Someone Paid $160,000 For A CS:GO AK-47 Skin Because It Had Four Rare Stickers
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive cosmetics are among the most expensive in the realm of live-service titles. Like many items, whether real or virtual, rarity and desirability play their part and in the case of CS:GO skin collectors, gun skins can go for many thousands of dollars.
Just take the case of a recent sale where a CS:GO skin changed hands for the equivalent of $160,000. Never mind spending that much on a truck, or a small house, or holidays for the whole family, the large sum was paid for a flowery skin of an AK-47 (thanks Kotaku). But these are gamers we're talking about here.
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The skin was purchased on the Chinese version of Buff, a secondhand marketplace trading in CS:O skins. The sale of weapons skins continues to be big business even as Valve implemented limits on how many times players could trade them. But the prices can be eye-watering.
Just look at how much the player spent on a Wild Lotus AK-47 skin. It is a rare skin for the popular weapon, and usually goes for around a few thousand dollars on the market, but this "factory new" version also includes four stickers that are exceedingly valuable, making the overall item that much more costly.
Key to how a digital item such as this can be assigned value is the way the game attaches a permanent "float" value. This "float" is what makes a gun skin "factory new" or "battle scarred", and the above Wild Lotus has a very low float number that added to its real-world price. Colour variations are also another significant factor in determining how much an item is worth.
Among serious CS:GO skin collectors, the thousands that exchange hands is not at all seen as anomalous, and
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