Currently, the demand for loot boxes and skins in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive seems to be huge. Trade in digital items is booming, but where is the great interest coming from?
What are the CS:GO cases all about? In CS:GO, many players trade cosmetic weapon skins on digital marketplaces, which can be obtained through so-called cases, i.e. loot boxes. Some of the items are so coveted that they are sold for extremely high sums.
The market for CS:GO cases is currently booming. According to several analysis websites, the demand for loot boxes seems to be exploding.
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Interest in skins in CS:GO seems to be huge right now
According to the analysis website CS:GO Case Tracker, around 39.5 million loot boxes were opened in March 2023. That’s more than all the months since the site has existed (January 2022).
Especially in contrast to February 2023, where there were “only” 27.7 million opened cases, the number increased by more than 10 million copies in the following month.
Dotesport.com speaks of over $100 million USD that players are said to have put into opening loot boxes within these 30 days. However, we have not yet been able to confirm this number using the analysis websites.
The marketplaces where the skins and cases are traded by the players are also being regularly visited. If you take a look at the analyzes of Steam’s CS:GO marketplace on CSGO-Skins.gg, you can see an increasing interest here as well.
But not only the markets around CS:GO are in high demand right now. The game itself also recently broke its own player record.
The graph on SteamDB shows the highest peak of players in CS:GO on March 16, 2023, with a total of 1,519,457 people (as of April 17, 2023).
How does the rush for the CS:GO loot boxes come about? The hype around CS:GO and the skins was probably also fueled by the big upcoming update of Counter-Strike 2.
Especially since Valve already announced on the Counter-Strike 2 official website that players’ inventories will remain and all items from CS:GO will also be carried over into the update.
Because the number of players in CS:GO is currently higher than ever before, this of course also has an effect on the skin trade. A larger player base potentially means more people opening loot boxes and trading skins.
Here you will find all the important information about Counter-Strike 2: Counter-Strike 2: Release, Beta and changes to the successor to CS:GO