I believe the new CS update is extremely harmful to the average player while providing ZERO unique benefit, here's why: If you disagree, please discuss below 1) Sellers will now have to wait 7 days to get paid, while buyers have to deal with trade reversals. The average player suffers heavily from this. 2) This HELPS scammers for trust scams (where scammers are convincing someone to trust them, via manipulation/SE), which make up the majority of scams; Why? Sellers will wait 7 days to get paid, by the time they realize they got scammed, the scammer can transfer / sell the items and never have to worry about a steam ban. It also opens up a whole new avenue of scams, people reversing trades after getting paid. Many people will fall victim to this over the next weeks. 3) The ONLY scenario where this helps, is with API scams and account hijacks. But these are both extremely easily preventable by Valve - For API scams, change the current tiny text warning to a multiple page warning explaining how to check steam level + name - For account hijacks, add Face ID/PIN codes for every trade These two simple changes could immediately provide all the benefit of this update without the huge downsides. Why have Valve never done this before? 4) Trade refunds open up HUGE potential for market manipulation and undermines CS as a serious asset market, again hurting the average player I'd encourage anyone to email the CS team and Gaben here to express your concerns about this update. [email protected] [email protected] (Please don't spam or harass) Disclaimer: People will dismiss my points because they think I'm just worried about my job. Sure - but only because it hurts the game and the players first. I want CS to thrive. If it dies, I lose too. That doesn’t invalidate the criticism. I have done a lot of scam prevention work in the community, this is more of the same.