#virtual-economy

#virtual-economy

Valve benefits from any panicked trading in the short term, with every Steam Marketplace sale carrying a 5 percent "Steam Transaction Fee" on top of a 10 percent " Counter-Strike 2 fee... that is determined and collected by the game publisher" (read: Valve). In the long term, though, making some of the rarest items in the game easier to obtain will likely depress overall spending among the whales that dominate the market.