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[poodaddy]

One day he can tell his grandkids about the tacky pretend fun time rifle he bought for six figures on his vidja game back in the good ole days.

And they'll say "Grandpa, you have to be the dumbest bastard that has ever lived."

 

[Schmendrick]

How retarded do you have to be to think dropping $160k on a video game skin is a good idea?

Wrong question. The real one would be:
How rich do you have to be to not mind dropping $160k on a video game skin?

 

[RoboFu]

There are alot of issues with nfts. There is all the nft farmers that will pop up like gold farms in wow. It will completely break any meaning or direction that was intended. Then you will have shady practices like “ first 100 people to preorder will get a nft!”
It would break the industry for sure.

 

[Lasha]

I thought the money went into your steam wallet? I sold a pubg twitch drop for £60 but had no way of taking it out lol

You can sell on third party sites for hard currency. The prices are lower than steam market but the money is real

 

[Mephisto40]

Just find the whole pricing of this stuff bizarre

Stickers for $40,000? why?

If these were handed out the winning of tournaments and you just buy them then what is the point? nobody cares about a skin you paid money for

Does this guy genuinely just spend the entire game inspecting his gun and whacking the plank or something?

 

[Bo_Hazem]

 

[CuteFaceJay]

Damn the person must be a baller if $160k is nothing to drop it on a skin.

As for long term value - it’ll depend if CSGO remains popular 20 years from now and valve doesn’t eventually give these out for cheap/make it easily attainable. If this all comes to pass, then value will go up and may look like a good purchase.

it's pretty much "fuck you" money.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

How do people even get these things? Win them in game or something?

indeed, Like in TCG events they will normally hand out prize cards to the winners. those prize cards then baloon in value.

 

[Mephisto40]

Wrong question. The real one would be:
How rich do you have to be to not mind dropping $160k on a video game skin?

I can pretty much guarantee it's been bought via the bank of mom and dad

 

[DemonGamerTTT]

Well you need 160k to start
So at least someone you know is not that retarded.

Wrong.

Having money on contrary of what people's think has no direct correlation with being intelligent.

The greatest factor is head start( inheritance of some sort or luck), money makes money and is way easier to keep making when you're rich than increasing money making working 9-5.

So yeah you could be very much retarded and buy jpgs on the internet and also be Rich.

 

[Torrent of Pork]

How retarded do you have to be to think dropping $160k on a video game skin is a good idea?

The guy is trying to get his money out of China, even if he takes a 50% haircut he's still ahead of leaving it in yuan.

 

[rodrigolfp]

How retarded do you have to be to think dropping $0,01+ on a video game skin is a good idea?

Ftfy.

 

[NickFire]

Always figured I counted as a whale in a couple of games. I'm just a tiny minnow after all.

 

[01011001]

This is Dr. Disrespect's reference point for his nft game.

this goes against the very concept of having NFTs in games tho.
because it shows quite well that NFTs aren't even remotely needed to have an economy in a game like the one he talked about in his tweets.

this shows that a classic, simple, account based service can offer all the things a Blockchain based game can.
and on top of that it's way more safe against hacking attacks as all the devs would need to do is restore to an older state and everything is back to normal again. there's no NFT that can be stolen from you, since the devs can just give you your stuff back should anyone do something illegal with it.

 

[EsotericManiac]

This is a lot of money. People can become millionaires on CS Go. You can make a lot of money if you know the game and how to use your brain. Moreover, have you seen a new Ak 47 skin that is worth 1 million? This is wild. If you don't trust it, check out this for yourself: https://skincashier.com/blog/ak-47-case-hardened.