Thread 719766798

What's the fucking deal with spending hundreds of dollar towards essentially one and zero?

Imagine never ever holding physical currency in your entire life
Money isn't real to you
Kids have zero financial literacy

>>719766798 (OP)
>What's the fucking deal with spending hundreds of dollar towards essentially one and zero?
Yeah why do you buy games on steam? Or gog? Or Epi- oh wait nobody buys games on epic

>Be me
>Played cs:go for a week when it came out 10 years ago
>Apparently my csgo inventory is worth over $300

Why do people want to pay $20+ for a 10 year old skin?

>>719766798 (OP)
stupid people with money will spend more than what you paid to buy it off you
cs skins have way better returns than anything but the most volatile of stock market investments
>>719767176
because next week it'll be worth $20.01

>>719766798 (OP)
investing in this game isn't bad. Valve will never shut it down and artificial scarcity guarantees prices going up. It really depends on what happens to steam if Gaben can't live long enough to make it to the immortals club.

>>719766798 (OP)
By getting rid of physical property and cash you can easily squeeze money out of people. If you had to hand over dollars in person I guarantee you more people would think twice about the stuff they pay for.

>virtual knife
Ones and zeroes in a computer
>your bank balance
Ones and zeroes in a computer
>your wage
Ones and zeroes in a computer
etc.

That knife is $5000

>>719766967
what's a gog?

>used steam funds to get this for $200 as a gift for somebody
>they trooned out
>look at the value now
I have no idea how to sell this

>>719768476
There are websites that paypal you like 90% of the value or some shit just use reddit

>>719766798 (OP)
Consoomers have no brains

>>719766798 (OP)
Both are a fake spending

>>719766798 (OP)
I bought a $50 EDC knife, it's served me well. Benchmades are really nice but I'm not dropping $200 on a pocket knife

>>719766863
how about you hold deez nuts, unc

>>719768476
are they a hot troon? if so you could probably sway them into fucking you since you gave them a gift that turned out being really valuable

>>719766798 (OP)
I don’t understand how people justify buying skins in the first place, atleast with CounterStrike or some other steam games you can sell them for a mint but how do people go on some Gacha or Battle Royale and drop upwards of $20~$80 on skins

>>719766798 (OP)
Because they want to resell it to other suckers for more, like with crypto currency memecoins or just the entire fucking market in general since they STILL have nothing to give it actual tangible value outside of speculation.

>>719769634
>hot troon
oxymoron

I WISH a butterfly knife fade was $200

>>719769426
So fuckkin transcendentally based, m8

>>719770003
There are like 10 total worldwide that pass effectively, the other 99.999% of them are just fat hairy men in dresses though

>>719770061
Butterfly knives are gay memes, you will never learn how to actually use them

>>719766798 (OP)
ive bought one thing that was digital, and it was some stupid video game mount for wow for a woman, and it got me pussy from her for a few months
buying game shit is a waste

>>719768281
The second and third ones and zeros keep a roof over my head and my fridge stocked

>>719766798 (OP)
I have no idea.
The funniest part is when you kill a pay piggie with a $0.05 skin and watch them have a fucking meltdown because their $700 skin doesn't help them aim

I still remember betting a 60 dollar knife on fnatic vs virtus pro and lost good times

>>719766798 (OP)
I made way more money with Team Fortress 2 cosmetics than I spent on the game, which is whatever the price of the orange box was.
I haven't played it since 2013 and I still get a couple bucks throwing random items on the marketplace today. I made $15 from some vintage hat just last month.

The real mystery is how cs was ever popular in the first place when it's always been unfun garbage

>>719771202
It was always sweatlord central and thus russians and third worlders in general flocked to it.
Half life deathmatch was much more fun, It's sweaty by today's standards but back then it was much more relaxed.

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>>719770003
yeah imagine that

Third-world brownoids are obsessed with status and status symbols. In their small 74 IQ minds, a CS skin allowed them to flex on their fellow brownoids.

>>719766798 (OP)
NFTs before the NFTs and more successful than the actual NFTs
amazing
take me back to when gun skins were something you download off gamebanana

>>719767176
they remove old cases so artificial value is created around skins

>>719768476
keep it until it hits 2000

>>719766798 (OP)
Believe it or not, people are retarded

that shit is worth thousands of dollars now he made a great investment kek

>>719770852
No, valve did since you're still stuck in their robber baron company town ecosystem.

>add a cool 5 cent sticker on a 3 euro field tested ak redline
>sticker is now worth 120 euros and the scratchy field tesated ak is 45e

huh?? i don't even want to look up how much shit i used to own and sold ten years ago would be worth today

>>719768476
just use float like every other normal human

looking at recent trends i can't really say i regret buying skins for a few grand

I dont know but I cant stand people who do. They keep switching to their knives every half second. I have to switch to 3ird person cuz its obnoxious.

remember in 2017 / 2018 when everyone was talking about banning lootboxes and how digital gambling is shit

whatever happened to that

>>719766798 (OP)
Those who can't afford rent are grown ups, hence not the same people who'd spend 200 bucks on a jpeg

>>719770407
what's next fag, muh hermaphrodite defects?

>>719766798 (OP)
That knife is 4000$ now the price manipulating on cs is something else.

>>719766798 (OP)
i invested this money years ago and have a $1500 inventory and don't even feel like cashing out. i'm still mad i sold my blue steel butterfly when it was 150 and now it's like 2-3 grand (?)

>recently found hard drive witg my old alt steam account that had old csgo skins and cases from drops
>that shit was worth almost 400$
I cashed out and bought some games lol. I never spent a single cent and all that was from random drops and csgolounge bets when I was young.

I have items in fucking roblox of all games that are worth like a grand. I have no idea how to sell this shit without getting scammed though so I've just been sitting on it for years and it keeps getting more valuable.

>>719777481
It's not that, unc. My inventory us something like $10000 worth now and I spent about 500 600 bucks opening cases.
The reason is that a lot of popular skins drop from old cases that are in a limited supply. When those run out as well, the prices will skyrocket.

>>719777481
Its not manipulating. Its multiple factors like chink skin collectors,butterfly knife animation being liked by people and rarity since they drop from old cases with limited supply.

>>719766798 (OP)
Rent is like $2000/month

>>719766798 (OP)
paper money is no better

>>719766863
I pay for absolutey everything in cash. I love seeing the look of confusion on the face of the zoomer cashier as he thinks to himself "oh shit... I know I was taught something about this in training... ummmmm... oh yeah, money go in till! But I have to give some back? Uhhhhh..." and half the time they give the wrong amount of change. I look them dead in the eye with a grin on my face and tell them they messed up my change, and the look of panic is priceless, kek.

>>719766798 (OP)
Cs 2 skins appeals to same status seeking faggots that buy BMW and gucci to show off.

>>719779652
you evil motherfucker

>>719767241
I'm in the same boat. I've got some cases that supposedly no longer drop, so I doubt it will go down.

>>719777481
The game has like 20 different knives now, opening a single butterfly costs the community somewhere between $10000 at this point, and it is the most desirable knife in the game. What exactly is manipulative about it? Although there are things being manipulated nowadays, knives are not one of them.

>>719768476
what the fuck just happened? a year ago i was looking forward towards buying them in ft at literally a fifth of their current price
>>719766798 (OP)
they're gambling chips for the present-living mentally unwell rusky or cool cosmetics you can buy for yourself if you have a job and sell back for videogames years later

>>719780808
All old gloves are being bought up by rich chinese dudes
pic related are cheaper now despite always being 2 or 3 times more expensive just a couple of months back lmao

>>719780972
>king snakes are cheaper now
what the fuck is wrong with the chinese
cant wait for more gloves/knives i wished for to randomly hike their prices up
i had queen jaguars and planned on getting diamondbacks but settled on bloodhound charred's when i found a classic knife night stripe at a really good float, so i bought the two of them

>>719781405
The newer gloves are pretty safe, they are manipulating the gen 1 gloves because they are a lot more rare, but it is comical to see some shitty camo handwraps going for $400 now when you can get some new colorful sport gloves for the same price