Thread 61179398

New update just nuked every knife/glove price over -50%
>you can now trade 5 skins for a glove/knife
>is tradeable
>red skins already 10x'd in value
>knives and gloves are plummeting as we speak
thanks for playing nigger

>>61179398 (OP)
Grow up

>>61179417
kys nigger

>>61179398 (OP)
Holding CS skins as an investment was always insane. If you somehow were making real money on that, you should have been diversifying into actual assets a long time ago. No one earth should have a CSGO skins as their retirement plan lol

>>61179429
Until today they've been up only for the past decade plus

>>61179435
Yes, and and update from the developers ruining the market was pretty much always the risk. It just never happened until now.

>>61179398 (OP)

Why does Valve act like a publicly traded company? This is something I can see happening for shareholder value but why the fuck is a private company fleecing their fans for short term gain.

now gaben needs to kill the corrupt esports organizations

>>61179398 (OP)
Man, valve REALLY hated that some people were getting rich on this.

>>61179429
Same with the pokemon/magic card 'portfolios' posted on reddit.

>>61179423
Stop abusing energy drinks, kyler

>>61179398 (OP)
>Now that anyone can “guarantee” a knife, exclusivity and pattern rarity took a hit. But on the flip side, prices of red (Covert) skins skyrocketed, since they’re now the crafting fuel.
>Knives might drop 20–30% in value short term, but the demand for high-tier Covert skins could keep the market balanced overall.
The market will fluctuate

reminds me of the unusual bug in tf2 that happened a few years ago

>>61179527
The market is operating on the knives actually being exclusive.

The skin game in CS is the biggest bubble ever, which also continuously stops a new counter-strike from ever releasing. Can't wait for the day all those shitters lose thousands on their pixels.

>>61179527
Fluctuate to 0 you mean, whales are the backbone for all these gacha nigger games and gaben just nuked their portfolios to 0

Best part is chinks are just waking up right about now to their inventories

>>61179551
theyll just port everything

>>61179398 (OP)
would this lower cases too? i have a few cases from majors(?)/events that total $250~ dollars last i checked and i was hoping they would just go up over time. i sold one of them for $500~ back in 2022

>>61179656
honestly I would sell everything now while there's still volume. I dont see how this update doesn't kill the market in the medium to long term

>>61179656
its simply transferring value from knifes to everything else. over time these skins will deplete, same as cases, so everything in the game will go up like cases at the cost of knives losing value. they should add a sink for knifes though, like 5 shit knives for a good one maybe..?

>>61179398 (OP)
Literally what the fuck is this. So kiddy

>>61179398 (OP)
bros… wtf is this

Gaben literally rugged pulled 80% of my self-employed income on flipping, trading, and selling knives.

I make 6 figures a year on this. And now i have to consider getting a fucking job

fucking gabe. now i gotta try to hoard a bunch of red skins before its too late

>>61179702
thanks for playing

>>61179417
where_do_you_think_we_are.mp4

This is all calculated to drive back players into the steam market instead of third parties.

The question now is where the market will stabilize after a week especially once the knives become tradeable.

>>61179639
they can't do it forever. Skins in CS2 are so ugly compared to CS:GO. This seems like the first step to ditching skins.

Anyone else betted on CSGOLOUNGE before IRS got involved? every gain was tax free for a few years kek.

>>61179527
>Knives might drop 20–30% in value short term
My knives are down 60-80% from yesterday and dropping.

everything about CS2 is trash
the only thing this game does better than GO is visibility and the new breaking smokes mechanic, that's it. the skill level is so bad all the good players i know barely play anymore, level 6 in GO = level 10 in CS2

buggy piece of shit still in beta after 2 years

>>61179398 (OP)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAck- !

>>61179499
i'll ask again - where do i sell that shit? i have a binder that's nominally worth >$5k but no game or card store within 20 miles cares

>>61179895
then ur cards are worth shit
u dont have the really valuable stuff like black lotus MTG card

>>61179527
I have a bunch of uneopened cases, like 40 of them. Should I just open them and craft shit or how does this work?

>>61179714
I want to believe

>>61179398 (OP)
lmao I sold leather wraps for 1400

>>61179702
thats less than 1 year of cs gambling sponsor ships for a cs youtuber like him. So kinda whatever.

kek
I cashed out a week ago
baggies btfo

>>61179398 (OP)
Valve should ramp up their security for the next few months because some people are going to lose their life savings over this.

Can you sell them? For actual cash? And cash out of steam?

>>61179398 (OP)
total pixel chinks death

>>61179429
After the tf2 bug that crashed the unusuals market people should have known that the cs market was not a safe investment

>>61180824
the ones autistic enough to have their life savings in pixels are probably not capable of achieving anything

>>61179398 (OP)
i have never invested 1 cents in skins. I play cs around 60hours a year maximum

i now have a 400$ inventory just from free drops and selling crates and reinvesting

>>61179398 (OP)
Legion of anubis chads fucking won.

>>61179527
every skins went up all classes

>>61179527
yes coverts will have a new floor. and yes it will eventually trend downward with knives/gloves, since that’s what coverts are traded up into.

>>61179398 (OP)
Best think Gaben did in 2025, fuck China and their money laundering. Kill the skin market.

>>61179862
ITS

FUCKING

OVER

>>61180966
Best thing that happen to CS2, fuck China and their money laundering.

THIS WAS MY LAST HOPE AFTER LOSING MONEY IN CRYPTO AND GOLD THEN VALVE DECIDES TO PULL THIS SHIT. IM GOING TO JAIL TONIGHT I DONT GIVE A FUCK.

>>61181000
>Lose money
>jail
Anon, why not send your crypto to me instead? I will help take care of it, while you are getting raped in jail.

>>61179472
They want to nuke the parallel skin market.

Valve doesn't earn money when third party websites marketplace.

>>61179472
>Gaben is literally pounding hard on China's money laundering via CS2 skin
>the same shitty players who use hacks
>crashing CS2 skin market is the best thing
Fuck China, and fuck their money laundering, it's over China.

>>61181038
muh china lmao, what a retard

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>>61180848
i've played 70 hours of CS, tremble in fear at my most prized possession

>>61181048
t. chink. how are your lil pixels doing?

>>61181090
im from Slovakia

This is worse than crypto atp
Should I just sell or hold?
Will knifes recover or dump even more?

>>61180848
Somewhat similar, I played quite a bit 15 years ago for a few years and ended up swapping some skins and cases for sticker capsules when those came out.
Its actually stupid how much they're worth now and I say that as a 2013 gox cryptofag.
Also random souvenir cases worth hundreds from watching tornys with the boys back then.

>>61181116
Oh I forgotten, you eastern european have nothing to do but play CS2 LOL

>>61181127
If it's not a rare and desirable knife then sell.

>>61179398 (OP)
oh cool i might be able to justify buying miself a knife now

FUCK VALVE
THEY JUST RUINED MY BEST FRIENDS LIFE
HE HAD TWO KNIVES WORTH WELL OVER TEN THOUSAND AND MY FRIEND KNEW THIS AND WAS GOING TO SELL THEM TO PAY FOR HIS WEDDING

NOW HES TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN DEBT BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS BOOKED AND CANT BE CANCELLED WHILE HIS SKINS HAVE PLUMMETED IN VALUE

HES GOT TO BE ON VIDEO CALL THIS ENTIRE TIME ON WATCH TO MAKE SURE HE ISNT GOING TO PANIC SELL OR SELF HARM AND HE HASN'T TOLD HIS SOON TO BE WIFE

THIS HAS REAL WORLD CONSEQUENCES, VALVE SURELY HAS TO KNOW THIS RIGHT

>>61181163
idiot could've sold his knives before he made those bookings.

>>61179398 (OP)
My Field Tested Fire Serpent AK is apparently worth $1,150. Lol. Pretty sure I pulled it back in the CSGO days, tho I may have just spent $20 to buy it.

Every time I reinstall to stunt on the poors with that and other cool skins (have a lot of 3-figure ones), I make it about 1 game before uninstalling because Counter-Strike is a shit game for autistics.

Okay but memes aside.
Theres not enough skins to completely destabilize the narket with tradeups.

Buy low before people realize this.

>>61181129
>tfw played and did rmt in d3 and poe
>only to be BRUTALLY MOGGED by cs chads

I knew that you could sell skins and shit in cs but i never knew they are worth THAT much. Total marketcap in billions of USD... How is this even possible. I have failed to make it in crypto and failed in games too. All this time i spent on poe, when cs was like x100 times more profitable. It is just like investing in ltc instead of btc 10+ years ago (i actually did that too). Some people are just doomed to fail no matter what they do, i guess...

>>61181200
you realize a shit ton of skins are still getting unboxed right? it's not like valve banned active cases or unboxing.

>>61181220
There's still not enough. You can fleece the panicsellers easily and make a profit when the market stabilizes.

And this is even predicated on the unlikely scenario that everything gets traded up.

>>61181070
>>61181129
i stand corrected. it was worth 400$ a week ago. Now it's 230$ kek

>>61181200
Which skins are you slurping?


>>61181136
I have butterfly slaughter fn. I guess I will hold

Is it still save to buy high level skins like dlores or howls etc.?
Valve might fuck these too soon.

>>61181231
Sentiments in the gutter, knives/gloves inflation almost doubled. Yeah, there'll always be more for us all to buy.

>>61181267
There is no liquidity left for these. No one has the money to spare when their inventory just fuckin rocked.

>>61179429
>Holding CS skins as an investment was always insane.
Eh, not really. Depends when you first bought in. If you bought during the 2016 - 2020 era, you're likely still way up despite this crash. I'm still holding on either way. It's mostly low IQs panic selling right now.

>>61181127
just kill yourself man its over

THE BANKS ARE OUT OF MONEY

>>61181345
If you are still holding after a 100x, then you were never going to sell, ever. Thank you for your sacrifice.

>buy Dreams & Nightmares Case
>Trust the plan
>We all going to make it

>>61181395
why?

>>61181379
I regularly sell and diversify elsewhere but if a market is good for me personally, I'll stay in it. Crashes will happen as with any other asset. The people that got burned were buying at recent pumped prices. Also, stickers, cases and discontinued collection skins were largely unaffected.

>>61181426
>market crash
>Dream & Nightmare spike and crash
>>everyone rush to buy the cheap
>the pigs are gambling with red
>more shit knives selling at below $100
>case will be unaffected
Firstly Steam might be moving forward with a different form of case-opening, the terminal, which means CASES might stop dropping all together. Dreams & Nightmare have great skins, and even greater knives. I think it will shoot up to $10-20 just like breakout case.

>>61179895
Ebay, you can't be this stupid.

>>61181464
>case will be unaffected
my investment on chroma case are down almost 40%

>>61181133
Bulgaria here: I do believe that most crashes that affect us are rarer than most crashes that affect you: for the most part slovakia, bulgaria or serbia only has to care about global EU mandates, anti-Russia bullshit laws and propaganda, indians and some local mafia shit . This means that for the most part things are stable. Meanwhile americans suffer from the same global laws like the EU ones + they have jeets too + they have to complain about Trump + other bullshit you see on /pol/ 24/7 ..... I tell you this: life in a more traditional, ancient, undeveloped, poor, primal, natural, monkey society is better than modern life. If i could return to monkey i would, but being Bulgarian, I am already half-monkey so its ok.

>>61181559
Market crash dude, chill, think long term, what happens when all the pay pig done gambling to the new thing? they will go back to gambling with cases. In fact, I can foresee that cases will be rarer as CS2 progress. Become in-game purchase, new cool skins that can only be earned by farming.

>>61181559
rip. cases are way overpriced now that the golds in it are so cheap.

>>61181569
>Bulgaria
Self admit half monke, anon, listen, eastern europe is going to be the last stronghold against Islamist, don't return to monke, you need to join the fight against the evil, the Islamic caliphate will take over most of the modern cities of Europe, they will force their tax on you, they will treat you worst than how EU is treating you now, but if you stay true, stay strong to your faith, or if you don't believe in the crusade, believe in self-preservation, that your children's children will free Europe from the claws of the Islamic caliphate once more, might take at least 600 years, so prepare.

>>61179834
>>61179561
long term it will go up. Just give it a year. The whales that did not diversify their investments will suffer, but new whales will know to never put all your eggs in the valve basket.

>>61181600
I want to be monkey!!! I do not care about the Zutt enjoyers! I want my fucking banana! I want my trees and my female monkey hole! I want banana!

>>61181613
Anon, when the Islamists comes, they will take away your banana, and take away your female monkey hole. Stay strong, stay true, fight back, never give up! might take 600 years, but it will be worth the fight!

>>61181668
ok, then bash zutt enjoyers, but for now I have banan and I like it.

>>61179398 (OP)
Good, fuck nerds.
>>61179417
This.

>>61181676
Monke need to think, fo banana, fo female monkey hole, because monke might have no banana, Islamists are coming for monke's banana, and female monke hole, we are about to become full monke

>>61179398 (OP)
Atleast you aren't me
15k USD down the drain

>>61181707
anon, can i borrow the shiny karambit, I wanna use it while i play?

https://steamcommunity.com/id/VOG_1/

Real money is in hoarding cases till they go out of print years later.

>>61181711
i was told the same literally as few hours ago about my enigma in d2r: "bro i just want to test the tp skill, bro, just let me have it for a minute"
lol

>>61181712
literally this. another way is buying literally any item above 5$ in 2015 and waiting for it to do a 20x

>>61181711
why are you jeets./vlads so shameless?

>>61181719
>>61181736
You think i will scam you or some shit? You are letting your cool knife sitting there doing nothing, might as well let me play with it for a while. It is not like you are selling it right?

>>61181741
>It is not like you are selling it right?
to be honest it is worthless right now...

>>61181746
come on anon, just send me an invite, pass me the knife, I'll play with it, you can have it back anytime.

>>61181766
No. Those are all my play skins on random rotation.
Especially the Karambit I love to play with

>>61181802
alright man, cool collection tho.

>>61179527
The whole CS2 economy is based on knifes and gloves being crazy expensive, that includes all the E-sport events.

HOLY KEK

This update is basically a massive money transfer from first worlders to turd worlders

>>61179398 (OP)
>red skins already 10x'd in value
why if you can just craft them?

>>61179429
This guy holds fartcoin btw.

>>61179853
that's nonsense, I used to have the eagle rank back in 2014-2015 and recently tried playing again and had huge trouble getting into gold stars, with years passing the playerbase gets better in every game

>>61182440
14/15 is a bit early, have you tried GO near the end (2023)? it would have probably been even harder.

the main problem is subtick and the hitreg in this game is pure shit and it's the most important thing in a competitive FPS, i regularly encounter situations where a bullet is clearly missing a guy left/right of his head but i headshot him, or vice-versa. kills that don't feel like kills. then i go check the demo, we have the same ping, and the bullet is not where it's supposed to be, but there's a headshot. not to mention the dying behind walls and fucking up jiggle peeking because the other guy can still see you.

in CSGO you always knew why you won or lost a duel, it was the perfect FPS. there was no way a guy with 500-1000 elo below me is beating me in half of the duels. in this game with peekers advantage (everyone wide swinging), higher moving accuracy (don't need perfect counterstrafes anymore) and terrible hitreg (increased luck factor in every duel) it's random as fuck. there are so many bad players near 3k elo (EU) who don't know basics of the game that it's just unbearable.

and still every update they do is more about skins than the fucking game.

>>61182408
Pinks/Classifieds required to craft them will also have increased in price.

I don't play CS and don't really understand the in-game economy. Can someone explain to me how you can cash out? If you have $30,000 worth of in game skins, is there really any rails to cash it out to realworld fiat? or is it just fun being rich in the internal economy like in world of warcraft.

>>61183787
You get steambux, which is pegged to the US dollar so 1 steam buckeroo is always 1 USD. You can only use steamyreamies on steam. Exchanging items and currency on your account to someone else for USD cannot be done, and do use 3rd party systems to make these transactions is against the TOS and will result in bans and confiscations.
Then if you still manage to get out and turn it into real money, now you have the classic dilemma of tax like with any gain, except the rules for digital assets are all fucked and were based as if they were tangible so you can have entirely different tax brackets and rules depending on even which county you live in let alone state or country. People who lost money today never had it to begin with. Never post your portfolio, only post your sells when the cash hits your account.

>>61183841
Oh I see. So it's safe to say if you were rich in CS skins, there is a close to zero percent chance that it converts into any real life benefit. Maybe you could buy tons of games on steam or trade for more cool skins with those steambucks, but getting that converted back into actual cash ($) for the vast majority of normal players (outside of organized third party criminal operations) is basically infeasable?

Why is everyone crying and committing sudoku then, that they lost virtual evalution like it was their retirement savings kek

>>61183890
Everybody uses the 3rd party websites, he made it sound like you have to use TOR or something. It's really not that hard to convert skins into real cash

>>61183890
You can easily convert it to real cash if you wanted. Expect to lose 10-15% depending on how fast you want to liquidate.

>>61183952
I'm just saying there's risk and there's no point at all unless you were doing like minimum $10k which is like .0000001 of players. Everyone's mad because they thought their $42.57 wallet of skins was going to be their ticket out one day. When you do cash out a big haul it's the same as cashing out anything; there's lots of fees and premiums and you need to declare it.

>>61183952
>>61183966
What does that process look like? Who's going to pay you out thousands of dollars in real cash for your steam NFT?

>>61183985
theres marketplace websites that accept your skins instantly at 85-90% market value, or you can list your items with buyouts so people can buy them for whatever price you set

>>61181707
these items are ugly anyway. christ, some people and their money are easily parted

>>61183985
Either use a 3rd party website like csfloat or a cash trader. It's not hard.

>>61183993
And how do you recieve the funds? Do they paypal you? you send them your credit card or bank info? Or meet in a dark alley somewhere to get cash payment?

And what about the other end of the trade, you send them your thousand dollars worth of knife or rifle skin in the game for free? Isn't that just going to flag your account and get banned since its a trade with no equal value transfer?

Walk me through the process of what such a sale actually looks like, because it sounds like bull.

>>61184025
Log in to csfloat, send the site the skin you wanna sell, list it for a price, people can either buy it outright or give you a bid, accept it, they pay csfloat the money and sends them the knife, then they deposit the money in your bank account or crypto.

>>61184025
They send through Paypal or even straight into your bank account if you give them your account number and sort code yes.

These marketplaces usually have bots that accept these skins. I've used them before and never been banned or flagged even though the trade is one-sided. Valve sometimes banes these trading bots, however i have never heard of peoples actual accounts being banned for it.

idk why you think it's bull, you can try it yourself if you wanted to.

>>61184045
>>61184061
The reason im skeptical is because the other side of the trade (the in-game side) is asymmetrical. If you have to send all your highly valuable skins to a single account, for nothing in return (essentially gifting it), and not only you, but 1000 other people/customers are "gifting" hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of valuable skins to the third party merchant account, it becomes pretty obvious that you and that account is engaging in RMT. This sort of activity is the easiest thing to detect because there is no value-for-value trade. A usual trade is you recieve steambucks, and that account recieves a valuable skin.

In a cash out like this, you recieve no steambucks, yet the seller account still recieves valuable skins. And in huge volumes.

if you map it out it looks like the center of a spiderweb, with the central node receiving skin gifts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars without ever giving anything in return. And if its a dedicated salesaccount it may not even have regular gameplay activity. Valve can easily detect that.

>>61184131
yet skin selling works since atleast 2015

where do you view skin prices? google result sites are so amateurish

>>61184131
Valve has no incentive to ban people for trading. The only reason they cracked down on it was because of CS gambling sites. It's actually better for Valve for people to cash out to real cash instead of steam bucks because they don't have to pay game creators real money when customers use steam money to buy other games. The only reason you can't cash out directly from steam is because it would make their legal argument that skins don't have any monetary value not work which would make cases gambling.

>>61184061
They don't ban the account who sell their shit for $2.30 a couple times because they know most of them will go buy more crates and games during the next steam sale. They ban the bots yes, and they ban the big fish who are actually doing $5k knife trades for nothing due to pressure from the federal government to ensure people aren't using their marketplace to avoid taxes in order to be allowed to operate so yeah they put their resources into the actual big bois, you have nothing to worry about lil fella.

>>61184131
how much does a steam account cost?

what does your spiderweb look like if creating a steam account is trivial?

>smug pepe.jpg
more like
>retard pepe.png

>>61184131
The marketplaces have an unbelievable amount of trading bots for this reason. It spreads the trades thin over a large number of accounts.

If valve starts whacking these accounts with trade bans, then other accounts consisting of people transferring skins to their alt account (One way trade) would get caught in the crossfire too.

There's not really a feasible way for valve to tackle this problem without shot gunning swathes of accounts innocent or guilty. If there was away to remove RMT they would have done it years and years ago. You're right in that valve may do something in the future to fuck over RMT, but also why would they? they would single handily kill their skins market and therefore ruin their own revenue.

>>61181163
Good

>>61184179
Oh they have a very effective and targeted method don't worry. Efficient whack-a-mole theory has been RnD'd like a mother fucker the last two decades with the rise of difi. They want the regular joe schmos to keep doing it because if they can cash out then it makes valves digital skins have more legitimacy in the eyes of the general public for them to sucker into their market. Now with pattern recognition AI they really do have a solid map of every trade bot and what trades are fraudulent and not and just pick and choose where to strike like a surgeon with a scalpel.

>>61184238
ah okay, makes sense. Guess im just a joe schmo

>>61184169
I don't really think this is a good argument because a brand new account whos never logged into CS before instantly receiving valuable gifts worth thousands of dollars is even more of a red flag.

Even more so because an organic trade it would be an active player account with regular gameplay hours trading with another active player account.

Although it's only really believable if valve is simply choosing not to crack down on RMT, because there is no way they can't detect it.

>>61184238
This is a much more logical explanation.

>>61180844
Valve said that the bug produced 1 months worth of unusuals supply, it didn't crash shit.

>>61184025
>it sounds like bull.
dude practically everyone who plays CSGO since 2014 made some money from skins just from getting weekly drops

>>61179702
a violation of hate speech laws in the UK

How can I take advantage of the CS market dying?

What is the actual reason for them doing this?

>>61185934
i dont know but could you imagine working at valve and seeing chinese people become unrealized millionaires by hoarding the useless game items you modeled in an office last tuesday

>>61185998
imagine changing the game and having those same Chinese investers off themselves on your own update...

>>61185934
Encourages flow for one, burn supply of one thing and increase supply of another creates massive amounts of inefficiencies that take many pendulum swings to figure out again and that's a whole lot of trading they take a tiny piece of the pie each time.
People hoarding stuff? Valve can't tax that! No no no move move create sell holy shit prices are crazy no one knows true value what opportunity just ignore that no matter who wins or loses on a trade valve makes money.

>>61185934
I heard it was to comply with EU laws. It would make sense since the only way to get the really valuable items is through gambling and trading, which is what made them valuable to begin with. Now you're able to craft them, admittedly with items that are still pretty rare, but the odds to get one are definitely way better now.

>>61179472
>private company fleecing their fans
They just made rare skins more accessible to millions of fans, which increases the fun of the game for the vast majority of players.

This is just the beginning BTW.

Since ~2022 all new CS items from trade ups are trade locked for a week.

This means the dip after the update is pure speculation, and no new knives from tradeups are on the market yet.

>NO NEW KNIVES FROM TRADEUPS ARE ON THE MARKET YET.

There is widespread uncertainty on whether or not the new knives will be tradeable or marketable.

As with all CS tradeup items, the new knives will become tradeable and marketable after 7 days.

>THE NEW KNIVES WILL BECOME TRADEABLE AND MARKETABLE AFTER 7 DAYS.

This is the initial selloff before the coming actual dump from the influx of new knives on the market.

Anyone holding knives or gloves should sell now even if you're just going to buy the same items after the dump.

>SELL NOW EVEN IF YOU'RE JUST GOING TO BUY THE SAME ITEMS AFTER THE DUMP.

Screencap this.

>>61186249
If you use reds that don't have a trade ban, the resulting knife wont be trade banned. There's already new knives created from the update onto the market already.

Also if every single red in the game is traded up (which it wont), there will be a 2x in the supply of knives altogether, leading to a MAX 50% price reduction.

Reds have already become to expensive to make continuous profit from trading up, so you're wrong all across the board

screencap that, negro

>>61186279
>Reds have already become to expensive to make continuous profit from trading up
few of those knives from those tradeups have hit the market yet because of community market trade locks. Given the current price of reds and the parabolic price trajectory after the update one can estimate that's roughly one metric fuckload of knives primed and ready to be hocked the second that trade lock lifts

I will admit i didn't factor in traded reds leading to non trade locked knives but because of the CS economy's love affair with the community market there's far more trade locked knives than not

>>61186279
Knives function like a luxury good a 2x supply will destroy the "brand" and result in far more than a 50% loss.

>>61186321
that's a 2X supply if every blue gets liquidated into purples, pinks, reds etc, which will not happen at all. i'd argue that there would be at most a 1.5X added supply increase. I doubt that changes much really, its just that valve has moved the gambling portion of the game from cases to tradeups.


>>61186318
I agree, however i think a huge portion of knives and gloves created will be coming from the newer knife collections. I think there is an opportunity to buy OG knives from the old cases, as theres a low red supply and the cases are expensive as fuck to begin with

>>61186238
I hope you don't mind I'm taking 50% of your crypto wallet and giving it to a billion african people to make it more accessible, and increase the fun for the vast majority of people on earth.

Anomaly is now dead

>>61186249
you really think it's that big a deal?
the shit's still immediately marketable

>>61179398 (OP)
when were they ever meant to be investments

>>61185934
They wanted a piece of the action, simple as. Every time a chink trades 5-6 figs worth of skins on 3rd party platforms Valve was getting none of that. So why not just nuke the entire ceiling of the market and bring everyone back on steam

>>61186409
don't they just give some lame steam points there

>>61186356
Point. Counterpoint: AUG chameleon, P90 Asiimov, M4 Desert Strike. Buying OG knives might be a play but you'd have to make sure the reds in the collection(s) were already high tier
>>61186400
>you really think it's that big a deal?
i do
>>61186400
>the shit's still immediately marketable
not the hundreds locked behind community market trade locks.
For example, in the 24 hours after the update released 4,765 field tested AUG chameleons were sold on the market, that's 953 brand new first series knives ready to hit the market from one wear rating of one skin alone.

>>61186467
you can buy steam decks and valve indexes for those steam points famalam

>>61186398
imagine the massive blob of lard on maltese streets

>>61186394
lmao video game skins are at the very least not internet funny money.
Nice try at an analogy though .

How liquid is this market?
Never looked into it, but these seems like smthing fun to bid in few weeks, just to cash in on a dead cat bounce

>>61186760
Outside of China's marketplace, it's terrible. Expect 2-3 days of waiting until you actually sell an average knife.

>>61186760
Dont fomo. Its not even close to max pain yet. Let the retard redditors finally decide to save up their Walmart wages to finally buy some dogshit knife first before the real nuke comes. The new knives aren't even tradable yet and more importantly Chinese whales have been nonstop market selling and can't find liquidity. Once they're forced to bridge to US sites to unload is when you see the real nigger nuke. Price diff between US sites and China apparently are insane

Are there crafted knifes tradable?
Jesus Christ in 7 days this shitty market is going to nigger nuke badly.

I made 83$ with random crap from 2013! Yippie!

I repeat, are you sure these crafted knives are tradeable?
I was watching Anonmaly's video and it seems you can't sell them or trade them in the market.

>>61188014
Yes they updated after his vid you can trade

>>61188021
Any chance they could revert it again?
I mean, it's a decent compromise. Knives would crash but not that hard, crafters/scalpers would be absolutely fucked with tons of un-sellable knifes and reds that now did a 10x would take a dump and correct in price if you can't sell the crafted knife.

>>61179435
Why lie?

>>61188140
they already put out an update without any changes or acknowledgment of the elephant in the room tanking the knife/glove market even further

>>61186629
been crunching some numbers, that AUG chameleon figure is SUPER low in comparison to the current 5 most sold reds on the community market, representing solely the field-tested variants
The following figures represent the number of reds sold in the 24 hours after the update and the corresponding number of knives they will create

>AWP chromatic abberation
32,986 skins sold
6,597 new knives
>MP7 bloodsport
24,676 skins sold
4,935 new knives
>AK Nightwish
60,144 skins sold
6,014 new knives
>AK Legion of anubis
37,523 skins sold
7,504 new knives
>MP9 Starlight Protector
43,237 skins sold
8,647 new knives

Grand total:
216,970 reds erased from existence
33,697 knives ready to hit the market over the 24 hours following 6 days, 13 hours 44 minutes, & 12 seconds from now

>>61188191
Possibly I expect an update like that few hours before the trade ban of the newly crafted knives ends. Imagine people buying a lot of overpriced reds, just to craft something they can't sell.
Would be hilarious.
But it's unlikely, Valve is on his last legs, trying to figure out how to milk the CS community a bit more and with cases coming to an end (they're experimenting new stuff, we've seen the Genesis Terminal recently, probably they hope to get revenues from selling cheap knives to casual gamers.

>>61188302
Thats what im saying man, add in the fact that there are 48 potential OG knives that you can pull from the old cases and i genuinely think that there is a huge deal on OG knives atm.

>>61179398 (OP)
>go to /v/
>stickied thread with Komm Susser Todd playing when you open
>everyone shitting on the animeposting janny-tranny stealing Carlos' joke from another thread
Yesterday was a comfy day.

>>61188508
All the rares will hold value. Black pearls emeralds

>TITAN HOLO TITAN HOLO TITAN HOLO
>VOSS

bumper

>>61188389
Sad that Valve doesn't make good games anymore and just does MTX slop.

>>61188549
Counter strike 2 would be pretty awesome if there werent so many scumbag cheaters