xQc nabs around $30K of rare Counter-Strike 2 skins in buckwild run of luck on the game's first day
Counter-Strike 2 has been out for, let's see, less than 24 hours, and already streamers are claiming their own 'world firsts' in nabbing various ridiculously rare and lucrative skins. Take, for example, xQc, who miraculously managed to net himself multiple fantastically unlikely skins worth tens of thousands of dollars on the first day of the game's release.
As spotted by Dexerto, xQc first picked up a Karambit Doppler with a wear rating of 0.06 (placing it, just about, in the rarest «factory new» quality category) from an ordinary case. That's a knife you can currently pick up on trading sites for, oh, around $1,100. The streamer's response to the drop was about as calm and restrained as you'd expect:
It's very unlikely that this is truly «the first knife» of its kind in CS2 history, a game which is already the most-played game on Steam after its launch yesterday. But it sure is valuable. Anyway, xQc didn't stop there. What do you get the man who has everything and also $100 million from his deal with Kick? More vanishingly rare and valuable skins, of course. A while later, the streamer decided to try his luck, trading in rare skins in batches of 10 in the hopes of getting a single, hyper-rare skin in return. (Like CS:GO, CS2 allows players to convert 10 items of one quality level for 1 of the next highest quality level, which is called a «Trade Up Contract.»)
He succeeded. In spite of a few duds, some trades that resulted in skins you couldn't base the economy of a small country around, he still had one of the wildest streaks of luck I've ever seen. Across three separate trade-ins, xQc picked up an AK-47 Fire Serpent, an AWP Gungir, and an AWP Dragon Lore, one of the long-standing 'grails' of Counter-Strike skins.
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