Just wondering ... if someone who's reading the thread knows - what happened to all the CSGO Key resellers? (At least the ones in (strades) its as if someone pulled the plug on the regions that sell CSGO Keys without TAX ... i mean those regions are the source for most Keys - innit?
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I think I read that all current CS:GO keys are the last keys available on the market since steam doesn't distribute such keys anymore since a while. CS:GO being only available on Steam store.
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I don't know if someone already posted, but this video is so true about csgo nowadays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1QE6ogmSkw
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I was talking about or lord and protector GABE NEWELL and he said that they will implement in next big uptade tactical skins for underwers and socks .
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I never gave a s#!t about skins, knives or whatever cosmetic bulls#it there's to buy on CS:GO. Whenever I see someone bragging about his/her/its $100 knife, the only thing I can feel is pity. But only for a moment.
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not that I care about expensive clothing (actually I feel the same way about it), but we're talking about games here. I wouldn't pay No Man's Sky's full price, for example, but I understand someone paying $$ for an actual something. It's a game (a bad game, but yet a game). if you don't buy it, you don't play it. You can still play CS:GO as long as you buy the game. I could even understand if skins or knives gave you some advantage ingame. Other than that, I'm sorry, that's just pitiful.
But that's me.
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It's very much the same - expensive cards are used to travel around and carry people, just like cheap ones, and often they just cost more because luxury and reasons. csgo is the same, there's the working version, and there's the working version that looks better (more personal)
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Well, yes and no. a luxury car (not that i ever wanted a bmw) gives you more confort, reliability on mechanics or even more speed, it that matters. A pretty knife is just a knife. But thanks for being polite on this conversation, even if I sounded kinda rude.
Fact is, I wouldn't even feel this way if a knife or a skin went for like 5$. But it just scares me how much people pay for those items.
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I know it's not an easy topic... generally speaking you're right, quality costs money. But I guess you could also name brands that for whatever reason costs more than off-brand, perfectly identical versions (I think the best examples would be clothing, where simple cotton T-shirts cost way more just because it's a brand)
But to return to your point - I can understand people buying skins from their perspective, but I personally would sell any really costy ones - I use a pistol skins worth maybe 2 bucks and I'm a little sentimental about it as I got it as a drop, but I wouldn't buy skins for higher prices. I mean even 5$ for a different looking skin, or a HB BTA, or a good, older AAA game during the sales, for me or for giveaways - better alternative (or I can buy 4-5 beers from it here :3 )
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Yeah it's pretty shameful where CSGO is heading. Just Valve trying to come up with ways to make more money.
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Pretty much this. Though at the current point after spending some hundreds of hours in game I myself would probably still continue playing it from time to time. Just because I got used to it and competitive is fun for me most of the time.
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I'm waiting for them to add Socks. Only when we can buy/sell Tactical ESL Firebrand-Camo Socks will the game reach its true potential.
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Already cashed out majority of my items, and cashing out is a pain in the *. Especially the verification system on OPSkins takes a while, and the sale of items as well..
Thing is, majority of those stuff (StatTrak Music Kits, Sprays, and now Gloves) are "joke" suggestions, but somehow Valve takes them too seriously and releases them in such state.. instead of improving the gameplay, adding a unranked competitive matchmaking and so on.
I haven't played CS:GO for few weeks, just came back to test my luck for the new case, and restore my competitive rank.. no luck in both :( :D
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More accessible team gloves at the major, one can hope.
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I can honestly say developers who make and upkeep their games purely for the aspect of making content for the community and just for the game's sake are few and far between. 99% of developers and companies want to make money on the game they created, and not have that income falter, which is by no means an evil concept.
Cases are a way of doing this which do not include a pay-to-win aspect, and are entirely optional to the players themselves. If you don't want to open them, don't open them. In the meantime it helps to continue support for a game to allow it's life cycle to be extended farther than most other multiplayer games. Can you name one other game which has a multiplayer focus to it that is still growing at such a unprecedented rate over 4 years after it has been released? TF2 and DOTA certainly competes with that, but those also have a cosmetic system.
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Probably not enough of the first, and more than enough of the second, but I believe that we mainly see the second as often as we do because we're looking for it (AKA, we are biased to notice one type of gambler over another). Like with most gambling (which this is) I feel a vast majority of people don't open cases for "fun," and do it more in the hopes that they can somehow beat the system. Enough of them have to be 'actual players' or else I think Valve would have noticed the cases not bringing as much revenue as they would have hoped.
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Or they are expanding this whole dress-up system because the crackdown on some of the gambling sites did hurt the constant flow of income. Since they guard their business data more than Trump his tax reports (or their absence), I guess we will never find out, or at least not in the foreseeable future.
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Maybe, but as all winnings on those sites were transferred via trading, steam did not have a tax and therefore claimable income on them. Steam very well [i]could[/i] have benefited indirectly from the betting sites if it increased demand for skins as a result (Same way the car mechanic industry would benefit from more crowded streets and more accidents), but I do not believe there has been any proof that Steam made tampering to encourage these websites (correct me if there is in fact some proof I am unaware of). As the prices of items on CS:GO did not have any sort of drop when valve both announced they were going to do some work to shut down the sites, nor after the date they gave, I'd think it would be safe to conclude that the betting sites did not have a terrible large effect on the market's supply nor its demand, so Steam would have had no reason to encourage the sites to begin with.
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Both of us can only guess. Valve really loves its secrecy, which at this point doesn't really affect the consumer (although it could distort the markets, especially if someone once found out that they are actually not nearly as big as people believe they are), but also means that whatever they do, we just throw in assumptions, because let's face it: their explanations have long ago regressed to pure marketing bullshit with no real information on the actual reasons/intentions behind them.
So, maybe these gloves are just milking a fat cow, maybe trying to fatten up a drying cow, or maybe even just a random brainfart so they can claim they actually care about CS.
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Is it? I went on the market and checked the lifetime price history of a good deal of high priced and low priced items such as knives, Awps, cases, and the like, and I could not find one which had any sort of dip in price that was outside of the trend seen up to that point during late July early August period and even before and after (Around when the takedowns were sent).
I'm willing to look at these items you refer to which lost this huge value over such a short period in case I am in fact wrong, but I'd need you to tell me where exactly this crash took place because I cannot seem to find it.
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Silly, I know that you spent much more time and money in the game than me, but I don't see anything new happening with them adding new cosmetics and continuing their business model :/
Community asked for this? Yes.
Gloves look pretty? Yes.
Gloves are expensive? Yes, very expensive (like those knives).
So I really don't see much new :/ People who liked to buy skins will continue doing it. People who liked opening cases will get one more reason for that. Bugs and problems in game? They remain the same :D Hopefully Valve will fix at least some of them with time.
P.S. Btw, price for that m4 we were talking about started to rise after this update. Can be a fluctuation though.
P.P.S Join the chat!
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Looks like you are really getting tired lately... Ok.
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Still a great game in CSGO underneath all the skin hype and fluff. Unlike something like Team Fortress 2, it's very easy to ignore everything "extra" and just play the game.
As long as that's true, I have no problem with it. My recommendation would be sell all skins and just play the game for the gameplay. It's a lot more enjoyable that way.
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I'm more upset about how they purposefully released the case at the end of the Autumn Sale. They would get more money from market transaction fees and the actual spending, but I guess they really didn't want us taking advantage of their deals.
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Not putting up with it anymore is like not putting up with your local butcher anymore because he, in an effort to make money, also sells meat and products you would never buy.
Personally I don't care for CS:GO that much because I suck at it and could not care less about skins.
Have to say though I think it's not just a moneygrab but also a tactical move in a way. Since they provide players new goals, incentives and ways to make some money off of the game. I admit chances on the last option are limited but still I feel it's a good thing to keep things moving and keep players invested and motivated with new things to "find" / collect / trade. True, bugfixing, adjustments in matchmaking, hackprevention etc would be time well spent for them too. Arguably time better spent..
But don't forget they did not start the company / make the game to make you or gamers around the world happy (even if they did) but to make money and there's nothing wrong with that?
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