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 Zippy Bot   ( @ZippyBot@lemmy.zip ) B to Gaming@lemmy.zipEnglish · 2 months ago

Valve casually gut Counter-Strike's billion dollar skins market with a "small update"

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Valve casually gut Counter-Strike's billion dollar skins market with a "small update"

www.rockpapershotgun.com

 Zippy Bot   ( @ZippyBot@lemmy.zip ) B to Gaming@lemmy.zipEnglish · 2 months ago
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Ah, Valve. Weeks go past without you making any significant announcements, and then you suddenly dropkick the entire Counter-Strike cosmetics economy.
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  •  Norah (pup/it/she)   ( @princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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    Good?

    •  Triumph   ( @Triumph@fedia.io ) 
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      Yes, because now those common skins that lots of people have are going way up in price. And every time someone cashes skins out for an item, those skins vanish. Which makes the price of the skins go up even more. Exponentially so for covert skins that don’t drop anymore.

      This move has effectively transferred a fuck ton of wealth from the bourgeosie to the proletariat.

      •  Gamma   ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) 
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        Yeah it kinda balanced out the economy, and probably raised market prices overall so they still make more money

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    Maybe don’t build a billion dollar market on video game skins? Am i also supposed to feel bad for NFT people?

    Just let fun things be fun, stop trying to monetize every fucking thing in life.

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    One Covert skin collector says that their 609 hitherto “worthless red skins” are now worth £3,329,612 on the marketplace. One respondent comments that “my knife just dropped $1,400 in value in the span of 30 minutes”.

    Aaaahahahaha

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    If this was billions of dollars worth its 99.9% money laundering related.

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        I think it’ll settle after a while, covert items will come back down in price. Really good change from Valve. Though removing MTX entirely would be preferable.

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    Well there goes my retirement.

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