Thread 723992976

>he pays thousands of dollars
>for a reskin
>of a knife
>in a video game

get fucked chinks

imaging an heroing over video game skins

I'm Russian and I never spent a single cent on CS2 skins. In fact I've never played CS at all.

>>723992976 (OP)
I sold a knife I had like 5 years ago for $70.

It's like watching crypto shit the bed but in a microcosm.

r slash csgomarket forum

a fucking goldmine

gambling addicts BTFO

Gaben just killed thousands of 3rd worlders and you are laughing?

>CAN'T GET ANY WORSE
>JUST KEEP HOLDING
>I'M DESPERATE

>>723993367
>skins was all that kept me playing to be honest

i can't even fathom being this much of a degenerate

>>723993367
>dropping the game because your side hustle fell apart

Can someone give me a TLDR on what they actually changed?

>>723993538
you can use trade up contracts to get knives now

>>723993271
>r slash csgomarket forum
fuckers talking about diversifying investments kek

>>723993625
>>723993762
oh shit I wonder if I can get some knives finally

>>723993538
They introduced a way to obtain rare items that is much more reliable, causing the market to become flooded with what were once highly-sought after items.

Imagine if some country managed to generate synthetic petroleum and could create an unlimited supply of it.

>>723993538
>before new update
Getting a rare knife was like winning the lottery; drop rates under 1%, many "worth" thousands and thousands of dollars. People built entire careers on "how to" channels or streams about gambling.
>after update
You can now trade 5 """rare""" (see: not rare for active players) items for a guarenteed knife drop.

aka, what was once worth thousands and thousands of dollars can now be easily gained by anyone who plays the game a lot. Retards who only played the game for the epic skins market are screaming because all their nonexistant money is gone.

>>723992976 (OP)
M-MY PENSION... WHAT THE FUCK AM I GONNA DO NOW

okay, how much did you lose?

See you in hell """speculators"""

KEK RUSKIES AND CHINKS MASSE HEROING THEMSELVES. YABA DABA DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

INDIA WON

>>723993475
>it's really much money

>>723993975
Wait. Did people actually turn skins from a free to play game into an speculative business?
Venezuelans were ahead of their time.

I dont get it, how can these cosmetics be worth any real money? how do you get money from Steam????

>>723994398
yes

>>723994376
yes, it's been a thing since pretty early on with CSGO
people have dumped their entire life savings into jpegs of knives

>>723994398
you sell it to a bigger retard on a trading site

Why just they don't regulate prices like they did with tf2? Put a knife [name] every 50 cases.

>>723994719
Chinks deserve the shit they get for coming up with nerdy ass NFT slop.

>>723994398
you go through third party trading websites and directly get real money instead of steambux
it's kind of insane that it took this long for Valve to intentionally sabotage it

TF2 chads win again

>>723994759
that would cause just as big of a melty from the third worlders who do this investing shit

Spoonfeed me. There was a real marketplace based around this game's items?

>>723995125
Yes. Billions of dollars.

Spoonfeed summary;
>In Counter Strike, you can earn or buy "loot boxes" which have cosmetic reskins for guns, gloves, or knifes (the things you mostly see in an FPS game)
>Some of these were VERY rare, particularly knives; some with less than a 1% chance to drop
>You can trade these skins with other players on the Steam Community Market
>A third party market grew with a metric fuckload of trading websites and marketplaces, many of which entirely based around knives
>Lootbox opening content creators have made entire careers off trading these items
>People hoard the items as "investments"
>They are not actually worth much money
>But the artificial rarity and hype created by the retarded "markets" and "traders" drove up prices into the thousands
>Gambling sites took advantage of this, getting in on it too

>Valve wanted to tackle retarded gamblers and the cosmetic meta ruining the game, so they pushed a surprise update
>Now you can just collect normal rarity items and then spend them in bulk to "upgrade" to the rarest shit
>All those anons who had potentially "millions of dollars worth" of cosmetics now have dogshit worth nothing
>Entire market has crashed
>People who treated CS2 video game cosmetic skins as actual currency are facing actual financial ruin
>People are an-heroing
>the reddit forum for CS trading has a suicide awareness notice pinned at the top of it

>>723995524
>the reddit forum for CS trading has a suicide awareness notice pinned at the top of it

>>723992976 (OP)
Kwab

>>723992976 (OP)
mfw

>>723993115
That's strike one. If you don't have at least 2000 hours in HOMM3 your slav status will be revoked.

Sold all my CS skins few months ago

>>723992976 (OP)
Imagine spending your time and money gambling with steam inventory items. Sad.
I do this.

>>723996362
>>723993115
FOR MOTHER RUSSIA!!!!

>>723992976 (OP)
fuckin incredible

nfts are very silly thing that happened

All FOMO niggers deserve death

>>723992976 (OP)
>Only buy precious metals for investment
>they're doing better than ever and only with upward trajectory
Lmaooooo

Most of valves incone comes from cs2 gambling

You are wishing for the downfall of valve

>>723997314
wtf is this real????

>>723992976 (OP)
>Retards getting rug pulled by steam mods
What a time to be alive

>>723997351
no it doesn't lmao
all the gamblefaggotry is third party websites

>>723992976 (OP)
i invest in dota immortals

>>723997351
they made fuck all from it you retard, all the money was in third party sites.

the retards who had a load of shit in their steam inventory did not have money, they had items with ZERO guarentee that they would retain their made up bloated market price. this update will make valve MORE money because more people are playing the game and buying from the market now that shit is cheap

the literal only people who suffer because of this are
>retarded gamblers
>chink gambling sites

>>723997416
why do jews all have that same devil face? It's the epitome of evil.

>>723997351
they make 0 money from that which is why they periodically go on cease-and-desist sprees

If this happens to Pokemon cards next, I'm going to cum.

>>723993278
nigga, Last Wish or Grief give you 80-90% of the dmg of this. I would never ever play a fucking melee build but I also would never ever give real money for something that is as expensive as 2 enigmas in functionality and runewords.
Fuck PVP niggas for giving real money.

PSA!

https://blog.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlines/

Guys, all money is temporary, things come and they go.

And let’s be honest, these degenerates will be buying up knives at these prices.

Just relax. Don’t look at your portfolio for a few weeks.

Take a walk outside. Hug your loved ones. Extra pets for your dog. Appreciate the things we have.

Don’t dwell on this. It wasn’t your fault, and we’re all in this together. Overall, this is for the best for everyone.

Be safe everyone, take care of yourselves and each other.

>>723997351
this doesn't impact Valve's business model, in fact if it drives more engagement (buying keys) it's a net gain for them. the illicit grey market casino value of the items is not Valve's responsibility.

So what were they doing to get money out of the steam market? Selling steam decks? Selling games as gifts? Surely they weren't investing tens of thousands to have in their steam wallet just for games.

How did anyone make money out of this shit?
Is it like crypto where you only have theoretical money?

>>723993115
ok so your a DOTArd.

>>723996645
Based. I've been top roping solo and am saving to get into scuba next year

PRAISE BE GABEN

>>723998827
>>723998959
They obtain an object which sells for $$$$$$ on third party sitees, with the price dictated by endless speculative gambler shit.

They hoard these, and say they have a collection worth $$$$$$$$$$. Valve updates the game. The $$$$$$ is now worth fuck all (like it always was, but its enforced now). People cry about "losing money" because of what they could have potentially sold stuff for.

OK this is really fucking funny, but what does Valve get out of it? Don't they make money on the skin transactions? Wouldn't they benefit from keeping gold skins super expensive?

>>723998959
>>723998827
there are sketchy russian 3rd party platforms that will give you crypto or through buying steam decks with steam funds and selling for cash.

>>723998827
>>723999196
most of this crap happens on third party websites for real money, bypassing steam entirely. Steam marketplace has price caps

valve had an incentive to do this because it will make people buy keys to try to farm red guns

>>723999196
Valve aren't losing any money from this, resellers are.

This change makes the stuff more attainable for more players, pushing them to play and buy stuff at lower prices from Valve. All the crazy money you see (thousands per knife) is on reseller sites; the knives are so rare that the only people who get them only wanna sell them via third party or gambling sites that drive the price up.

This kills that, and keeps it all in the game. The ONLY value these items """had""" is what resellers said they have.

>>723999508
these third party sites are full of arbitrage, wash trading, all sorts of bullshit that artificially keeps the prices of these things high.

>>723999508
>>723999593
>price caps
Ah now it makes sense thanks. OK that actually makes it even funnier because it laser-targets specifically the worst gambling demographic without screwing over the people who were being less nuts about it.

They completely violated the sanctity of the skins market. This has always been a hard line and valve just crossed it. People really need to stop giving them money.

>>724000502
>sanctity

>>724000502
Anon, if you're serious, you're a retard.
If you're shitposting, based.

>>723993625
OK, so the cheapest red skins will shoot up 1000% now.

Two billion dollars.

$2,000,000,000

Two fucking billion US dollars invested in trading videogames skins, something two decades ago you could mod and change for absolutely free in every single game in existence.

I can't even begin to fathom how fucking stupid some members of my own species can be. It's unreal.

>>723993115
we all know you're playing LoL and/or World of Tanks you flithy zigger.

I used to think I took things pretty dramatically and had a weak will than most, but there are faggots out here offing themselves for fucking digital flip knives

Get fucking owned, retards.

Kwab

>>723993823
Ai love Enma Ai.

>>723993367
I've never played CS since source. how can an item in CS be factory new? or in any game for that matter?

worst sticky of all time
BAHAHAHAHA

>>723992976 (OP)
I wasn't expecting to have such a good laugh today

>>724005249
Nice ass.

>>724005060
it's a prestige item, model has no scratches.

>>723992976 (OP)
mfw my fundu are safu

>>724002648
It's actually 6-8 billion but it dropped by 2

>>723993868
As a guy who hates what they did to og csgo, this does put a smile on my face.

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