Thread 723951937

You can exchange 5 covert skins for a knife. Gambling addicts are seething about the market being fucked.

>>723951937 (OP)
What's the seethe like on the Steam discussion page?

>>723951937 (OP)
>>723952021

>>723952060
>asked for steam discussions
>post r*ddit
Kill yourself retard spammer.

>>723952060
These retarded animals are just as bad, if not worse, as crypto traders. Same fucking behaviour.

why are crate prices tanking tho im stupid can someone explain

>>723952151
Because you have toxoplasmosis

>>723952151
I assume its because you can just craft any knife for way cheaper than rolling the dice on some ancient crate with good knives, then once the supply of reds dry up they'll go back up because people will need 5 red coverts from that collection to craft knives/gloves from that collection

>>723951937 (OP)
>sold all my coverts and my bowie knife at the peak
>didn't sell my bloodsport since the price was steady
>check back now
>its gone down 200 dollary doo's
NYOOOOOO

>adding more modding tools for modders to make new gamemodes with
>now this
woah... maybe I could give CS2 a try now. shame it won't remove the ultra AIDS competitive shit, but at least I could have some fun like I did with source.

>>723952401
TOTAL TRADER DEATH.

>>723952060
I bought one CS GO case once and felt retarded afterwards. Can't imagine getting sucked into this gambling market

>>723952401
ahahahahaha
get dunked on tradenigger

>>723952324
lmao, good. Fuck tradefags

>They Just SCAMMED Us - we need to strike back
>Bro I spent over $2500 in CS and this new “update” is just a straight slap in the face.
>Now you can trade 5 red skins for a knife or gloves?? Like are you serious??
>We been building this market for YEARS, grinding, trading, investing… and Valve just changed the damn rules overnight.
Who do these gay niggers think they are?

>>723952151
>>723952327
Crates are the most stable item to.hold.

>>723952686
>Who do these gay niggers think they are?
consoomer mutts

howlchads keep winning

>>723951937 (OP)
Oh no not the heckin' skin value.

>>723952395
>coverts
coverts are actually sky rocketing going up because of trade up, you fucking retard

lol

>>723952021
Here you go.

>>723953106
WHY ARE THEY TREATING VIDYA SKINS LIKE AN INVESTMENT

>>723952954
check again
they are all going down

>>723953106
God I love this shit.

>>723953135
because they are worth big money
and you can trade them out easily for real money

>>723953106
IT'S OVER
VALVE JUST RAPED US BROS!!!!

>be a jew
>get outjewed
>cry
such is daily life of a jew

>>723951937 (OP)
finally, years of hoarding skins will pay back

>>723953106
>THEY HAVE STOLEN MY MONOPOLY MONEY, GABEN HOW COULD YOUUUUUUUU

>>723953135
Because they are partial retards. Technically shit like this was a decent investment. But it was also a hyper volatile market, so if you made you money, you should have bailed ages ago, as you were always 1 update away from losing it all.

>>723951937 (OP)
Well now I can finally have a knife

>why yes i invest in virtual items in a market controlled by a single entity

how do you justify this?

>>723953031
>Genuine investment
Wow hahahahah

>>723953031
did these retards think this is like bitcoin or something? lmao

>>723953301
that's the funniest part. actual players start getting more cosmetics and somehow this is a bad thing.

has this affected the most valuable items?

>>723953401
kinda

I don't understand why poors feel so entitled to frivolous goods, if you can't afford it why should it be everyone else's problem?

I just sold my inventory a week ago, why the fuck does this keep happening, I always sell my shit right before a huge increase in price, I would have made at least 3x what I got

>>723953454
>18k skin

Huh??????

>>723953401
yes
like its hard to tell how hard the permanent impact will be once all the red rarity items start drying up, but when all the newly crafted knives have their trade ban lifted in 6.5 days? Extremely low selling prices incoming, it's already well under half on the steam market without any of the new knives becoming tradeable

subtick

>>723953493
The crafted knives can't be traded or marketed

a digital knife is worth more money than what i spend on videogames in a year.
crazy world, huh?

Sex with CS cases

>>723953537
they are only on a week long trade ban now, they updated it a few hours after release lmao

>>723953537
they can be now

>the average playerbase now has a way to get knives at a way cheaper price instead of paying the literal 1000s of dollars that knives were hitting
>valve gets more money cause now people will want to buy reds just so they can get knives
>skin investors seething because they put their worth on digital items
how is this a bad thing, maybe we'll go back to 2015 prices where you could reasonably get a knife you wanted. my fucking gamma doppler was like 500 dollars or something when i got it and it shot up to fucking 2000 over the years, clearly valve does not think this should happen.

>>723953564
sex with anons steam inventory!

>>723953565
>>723953573
Kek, what the fuck is Valve doing, can't wait for all of the delicious seethe

>>723953493
God I want the vanilla classic knife so bad.... I am going to slurp it the moment it goes under $200

>>723953351
Yeah those bastards made something like get a knife more difficult than it already was Thank God it's finally over

>>723953564
>>723953573
Settle down, they are getting fucked enough already

>>723953617
They're kneecapping the golds.

>>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

I wonder how this will affect the total case opening numbers. This whole hype with big streamers, collectors and people in general opening thousands of these was bc you could get skins worth quite a lot of money like tens of thousands worth. Now its so much easier to obtain them and in an instant the rarest knives and gloves will get thousands of new ones added. They must be scared of some future anti gamba laws bc they really seem to want to distance themselves from lootboxes and have had a few updates indicating that. Otherwise this doesnt make any sense bc CS2 was and unbelievable money printing machine for them raking in billions every year with basically 0 work. Very strange decision.

Average red/covert rarity item right now

I own a item worh 500 bucks in old diablo 2 . I woke up emery morning fearing, welp that was fun.

>>723953617
>what the fuck is Valve doing
probably
>we could make more money if more people can actually buy higher tier skins instead of letting this bubble expand infinitely where only 1% of the playerbase gets to interact with it

>>723952686
Valve should say smth like
You cant use skins as form of investment

>>723953732
apparently what knife you get is dependent on what fodder reds you feed into it - if you feed 5 red guns from a 2018 collection, you'll get a knife from that collection, but if you do a mixed batch of reds from random crates it'll pick one of those collections at random

I might buy a bunch of the most desireable knife collection crates when they are at the lowest value as an investment

>>723953760
this will definitely go down, it's most cause people are rushing to buy reds now

I own an item worth 500 bucks in old diablo 2 . I woke up emery morning fearing, welp that was fun.

This will make people move over to TF2.

>>723953848
Pls no

>>723953610
this blasting my load(money) into anons steam inventory pussy!

>>723953135
because it is, cs skins are a lot more than vidya skins at this point

>>723953760
i don't invest in cs but i just bought a steam deck selling off all my shitty couple dollar play skins for like 40 bucks a pop thank you gaben you are the fucking man

Did they actually think they were gonna be able to exchange the items for non steambux?

>>723953913
thats what they were doing already

Want to thank my past self for buying a bunch of these for a few cents each back then
Now they fund every game/DLC I want to buy
Too bad they dropped in price but it should recover methinks

>noooo my pixel knife is now worth $2000 instead of $4000
literal nothingburger

kek
I have like $200 worth of crates and skins stuck in my inventory because of a vac ban
feels good that unbanned normies will lose money as I have

>>723953724
>making knives way cheaper means they'll just use the marketplace again
Yeah, they've been trying to do this for ages, this will probably end up crashing a couple of casinos and centralized trading sites, but they'll still exist.

>>723953931
Yeah crates are solid. They're the one thing that will keep thriving in a crash.

>>723953913
anon?
third party sellers have been a thing for like a decade

How does it feel knowing Valve probably killed more Chinese and Russians and maybe even some South Americans than the average military with the press of a button?

>>723953959
anon you can sell the knife for real money
its literally a 2000 dollar burger

>>723953993
Can you imagine Valve adding a box store in the game itself where you can buy boxes from any year at the same price as when they came out? It would be funny

>>723953031
>knives for me but not for thee
kek

>>723953959
some people losing literal millions

>>723953931
>>723953993
>crates are solid
Yeah just like knives and gloves were solid and tradeups for them were a community april fools joke until a few hours ago.
They could literally drop an update tomorrow where they re release old cases back in the armory for everyone to mass buy. After this update you can really say now everything is possible.

>>723954091
post so devious it might actually come from a valve employee

>>723953106
so remind me why shit like EA and even Gachaslop get met with pure malice and vitriol, meanwhile le wholesome chungus 100 Valve has created such a toxic gambling environment over shitty gun textures that people are bringing people to this state as well made lootboxes popular in the first place way back in the TF2 days, are met with constant wholesome epic PC master race gaben memes?

>>723953617
Crashing this economy.. With no survivors

>>723954145
both EA and gacha games are games where you gamble for fucking gameplay, this isn't to say crates aren't bad but holy fuck you have to be retarded to think it's comparable to rolling for characters in fifa or genshin. the skins have literally no effect on the game.

>>723954003
This but unironically. I have no problem with Valve (or any company honestly) exploiting retarded troglodytes.
To do that and then pull the rug out from under them for the health of the game is based as hell.

aint no way

I want to remind everyone that the 6 billion market cape is all smokes and mirrors
All of this fucking shit was overvalued and chinks kept manipulating the market to pump the prices of skins

>>723951937 (OP)
> A update

Esl retard

>>723953135
Because anything that can be treated as an investment will be treated as an investment. Nothing is safe from capitalism and speculators. It's why you see people go rabid about buying multiple pallets and tracking trucks full of Pokemon cards, or why the comic book industry is constantly fucked by relaunches to "Issue #1"

>>723952060
>knife and gloves
I remember way back when CS:S had its official launch and Valve got CSBanana to remove and ban any 1.6 v_skin that contained any "source hands" ported from the beta. We joked about Valve selling hand skins and the like.
Didn't think it would actually come to fruition.
also
>paying for skins
Couldn't be me.

>>723953595
It's mostly because of gambling regulations. This way theyre forcing players into the "trade-up" ecosystem to gradually faze out the cases.

>>723954283

Yep 100% this. The skin market went fucking insane after 2020 and it was already crazy back then. It DESPERATELY needed to get knocked down a peg.

>>723953827
Lol nice try crate seller

>>723954318
>>723954318
Whats going to happen is that steam market prices are going to stabilize and centralize around the value of armory stars

>>723954116
you aren't a millionaire unless you sell.

>>723954270
I found a thread of a boy who wanted to kill himself on Twitter
I think he was Chinese or something lol
Imagine killing yourself for cs2 skins
What an hero

HAHAHAHAHA WTF IS GOING ON

>>723954270
Should've included the post underneath it for the toppest of keks

>>723954364
I sold all my crates months ago and it was like a dozen tops lmao
im just saying that since reds from a specific collection are more desireable for trade up value, those crates will still hold value

until valve just lets you craft crates into any crate you want lmao

>>723954438
was just about to ask if anyone knew how the chinks are doing
skins is the only thing they can legally invest in that isn't turbo regulated by the government

any chinese anon wanna drop some translated threads?

>>723954489
LMAO CLOWN WORLD
>these people actually believed u can use steam the same way as the stock market and crypto LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Okay but seriously, can any /biz/raeli explain why Valve did this? I don't really follow CS let alone skins.

Why willingly tank a 6B market?

>>723954145
All of the money involved in CS and DOTA 2 have no impact on gameplay. They DO impact gameplay in TF2 but its so easy to get everything in that game (horrid crafting UI notwithstanding).
As for this situation, most of the playerbase is benefiting from these changes. The people that are seething are the tiny minority of whales that shill all those horrid CS gambling sites losing a ton of money.

Why didn't they just invest in stocks?

>>723954518
anon in the other thread just used grok to translate their seething in to english

>>723954571

all those million dollar deals were happening outside of the steam market

>>723954617
because stocks are nortubel tier

>>723954571
because that market 3rd party, and valve wants people to use the steam market place. the easiest way to do this is making knives more accessible to everyone.

>noooooo my NFT knife skins in a first person shooter ahhhh!
lmao faggots

>>723954571
>6B market
which works mostly outside of valve internal steam market where they receive percentage of sale. They just boosted sales of "reds" and by that amount sales from steam market.

>>723954571
Few reasons I can think of:
>The market wasn't nearly as profitable as people thought, likely due to so few people actively engaging with it beyond the tiniest of transactions. This ties in with it being possible that it's actually more profitable to emulate the monetization system of games like Fortnite or Valorant.
>Valve is more interested in the health of the game long term even if it means profit loss. Its not like they don't make a shitzillion dollars already.
>There was no reason and they don't really care at all lmao

>>723954571
Valve only makes money when people open crates or buy/sell via the steam market.

If people are buying/trading guns outside of the steam market, they get $0 per transaction, even if a gun/knife has a "value" of $10,000.

While this drives down the price of knives and gloves and shit, it makes it so way more players are willing to engage in the steamconomy end of it instead of the knifeconomy via gambling sites and shit.

Valve makes way more money off knives being $50 from way more frequent marketplace participation.

>>723954617
invest in SHOCKS, maybe?

>>723954571
to kill off some of the casinos and rmt sites taking a share of their skin economy, they are definitely doing this to burn through some old red skins as well, trying to get them out of the economy so they can push their new "case" system where you pay a couple thousand for a red skin, directly to valve.

>>723954623
>anon in the other thread
guess I missed the thread

>>723954767
still up >>723949268

>>723954721
nope
it's definitely to avoid future/current gambling laws

>>723953913
anon there is a giant market for cs skins outside of the steam

I CAN GET A KNIFE NOW BY JUST SELLING A FEW CRATES

HOLY FUCK aTHANK YOU GAYBEN

>>723954742
>"case" system where you pay a couple thousand for a red skin, directly to valve
you do realize they will make less money by doing this instead of just having affordable skins everyone can purchase right. valve WANTS you to buy things and if shit is too expensive people will not buy,

>>723954790
thanks

TWO
BILLION
DOLLARS

WIPED
OUT

>>723954843
You do realize this is literally what they are doing?
They know people will pay the absurd prices, but there are obviously still cheaper skins as well.

>>723954870
It goes to show how fucking nonsensical the skin market was. 2 billion of fuckign nothing but people jerking each other off.

My two trash red skins have 10x in price from 13 to 130 dollars. Tbh im glad i didnt get interested in investing in this game. Valves philosophy is all over the place

>>723954617
3rd world jeets and redditors are dumb as a rock

>>723953135
>>723954301
During Covid there was a huge spike of people getting into stocks, crypto trading and any other speculation. People were literally stabbing each other over pokemon cards.

>>723954725
Yes this is true. Theres a price cap on buying items through steam isnt there ?

>>723954907
>but people jerking each other off
and criminals and drug cartels and ...

>>723954942
since the trade up system functions by making it select the collection of the new knife from the collection of the red items, that means some ugly fucking reds are going to be mega expensive if they're from a good knife collection, and some super flashy/cool reds are going to be dirt cheap if they're from a trash knife's collection

>>723951937 (OP)
oyyyy veyyyyy

Good. Fuck skincells. I have thousands in steam sticker money

>>723954571
what do you mean tank?

how has it tanked?

in what way has it tanked?

can you explain to me the tanking?

>share price...
>market capital...

>>723951937 (OP)
>got 1 case from weekly
>buy key and open it
>get blue
>feels fucking retarded and never spends again
meanwhile this happened

Players won from this
Valve won from this
The only ones who lost are the Jews

Do you think valve understands the gravity of messing with the market? They aren't fucking with little Timmy's money anymore, they're fucking with Saudi prince money. The Saudis have dumped hundreds of millions into this game.

Okay so I'm just a dude who casually plays CS and sometimes sells my crates for steam monies.
I have like a hundred different crates over the years.

What do I do? Just hold them or something? I don't really care that much but I'm thinking of buying some so I wonder if I shpuld sell off ten crates now.

>>723955060
it's like anuddah shoah

>>723955063
>timmy
You're brown or yellow hence you're subhuman and nobody cares about your opinion.

>>723954994
That cap is $2000, but if Valve crashes the max value of 99.9% of knives, that means a lot more people will engage with Valve's economy and sell it on there instead of weird out of steam casinos which is a net win for Valve since people will have to buy steam gifts and shit to cash out their steam wallet

>>723955017
Ah I see. I cant be fucked dealing with this skins shit its just awful.
The smart thing to do is just hold onto cases. Leave them for 5 or so years and youll make easy returns

>>723955063
>next holy jihad is in defense of the merchants
hahaha

>>723955063
what are they gonna do lmao, valve is a private company they can just ignore them

>>723955063
Gabens yacht security is pretty good
I heard they did a massive VAC Ban wave all over Brazil, Russia, India, China

>>723955082

yeah just hold
maybe the crates will tank eventually but seeing as you dont really care then just hold it and aell whenever

>>723955082
Crates will go up in price, they are going to be discontinued sooner rather than later and will be the only "cheap" way to get red skins/knives in the future outside of directly buying them.

>>723955082
Don't take this as concrete financial advice but I think that crates will hold value longterm because people will want reds from good collections to upgrade to good knives.

The issue is Valve has clearly indicated they don't give a shit about crashing the value of things, so Valve could go full Valve and add a way to craft old crates longterm now.

Basically I'd wait for a spike then start selling but thats just me

>>723955063
>timmy
Why do non-whites keep using this word?

>Just play the game normally
>Get free cases every week
>Sell them when I want to buy games at sales
>Only use drop skins
Simple as that

So what's the /v/erdict?

Is this based or nah from Valve?

>>723955237
the only reason why anyone wouldn't be based is if they invested into cs knives

>>723955237
based
fuck skincels
it doesn't make up for those disgusting charms tho

>>723955237
EXTREMELY based

>>723955237
Its based in that I'd rather knives be $25 to $150 for most knives rather than $200 to $1000 for most knives.

>>723953135
The CS skin market is basically designer fashion for gamers. It's all about having an inventory of expensive, rare stuff that other people can't have. It's no surprise people are seething when their once valuable goods come crashing down.

>>723955104
Yes mainly because steam takes a small cut of the trade value of each item, so it just makes sense to buy knives off websites and avoid the fee. If the knife is only the price of 80 dollars rather then 800 youre more likely to just pay the tax.
But fuck me Valve needs someone to communicate shit. They are so terrible about interacting with the community.

>>723952324
Based gay ben, thanks for the laughs

>>723955314
They fucking despise the CS community lmao

>>723955314
anon the only people complaining about this wouldn't care if valve explained this, they get uniquely fucked over because they WANT to profit off 3rd party.

>>723955237
I wonder if its a move to try and get ahead of possible regulation and compliance. They are already moving away from total RNG cases with their new case opening system.

>>723952324
i like how most of thiese turdies ommit the currency

The seethe over video game knives is hilarious.

>>723955237
extremely based. fuck gambling sites

The only more based thing would be that Valve would disable the trading

>>723955237
Now cases have more chance to be profitable because even some pinks and purple are good value

The funniest part of this entire thing are the people saying that valve is doing this to make money out of insider trading KEK

>>723955237
It's pure judaism from Valve. They did this to spite people who were trading without giving valve their cut on the official market. Also the new "genesis terminal" that they are testing to replace crates is the most greedy bullshit in the world

People are saying it's based just because they take pleasure in seeing others get fucked over or whatever but make no mistake this is a greed move

CS was always about the comp scene anyway. Every fucking game is always about the comp scene.

>>723955404
Gambling sites prolly had huge stock of red skins though so they might not be that angry. They use them as filler in trash cases

>>723955451
yes but for the wrong reasons. seeing pros with expensive skins is what sustained the market

>>723955446
>People are saying it's based just because they take pleasure in seeing others get fucked over
if we flip the chess board, the only people that are getting mad at this are people that get mad at other people having the things that they have. this change makes it so your average player will be able to get knives instead of the 1% of players that actively invest in that shit. valve gets more money from this change and people that actually play the fucking game will get their stupid skins for once.

>>723955437
>The funniest part of this entire thing are the people saying that valve is doing this to make money out of insider trading KEK
valve isn't even a public company and they're so stupid that they don't even realize they're like 2 steps from that because the fake market steam made is entirely within their control, they can do whatever kek

>>723955237
It's absolutely based.
Knives and gloves went from being an investment to being a moderately priced cosmetic item that you can sell later as it should be

Valve brought the market back down to earth

>>723955237
no on on /v/ could afford a knife

>>723951937 (OP)
*BZZZZZT*

>>723953106
It's crazy how these dumb fucks defend gambling mechanics and monetisation. Maybe valve fanboys never were real gamers in the first place.
And for the retsrds: this move is made by Vulva to try and avoid possible legal consequences related to gambling.
These reviews single-handledly prove how shit these steam gamers really are btw. Good riddance.

and now what, everyone gets everything now or what

>>723951937 (OP)
>meltdowns over babbys first stock crash

I don't play CS because I'm not a slav or 3rd worlder but knifetards getting fucked over is so funny. And all the virtue signaling fags that are saying "Some people will LITERALLY kill themselves over this!!" LMAO I hope they do, imagine investing in fucking virtual pixels

It takes a lot of balls to intentionally pop a market bubble. I want to know what their reasoning is.

[Uplifting News]: non cs playing hypebeast faggots lose all their inventory worth overnight. Praise gaben

I hope someone at valve is jerking off right now

>>723955647
Valve has Steam.

>>723953885
>CSGO knife is more than a video game cosmetic!! it's an investment!!
>Valve: "I disagree, I'll make a random update to it just as you'd do with any video game cosmetic and completely fuck with the market"
>NOOOO YOU CAN'T DO THAT IT'S NOT A VIDEO GAME DON'T TREAT IT LIKE VIDEO GAME
jej

>>723955617
the funniest part is that knives aren't even the most visually noticeable cosmetic - starter pistol and main/favorite gun (ak for terrorist m4 for counter-terrorist) are way more noticeable, and there's fucking FULL BODY SKINS TOO WITH CUSTOM VOICELINES

>>723955714
Yes monetarily steam is fine, but they essentially destroyed billions of dollars of "value" intentionally.

>>723955494
Yeah but those non pros don't matter. Game is f2p.

>>723955237
I stopped playing CS before skins blew up and everything I sold previously was like 4-10x last time I checked. This shit was only good for retarded chinks and other gamblers who used this as a banking system. Fuck all those people. Valve should have never let this shit get out of hand.

You just know someone is going to make the news BIGLY over this shit.

>>723955647
Balls for what? They have no stakes in it because they don't see it nothing more than a chump change they get whenever transaction happens in Steam market
Their main source of income is still selling games on steam, not playing wallstreet with video game skins

>>723955792
the destroyed billions of dollars in value from 3rd party sellers valve basically saw none of that money

>>723955837
HOLY BASED

>>723953106
Absolutely delicious, a thing of beauty.

China status?

>>723955437
I heard some rumours about a few accounts accumulating reds for the last few weeks

Anons, so.. I don't really play CS GO anymore - used to play the first one without really trading
How cheap are we talking? I looked up some knives - they're.... absolute shit green knives that cost like what 60-100 bucks? Is that supposed to be cheap? Because I looked up these 'covert' items, and they're like 30 bucks
so what, trading in 150 bucks for a knife/gloves is supposed to be good? Do you at least get to pick the knife, or can you end up with a shit one, like these green/khaki ones I saw?

so are the boxes going up or down?
i have a shit load of ancient ones that i never bothered to sell.

>>723955237
Fucking based. My 'close' friend borrowed my knife (M9 bayonet ultraviolet MW) because its cool. He gambled my knife without telling me on gambling website and lose (unsurprising). He gave me back the knife but it was field-tested and I'm still pissed today

>>723955494
Not really, at least not personally. I think YouTubers poisoned the minds of kids in that regard but I never saw a pro use skins and be like holy shit I need that, or that’ll make me play better or whatever goes through someone’s head. In fact I liked the pros like elige that had default skins or defaults with his own sticker scrapped off. Either way this completely eliminates or greatly diminishes a subsection of the player base that was hugely popular. good fucking riddance.

>>723955913
Down at the moment but because the entire market is crashing

Boxes are stable until valve fucks with them

>>723955792
For a third world nigger who is playing pretend stonks by hoarding video game skins, i.e. nobody gives a shit

>>723955832
>>723955837
True. Its easier to do when you wont face the blowback, and in fact will probably profit from it.

>>723955875
anon i don't think you understand just how inflated knife prices have gotten over the years, those 60-100 buck knives used to be like 40-50 dollars, 800 dollar knives from 10 years ago became upwards of 2000+ dollars

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

I remember some Valve developer talking about they didn't anticipate these items getting this expensive and it's better in their interest to have the prices lower.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd_QeY9uATA

>>723955875
A knife that was $1000 a day ago is now like $500 or even worse. Contrary to that, shitty red skins that were $3 are now upwards of 50 bucks

>>723955952
Kek good bait i hope she leaves him

>>723955952
proofs or fuck off

what's the best course of action right now to make some money out of this?

>>723955952
it's his fault for investing in volatile market that's prone to a random video game update

>>723955875
Post her feet please

>>723955943
why are you so hateful?

>>723955990
first of all, 1000 bucks for a KNIFE? holy fuck that's so fucking retarded
as for shit skins exploding in price... yeah, valve kinda fucked up their game's economy, huh

>>723956015
the best course of action is to already have red skins in your inventory or to have bought up all the autosells that were on the market when the update first dropped. you missed your chance

>>723955314
>so it just makes sense to buy knives off websites and avoid the fee
Those sites have a fee too, retard.

>>723955863
jumping from buildings

>>723956041
t. nigger

>>723956043
$1000 isn't even silly there were knives in the 6 figures depending on which floats and patterns you hit. it really was out of control, especially big for chinese investors

>>723951937 (OP)
Its not far enough.
I want to see a hard cap of $1 on every cosmetic skin because its quite clear retards cannot be trusted to freely exchange fucking digital pixels that they like the look of as the system was intended for. Not gambling tens of thousands of dollars away trying to scam literal children. Any real casino would be shut the fuck down so fast if you said "oh its okay for minors to gamble their parents money here, its only a digital game bro, no goods actually get traded"

>>723956109
WHAT THE FUCK that's moronic

>>723955751
She cute, I wish I had terrorist gf

>>723956041
what, you want me to pay sympathy for these people?

Why does Valve hate the CS community so much more than any other of their fanbases?
Even TF2fags got that loving send off comic and an SDK to boot.

>>723955237
I don't care about skins and knifes, but I had a few old cases and keys from years ago that dropped in price, so fuck valve I guess?
A shame my 5 cent skins didn't go up in price.

>>723956163
cs players are somehow more unhinged than dota players and thats saying A LOT

>>723956137
the chinese will do anything to get value out of their country.

LMAOOOOOOOOOOO

Can red show in the weekly drop? i wonder

>>723956060
there has to be a play here to be made before all those newly made knives go into the market, so what is it ?

>>723955952
Saar do not trade the knife you bloody!

>>723953106
this is enormously gratifying. There’s nothing more precious than watching people who think they have power and prestige get rugpulled by cold reality. You had some ones and zeroes associated with your name on a server and you thought that made you better than other people. Now absolutely nothing for you or your experience has changed, except nobody thinks you’re better now.

Absolutely classic. I want to see it happen again.

>>723956163
Because they act like this en mass >>723956151

>>723956267
You can still get drops?

>>723956137
Its a black market full of bots, scammers and stolen credit cards operating with the full knowlage of a private company that tracks all the transactions and refused to act when they know fraud is happening on a daily basic. How no one at the DOJ has investigated valve is quite amazing.

>>723956267
Yes but I dont think you can use those for tradeups because theres no golds in those collections

>>723956276
I've been considering buying up pinks/purples and turning them into reds and hoping the value stays in a weeks time. Risky though

Are people legit retarded? There is literally not enough skins in the market for tradeup that can destabilize the gold supply.

All this panic selling is gonna be fucking hilarious once the market realizes this and stabilizes.

based of the year right there

>>723956163
They care more about CS, that's why people play the fucking game.

>>723953135
bro this shit was like proto ape tokens, i'm surprised it even lasted this long

>>723956267
yes but there's no gold tier items from weekly collections

>>723956163
They got a better treatment than any other games back then, but that lead to what the community is now
All those csgo market autism is (rightfully) hurting their brand image because tubers are making video essays about it, and they'd rather burn bridges with the autistic community they created than risk getting inspected by the government, or hurting their brand image because csgo isn't even their main source of income

>>723956346

Yep this is why im holding

>>723956237
should be Total Inventory Value: $300

>>723951937 (OP)
LMAO

>>723956346
1 - Its still turning a majority of worthless items into more expensive items, driving the value down immensely. There's going to be a fuckton more knives on the market, and a fuckton more reds on the market now that formerly worthless items have function.

2 - If Valve is willing to fuck with the market this hard, they're likely to fuck with it hard again later on. Maybe they'll let people 'trade up' crates into any crate they want or add more ways to get red guns in general.

>>723956346
>>723956412
Buy the dip, dummies

>>723956346
THIS. ABSOLUTELY THIS. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PANIC SELLING AND BUY KNIVES NOW.
USE WHATEVER YOU HAVE, FUCK IT TAKE LOANS, JUST BUY BUY BUY THOSE FUCKING KNIVES AND YOU'RE SET FOR LIFE.

>>723956484
>Buy the dip, dummies
you're conflating privately controlled markets again sanjeet

>>723956480
>Maybe they'll let people 'trade up' crates into any crate they want or add more ways to get red guns in general.
Here’s hoping they do

>>723956346

Umm. What am I looking at here?

>>723956542
my investment in this market remains unaffected by this update

>>723956469
there are already massive delays in big chinese cities because of jumpers

>>723956346
Yeah, exactly. If anything, this is an opportunity to go balls deep onto panicking retards, although of course you gotta be careful with (literally and figuratively) catching the falling knife.

This is not financial advice.

>>723956346
>Are people legit retarded? There is literally not enough skins in the market for tradeup that can destabilize the gold supply.
and people will just start opening more crates to generate more reds to trade up

Crate hoarders: we won yet again. Not that it was in any doubt. We can't do anything but win. Literal free money.

>>723951937 (OP)
Why did Gaben crash the Russian economy?

REMEMBER THE PEOPLE TELLING YOU THERE ARENT ENOUGH RED SKINS TO DESTABILIZE THE MARKET ARE LYING TO YOU

THEY NEED THE VALUE TO REBOUND SO THEY CAN OFFLOAD.ALL THEIR NEW KNIFFE SKINS THAT HAVE ONLY A 7 DAY TRADE LOCK

DO NOT BUY INTO THAT LIE
THERE ARE WHALES WITH MILLIONS IN REDS

DO NOT BAG HOLD YOUR SKINS HERE

Potential number of knives/gloves that can be created with items that currently exist and items that could exist by trade ups

>>723956480
Sure but regardless, its still smart to fleece the panic selling idiots. Just remember to sell it off again.

>>723953106
Tolak gets it

>>723956642
don''t listen to manipulators like this. offload your reds, they will be worth mere pennies in 7 days

>WHAT ARE YOU DOING GABE? YOU'RE LOSING MONEY!
>GTA6 finally comes out on Steam
*laughing Gaben intensifies*

>>723956642
DON'T LISTEN TO HIM BUY THE KNIVES THIS GUY IS DESPERATE NOW THAT HE PANIC SOLD ALL OF HIS KNIVES

HE IS A SUCKER JUST KEEP BUYING THE KNIVES

If anyone plans to suicide because of this crash you can entrust your worthless knives to me. I'll dispose of them for you

>>723956716
red will be worth less than what they are going for right now but not for reasons you believe. people are simply just going to unbox more reds putting more of them in the market.

It might actually be profitable to open cases again now that every red pink and purple has gotten a bump

>>723951937 (OP)
>bunch of pixels are more expensive than real weapons
what a time to be alive

>>723951937 (OP)
>>723952060
>>723952324
>>723953106

>everyone can now easily get what item they want
>nobody has to spend thousands on an item, they spend less
Seriously what's the problem here?

imagine considering suicide because your previous previous digital knvies's value plummeted
and despite the treasure of worthless knives you can't even find a knife to cut your own throat because all the knives you have is not real

>>723956819
were*

https://app.pricempire.com/trending
>already rebounding
DOOMERSISTERS... WHY DIDN'T YOU REDEEM THE CHEAP KNIVES?

>>723956886
ITS A A TEMPORARY REBOUND
DO NOT BUY
THEY WILL DROP EVEN FURTHER

>from six billion to four billion in a day

KNEEL TO GABEN

Gabe killed billions in sales

HOLD HOLD HOLD

>>723956886
AIIIEEEEEE

BUY LOW BUY LOW BUY LOW BUY LOW
BUY LOW NOW SISTERS

>>723954003
>Valve is worshipped like a god by Reddit while modern 4chan thinks he's just an idiot
So it's true, Reddit is just 4chan from 15 years ago.

>>723954003
This update makes them even more based

DO THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING IN THIS THREAD
REMEMBER THEY GAIN ZERO BENEFITS FROM SHARING THEIR TRADE SECRET
DON'T LISTEN TO THEIR MALICIOUS INTENT DO THE OPPOSITE

How long until theres a confirmed suicide death because of this? It can't be long now LOL

>>723951937 (OP)
LMAO post more seething pls

>>723957104
LISTEN TO THIS GUY AND DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM

I sold everything, cashing out before the mess in 6 days. Goodbye cs 2 skins, I won't miss any of it.

>B-BUT WERE A BILLION DOLLAR MARKET
>VALVE NEEDS US OKAY???
>THEY WOULD NEVER FUCK WITH CS SKINS
>WE RUN THIS JOINT

PRESS S TO SPIT ON SKINCELS

>>723957104
THIS GUY IS LYING TO YOUR FACE
>>723957125
BUT YOU SHOULD TRUST THIS GUYS ADVICE ON THE MARKET I DONT KNOW WHY HED SHARE THIS

GABE NEWELL KILLED MORE PEOPLE THAN ADOLF HITLER

>>723957109
>Breaking news: value of real knife went up because gamers realized they can't cut themselves with valueless digital knives

>Valve has probably killed more Chinese than any other American tech company

How do you feel.aboht this /v/?

>>723957262
based. fuck bot farm in arm race, deathmatch

>Vakve releases the Cobblestone and Cache remakes
>releases old cases with them
>Dragonlore tanks in price

FUCKING

IMAGINE

LMAOOOOOOO

>>723957028
>Reddit will stop playing videogames in 15 years

Gabe went into the video game industry to commit this gamer genocide
This is the moment he has been waiting for his entire life
We are witnessing his masterpiece

>>723956886
OH NO NO NO NO ITS GOING BACK DOWN

>>723954438
>an hero
I can't even remember the last time this phrase was true to the original meme.

A shit ton of 19-21 gap year kids just learned a very valuable lesson

So how much of this is a CIA op to fuck over Putin's money laundering?

Kek no wonder Valve is fucking pissed

>>723957476
Qrd? Is this a hoarder?

PC Gaben cum guzzlers can't stop losing. I can't wait for the day you lose your digital licenses, I will laugh for a week straight.

>>723957523
I think no market for cs knives in steamcommunity market

Okay but heres the real question

How hard will CS2's ccu get hit by this?

>>723957456
probably about 35%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZAMabEeCnU

SET THE BALL A-ROLLIN'
I'LL BE CLICKIN' OFF THE MILES
ON THE TRAIN OF CONSEQUNCES
MY BOXCAR LIFESTYLE
MY THINKING IS DERAILED
I'M TIED UP TO THE TRACKS
THE TRAIN OF CONSEQUENCES
THERE AIN'T NO TURNING BACK

>>723957703
I dunno check steamdb

>>723951937 (OP)
>game update drops
>it comes with one of the most demanded gamemodes from CS:GO
>everyone is hyped and celebrating
>continue into the patch notes
>realization and dread starting to set in
Masterful trolling, Gaben-sama.

>>723957546
This is a win, purposefully crashing a shitty market bubble in one of their games because dumb bastards think video game knives are an investment.

Nobody was gonna buy your shit anyway. You have nothing. A 1k knife? Who the fuck is gonna buy that? What are they gonna do? Sell it for 1k again?

I wish someone would pop the AI bubble too bros...

Time to move on to Deadlock bros.

And BF6.

Kino KINO KINOOO

>>723957523
everyone knife worth a damn gets sold on third party sites so valve doesn't get to jew a cut

Is there a reason why dota 2 never became this much of a skincel clusterfuck with their market?

>>723958065
1 - Valve added no dupe crates except for the very rare and ultra rare stuff having escalating odds like a few years into dota 2's release
2 - Valve was hesitant to make any one item super expensive because you have 100+ heroes in the game
3 - No weird ass "quality" system for hats, if you get a hat its the best quality it can be
4 - Battle Pass generated hype and spending so Valve basically would work on that the most with it having pretty fixed price milestones for cosmetics

post YFW someone actually killed himself because of this update

>>723954571
Upcoming gambling ban. There will be no more new crates, ergo craftable knives.

>>723958365
Zoomers are cooked

In the first place, instead of bitching about knives losing thousands in value.

The question here js WHY THE FUCK WERE THERE KNIVES THAT COSTED 10K+?????

>>723958437
>cs
>zoomers
anon? the zoomers are playing valorant

>>723958647
Chinks pumping the market ever since the CS2 announcement, going into overdrive since the beginning of this year.

>>723958812
Maybe in the ZOGnited States.

>>723958647
Supply and demand
Some skins are like 1 in a million to get a specific pattern, so people pay for that. And there's autistic shit like float where you can get better or worse conditions of essentially the same item. And then you have a bunch of autists and teens with moms and dads credit card.

KEEEEEEEEEEEK
STILL NOT BUYING

Skin trading is ESL/thirdie coded so I never really looked into it. Why do these guys favour this over crypto gambling or even just regular financial instruments?

>>723959039
Ironically because it is (or rather used to be) more stable.

The second you introduce real market to a game, no one gives a shit about the game anymore.

>>723955237
Extremely based. Fuck skin traders, fuck e-celebs, and fuck gambling sites. Valve did the right thing.

>>723959173
>no one gives a shit about the game anymore.
nigga cs has been one of the most popular games on the planet for decades now

>>723959014
-80% more and i'll consider it

>>723959097
how is a market that's prone to random video game updates, and solely controlled by valve, stable

>>723959208
Those updates never touched the skins

>>723959201
These used to go for below $2k for over three years until March when chinks started pumping the first Glove Case Collection to ridiculous prices.
>>723959208
Well, until now, Valve wasn't really messing with it at all, so it simply very slowly appreciated in value, until it caught the attention of chinks and cryptokikes after CS2 got announced.

>>723959196
Only because skin gambling and money laundering, the actual game is boring stale dogshit infested with cheaters

>>723955237
There will be no more cases in the future. Only this shit >>723954890.
You will need 5 of those to make a knife.
Valve jews WON.

>>723959097
Just for knives and gloves I assume? Surely the market as a whole would be pretty volatile

It's a market exclusively for thirdies and Poors. Glad Valve shit on their heads.

>>723951937 (OP)
People are dying but you're all laughing

>>723951937 (OP)
while this is based, genuinely what is the thought process behind this decision?
gambling addicts are literally their chief demographic for spending money on the game

>>723959494
video or it didnt happen

>>723954890
Hold up. This means that now a chance at getting a knife will now cost 8000 dollars...
This is genuinely the last opportunity to get a knife for cheap before they become REALLY scarce, since after all the old reds get burned in contracts this will become the only way to acquire one.

>>723959494
Fake

>>723959520
Feds are breathing down their necks because thirdies and grifters have created an entire ecosystem outside of steam around the items.

>>723959271
>>723959345
but potential to happen was always there, and the market just got fucked because of this right fucking now
not seeing this obvious susceptibility and having "knife market is 100% stable and safe because thing like that never happened" mind-set as if that's some kind of a logic, gave those thirdies a kick in the butt

>>723959520
CS2s market was undergoing unprecedented manipulation on a fucking monthly basis the past year

Chinks pushed their luck

>>723959494
fun things are fun

>>723956886
Dead cat bounce. It's gonna crash in 7 days when the new knives become marketable.

>>723959631

How do you even manipulate a skin market?

>>723959039
Too dumb for crypto/ easier to scam children

>>723959663
This. Next week is the proving ground.

>>723959441
The regular skins also didn't see too crazy price fluctuations, unless an operation got released, which was always the time to buy at a discount. Tournament stickers on the other hand were always bullshit.

>>723959663
Im hearing things differently, a friend of mine tradedup a FT butterfly lore and his knife is currently tradeable

Okay but real talk.
Do we slurp the dip or nah?

>>723959039
for extra retarded thirdies who are too dumb even for cryptos
also this >>723954518
>skins is the only thing they can legally invest in that isn't turbo regulated by the government

>>723959910
you can I won't stop you

>>723959910
yea bro go buy some counter strike skins and treat them the same as the stock market & crypto, call all your family and friends up and let em know about it too

I'M GONNA SLOOOOOOOOORP

>>723959910
>herro 4chan save my worthless knife inventory nao by buying knife

>cases once again the most stable investment

BOX
CHADS
WON

GABEN IS KILLING MILLIONS

No one is fucking killing themselves over this
They're melodramatic retards trying to pull the IM GONNA ACK MYSELF argument to make Valve revert the patch

Fucking niggers

>>723960236
>destroying people's lives that have played their game for over a decade
good thing none of them that died actually played the game

>>723960309
I'd say at least one random chink has roped after this, you'd just never hear about it

>>723960309
They will. In a week.

>>723960309
>They're melodramatic retards trying to pull the IM GONNA ACK MYSELF argument to make Valve revert the patch
this is true, and this is the only tragic part about this update

>>723960309
>gambling check
>treating it like gambling/crypto check
>treating it like investment check
fuck yes people are going to kill themselves

REMINDER: THE ENTIRE CS2 MARKET CAPITALIZATION ROSE BY OVER TWO BILLION JUST YTD

I never traded on CS2 but trade on TF2, How do i make the best out of this situation?

>>723960683
spend your entire saving buying knives

big suprise. low iq dwellers investing huge amounts in cs skins, a market which is heavily centralized and under the rule of valve without any legal regulations and obligations, will of course be low enough to delete themselves over it.

with how china is messing up and manipulating the market valve might lock accounts altogether and i wouldn't be surprised. they have every right to do so and you can't blame them that people are retarded enough put so much money into cs skins.

>>723960309
Some people have been stung in the hundreds of thousands or even millions from this anon. Were they stupid? Yes. But it has happened.

>>723960683
Buy Stout Shakos for 2 refined

>>723960309
Chinks are absolutely retarded enough to invest their entire net worth into skins.

maybe my government will bail me out

>>723951937 (OP)
>>723952060
>spending hundreds of dollars on in gane cosmetics
They deserve it

>>723957880
Dread for who? The people who care about this didn't play the game anyway.

>>723951937 (OP)
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
AH FUCKING HAAAAAA
DIE BUGS
DIE SLAVS
DIE JEWS

ALL YOU FUCKING PPL MAKING MONEY, DIE!!!!

>>723953106
I love the overwhelming third world stench they exude

Any of you fags still watch Trainwrecks? Has been gambling cs skins this whole time still? Wonder if he will go live and flip the fuck out

>>723952480
>competitive shit
CS2 is a rng shitshow. CS2 update made it so that its better to run and gun than hold angles.
So you're good, its not a competitive game anymore.

>>723961418
This desu

>>723953135
My dragonlores have been a good investment.

>>723959494
>google translated telegram screenshot
Must be real, yes.

>>723961418
>least evil whitoid

buy the dip it always goes up

>>723952060
>I just lost 10k
I need some pink wojaks in here. Somebody call /biz/

>>723952401
Is money you can never cash out really money? You really think your png is worth 20k?

>>723959550
No, now is the last chance to stock up on cases and red skins, the knifes will drop in price due to a HUGE influx in the market and the red skins will raise in price because of increased demand and shortened supply.
The image I posted is a bit of an outlier since it's a stattrak with a great float, you can get reds from those cases for like.. 50-60 bucks in okay-ish condition as well, but that still brings a knifes price point to around 275 bucks at least ASSUMING you get nothing but ft reds from 5 uplinks.
This is definitely not a change made with the consumers in mind, and anyone who thinks that is fucking retarded.

>>723957907
you tell em rabi

>>723961502
Counter Strike isn't about gambling, it's about killing. And skins used to be something you downloaded from planetCS for free.

>>723962210
No one cares about gameplay, homo.

>>723962210
>not fpsbanana
zoomer

so now that cs items and pokemon cards have pumped, what vidya collectible is next?

>>723962210
Thank you DeepSeek.

We need to go back to the fpsbanana days and call it a day.

>>723962267
Zoomer?
Planet Half Life was around since 1999, faggot. Banana showed up in 2001.

>>723961851
>>google translated telegram screenshot
>Must be real, yes.
Prove it wrong

Based beyond all reasonable belief.

I was very, very big into TF2 trading. A very big figure in that "community". When the Crate Depression happened and all trading was disabled for days and it felt like the future of the entire tf2 trading scene was on a knife's edge, I felt my life may be over.

Now that I'm no longer involved in that garbage, I realize now that I needed a wake up call. It's a false reality. A schizophrenic nightmare.

Valve just saved so many souls by waking them from this living death.

>>723952686
They're day traders who are too stupid to day trade/Forex. Think YouTube Pokemon pack opener but he thinks he's a Wall Street banker.

>>723958375
I geniuenly think its Valve preparing community to completly remove cases. They want to prepare their anus upfront internally in case of when governments will start looking a lot more closely into digital markets like these.

Is anyone here playing CS2 because they're having fun?

>>723963194
>Asks if /v/ plays vidya
>CS2
>Fun

>>723963194
the cheaters

>>723952772
can someone edit this with covert skins

>>723961851
can't fake views or reaction counts

>>723955005
This. The RCMP actually owns one of the top 10 biggest collections of skins because a guy was using it to launder money. They obtained it when the assets were seized.

>>723963194
I do. It's comfy.

>>723955237
Absolutely based. The skin market is not intended to be an "investment" in any way and this should be a decent wake up call (that will have no effect whatsoever once a year or more has passed...).

>>723951937 (OP)
NFTbros, not like this...

>>723963767
>a decent wake up call
Weren't non fungible memes enough? This is all but the same.

>>723960236
Absolutely top Kek, janny: deleted

>>723956615
This. There will be a big dip and prices won't ever reach the same height, but cases are about to get reamed in a race to the bottom to open more.

>>723963194
I still play but I keep the game at arm's length. The competitive integrity of Premier is turbo fucked so I only boot up the game once in a while to play deathmatch/casual servers

>>723963194
I used to, I still enjoy it more than the gimmicky hero shooters like OW and Valo that are popular these days
Never got into skin bullshit, but I always enjoyed stories of skin casino failures so this tickles me right where I like it

>>723954003
>private companies are ... le good?
never let (((shareholders))) infest your hobby lads

>>723953135
you could've 100x-500x your shit if you bought cheap shit years ago

>>723962198
Yes, but that extra supply of knives and gloves (especially the good ones) is still going to be gobbled up sooner or later. As CSFloat pointed out, you'd have to burn all reds in existence just to double the supply of yellows.
And now you'll need to spend nearly three hundred bones for five FT reds and then possibly get, what, a Boreal Forest Gut Knife or some other garbage.
This obviously isn't done for the consumers and just to skirt anti-gambling laws, I agree, these terminals are probably going to turn out even more expensive than plain gambling.

can't wait for the deadlock economy
remember to get invested early

>>723963194
I stopped in CSGO when they lowered the tickrate on matchmaking servers. There were also barely any community servers that I was sub 100 ping to that had over 60tick.

>>723963194
I stopped after they removed csgo

>>723951937 (OP)
so what do i buy to profit from this

This is very good new for the working class

>>723951937 (OP)
>remove csgo
>remove casual dust
>remove rare skins

The nerve of this company. I swear.

>sold a bunch of years old CS crates this summer for 160 steam bucks
>price has tanked this morning

phew

>>723956330
>stolen credit cards
Ok now that makes sense. CS items are backed by stolen real money, and this way, have value.

The funniest part? Volvo changed silently float calculation during trade ups. Producing fn is impossible with fillers now. And now fuckton of people killed themself over nothing burger xDDD Buy the dip btw

>>723964052
Any leaks about how that one's going to work? I'm guessing it's like Dota 2 where you buy individual hats piecemeal and can make clown outfits.

>>723964284
so its completely random now or what?

>>723964284
you need 5 fns now?

>>723964052
go back to selling monkey pngs, it was more believable

>>723964146
nothing lol. you get your weekly drop, you immediately sell it for 10 cents and that's it. you'd be beyond stupid to spend real money to open cases or buy skins expecting to make more later in such volatile market conditions. where this is going rn the most expensive skins will cost $100 at max in a few weeks. only those who actually play the game will now be incentivize to open cases and spend money buying skins to use them in game.

>>723964446
>>723964357
>>723964284
Harder to get a top tier quality skin with a trade up now?

>haven't played for 7 years
>notice digital diarrhea is worth something now
>can't sell
how is this legal, Gay Ben?

This feel like 2008 leman brothers collapse... But gayer and more restricted to tarde that buy pixels

>>723963194
me me me i do

also happy with my bayonet i use to PLAY the game "investors" rope

>>723964284
good cope bro, hope you don't have any knives/gloves.

>>723963194
Counter Strike 2 isn't fun. CS2's gunplay feels worse than CSGO did so I basically stopped playing right after they changed it two years ago.

>>723952060
>>723952324
>NOOOO HOW DARE YOU MAKE THE “VALUE” OF MY DIGITAL PIXELS THAT I NEED ILLEGAL THIRD PARTY SITES TO CONVERT TO ACTUAL MONEY GO DOWN????
>HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?!?!?
I wonder what these retards said about NFTs. Any monkey picture owners?

>>723963194
Retakes is legitimately fun. For people that previously hated playing Casual this is a great way to make it more focused but also keep some randomness in it.

They need more loadout cards though but that is a minor complaint for something that isn't even a day old yet.

>>723963194
I haven't played since they removed Assault

I just lost 50k... killing myself

>>723955237
pretty based from Valve to make the skin fags to seethe, i am kneeling right now to Valve

>>723965652
do a backflip

>>723965652
Should've bought internet funny money...

I bought my skins years ago... total spent was around $2k-3k. Now it jumped to $15k lol at the retards that bought recently getting fucked

>>723952324
All these are third world retards trying to flip digital knives for a living, pathetic

>>723953106
>1000$
Lmao it really is all turd worlders

>>723963194
dust 2 casuals and I quit after I get killed like once or twice, its like the perfect time waster

>>723964357
>>723964446
>>723964613
>>723965170
https://archive.ph/vjX6H

All this shit has just been an abstraction to me really, I kind of can't believe there are people out there spending thousands of dollars on skins

>>723953106
All of this over video game weapon skins that can't even be converted into real cash in your hand or bank account. At best, it was tradable for other skins or store credit to spend on video games. I can't even imagine losing the plot this hard or being so brown that $1000 is a lot of money.

>>723956163
no soul, it's just click head game

>lost 2 billions in 10 hours
if you believe this you're a sheep. online celebs are saying this to ride on the viral train and get free sensational exposure. it's a different story if you check other price providers.

>>723956469
>work at suicide hotline
>have to keep yourself from laughing when someone calls up crying about virtual knives

I can't fucking believe some of these faggots are actually seething that the market isn't overinflated nonsense anymore.

In what fucking world should a video game knife cost 20 fucking thousand dollars?

Give it to me straight, should I buy a knife right now that everyone's in a panic mode as a form of future investment? Everyone seems to be dumping, but I have a feeling that all the skins are inevitably going to rise back in price. Thoughts?

The only reason any of these items were worth so much is because market outside of steam was created. If people weren't able to get money outside of steam for these things the top would've been 10% of what it was.

>>723966828
Are you buying it as an investment or as a skin you want to use?

>>723956163
Because CS has no characters, so you can't really invent a plot around it. Besides that, Valve knows CS' playerbase is nothing but third world cheaters who deserve nothing. Very few games are more toxic or shitskin infested.

>>723966435
doesn't matter one bit. butterfly in FN are still being crafted truckloads

>>723966828
ugly knives are going to zero

valve should just go ahead and delete all the skins
game never needed them in the first place
ran a lot better before too

>>723966828
this saga has pretty much proven you should not be buying CS2 items to make money as valve can change the rules overnight. if you are going to buy anything buy crates

>>723966828
Wait 7 days. The trade hold on all of these gloves and knives will be up and you will see a very large dip that will last for a day or two.

Prices will eventually recover (but not to the same heights we had previously). Worst case scenario is today's cheap knives will be the same price in 7 days so you benefit from waiting until the hold expires anyway.

>>723966956
beautiful ones too.

Funniest part of all of this to me is that after they changed CSGO to CS2, I went back to CSS and had more fun than I had in years. All this skin nonsense blinded Valve and the community to the fact that the game isn't even fun to play anymore because the mechanics are junk in comparison to how they used to be.

watching people crying live on stream because of fake knives is healing my broken soul.

As always the only good items to hoard are cases. And you get them normally by just playing the game.

Over the years of casually playing CS, I made tons of money from just selling cases that dropped.
It's a humble life.

>>723967204
dont play old games bro they are probably loaded with rce's

>>723967204
You should love this update then, because it kicks all of the "investors" and "collectors" in the crotch.

>>723954870
>There's a market cap for skins in a fucking video game
>And it's 6 billion on top of that
Holy shit this society is completely retarded

>>723967081
I hope it drops to pennies. I like this one a lot and would love to use it.

>>723952324
>>723952060
>>723951937 (OP)

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

>>723967275
But it didn't fix the game. CS2 feels genuinely bad to play compared to CSGO.

>>723963194
no im here to laugh i play bf6

>>723952060
>I just lost 10k

>>723966828
>form of future investment
@everyone
THIS NIGGER DOESNT GET IT LMAO

>>723967281
What were you expecting from the society that almost believed NFTs were a real thing?

>>723951937 (OP)
I don't understand spending hundreds of dollars on a skin.

>ctrl+f crate
>35 results
tf2fags detected.

>>723967350
I genuinely disagree, and this is coming from someone who has actually made some money playing in CS events over the years. I've been playing CS since 0.9 and I prefer the CS2 movement. Now, it absolutely did take some getting used to at first so you are correct on that.

The cs skin market was heavily inflated beyond reason anyway. The market is heavily manipulated and the cs skin bros wanted everything inflated so their portfolio grew larget. This update was just cancelling that out and it's amazing.

The retards who invested in a private-owned, centralized, non-regulated, and virtual market had it coming for them. IMO this is a huge win.

>>723952060
>I just lost $10k
BASED GABE

>>723967486
I don't understand spending 99 cents on a skin to begin with.

>>723967680
eat shit and die

>>723967543
Maybe I'll give the game another try, but two years ago when it switched over I couldn't stand it. The guns felt different and I didn't enjoy it.

At any rate, Battlefield 6 is my shooter at the moment anyway.

>>723967726
you (and your soul) is brown

>>723967680
As God intended. Brown third worlders trying to use video game skins and Steam trading as a stock market/bank account was always retarded and needed to be dealt with.

>>723967942
see >>723967929

So if you sold a knife worth 50k to someone would that just mean you have 50k in steam credit and can buy any game you want?

>>723967929
>>723967942
good luck paying your internet bill rajesh

>>723968092
Yes but realistically people aren't doing trades like that over steam. They are doing them on third party trading sites for actual cash

>>723953031
AHAHAHAHAHA

amazing update I also sold my last item the gloves last week, let me laugh harder HAHAHAHAHAHA

just wait one year and everything will be cheap

>>723968092
with that kind of money you could buy steam

>>723953625
200$ Bro in one year all knifes will be worthless lmao.

>>723968342
I guess knifes are gonna be like 20 bucks?

>>723967680
Brownies never had a right to the system in the first place, they're getting righteous judgment now

>>723968089
>>723968153
Absolutely seething third world subhumans lmao

>>723968092
Steam's market listing caps out at $2k. You have to go to third party sites to do big money deals.

>>723956565
anon is claiming that even if every skin in existence got traded up as much as possible it would result in 5.2M knifes entering the market(no clue if any of the numbers are accurate) and this wouldn't be enough to drive the price of knives down

>>723968587
Yes, reds will be going up for a while but they will go down along with the knifes. Especially if investors fuck off from this game.

>>723968176
>actual cash
Read: Crypto.

lol white people got fucked over. 1st world think video game skins were a worth while investment

>>723951937 (OP)
>>723952060
>>723952324
>>723952401
>>723953106
I can never understand how you retards decided to create a market around pretty colored knives and support Valve in ripping you off by buying lootboxes just to get them.
I understand sneaker fags, pokemon TCG or Yugioh fags spending absurd amounts of money for their shit to some extend, but at least they get a physical item that they can use/admire/sell their stuff in real life or they can own it for the rest of their life.
CSGO knife fags get a pretty colored item that's made of game code, which you don't even own in reality.
What causes such retardation?

Kniggers coping hard

He's fucking dead