• Twongo [she/her]@lemmy.mlOP
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    9 days ago

    valve included red skins (2nd highest tier) in trade-up contracts to get knives. (5 red skins for a knife) now undesired red skins from let’s say the butterfly case can be used to get the illusive knife. (5x 20$ skins to get a former 1000$ knife)

    knife prices dropped, cheap red skins rose in value and expensive red skins tanked.

    in general the skin market lost 2bn$

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        9 days ago

        speculative investers

        I’m glad they got burned, tbh. The ranking of “things you should invest in” goes something like:

        • land
        • stocks
        • bonds
        • long-term savings & investment accounts
        • precious metals
        • currencies from different countries
        • fine art from well-known artists or notable antiques
        • literally anything that isn’t collectibles
        • no seriously…anything that isn’t comics, cards, toys, or games
        • LITERALLY ANYTHING
        • collectibles
        • crypto currency
        • NFTs
        • everything else
        • garbage
        • landfills to put your garbage in (although landfills are actually useful so they probably go above collectibles)
        • garbage even garbage people who collect garbage don’t want
        • lottery tickets and other gambling schemes
        • video game skins or items

        CS:GO and other Valve Marketplace stuff goes down there at the bottom.