Valve's massive update to the Steam marketplace must be working, because a gun I had listed on there for years just sold for a cool 40 bucks

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Valve has released a huge update to the Steam Community Market, which is ostensibly in beta though it has already been enabled for all Steam users (you can choose to opt-out). It is a big change in how the whole thing looks, feels and works, with a bunch of significant upgrades along with more granular tweaks to the whole experience of buying a virtual gun.

PC Gamer's already covered the changes, though I'll go over some of them again, but the main reason I noticed the update was that a Counter-Strike gun I've had listed for ages, and had long since forgotten about, somehow sold earlier this week. It was an M4A1-S Guardian skin in "Field Tested" condition, and I'd stuck it up years ago for $40 and promptly forgotten about the whole thing.

To be clear, I'm about as far from a big-time skin trader as you can get: I just used to play a hell of a lot of CS:GO, and over the years accumulated a whole bunch o...

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