Hi,

I often read about non-vanilla keys, but I'm not totally sure which ones are meant by that.

Non-Vanilla:

Vanilla:

Is that right? And if so .. why are non-vanilla keys not accepted? As far as I see no one uses them to open cases anyway, but they're used as a currency and that eSports key is worth about as much as the other keys on the market.

8 years ago

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CS:GO case key is vanilla key.

rest is non vanillas. also known as colored keys.

8 years ago
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This is a vanilla key

8 years ago
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Did you open that knife or trade for it?

8 years ago
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bought it with keys Traded

8 years ago
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I've only seen one of my friends actually get a knife from a case, and that was like after a billion keys. I just opened 4 cases and got 1 item worth 2 dollars and 3 worth 15 cents, should have kept the keys lol.

8 years ago
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Case opening is the worst shit ever

8 years ago
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yeah I always think maybe this time ill get a super awesome item...nope

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Why is it that knives are so fucking expensive and everybody wants them? Isn't CS:GO a competitive shooter in which knives are pretty much useless?

8 years ago
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Would you like a pretty gf or an ugly one?

"Would you like a pretty Karambit or an ugly Gut Knife?"
"I dont really care, im just desperate at this point"

Jokes aside, people want knives cuz they expensive, they expensive cuz they're hard to get...

8 years ago
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I'm a girl myself, so I don't want no girlfriend, but apart from that I think I get what you mean. they aren't good for anything, they are just rare, hence expensive, and people want them to show off? But where do they show them off?

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Show them off by playing, once you kill an enemy it shows on their screen who killed them and with what weapon (and if the user has a skin on the weapon it will also show up).
Skins are just for swag and profit.

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There are just for bragging...

Something about internet and how big your e-penis is by the value or rarity of said item..i do not get it...but as they say...a fool and his money are soon parted

Also it does not matter how cool your knife looks,it does not kill anything any better..and actually in real life a dull knife would actually do more internal damage then a sharp one.

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Yes, skins are useless and they don't add any kind of stats to the weapon.
In my case, and I'm sure many can relate, I want them because through trading I'm able to buy any game that I want without spending my own money.

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Not sure how your answer is related to my question. I asked about knives, not skins or trading.

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Knives are skins and you asked why everyone wanted them. I gave you the answer. People want them to make money. No need to be so harsh...

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Excuse me if I sounded harsh to you, it was not meant like that in any way. I just did not understand your response. Had no idea knives are skins.
Also I always thought knives are sought after to be owned. Total CS:GO noob here.

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Yeah but everyone loves a sexy knife.

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The question is: why???

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because they are great to look at, as well as the skins in the game are awesome to look at. its not all shooting its a lot of standing around and waiting and when you die you watch someone and they are looking at their stuff and you are just like damn that's some nice shit you got there. Then you want some nice shit for yourself. That's how I feel anyways.

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Thank you. That's the first real explanation I've seen. Tbh I still don't get it how someone pays such an awful lot of money just to have something that may look nice but is of no use.

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you see the same stuff everywhere, different costumes for fighters in street fighter, different costumes in dota 2, team fortress hats. its cosmetic and its someones hobby to play the game and they want their characters to look nice.

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To be honest I start to feel a little similarly towards my backlog - paid a lot and most of them has no use until I don't play them :D

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Non-vanilla keys will only open those cases. Vanilla keys will only open vanilla cases which have an astronomically small drop rate at this point. eSports keys are non-vanilla, they'll only open eSports cases, though IIRC they'll open any eSports case, you don't need specific ones for like 2013 vs 2014 cases.

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Alright, thanks @ll :D

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It certainly doesn't taste like vanilla.

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