Guys, you're gonna love this.>CS2 is letting you trade red skins for knives or gloves today.>CS2 item prices are crashing hard.>Chinese players are about to lose their minds.They've been treating the CS2 market like the stock market.
I'd buy a nice knife for VERY cheap but CS2 is infested with cheaters - so I wom't even do that lol!Get fucked
https://tieba.baidu.com/f?kw=csgo&ie=utf-8&tp=0
Someone jumped to their death, once again.
>>723958156Everybody, who is in any way negatively affected by this, should jump to their death.
>>723958156nigga that's nuts
Now let's see Timmy Tencents market
>>723957773>>CS2 is letting you trade red skins for knives or gloves today.Why though?
>>723958156valve has Literally claimed lives now. Not figuratively with gambling addictions, actual, real ones.
>>723958319reds are easier to get than knives -> people will open more cases
>>723958373bugmen aren't really living sentient beings
>>723958156lollmao
>>723958381>destroys the whale communityI seriously doubt greed was the reason.
The Chinese didn't deserve this.Any impending cyber attacks that aren't the usual are deservedfuck you and the shitndians compromising weaker systems already
>>723958569>The Chinese didn't deserve this.
>>723958567
Ever since the CS2 announcement, the prices of skins were reaching ridiculous levels, finally, enough is enough.
>>723958609What's the problem if retards still buy them?
>>723957773at handle gamble bitcoins if you have to go fictional stuff. fucking game prop ""investments""... jezus fak
>>723958668>you lost a playerI'm fucking dead. Yeah buddy that's really your big concern there.
>>723957773i mentally put this in the same category as people buying smart beds getting fucked by AWSthey deserve ityeah i know it's a 2008 "too edgy for you" stance but retards really do deserve this happening to them
>>723958668Kino breakdown
>>723958849I will, thank you. Coconut C!
Get rekt shitters lmao
>caring this much over pixels
>>723958609I've got some basic bitch M4 with desert camo skin and it's now worth 150-200 bucks. It doesn't even look amazing.Another one, ugly as fuck shotgun with bright green barrel. 40 bucks.
>>723958668badass
>>723958547isn't there a cap to item prices on the steam market? maybe gabe wants more of the higher tier knoives to drop so people might panic sell them there instead of third party, so he can collect tax + tip
>>723958668This is a meme based on a twitter post where someone did this over a sports game. You'd think it'd be obvious something's off given it's a picture of a desktop while he's talking about smashing a tv in front of dozens of guests but hey nobody said /v/irgins were smart.
>>723958373That's not even the worst thing they've done.Valve screwed over the Artifact fanbase by cancelling the Artifact 2.0 beta without even allowing users to invite friends like they said they would in January 2021 and does not deserve your financial support for these gross consumer-unfriendly practices.
>so many changs talking about renting out knivesWait, are they so mindbroken by f2p games where they rent the p2w gun instead of buying it that this is normal? And the rentoids don't just run off with the knives instantly? What?
If I don't see massive DDoS attacks on valve from chinks after this they're confirmed bitchmade pussies
>>723957773>>723958156>>723958668maybe they should go to /biz/ to open the valve and release some steam
>>723959553>t. sissy bitch that's salty about losing a $20 gun skinCry more, nigga.
>>723959741CARLOS YOU FUCKING BITCH
>>723959436>kill the cash cow for short term gainThat's not how this works.
I'm afraid for Gabe. What are the odds that some rampaging chinaman with nothing to lose tries to Kirk him?
>>723959741kek
>>723960000if you love gaben so much why don't you marry him
>>723959005>someone threw a slightly ground mint at meholy fuck
>>723958567>a png == 5 ghost houses in china == 1 house in shanghaiDamn.
>>723958156Why are they like this? >Losing money is worse than deathI will be 30 next week, I own nothing and I am happy unironicaly
>>723960000>A bugman skincel getting anywhere near the yacht king himselfYe nah
>>723960205Happy birthday anon. Just in case we don't cross in any other thread.You get to be a Wizard?
>>723957773>made their whole livelihood completely dependent on funny money economy>could be wiped out on a whimKWAB
>>723960205If you owned nothing you wouldn't be able to post here.
>>723958428>bike cuck but chinese
>>723960205debt bad
>>723958156Faggots who had their entirely lives revolves around a game is bound to do that anyway.
>>723960280Yes
>Hey Gabe, he bought>Update it
>>723958668>Lose money>Lets lose even more money to show Gabe how upset I am!KEKJEJLOL
>>723957773>he boughted?>DUMP IT
>>723958668>even this absolute room temp IQ loser got to breed inside a womanFuck this gay earth.
>>723957773It's a fucking videogame. Wtf are people doing? This shit is a more retarded investment than crypto
>>723960000CHECKAROO
>>723958510>>723958567>Jumping off a building for 10 grandTopkek, so this is the value of a chink life
>green bad>red gooddumb commies
>>723960000If they're this devastated by losing what amounts to $10k at most then they can't afford to approach the ozempic god anyway.
>>723960585This doesn't predate crypto but it does predate normie interest in it. This has been going on for like 15 fucking years.
>>723960585>It's a fucking videogame. Wtf are people doing? This shit is a more retarded investment than cryptoThe Chinese government prohibits ordinary citizens from trading cryptocurrency and gambling. Meanwhile, ordinary people in China's stock market simply can't make money.So these gamblers pour every last penny into the CS2 skin market, fantasizing about striking it rich overnight.Because they love gambling, and the Chinese government forbids fools from gambling.
inb4 this update causes CCP to ban cs2 and it's a win-win for everyone except china. Big W move by valve desu
>>723957773>Communist countryThis look like late stage capitalist instead.
Cant wait for the day anti cheats are near perfected with AI and MMOs are finally free from the gold botting. Mass suicides will be beautiful.
>>723957773This reminds me of the Idler Genocide and Unusual Unboxer Holocaust in TF2.Please Valve, PLEASE LET THE TF2 COMMUNITY SUFFER ANOTHER CATASTROPHIC EVENT. THEIR TRANNYLIKE VITRIOL HAS GONE UNCHECKED FOR TOO LONG.
>>723957773>expending real money on useless cosmetics>in CS out of all things>they aren't even actually models like fpsbanana skin mods>just paint on skinsFucking manchildren lmao
>>723961506China has been a capitalistic country since September 10, 1976
>>723957773come chinks where warning about this weeks ago thoughsomeone leaked
>>723957773Now they just need to do the same thing to TF2 unusuals.Death to traderfags. Get a real job.
now this is a nice rugpullone for the books laddiesbuy the dipperino!
>>723963932>buy a jpgno i wont
>>723957773Ok but what's the cheater situation?Haven't played since the Train update (a year ago?).
>>723960000He already needs SS level security anon just from Valve.
>>723957773>players lmao
I wonder how many of these idiots gambling on the vibeogayme also reply lel should have read the eula on the money stolen threads.
>>723958569OY VEY IT'S NANKING ALL OVER AGAIN
I am such a boomer I cannot comprehend this. People still play Counter Strike?
>>723966790Define play.
This is 9/11 for third worlders.Maybe they'll finally fuck off.
>>723958156>valve actually directly smoked chinksBased US patriots.
>>723960205>>723960367happy birthday and welcome to the wizard club anon
>>723957773They did something similar to dota 2 cosmetic market years ago.It was bound to happen sooner or later.
>>723958547Faggot investors aren't whales, they've bloated knife prices so much whales don't buy them. They also perform their transactions outside of steam so valve doesn't see money. This makes so people trade in steam and buy more cases since you can upgrade all the way to the coolest item now
>>723957773Lmao how retarded can you be should've bought bitcoin instead
Can someone give me a rundown on what is going on? I'm and really confused right now?
>>723973452you can trade sorta rare guns for ultra rare knives now
>>723973452Bug chinks have harsh restrictions on crypto and other investments to make money, so many use valve's fps game cosmetic market as a stock exchange. Knives and other super rares can go for thousands of dollars. Valve made an update where you can trade several less rare items to make a super rare, crashing their stock portfolios of meme skins. They still won't be affordable to the average player, but people who put their life savings into it are fucked.
niggas are doing tony hawk 900s off rooftops because of a knife textureholy fucking lmao
>>723973847>people put their life savings in a video gameJesus Christ
>>723957773traders =/= players
FUCK gambafags and buyfags.
>>723960205
>>723958373possibly their greatest positive contribution to humanity
>>723957773Why did they do this? I barely trust bank and stockmarket as it is while these retards threw their life savings for 3D models.
>>723973847>restrictions on crypto and investments to make money..>try to make money oh something without restriction and isn't a market>the unrestricted not market changes something and you lose everythingIt's almost like doing things unofficially is worse for you.
>>723960000Good luck going alone against the fleet admiral
>>723960205Because they are in china, there's no such thing as public kitchen, food banks, welfare, or homeless shelter there. If you are bankrupt, you will just simply starve to death.
>>723958373Those cheating bugmen along with russians deserved this. They have done nothing but make the game unplayable for everyone else.
>>723974053>people put their life savings in a video gameyes
>>72395851090,532 what? Yuan? Did they really killing themselves over 12 grand?
>>723975316>turned 750k, a lambo aventado svj into 250kLmao
>>723957773Why is skin trading a business anywayThey're just skins
How and where? Haven't played in a year but I have a red. :D
>>723975881reds are mooning right now bro, get your bag king.
>>723975938Holy fuck 38 bucks, what the fuck bro I should have invested in cs2 not the fucking stock market
>>723975606As long as some retard is willing to pay real money from it, an entire army of third worlders will set up a market.
>>723957773>>723958373A great fucking day it is.
>>723960205some people would rather die than became homeless. its sad reality.
>>723975475>Did they really killing themselves over 12 grand?>>723975475>Did they really killing themselves over 12 grand?The bottom tier of China's working class earns a monthly salary of approximately 3,000 yuan. This amount equals 30 months of his wages.>90,532 ÷ 3,000 = 30.1773333333333
*ting ting* excuse me everyone, sorry to interupt but this is just a reminder NO CRYING IN THE CASINO
>>723974053As stated before.Jesus Christ
>Gaben finally does something and it results in a third world famine
>>723974852Isn't China supposed to pay lip service to Communist ideals? Even the Soviets guaranteed you food and housing even if it was shit, as long as you were working.
>>723975475You're forgetting the difference in cost of living and wages. Exchange rates don't tell anywhere near the whole story. In terms of disposable income that shit's over a decade of median rural saving and half that for urban bugmen.
>>723976326if you're willing to invest 30 months of salary into fucking csgo knives then you deserve to lose it all, retard.
Isn't this old news? Why do chinkmen raiding this board for pitybaiting?
This is the best day ever
>>723958373>actual, real ones.No, just chinese ones.
>>723958373SACRIFICE RITUAL FOR NEW LUNAR YEARAVE GABE
>>723976704>old newsNo
>>723958668>you lost a player>game is free to play
>>723961506They aren't communist, they are extremely authoritarian though which is basically what commies do so people make that mistake often.
>>723957773
ban all frogsloppers
>>723977838
Can someone explain what's going on? I don't play shooter games, tendie here.
>>723977936frogga
>>723975316Do chinks have that retarded communist thing were red good green bad
I have no idea wtf is going on but anyone that invested actual money into this shit deserves to suffer so I guess I'm happy
>>723957948>Buy knives and rent them outWhat?
>>723957940based and redpilled
>>723977298Holy fuck that cliff face, lmao.
>>723978131You can get any item you wish by trading 5 other items, making the entire cosmetic economy become useless.
>>723977946>My dog won't even look at me.
>>723978104Yes in china it’s red good, green bad on financial charts.
>>723958373>killing the most degenerate gamblers who created a fucked up pseudo-economy that sucks the joy out of everything it touches Holy BASED
>chinks and retards held on CSGO cosmetics as if it was stocksHOLY RETARDATION, how can you blame Valve for that? kek
>>723978164To show off.A rental service for the poor.
I'm confused. Isn't stuff only worth steam funbux, not actual money? Like if you sold something the money converts to steam store credit, not actual money in your bank account?
>>723960000>Hordes of chinese try to take on Gabe>He just gets on his submarine
>>723978526Kek, the layers of stupid on this thing are endless.
>>723978579most people who trade CS skins don't use the steam market but third party sites like csfloat
>>723960205Chinese culture places a very high MORAL value on wealth. Which is kinda ironic given the whole communist nation thing.They don’t have a problem with p2w games because paying your way to the top and showing everyone else that you did means that you are Better Than Them. Conversely, losing it all like this is the ultimate shameful display.
>>723957773>>CS2 is letting you trade red skins for knives or gloves today.So what does this actually do and why would that crash the market?
>>723978961The market is based on scarcity. When an item is no longer scarce then it loses value.
>>723957773Less cheaters, seems like a win to me
>>723978961because before this update, gold items (knives and gloves) could only be obtained from cases, and they were very expensive. cheapest, shittiest knife was like 100 dollarsnow you can trade up 5 reds for 1 gold, so imagine that
>>723958373
>>723978961Red skins were formerly relatively worthless. This means the supply of knives and gloves skyrockets, driving their prices into the ground. (Relatively speaking. Prices are still absurd for anyone who has their head on straight)Meanwhile anyone who was a hoarder and had a red skin stockpile for god knows why became a steambux millionaire overnight.
>>723957773good. these wayward chinese who thought they were exceptional and could trust americans and prosper from uncontrolled capitalism will learn an important lesson today. they will now recognize the truth of the party and recommit to chinese nationalist and communist ideals. this is their hong kong moment.
>>723958668>a playera customer*
>>723957773>my shit knife went down $40
>>723959005>tfw someone throws a slightly ground mint at you
https://youtu.be/WaXvbkjn-RAneed a new version of this for cs
>>723979470bro the Chinese made a fortune on pump and dump schemes in the skin market
>>723960205>>723968493Based soon-to-be wizard bro.
>>723958156Bro, it's just a game...
HODL
any sort of gacha faggotry should be outlawed.
What are they complaining about? The people's champion Comrade Gaben has redistributed the skin wealth to the masses from the filthy degenerate useless eater class of speculative investors.
>>7239585671000000 yuanisn't that like 20 bucks?
>>723980876more like ~$140k
The virgin suicideThe chad rampage
>>723980876>>723981089I mean $14k.
>>723958156Imagine what will happen when the Pokemon bubble bursts.
>>723958373>Volvo creates a shitton of cosmetics for their most popular game>not a single person outside of chinese/slav market scammers, i.e. not a single normal player, can use these cosmetics thanks to the scammers>Volvo makes an update to change this so all the players could use the cosmetics Volvo spent time and money to make>this is somehow bad
>>723975316>that fucking nose diveImagine investing into video game jpgs, holy shit.
>there are people who invest their life savings into Counter Strike>instead of doing anything actually productive they made a living out of flipping skins and "renting" skins>they didn't take their money out, instead they reinvested everything into the same game>somehow they expected the line to always go upCrazy thing is that this is the same shit going on with housing and pretty much every aspect of modern society.
>>723978526How the fuck does that work?? How deep this fucking counter-strike skin-shit rabbit hole lol like this is insane.
>>723957773China is such a hilarious place. My friend married this chinese girl who's parents are high ranking CCP members, and he went to china to meet them and came back a full propagandist. He'd send me pictures of their mansion in beijing and these huge feasts they'd have every single night thinking that's the norm. Meanwhile you have the peasants who are forced to horde digital knives so the government doesn't discover they've violated the wealth cap and execute their entire bloodline. lol
>>723958373EVIL SCUM COMPANYKILL GAYBEN
>>723982132See, the difference there is though, with stocks, real estate, and other "legalized" investment gambling, there are powerful institutional investors that usually have a vested interest in not imploding the market, and they want the line to continue to go up. There's always the boom/bust cycles of growth and market manipulation, but in the long term even as a puny individual investor you generally win just by dumping money into the market and forgetting about it for a decade or two. With an "economy" like skin markets, you are at the mercy of the developer/entity that can at any time dictate what exists on the market, it's value, or if it exists at all. It's basically completely unregulated so there's not even a pretense of protection or central backing. It's like crypto but even more insane and risky, somehow.
>>723982689>Meanwhile you have the peasants who are forced to horde digital knives so the government doesn't discover they've violated the wealth cap and execute their entire bloodline. lolNah, the Chinese government only bans gambling for civilians.Fools insist on gambling anyway.Then they lose everything.
>>723960000>gayben assassination
>>723983319fuck no. microsoft would swoop in and buy valve overnight for peannies son the dollarthink before you speak
only people that actually interacted with this market were money launderers. i had no idea it was a billion dollar industry thoughinb4 gabe newell gets whacked by the russian mob
Last time I fiddled with skins/textures was with CS:S and gamebanana, never paid for such fucking nonsense.Imagine actually paying for that bullshit in the first place and then being even dumber and thinking it's a good investment.
>>723983931if everybody is a money launderer, then how do they clean their money if they're all trading "dirty goods" with each other? by swapping it into different currencies on another Steam wallet?who cashes them out, where's the inflow of clean money?not refuting what you're saying, more trying to understandpic maybe loosely related?
>>723957773Bro fell off from de_vertigo
>>723957773on one hand, i feel for these guys. this must feel crushing.on the other, "investing" in video game weapon skins never seemed like all that good of an idea.i hope that most of them can get back on their feet.
>>723957773price will go back to normal, price of red skins is skyrocketing, supply of those will dry up as price of reds goes up price of knives will go back to normal its only dumped because of panic selling
>>723957773All RMT items should have their supply flooded because it angers third world retards. Get a real job.
>>723958381odds of a knife are probably like 1/5 the odds of a red i assume it balances out
>>723958373This is gambling addictions tho
>>723957773>CS2 is letting you trade red skins for knives or gloves today.QRD? I used to play Dota, but I don't play CS. What are red skins? I assume it's similar to untradeable sets and arcanas in Dota?
>>723960585>This shit is a more retarded investment than cryptonot really not that i buy skins to invest but you can actually use them cryypto does nothing and just sits in a wallet, all the tech around crypto is bullshit integrations with other crypto to provivde a platform to trade crypto with price feeds powered by another crypto the whole thing is a ponzi scheme
>>723957773That's it. War with AmeriKKKa in 2 weeks.
>Is Xi still being a dick about trade? Tell Gabe to tank the CS Skin market.
>>723984547dirty money is used to buy a skin, the skin is then sold on a grey market website. there's no money trail for that skin so as far the irs or whoever knows you got in a case opening and you are now paying taxes on that income so why would they care to investigate
Do you think one of them will try to kill gabe?
>>723984547why do you have a slightly edited picture of WoWS?what even is the joke?
>>723958668Please be realhonestly I can't believe a gambling addicted, CS2 addicted, debt ridden chinaman can have a wife and 2(two!) kids plus enough people in his life to have a party but I wish it is real nonetheless
>>723958668This post doesn't seem completely real. I think the wife, kids and 30 guests are all in his head.
They shouldn't have let Valve run a side-hustle economy in the first place. When hats and hat trading for RMT became a thing, the government should have stamped down on it so hard that Gabe's head spun.This is the end result of "Free company can do what they want". These economies are effectively the Company Towns of old, and Company Towns always, always, always, always had a point where the parent company exit-scammed the people holding worthless company dollars. Which is funny because this isn't even an Exit Scam. Someone at valve seriously thought they were doing the CS2 community a favor.
>>723987074>why do you have a slightly edited picture of WoWS?I make original content for me to laugh at and others to enjoy. I dont repost this one, I forgot I even edited this image..picked out a random thumbnail from my folder>what even is the joke?Wolf of Wall Street -> Wolfo Wall Street, it's alright if no one else finds it funny. but if I make enough of these, sometimes it does turn out funny>whydon't need a reason. I enjoy making new things and giving them to the world
>>723987413>honestly I can't believe a gambling addicted, CS2 addicted, debt ridden chinaman can have a wife and 2(two!) kids plus enough people in his life to have a party but I wish it is real nonethelessYou have to understand the scale here, if you make consistent minimum wage in the United States, you're richer than the bottom 40% of China's population. Trading these skins is big money. Trading these skins was the only money some of these Chinamen could ever hope to get that wasn't working back-breaking labor in a factory that pays worse than flipping burgers in this country. You could buy a house, have kids, own property (or 'lease' since it's CCP) for what amounts to a Roblox scam in this country
>>723988005>I make original content for me to laugh at and others to enjoydon't worry, i understand.i was just wondering if the joke was deeper than "john elden ring"
>>723986157Imagine if you could trade 5 uncommon items for 1 ultra rare item. That's basically what's happening.
>>723983185>>723987872They don't have much of a choice. People don't understand that China's GDP is built off the backs of stealing the salaries of their employees. As China's GDP has grown, purchasing power and salaries have stagnated far below what they should be for the productivity they accomplish. The way they keep the Yuan cheap is by stealing from wages to pay the CCP. That's why China's GDP is nearing America's, but their average citizen makes less than 30% what the average American worker does. In a free market this would collapse immediately. In China the price of everything is what the Government says the price is, and anyone who disagrees is shot. That's why Skins were such a great job in the first place for these thirdies: Gaben, by nature of not being able to shoot someone if they don't rob themselves selling things below the actual market value, is running the only free market in China. Everybody else is screwing themselves working for the CCP and its oligarchs because they are not paying any of their employees what their labor is worth. And no one here would work 40+ years until their body is destroyed in a Foxconn factory to afford the price of maybe one American car.
>>723988690kekthanks :)
>>723988262>>723988751This is also why any shitlib or commie who says we should be more like China and fund mega-infrastructure projects should immediately be thrown from a helicopter. None of them would donate 80% of their wages to the government to maybe build a superproject that might help them in the next 30 years.
>>723980685I kneel, Chairman Gaben
it would be crazy if this ended up having real geopolitical consequences. unforseen consequences, even.
>>723990358Comrade Xi personally nullifies Gabe's social credit?
>>723981674I don't play Counter Strike. Why were scammers the only ones that could use those items? What was stopping regular players from getting them?
>>723990741>Why were scammers the only ones that could use those items? What was stopping regular players from getting them?Because you needed to spend money to unbox a crate and knifes have a 1% (or less) much like TF2 unusuals. There are many knife and glove skins with different conditions so for a normalfag to get one they would need to spend too much money to gamble to hope.
>>723990887In a healthy economy, you should be able to trade things you don't want for at least some things you want. There's no way realistically to buy a ten grands knife unless you're scamming everyone into oblivion.
>>723958373ALL of these retarded "in-game status" chasers should be publicly executedthey buy cheats in hopes of getting a better rankthey buy high rank accounts so they can skip all the "busy work". so they can play at the rank they deserve. before they proceed to lose 9/10 gamesthey are the reason there is not a SINGLE online game without cheatersi really really wish for all of them to be dead TOMORROW
>>723981401Like they won't be making pokemon any more? You know that won't happen cause it is a massive cash cow with low effort.
>>723992410What are you talking about. Nobody cares about CS2 as a game (do you even played it? it's god awful game), it was platform to trade skins (think about NFT). Valve update caused CS2 market to crash and a lot of people lost a lot of money, it was never about game. Also, Shroud, cheater #1 isn't banned. Gabe doesn't care about cheaters.
>>723992410>tomorrowWhy not today?
>>723993060logistics
>>723978368That's some contrarian shit. Maybe we're not so different after all.
>>723958668Ain't no fucking way.
>>723959741lmao
