$ 500,000 in stickers were found inside

Eight years left a player at all rest his account of ‘Counter-Strike‘. When he opened it again, some of the Stickers They rested in it, they had revalued until half a million dollars. It is not a unique or especially strange story, but it is a good sample of how it works in the legendary free-to-play of Valve the phenomenon of revaluation.

Let stand. The account was inactive a decade, and its owner opened it, According to Gamestarafter a decade of absolute abandonment, in 2023. Among the objects that the player ignored that they had so much value there were some Stickers of 2014 Katowice that are worth in some cases more than 60,000 dollars (It’s about Stickers holographic of the 2014 ‘Counter-Striway’ championships, which were held in Katowice, Poland).

To live. Streamer and Trader TDM_HEYZEUS acted as an intermediary to resell those stickers, and he told so On Twitter: “I just closed an enormous treatment for an inventory full of kato-holos of 2014. The inventory was totally unknown to its owner (he or she had no idea how much those stickers were worth).

But … why are they so expensive? There are different reasons for this player had a treasure among your belongings: On the one hand, those of Katowice of 2014 were the first stickers that could be obtained through capsules within the game in an event of CS: GO, which gives them a unique historical value. The teams represented by many of those stickers no longer exist, increasing the collector’s value and scarcity.

The most expensive articles. And these stickers are just a small sample. A few months ago, an Ultrarara Skin reached a price of more than one million dollars. It is about AK-47 Case Hardened Seed 661an Skin for the Avtomat Kalashnikova Model 1947, and was discovered ten years after its launch. The chances of getting it were 1 between 21 million. Its appearance is really attractive and futuristic, unusual in the game, although in cases like this, the final aspect is the least: what makes it a treasure is its difficulty in being found. And there is another even more expensive article: the knife Karambit Case Hardened Seed 387of a million and a half dollars.

Trade with the digital. The Skins, Stickers and other articles market in ‘Counter-Strike’ has generated an authentic alternative economy. Skins can be obtained within the game or on multiple specialized external platforms, such as Tradeit.gg, SKINPORT and many others. To determine prices ranging from hundreds of dollars to hundreds of thousands, not only the degree of rarity is valued, but also that of wear (from Factory New, Minimal Wear or Field-You Well to Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred), which have become standards that experts use to assess items.

A whole economy that many players see as a form of investment for a future. Perhaps a decade later, when meros stickers multiply their price spectacularly.

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