An inventory bug on Steam for Valve’s Counter-Strike 2 gave many players with huge investments into the skins market quite a fright. The bug showed everything in players’ inventories as the default Desert Eagle, leading players to think they’d lost hundreds if not thousands in skins and stickers.
The title of the Reddit thread is ironic, and the visuals have been confirmed as a small bug. Several users thought they had fallen prey to an API scam, one of Steam’s notorious pitfalls. When you connect your Steam account to a sketchy third-party website to trade skins, sometimes that connection webpage is actually giving the operators authorization to manage your trade offers. You log in the next day and boom, your entire inventory is gone.
One user commented that the bug was “What Niko sees in his nightmares,” a reference to G2’s disastrous choke via NiKo’s desert eagle in the PGL Stockholm 2021 grand finals.
Skins received a huge visual update in CS2, leading to a boom in prices for the most expensive skins. Due to a dip because of CS2‘s performance issues, however, the market is moving back to its CS:GO state.
For most players, that means a difference of a couple of hundred bucks, which is a relatively big deal. For the big-name skin collectors and traders, however, their inventories are fluctuating by thousands, if not tens of thousands.
With the issues that plague CS2 still remaining for the foreseeable future, the prices for high-dollar skins could decline further. A scare like this one is the last thing that skin collectors, whose inventories can range from the hundreds of thousands to millions worth, need for their mental health and heart rate right now.
They can rest easy, though. This scare is just a small bug.
