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Anonymous No.723992976 [Report] >>723993141 >>723993365 >>723993384 >>723993730 >>723993823 >>723993882 >>723994763 >>723995885 >>723996103 >>723996632 >>723996645 >>723997142 >>723997314 >>723997416 >>723997465 >>724002704 >>724003019 >>724003819 >>724004285 >>724005152 >>724005160 >>724005249 >>724005589 >>724005880
>POST YFW NOT A CS2 GAMBLING ADDICT
Anonymous No.723993017 [Report]
>he pays thousands of dollars
>for a reskin
>of a knife
>in a video game
Anonymous No.723993038 [Report]
get fucked chinks
Anonymous No.723993114 [Report]
imaging an heroing over video game skins
Anonymous No.723993115 [Report] >>723996362 >>723997118 >>723998973 >>724002713
I'm Russian and I never spent a single cent on CS2 skins. In fact I've never played CS at all.
Anonymous No.723993141 [Report]
>>723992976 (OP)
I sold a knife I had like 5 years ago for $70.
Anonymous No.723993157 [Report]
It's like watching crypto shit the bed but in a microcosm.
Anonymous No.723993271 [Report] >>723993791
r slash csgomarket forum

a fucking goldmine
Anonymous No.723993278 [Report] >>723998305
>the virgin cs2 "player" vs the chad d2 zealgawd
Anonymous No.723993303 [Report]
Anonymous No.723993365 [Report]
>>723992976 (OP)
Anonymous No.723993367 [Report] >>723993497 >>723993516 >>724005060
gambling addicts BTFO
Anonymous No.723993384 [Report]
>>723992976 (OP)
Anonymous No.723993442 [Report]
Gaben just killed thousands of 3rd worlders and you are laughing?
Anonymous No.723993475 [Report] >>723994263
>CAN'T GET ANY WORSE
>JUST KEEP HOLDING
>I'M DESPERATE
Anonymous No.723993497 [Report]
>>723993367
>skins was all that kept me playing to be honest

i can't even fathom being this much of a degenerate
Anonymous No.723993516 [Report]
>>723993367
>dropping the game because your side hustle fell apart
Anonymous No.723993538 [Report] >>723993625 >>723993762 >>723993835 >>723993868
Can someone give me a TLDR on what they actually changed?
Anonymous No.723993625 [Report] >>723993817 >>724002494
>>723993538
you can use trade up contracts to get knives now
Anonymous No.723993730 [Report]
>>723992976 (OP)
Anonymous No.723993762 [Report] >>723993817
>>723993538
Anonymous No.723993791 [Report]
>>723993271
>r slash csgomarket forum
fuckers talking about diversifying investments kek
Anonymous No.723993817 [Report]
>>723993625
>>723993762
oh shit I wonder if I can get some knives finally
Anonymous No.723993823 [Report] >>724004636
>>723992976 (OP)
Anonymous No.723993835 [Report]
>>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.
Anonymous No.723993868 [Report] >>724005679
>>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.
Anonymous No.723993882 [Report]
>>723992976 (OP)
M-MY PENSION... WHAT THE FUCK AM I GONNA DO NOW
Anonymous No.723993912 [Report]
Anonymous No.723993975 [Report] >>723994376
>On behalf of the Matusoka community, I would like to sadly announce that our main administrator has committed suicide during a live Discord conversation.
Anonymous No.723993983 [Report]
okay, how much did you lose?
Anonymous No.723993986 [Report]
See you in hell """speculators"""
Anonymous No.723994132 [Report]
KEK RUSKIES AND CHINKS MASSE HEROING THEMSELVES. YABA DABA DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

INDIA WON
Anonymous No.723994196 [Report]
https://clips.twitch.tv/MildSnappyMilkBabyRage-4xVlcenDmYUNzdTK
Anonymous No.723994263 [Report]
>>723993475
>it's really much money
Anonymous No.723994376 [Report] >>723994524
>>723993975
Wait. Did people actually turn skins from a free to play game into an speculative business?
Venezuelans were ahead of their time.
Anonymous No.723994398 [Report] >>723994484 >>723994719 >>723994870
I dont get it, how can these cosmetics be worth any real money? how do you get money from Steam????
Anonymous No.723994484 [Report]
>>723994398
yes
Anonymous No.723994524 [Report]
>>723994376
yes, it's been a thing since pretty early on with CSGO
people have dumped their entire life savings into jpegs of knives
Anonymous No.723994719 [Report] >>723994864
>>723994398
you sell it to a bigger retard on a trading site
Anonymous No.723994759 [Report] >>723995025
Why just they don't regulate prices like they did with tf2? Put a knife [name] every 50 cases.
Anonymous No.723994763 [Report]
>>723992976 (OP)
Anonymous No.723994864 [Report]
>>723994719
Chinks deserve the shit they get for coming up with nerdy ass NFT slop.
Anonymous No.723994870 [Report]
>>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
Anonymous No.723994908 [Report]
TF2 chads win again
Anonymous No.723995025 [Report]
>>723994759
that would cause just as big of a melty from the third worlders who do this investing shit
Anonymous No.723995125 [Report] >>723995524
Spoonfeed me. There was a real marketplace based around this game's items?
Anonymous No.723995524 [Report] >>723995776
>>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
Anonymous No.723995776 [Report]
>>723995524
>the reddit forum for CS trading has a suicide awareness notice pinned at the top of it
Anonymous No.723995885 [Report]
>>723992976 (OP)
Kwab
Anonymous No.723996007 [Report]
Anonymous No.723996103 [Report]
>>723992976 (OP)
mfw
Anonymous No.723996362 [Report] >>723997118
>>723993115
That's strike one. If you don't have at least 2000 hours in HOMM3 your slav status will be revoked.
Anonymous No.723996472 [Report]
Anonymous No.723996587 [Report]
Sold all my CS skins few months ago
Anonymous No.723996632 [Report]
>>723992976 (OP)
Anonymous No.723996645 [Report] >>723999034
>>723992976 (OP)
Imagine spending your time and money gambling with steam inventory items. Sad.
I do this.
Anonymous No.723997026 [Report]
Anonymous No.723997118 [Report]
>>723996362
>>723993115
FOR MOTHER RUSSIA!!!!
Anonymous No.723997142 [Report]
>>723992976 (OP)
fuckin incredible
Anonymous No.723997213 [Report]
nfts are very silly thing that happened
Anonymous No.723997258 [Report]
All FOMO niggers deserve death
Anonymous No.723997314 [Report] >>723997363
>>723992976 (OP)
>Only buy precious metals for investment
>they're doing better than ever and only with upward trajectory
Lmaooooo
Anonymous No.723997351 [Report] >>723997457 >>723997750 >>723997968 >>723998531
Most of valves incone comes from cs2 gambling

You are wishing for the downfall of valve
Anonymous No.723997363 [Report]
>>723997314
wtf is this real????
Anonymous No.723997416 [Report] >>723997757
>>723992976 (OP)
>Retards getting rug pulled by steam mods
What a time to be alive
Anonymous No.723997457 [Report]
>>723997351
no it doesn't lmao
all the gamblefaggotry is third party websites
Anonymous No.723997465 [Report]
>>723992976 (OP)
i invest in dota immortals
Anonymous No.723997750 [Report]
>>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
Anonymous No.723997757 [Report]
>>723997416
why do jews all have that same devil face? It's the epitome of evil.
Anonymous No.723997968 [Report]
>>723997351
they make 0 money from that which is why they periodically go on cease-and-desist sprees
Anonymous No.723998018 [Report]
If this happens to Pokemon cards next, I'm going to cum.
Anonymous No.723998305 [Report]
>>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.
Anonymous No.723998494 [Report]
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.
Anonymous No.723998531 [Report]
>>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.
Anonymous No.723998827 [Report] >>723999123 >>723999269 >>723999508
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.
Anonymous No.723998959 [Report] >>723999123 >>723999269
How did anyone make money out of this shit?
Is it like crypto where you only have theoretical money?
Anonymous No.723998973 [Report]
>>723993115
ok so your a DOTArd.
Anonymous No.723999034 [Report]
>>723996645
Based. I've been top roping solo and am saving to get into scuba next year
Anonymous No.723999120 [Report]
PRAISE BE GABEN
Anonymous No.723999123 [Report]
>>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.
Anonymous No.723999196 [Report] >>723999508 >>723999593
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?
Anonymous No.723999269 [Report]
>>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.
Anonymous No.723999508 [Report] >>723999805 >>723999841
>>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
Anonymous No.723999593 [Report] >>723999841
>>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.
Anonymous No.723999805 [Report]
>>723999508
these third party sites are full of arbitrage, wash trading, all sorts of bullshit that artificially keeps the prices of these things high.
Anonymous No.723999841 [Report]
>>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.
Anonymous No.724000502 [Report] >>724000605 >>724002290
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.
Anonymous No.724000605 [Report]
>>724000502
>sanctity
Anonymous No.724000763 [Report]
>mfw reading the comments of all the retarded gamblers
Anonymous No.724002290 [Report]
>>724000502
Anon, if you're serious, you're a retard.
If you're shitposting, based.
Anonymous No.724002494 [Report]
>>723993625
OK, so the cheapest red skins will shoot up 1000% now.
Anonymous No.724002648 [Report] >>724005671
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.
Anonymous No.724002704 [Report]
>>723992976 (OP)
Anonymous No.724002713 [Report]
>>723993115
we all know you're playing LoL and/or World of Tanks you flithy zigger.
Anonymous No.724002797 [Report]
Anonymous No.724002837 [Report]
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
Anonymous No.724003018 [Report]
Get fucking owned, retards.
Anonymous No.724003019 [Report]
>>723992976 (OP)
Anonymous No.724003490 [Report]
Kwab
Anonymous No.724003819 [Report]
>>723992976 (OP)
Anonymous No.724004285 [Report]
>>723992976 (OP)
Anonymous No.724004636 [Report]
>>723993823
Ai love Enma Ai.
Anonymous No.724005060 [Report] >>724005445
>>723993367
I've never played CS since source. how can an item in CS be factory new? or in any game for that matter?
Anonymous No.724005152 [Report]
>>723992976 (OP)
Anonymous No.724005160 [Report]
>>723992976 (OP)
Anonymous No.724005228 [Report]
worst sticky of all time
BAHAHAHAHA
Anonymous No.724005249 [Report] >>724005308
>>723992976 (OP)
I wasn't expecting to have such a good laugh today
Anonymous No.724005308 [Report]
>>724005249
Nice ass.
Anonymous No.724005445 [Report]
>>724005060
it's a prestige item, model has no scratches.
Anonymous No.724005589 [Report]
>>723992976 (OP)
mfw my fundu are safu
Anonymous No.724005671 [Report]
>>724002648
It's actually 6-8 billion but it dropped by 2
Anonymous No.724005679 [Report]
>>723993868
As a guy who hates what they did to og csgo, this does put a smile on my face.
Anonymous No.724005880 [Report]
>>723992976 (OP)
Anonymous No.724006012 [Report]
WAITER
I REQUIRE FRESHLY MINED SALT