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Earlier today, Valve sent a cease and desist request to OPSkins, a website that lives and thrives off of the off-site betting, buying, and selling of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive skins. Valve even went so far as to make a news post about what they did today via the Counter-Strike website.
For the last two years, Valve has enforced our Steam Subscriber Agreement terms as described in this post.
In March 2018, we applied a seven-day trade cooldown to CS:GO trades, to fight fraud and misuse of Steam Accounts.
On June 6, OPSkins launched ExpressTrade, which uses Valve intellectual property and violates our Steam Subscriber Agreement, and is already being used by other businesses to avoid Valve policies.
Today we messaged OPSkins to cease using Valve intellectual property. We also notified them that we will lock OPSkins Steam Accounts by June 21st, 2018.
Message sent to OPSkins:
I would like to assume that Valve also sent an actual letter in addition to this Twitter message, but we don't really know for sure.In March 2018, we applied a seven-day trade cooldown to CS:GO trades, to fight fraud and misuse of Steam Accounts.
On June 6, OPSkins launched ExpressTrade, which uses Valve intellectual property and violates our Steam Subscriber Agreement, and is already being used by other businesses to avoid Valve policies.
Today we messaged OPSkins to cease using Valve intellectual property. We also notified them that we will lock OPSkins Steam Accounts by June 21st, 2018.
Message sent to OPSkins:
OPSkins issued a response to Valve's request.
OPSkins plans on putting their future into a handful of "blockchain-based games and services." Hey, remember when the only skin options were whatever you would download for free from reputable third-party websites? Some of them even had a Skin of the Day!
