>>723953595
basically valve has realized that the fortnite approach makes the most sense - if you have a mega popular game, selling 'cheaper' skins en masse is worth way more than gamble boxes that a large % of your playerbase will never engage with
and even in this case, 'cheaper' skins are fucking $50 to $150 instead of $1000+ lmao

>>723953617
all the third party casinos and shit were generating hundreds of millions of dollars using valve's assets and backend, making knives way cheaper means they'll just use the marketplace again

>>723953625
I think once the initial influx of 1 week tradeban knives is made tradeable in a week, they'll be way lower than $200