Counter-Strike rugged its entire community. They put out a pretty savage update that lets you bundle items to trade up, and now people are using ~$5 worth of items to draw what once was $1000+ knives.
They just rinsed everyone in the market who had anything of any value.
- All that matters!tell me how rich u are without actually telling me.
- $1 billion US dollars wiped from the market cap on the update. Covert skins ripped up absorbing knife & glove depreciations. Interesting post by OP on rebalancing of the market over time. Fascinating that game economies get to be the size of $6b and can be influenced by devs.Wild CS2 update tonight. I’ve spent the last few hours digging through market data and built this projection chart to show how I think things play out. Knives and gloves drop fast (40–50%) as the new trade-up path floods supply, while Covert skins surge short-term as everyone
00:00- Replying to @H3CZOh man, I’m so sorry. I know how much you loved Henry! He’s hanging out with Lil Weezy now though. 🙏🏻
- Replying to @MaryKayCabotI would rather see Shedeur throw 30 interceptions in a game than see the 5’9” checkdown merchant ever again.
- Replying to @OpTicYou’re gonna make a grown man cry. The days are long, but the years go by fast. Optic fam for life! 💚
- My tl;dr on the Counter-Strike move: (1) They hate 3rd parties profiting outside the game, enough to knowingly tank $2B in market value (2) They want players back on the native marketplace to recapture that revenue; raising red item values helps rebalance the economy.
- The whole Solana paid Western Union is tiresome. Foundations have treasuries to activate partners within their network. You have no idea what the deliverables are, so you're unable to measure the ROI of these deals. Let me tell you: EVERY ecosystem is competing and putting $ up.
- Crypto is still so unbelievably small. It’s good to keep in perspective. When I was at YouTube, we had 450 million logged in users watching gaming content every single day (DAU). That was 4 years ago. We barely touch 40-70 a month. It is insanely early still. No one leads.















