needed to have an add-on for that, no?
>> [clears throat] >> I don't think you saw this before.
That's nice.
Uh so they even consider the collector What is the most ex- What are the most expensive cattle's listed right now?
We're already at 700 euros.
And we have like ooh, this one is kind of unique.
The Glock Water Elemental doesn't exist much with cattle's.
Oh, boom.
This one is kind of unique, kind of good looking.
Ooh, if this one was on best pass.
We have a Titan holo blue laminate.
That's a classic, but scrappy scraped.
But you're not fooling anybody with the new update.
No.
Geez, this is clean.
Oh my god. Wait, that's it?
I mean, yeah, because the Steam limit.
Chat, do you think they will increase the limit to something higher than uh 2,000?
This is why as well I was thinking and a lot of people were thinking why they made gold trade-ups, chat. Because the Steam market limit is 2,000 uh dollars, right? And knives, a lot of knives were all above the 2,000 limit uh cap. So, they were not selling on the Steam market, only outside of on other marketplaces. What do they do? They release gold trade-ups, aka reds become more expensive. Now they're like 200 euros, 300 euros, blah blah blah. And golds have all dropped in price. Now everything is below the Steam market cap almost, you know? So, yeah. They may even push them lower more, I don't know.
2K is so they comply with financial regulations. They would other otherwise classify them as a bank. Really?
Really? I've never considered that. I've never heard about that. I'll be honest.
Interesting. What should I search for, chat? I can't search for blue gem. Wait, what if I search for case hardened? Can I see all the knives?
Yo, this is insane. This is insane.
Chat, you have to realize because sometimes like the Steam market is the most wide spread market, right? Like this is the normie market, bro. It's of course not the best market, at least right now, but this is the normie market. If there's a clueless person who unboxes a knife on a Sunday afternoon after work, a lot of times it ends up on the Steam market. Like you see blue gems sell here. You see some weird kind of craft sell on the Steam market all the time.
Um this is kind of cool to browse like this. Like see what's listed, you know?
Um sometimes you can snipe crazy stuff if it doesn't get botted, because there are a lot of bots.
A lot of bots.
Butterfly.
What's the most expensive one listed right now?
High to low. Is that a blue gem?
Probably not.
Probably not. No, that's not.
All right. Um very cool update. Very, very pleasant to the eyes update. I don't mind that at all.
I don't mind that at all.
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