“That’s so much money”

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In Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, individual skins are extremely valuable. There is a brisk trade in skins on Steam: On September 16th, a member of the community noticed that a collector with one of the most valuable inventories on CS:GO contained a “game ban”. This causes concern – but not for the banned player, but for others.

Why is the account so extremely valuable?

  • Player “Seacat”‘s Steam account has some of the rarest skins in CS:GO ever combined on his account. A skin in CS:GO is as good as cash – there is a lot of betting and trading going on around skins.
  • The account was valued at around $4.7 million by an expert in July.
  • The account is private, but a TikTok video drew attention to the Steam account 11 days ago. It was said to be the “most valuable inventory in CS:GO”: Half a million US dollars are worth the unused stickers alone, the AKs in the collection are even worth 1.3 million US dollars.

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    This sparked the discussion: Since this morning there has been a discussion on Twitter that the player with the insanely valuable inventory has received a “game ban” on Steam.

    The ban does not have to be related to CS:GO, but can have occurred in any game.

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    Why is this such a heated discussion? The account is so valuable that a ban hurts the hearts of many CS:GO players. Twitter users write:

  • “Oh god, there’s so much money at stake. […] All of those unique skins would have disappeared into the void forever.”
  • “OMFG there is so much money – and all these beautiful items – shit.”

    • In addition, it would also affect the market if all these items were to disappear: Because that would reduce the supply of certain skins in the long term. The remaining copies would increase in value.

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    “Rip Cheaterino”

    What could be behind the ban? There is no statement from the player or official information. Speculations fall into this vacuum:

    Some suspect that the TikTok video could have led to the ban because many now became aware of the “rich collector” and reported the account.

    A ban wave is going around in CS:GO (via twitter). Apparently a private cheat was discovered that had been circulating undetected in CS:GO for years.

    Therefore, some now suspect that the user Seacat used this cheat and has now been caught and banned:

    That’s why many users write something like “RIP Cheaterino” under the Steam account – they assume the collector was caught by a wave of bans in CS:GO.

    But many cannot imagine how someone with such a valuable inventory could risk their fortune.

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    Are the skins really gone? This is not known at the moment.

    It could also be that the ban is harmless and has no effect on CS:GO. Another skin dealer writes: He can confirm that the ban is for another game. So there would be no crisis.

    However, this statement is also not proven (via twitter).

    When your Steam account is so valuable that others worry

    This is behind it: In February 2022, Valve banned the largest skin collector in CS:GO in China, “QKSS”. However, that was a Vac ban: it lost $2 million worth of skins.

    The QKSS ban was a big deal back then – the Seacat case could be even bigger and would have impacted the market. A user says: About a third of the market for Kato/CH could simply have disappeared here.

    It’s definitely interesting when you have such a valuable account on Steam that other users get worried when you get banned:

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