Maxouni

I have spent the entire day trying to make sense of todays update without luck. It does not actually have any serious ramifications for sites, and I am sure most can resolve them albeit creating a lot of short term issues and extra work. More importantly, however, it does not solve anything either, and yet again manifests that businesses and people invested in the game are nothing but spectators. We all know that Valve is very secretive and communication is either scarce or non-existent. Valve developers are present at events, even walking around at the PGL afterparty, but as ghosts. No communication, no feedback, no information. Sites like SkinBid, Gamerpay, Skinport etc. which have decided to run EU-compliant websites that combat fraud, does proper checks on their customers and all-in-all is creating ways for our community members to trade with confidence, compliancy and security has no communication channel, is given zero warnings to changes being done. Skinport had all their bots banned with little to no help in the aftermath. P2P sites are now seriously halted due to an unexplainable update to endpoints that unsurprisingly solves *nothing* To operate a business where you have zero control of changes and always have to be on high alert, have developers working around the clock fixing unexplainable changes is already incredibly tough as is. Whether todays update was done to combat scams, stop api scams, stop gambling sites etc., there would be hundreds of skilled people that could offer their guidance on how to do this effectively without halting compliant businesses and leaving the entire skins community confused. How hard is it to just take a step back before pushing an update and pay some respect to a monumental part of what CS2 is today, and maybe even consider liasing with your community members, whether it be a select group of people that has proven their legitimacy to you, or at least just sometimes look at the ramifications of changes being done before pushing them? It will not only benefit the scene but your business as well. Although I don't personally believe todays changes were done as a result of the events at the PGL Major, many speculate that they are related. And if Valve has allowed these sites to exist and ONLY when bad stuff happens interferes with an update that has *zero* explanations to what it's trying to resolve (it doesn't resolve anything), and holds *zero* regard to the many businesses and people that ultimately makes CS2 what it is today- that's very worrying. So what's next Valve? Skins and stickers is a monumental part of your business, is it really that frightening to consult your community in the slightest or hold any regard to the many legitimate businesses? Sorry for the yap. I love the game, I love the pro scene, I love our colourful and quirky skins community. Lets help eachother and stop letting unwelcomed sites or scams interfere with this incredible thing that is CS2.