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Counter-Strike 2

Player economy

An in-game system where player decisions materially influence at least part of the production, supply, distribution, or price of in-game value.

Assessed with methodology module 0.2. The dimensions are independent and do not produce a single score.

Cosmetics market

Outside the game only

research draft · methodology 0.2 · September 2, 2026 · This assessment is limited to default, Cosmetics market as represented by the cited official material and observed on 2026-09-02; unsupported product states were not inferred.

The official Steam Community Market supports Counter-Strike 2 item transactions outside the game. The contour is external_only and no built-in player-economy Depth is derived.

Assessment scope

Access cost:
Unknown
Product horizon:
Unknown

Independent dimensions

Depth:
Not applicable
Core experience relevance:
Not applicable
Observed adoption:
Not applicable— Reach is not assessed for an external-only platform contour; unique participants and eligible-audience denominators were not inferred.
Structural expectation:
Not applicable
Player dependency:
Not applicable
Change direction:
Not assessed
Assessment type:
Unknown
Confidence:
High— The official Steam page directly supports the external-only classification; no internal mechanic depth is claimed.

Module fields

Market type:
External exchange only
Player influence on supply and price:
Unknown— Player influence is not assessed for this external-only platform contour.
Developer control:
Unknown— Developer control is not assessed beyond identifying the external Steam platform contour.

Evidence

  • axis · adoption_reach

    Qualifies · Catalog mechanics research · Publisher: Valve · Accessed September 2, 2026

    Community Market Buy and sell items with community members for Steam Wallet funds. […] Counter-Strike 2

    Adoption reach is not applicable to the built-in module because this card records an external-only platform contour; external participant counts were not inferred.

    https://steamcommunity.com/market/app/730
  • axis · core_relevance

    Qualifies · Catalog mechanics research · Publisher: Valve · Accessed September 2, 2026

    Community Market Buy and sell items with community members for Steam Wallet funds. […] Counter-Strike 2

    Core relevance is not applicable because this card records an external-only platform contour, not a built-in player economy.

    https://steamcommunity.com/market/app/730
  • axis · dependency

    Qualifies · Catalog mechanics research · Publisher: Valve · Accessed September 2, 2026

    Community Market Buy and sell items with community members for Steam Wallet funds. […] Counter-Strike 2

    Dependency is not applicable to the built-in module because no internal player-economy implementation is claimed.

    https://steamcommunity.com/market/app/730
  • axis · structural_expectation

    Qualifies · Catalog mechanics research · Publisher: Valve · Accessed September 2, 2026

    Community Market Buy and sell items with community members for Steam Wallet funds. […] Counter-Strike 2

    Structural expectation is not applicable to the built-in module because the cited exchange exists on an external platform layer.

    https://steamcommunity.com/market/app/730
  • field · market_type

    Qualifies · Catalog mechanics research · Publisher: Valve · Accessed September 2, 2026

    Community Market Buy and sell items with community members for Steam Wallet funds. […] Counter-Strike 2

    The official Steam page identifies Community Market as the platform layer for Counter-Strike 2 item transactions; market_type=external_only records that boundary without deriving internal Depth.

    https://steamcommunity.com/market/app/730
  • presence

    Qualifies · Catalog mechanics research · Publisher: Valve · Accessed September 2, 2026

    Community Market Buy and sell items with community members for Steam Wallet funds. […] Counter-Strike 2

    The official Steam page identifies Counter-Strike 2 item exchange through Community Market, an external platform contour under methodology section 12.8.

    https://steamcommunity.com/market/app/730

My notes

No notes yet. Notes are stored only in this browser and are not sent to the server.

Cosmetics market, Competitive play

Outside the game only

research draft · methodology 0.2 · September 2, 2026 · This assessment is limited to default, Cosmetics market, Competitive play as represented by the cited official material and observed on 2026-09-02; unsupported product states were not inferred.

The official page establishes an external Counter-Strike 2 item market at product level. It does not establish use by the Competitive play segment; no built-in economy, segment adoption, or internal Depth is inferred.

Assessment scope

Access cost:
Unknown
Product horizon:
Unknown

Independent dimensions

Depth:
Not applicable
Core experience relevance:
Not applicable
Observed adoption:
Not applicable— No built-in player economy exists in this boundary. The cited page establishes a product-level external Steam Community Market, but its use by the Competitive play segment was not measured or inferred.
Structural expectation:
Not applicable
Player dependency:
Not applicable
Change direction:
Not assessed
Assessment type:
Unknown
Confidence:
Medium— The source directly supports the product-level external market, while segment-specific use remains unmeasured and is not claimed.

Module fields

Market type:
External exchange only
Player influence on supply and price:
Unknown— Player influence is not assessed for this external-only platform contour.
Developer control:
Unknown— Developer control is not assessed beyond identifying the external Steam platform contour.

Evidence

  • axis · adoption_reach

    Qualifies · Catalog mechanics research · Publisher: Valve · Accessed September 2, 2026

    Community Market Buy and sell items with community members for Steam Wallet funds. […] Counter-Strike 2

    Adoption reach is not applicable to the built-in module because this card records an external-only platform contour; external participant counts were not inferred.

    https://steamcommunity.com/market/app/730
  • axis · core_relevance

    Qualifies · Catalog mechanics research · Publisher: Valve · Accessed September 2, 2026

    Community Market Buy and sell items with community members for Steam Wallet funds. […] Counter-Strike 2

    Core relevance is not applicable because this card records an external-only platform contour, not a built-in player economy.

    https://steamcommunity.com/market/app/730
  • axis · dependency

    Qualifies · Catalog mechanics research · Publisher: Valve · Accessed September 2, 2026

    Community Market Buy and sell items with community members for Steam Wallet funds. […] Counter-Strike 2

    Dependency is not applicable to the built-in module because no internal player-economy implementation is claimed.

    https://steamcommunity.com/market/app/730
  • axis · structural_expectation

    Qualifies · Catalog mechanics research · Publisher: Valve · Accessed September 2, 2026

    Community Market Buy and sell items with community members for Steam Wallet funds. […] Counter-Strike 2

    Structural expectation is not applicable to the built-in module because the cited exchange exists on an external platform layer.

    https://steamcommunity.com/market/app/730
  • field · market_type

    Qualifies · Catalog mechanics research · Publisher: Valve · Accessed September 2, 2026

    Community Market Buy and sell items with community members for Steam Wallet funds. […] Counter-Strike 2

    The official Steam page identifies Community Market as the platform layer for Counter-Strike 2 item transactions; market_type=external_only records that boundary without deriving internal Depth.

    https://steamcommunity.com/market/app/730
  • presence

    Qualifies · Catalog mechanics research · Publisher: Valve · Accessed September 2, 2026

    Community Market Buy and sell items with community members for Steam Wallet funds. […] Counter-Strike 2

    The official Steam page identifies Counter-Strike 2 item exchange through Community Market, an external platform contour under methodology section 12.8.

    https://steamcommunity.com/market/app/730

My notes

No notes yet. Notes are stored only in this browser and are not sent to the server.

Cosmetics market, Play as a trader or collector

Outside the game only

research draft · methodology 0.2 · September 2, 2026 · This assessment is limited to default, Cosmetics market, Play as a trader or collector as represented by the cited official material and observed on 2026-09-02; unsupported product states were not inferred.

The official Steam Community Market supports Counter-Strike 2 item transactions outside the game. The trader-or-collector boundary remains external_only; segment adoption and internal Depth were not inferred.

Assessment scope

Access cost:
Unknown
Product horizon:
Unknown

Independent dimensions

Depth:
Not applicable
Core experience relevance:
Not applicable
Observed adoption:
Not applicable— Reach is not assessed for an external-only platform contour; unique participants and eligible-audience denominators were not inferred.
Structural expectation:
Not applicable
Player dependency:
Not applicable
Change direction:
Not assessed
Assessment type:
Unknown
Confidence:
High— The official Steam page directly supports the external-only classification; no internal mechanic depth is claimed.

Module fields

Market type:
External exchange only
Player influence on supply and price:
Unknown— Player influence is not assessed for this external-only platform contour.
Developer control:
Unknown— Developer control is not assessed beyond identifying the external Steam platform contour.

Evidence

  • axis · adoption_reach

    Qualifies · Catalog mechanics research · Publisher: Valve · Accessed September 2, 2026

    Community Market Buy and sell items with community members for Steam Wallet funds. […] Counter-Strike 2

    Adoption reach is not applicable to the built-in module because this card records an external-only platform contour; external participant counts were not inferred.

    https://steamcommunity.com/market/app/730
  • axis · core_relevance

    Qualifies · Catalog mechanics research · Publisher: Valve · Accessed September 2, 2026

    Community Market Buy and sell items with community members for Steam Wallet funds. […] Counter-Strike 2

    Core relevance is not applicable because this card records an external-only platform contour, not a built-in player economy.

    https://steamcommunity.com/market/app/730
  • axis · dependency

    Qualifies · Catalog mechanics research · Publisher: Valve · Accessed September 2, 2026

    Community Market Buy and sell items with community members for Steam Wallet funds. […] Counter-Strike 2

    Dependency is not applicable to the built-in module because no internal player-economy implementation is claimed.

    https://steamcommunity.com/market/app/730
  • axis · structural_expectation

    Qualifies · Catalog mechanics research · Publisher: Valve · Accessed September 2, 2026

    Community Market Buy and sell items with community members for Steam Wallet funds. […] Counter-Strike 2

    Structural expectation is not applicable to the built-in module because the cited exchange exists on an external platform layer.

    https://steamcommunity.com/market/app/730
  • field · market_type

    Qualifies · Catalog mechanics research · Publisher: Valve · Accessed September 2, 2026

    Community Market Buy and sell items with community members for Steam Wallet funds. […] Counter-Strike 2

    The official Steam page identifies Community Market as the platform layer for Counter-Strike 2 item transactions; market_type=external_only records that boundary without deriving internal Depth.

    https://steamcommunity.com/market/app/730
  • presence

    Qualifies · Catalog mechanics research · Publisher: Valve · Accessed September 2, 2026

    Community Market Buy and sell items with community members for Steam Wallet funds. […] Counter-Strike 2

    The official Steam page identifies Counter-Strike 2 item exchange through Community Market, an external platform contour under methodology section 12.8.

    https://steamcommunity.com/market/app/730

My notes

No notes yet. Notes are stored only in this browser and are not sent to the server.

Match economy

Not comparable

research draft · methodology 0.2 · September 2, 2026 · This assessment is limited to default, Match economy as represented by the cited official material and observed on 2026-09-02; unsupported product states were not inferred.

Counter-Strike 2 has a round-scoped cash-and-purchase contour. It is not a persistent between-player economic cycle and is therefore not comparable to this module.

Assessment scope

Access cost:
Unknown
Product horizon:
Unknown

Independent dimensions

Depth:
Not applicable
Core experience relevance:
Not applicable
Observed adoption:
Not applicable— Reach is not assessed because the round-scoped match economy resets within play and is outside the persistent player-economy boundary.
Structural expectation:
Not applicable
Player dependency:
Not applicable
Change direction:
Not assessed
Assessment type:
Unknown
Confidence:
High— Official Valve notes tie cash rewards and weapon prices to subsequent rounds and the buy menu. The contour is match-scoped rather than a persistent player market.

Evidence

My notes

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