Skin.Club Provides a Whole New Way to Get Skins in Counter-Strike 2

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Five years ago, a group of friends who played Counter-Strike: Global Offensive together had a simple question: “How can we make getting skins more fun and transparent for players?” The answer was to create Skin.Club, a website that gives players several options for how to acquire skins that can be transferred directly into their Steam account.

Skin.Club has continued to add new features over the years and has grown in popularity. It has worked with some of the most prominent professional players, esports teams, and streamers in the Counter-Strike community — including Karrigan, Kassad, KennyS, 00Nation, Into The Breach, and many more.

If you’re not familiar with the Counter-Strike series, it’s a first-person shooter that started back in 2000 and was originally a mod for Half-Life. That first iteration was a single-player game, but it’s become an online multiplayer title in the years since. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive launched in 2012 and was the fourth entry in the series. In 2013, it added countless different weapon skins, stickers, and other cosmetics with various levels of wear and tear.

Those skins were obtained in standard cases, which players could earn during gameplay or buy in a marketplace. In-game keys to retrieve these items cost a few dollars, however on Skin.Club, not only is there a wider range of different cases with different variations, but you don’t have to pay for an in-game key. When Global Offensive was updated and re-released as Counter-Strike 2 in 2023, players’ acquired skins carried over, as did the system of opening cases to acquire more skins.

When players get a new case, they can see what skins are possibly inside— except for the gold category, which only says there is a rare special item without saying what that item is. The odds of acquiring each individual skin are unclear. That’s the first thing Skin.Club aimed to address. They offer cases and display all the skins that can be found inside — there’s nothing hidden behind a “rare”