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recently, many people have painted &ldquao on social media; took care of the big, broken man &rdquao; and took care of it
At first glance, it looked like a jam, but went to the QQ group and put it around, and it was true that there was a lot of heartbreak men leaving the factory;
Many of them have just experienced the first investment in their lives:
HOWEVER, THE MEN WERE NEITHER IN STOCK A NOR IN HIGH POSITION TO BUY GOLD。
WHAT MAKES THEM CRY IS THE VIRTUAL SKIN TRADING MARKET FOR SHOOTING THE CS2。
According to media reports, on the 24th day alone, the market evaporated $2 billion (approximately RMB 14.2 billion)。
Countless people's assets have been turned into dust overnight (which is all too much to say for hours)。
WAIT, ISN'T CS2 A SHOOTING GAME? WHAT'S MAKING IT LOOK LIKE A STOCK MARKET
It's a long story。
How many people sleep all night
Many days later, in the face of empty accounts, CS skin-screwrs will recall the distant afternoon of the announcement by Valve, the developer of CS2 to open skin refining。
Last Thursday, V announced an update of the &ldquao; General &rdquao; game containing an unexpected clause。
In summary, the top-level blades and gloves that were previously available only to open boxes can now be synthesized with lower-level skin。
For example, once-natural diamonds can now be synthesized with glass balls
THIS PROVISION DIRECTLY AFFECTS THE LONG-STANDING SKIN TRADING MARKET OF THE CS。
IN CS2, THE PRICE OF AN OPEN BOX IS APPROXIMATELY 17 PIECES, WITH A PROBABILITY OF ONLY 0.26 PER CENT OF THE TOP SKIN BEING EXTRACTED, WHILE THE SKIN OF KNIVES AND GLOVES IS THE TOP ORNAMENT。
Obviously, it is too difficult to draw knives and gloves on its own, so the best way is to go directly to the market。
They're expensive and want to buy a good skin or gloves, thousands of dollars just to make friends, and hundreds of thousands of dollars a day。
TODAY, UNDER THE NEW DEAL OF THE V SOCIETY, THE LOWER-QUALITY RED SKIN CAN BE SYNTHESIZED INTO THE TOP GOLD SKIN AS FOLLOWS:
& ldquo; red leather & rdquo。
Countless players log in on their accounts, pull out red skins that have eaten for so long and engage in exercise:
With the exercise knife, the top equipment on the altar of old times is no longer rare。
A hot butterflies knife at a price:
the worst hit was the hoarding of large skin & ldquo; directing & rdquo; pointing down dogs, the player's affection for skin-skinned two-track dealers。
SOMEONE LOST 60W OVERNIGHT:
And the college kids have all their living expenses。
In the crowds, everyone cries:
IN SOCIAL MEDIA, THE OWNER OF V CLUB G-O。
In addition to directing purchases, professional athletes with large numbers of skins were also hit by the head。
The MOUZ team, Spinx, was cleared and wrote on Twitter in deep love, with a dream and a good each:
While every snowflake is not innocent, there are always people who can walk around in avalanches. Sometimes you just don't do anything. You win when the game is closed。
Niko, a former professional, survived the wave of loss because he never laid skin。
He expressed sympathy for the players involved in the sale of investment accessories:
People like Niko who live in vast numbers are just a few, and more players say that they just feel noisy。
In their view, those dogs who lost so much deserve it。
It was a game centred on entertainment competition, and now it's being blown up by these two-skin-skin dealers
IN THEIR VIEW, G'S FAT NEW DEAL IS ACTUALLY GOOD FOR ORDINARY PLAYERS。
Once high above the top skin, they now fly into the homes of ordinary people。
The previous day, the player in the grass shoes, today, went directly to the beach。
G-FAT'S IRON FIST, KNOWN AS A 10-STEP KILLING OF A MAN, STAYED FOR THOUSANDS OF MILES; THE MATTER WENT ON, HIDING AND FAMOUS。
SO, IS G-FAT REALLY A BIG SAINT WHO'S ALL ABOUT THE PLAYER
I'm afraid it's not that simple。
How's the multi-billion-dollar Saber market made
Selling skin to make money is a profitable model for almost all Internet games. Add boxing to the game, and it's the same thing that's going on online, and even the micro-trade system in the game is no surprise。
BUT IT'S ONLY V, AND IT'S THE BIG OFF-SITE MARKET。
IT'S NOT BY CHANCE, IT'S THE RESULT OF THE ELABORATE DESIGN OF G-BIG AND V。
& ldquo; Source of All Evil & rdquo; is V Society ' s 2007 game " Fort Corps 2 " 。
IN THIS GAME, V HAS INTRODUCED A HAT SYSTEM WHERE PLAYERS CAN BUY THEIR CHARACTERS A VARIETY OF HATS, WHICH DO NOT AFFECT THE BALANCE OF THE GAME, BUT SIMPLY DECORATIVE。
some of these hats fall inside the game, some can be synthesized and some need to do tasks &herlip; &herlip;
And, of course, you can just pay for it。
Because of differences in appearances, special effects and loss rates, there are a lot of rare and hot hats in the game soon。
G-BIG: IF SOMEONE WANTS TO MAKE THIS MONEY, WHY NOT ME
THE V SOCIETY THEN LAUNCHED THE OFFICIAL TRADING PLATFORM, WHICH ALLOWS EVERYONE TO TRADE FREELY, AND V SOCIETY DOES NOT INTERVENE, BUT IS A RESULT OF THE HARVEST。
I didn't think the players were more enthusiastic than G-Fat, and the trading system was getting hotter and even began to experience inflation and deflation & shelip;
G'S GOT TO DO SOMETHING。
IN 2012, THE V SOCIETY HIRED A REAL ECONOMIST TO HELP THEM DESIGN AND OPTIMIZE THEIR ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
His name is Janis Varufakis, Professor of Economics at the University of Athens。
During his work with V, his title was &ldquao; internal economic adviser &rdquao; Now on the Web site of V, there are some articles he's published, and anyway, I don't get it:
IN SHORT, V SOCIETY IS REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT A COMPLEX VIRTUAL ECONOMIC SYSTEM。
According to Janis-Walufakis, this system is more complex than many of the world's small economies。
HE WAS INDEED QUALIFIED TO SAY THAT, BECAUSE TWO YEARS AFTER HIS DEPARTURE FROM V, HE HAD BEEN APPOINTED MINISTER OF FINANCE OF GREECE。
CS:GO, RELEASED IN 2013, IS KNOWN AS THE BULK OF THE SYSTEM。
IN CS:GO, PLAYERS CAN OBTAIN SKIN BY OPENING BOXES AND SYNTHESIS, WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS OF WHITE, BLUE, PURPLE, RED, GOLD, ETC.
Each skin has a degree of wear, which in turn affects the rareness of the skin, which can vary by price
IN ADDITION TO THE SKIN, THERE IS A SEPARATE STICKER SYSTEM, DIVIDED INTO THE ARTIST ' S SIGNATURE, THE TEAM ' S LOGO, AND THE PATTERN OF THE FLORIST, EACH OF WHICH IS DIVIDED INTO DIFFERENT GRADES
In addition to stickers, some skins have unique patterns, “ StatTrak (calculator) ” and a variety of different properties
& hellip; & hellip;
IN SHORT, THE CS SKIN CAN FORM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS, EACH WITH UNIQUE IDS AND EVEN TRACEABLE TRADE RECORDS, SEVERAL VERSIONS OF TODAY ' S NFT。
You see, this thing was born for a deal. As a result, the market around the skin flourished quickly after distribution。
It opened live and became a traffic code for many anchors. Once the hard stuff like a dragon sniper, a butterfly knife, and so forth, there's a collective climax between the anchor and the screen:
In the market, a variety of stories have also begun to emerge, such as the replacement of a house with a knife for four years。
At this stage, however, the story of the rich is limited to the opening of boxes。
AROUND 2020 AND 2021, A LARGE NUMBER OF FIRECRACKERS BEGAN TO ENTER THE GAME, AND CS SKIN BEGAN TO MATCH VIRTUAL COINS, NFTS, AND PRICES SUDDENLY BEGAN TO RISE。
It's no big deal to double it, and it's no surprise to increase it 100 times。
MANY PEOPLE STARTED ADVOCATING THAT THE CS SKIN WAS THE NEXT BITCOIN, AND THAT IT WAS HARD TO MISS:
CS HAS ALSO EVOLVED FROM A COMPETITIVE GAME TO A HUGE FINANCIAL DERIVATIVE PLATFORM. AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL, THE MARKET VALUE OF THE ENTIRE CS SKIN MARKET EXCEEDED $6 BILLION (APPROXIMATELY RMB 43 BILLION)。
The main users active in this market have also become speculators from game players。
Until that crazy Thursday。
THE REASON WHY V-SENSE DESTROYED THE WALL WAS SIMPLE:
THIS IS NOT THE WALL OF THE V SOCIETY ITSELF。
ACCORDING TO THE RULES OF THE V SOCIETY, OFFICIAL TRANSACTIONS ARE NOT ONLY SUBJECT TO A 15 PER CENT FEE, BUT ARE ALSO DIFFICULT TO FOLLOW. SO THE MAIN SOURCE OF THE TRANSACTION IS THE THIRD-PARTY PLATFORM, AND NO MATTER WHAT THE PRICE, V WON'T GET A PENNY。
NOT ONLY ARE THESE PEOPLE NOT TAXING G FAT, THEY DON'T EVEN PLAY GAMES。
Now that the New Deal is coming up, the red skin can be taken to the gold and ordinary players are more motivated to open boxes。
The old low-priced skin, which now sells a little money, can be bought by ordinary players because of the high price of the sky. The liquidity of the official market is also improving。
MARKETS FLUCTUATE, PEOPLE LOSE, BUT G FAT, OR DEALERS, ALWAYS WIN。
Nothing new under the sun
THIS ECONOMIC SYSTEM, DESIGNED BY V, HAS BEEN SUBJECT TO CONSIDERABLE CONTROVERSY。
JUST A MONTH AGO, THE CS COMMUNITY JUST BROKE OUT OF A HORRIFYING PIGBOARD: THE BLACK EGG。
The black egg refers to a unit sticker that was issued during the Stockholm Championship in 2021:
From July to September this year, in just two months, the sticker jumped from $5 to $3,000:
many people are promoting the idea that black eggs will be next; holograms &rdquao。
Since the collapse of the Titan Army in 2014, the price has risen from eight cents at the beginning of the launch to hundreds of thousands of yuan:
All in black eggs。
In practice, however, this skin, though out of print, has a considerable amount of holdings and there is no reason to sell it so expensive。
It is true that after reaching a high of 3,000, the black egg fell to dozens of pieces in two days。
While prices will return to rationality, money will not。
AS AN INVESTMENT, THE CS SKIN HAS SERIOUS CONGENITAL DEFECTS:
THERE'S NO REGULATION IN THIS MARKET. EVERYTHING IS UP TO V
THE MARKET FOR T+7, WHICH BURYS PEOPLE IN YELLOW SOIL WITHOUT PAYING ATTENTION
All products are non-targeting, and there is little foundation for pricing
& hellip; & hellip;
You can say 100 shortcomings, but as long as arbitrage is available, someone will go ahead and follow。
Legion Fortress hats, steam swap cards, Dota2 immortality, V Club games, similar “ tulip ” always repeated。
Of course, G is not & ldquo; the G & rdquo of the people; he designed this dynamic system, full of arbitrage and risk, to take advantage of human weaknesses and gain a lot:
From the construction of the infrastructure for steam wallets to the establishment of community markets, open interfaces to third-party trading platforms, and then control supply with open-box systems, V holds a huge virtual market that interacts directly with the real world。
NOW V IS MORE LIKE A FINANCIAL COMPANY THAN A GAME COMPANY。
So, like all the derivatives of finance, every day here is a story of great wealth and collapse。
There is nothing new under the sun, and whether in the real world or in virtual space, human beings repeat the same melody: the eternal melody of desire and greed。
