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No matter what game you play, chances are, you don’t just want to be good while you’re playing it; you want to look good.
From League to Street Fighter to Overwatch to Valorant, cosmetic-based microtransactions are everywhere.
But no game’s skin economy comes anywhere near CS:GO’s.
Over the past couple of years, the CS:GO skin market has gone nuclear. Some cosmetics go for hundreds of thousands of dollars — and by purchasing certain skins, you might actually be making a real-life investment.
But how the hell did we get here? How are some of these digital pixels valued so highly? Well, let’s find out together.
Written by: Devin Coull (@Fakedevincoull)
Edited by: Sam Gore (@famgore)
Hosted by: Dimitri Pascaluta (@Dpascaluta)
Thumbnail by: Bennett Grainger
Produced by: Niall McCrossan (NiallMcCrossan), Colten Gowan (@theonlyzoltan), Miles Hackett (@miles_hackett), Alina Sotula (@ASotula) and Danielle Rosen (@Daniel_Rosen)
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