Trading Site Shutdown Leads to Over 1 Million USD's Worth of Lost PUBG Skins

PUBG Corp. isn’t exactly doing a great job making friends right now. Between the battle pass mess and the lawsuit (which was dropped, by the way) and just not being able to improve server performance, it’s no wonder people have been leaving the game in droves. One of the few good things they’ve done recently was suspend the trading of personal items to curb those gambling and trading sites, but even that milk was soured with the realization that they really only did it so they could get their cut of the Steam Marketplace sales.

And now they’ve somehow managed to make even that bad, although it kind of wasn’t their fault. But here’s what happened: OPSkins, a skin-trading website, was put on notice by Valve because of all their business trading cosmetics for CS:GO. However, they also traded cosmetics for PUBG. Now, when it was put on notice, all those items got “stuck” on the website, which is to say, all the items you listed there couldn’t be brought back to your account and enjoyed by the original owner or anyone who made the mistake of buying it.

The website was officially shut down early this month. And while CS:GO players had a grace period where the ban was lifted and they could move their items back to their account, no such period was given to PUBG players thanks to that trading ban. So when the servers shut down, all those items vanished. This, by some estimation, was over a million USD of in-game items, lost forever.

According to Reddit user IAmNotOnRedditAtWork, 964,243 skins were lost in this great purge, which means that a lot of people had some very bad days. And while they shouldn’t have been doing that to begin with, it’s still kind of scummy of PUBG to not let them get their items back.

But I guess that’s just the nature of the game.