Confused about skins conditions

[Fuzen]

So, i haven't played since like a month after release, so this "skin" thing really has me confused. Why is there a quality to the skins? I mean, they're digital skins, they can't deteriorate...or did the developers *ACTUALLY* ♥♥♥♥ing waste time make different versions of the skins to look worse the more you use them? Because if so, that's literally just about the scummiest thing i've ever heard a developer do.

Like, that would be beyond realism, that's just you trying to profit off of your players so much that it's actually disgusting....

Also, if it really is the way i described it, how do they deteriorate? Is it the more you shoot them, or is it just a little bit every game you take them with you?

Jesus, i actually heard they had cleaned up the game of all the scummy bs so i was looking into playing again, but i guess not...

[0ptimistPrime (the Gray)]

Weapon skins don't deteriorate. But the skins do look more and more scratched/worn as the quality decreases.
Some people prefer the crisp clean look of Mint-Condition skins, while others really enjoy the scratched-up, worn-in look of the lower qualities.

As to why they did it, chances are that when OVK expressed interest in adding skins as Steam Inventory, Valve said, "Just make them like we make them in [insert microtransaction game here]." So they did

The qualities, from cleanest to most scratched up, go:
Mint-Condition
Lightly-Marked
Broken-In
Well-Used
Battle-Worn

You can use PD2Stash to view each weapon skin and what they look like with each condition, if you'd like.
https://pd2stash.com/

EDIT:
I had BW/WU swapped. Fixed it.

[King Saxicolous]

The skins don't deteriorate over time. If you have played CS:GO, then the way skins work will be familiar. They come with one of five qualities, and it will remain that quality.

Also the initial reason behind the skins has never officially been revealed, so saying it is just to profit off players is you blindly accusing them. And if they really wanted to profit off players, would they have removed the drills from the game? Or made all the dlc apart of a much cheaper bundle?

[Milk]

Originally posted by King Saxicolous:

The skins don't deteriorate over time. If you have played CS:GO, then the way skins work will be familiar. They come with one of five qualities, and it will remain that quality.

Also the initial reason behind the skins has never officially been revealed, so saying it is just to profit off players is you blindly accusing them. And if they really wanted to profit off players, would they have removed the drills from the game? Or made all the dlc apart of a much cheaper bundle?

They did that because of massive backlash, not out of the goodness of their hearts.

[King Saxicolous]

Originally posted by Angry Floof:

Originally posted by King Saxicolous:

The skins don't deteriorate over time. If you have played CS:GO, then the way skins work will be familiar. They come with one of five qualities, and it will remain that quality.

Also the initial reason behind the skins has never officially been revealed, so saying it is just to profit off players is you blindly accusing them. And if they really wanted to profit off players, would they have removed the drills from the game? Or made all the dlc apart of a much cheaper bundle?

They did that because of massive backlash, not out of the goodness of their hearts.

And they chose to do it right at the time that the publishing rights were removed by coincidence? You can't go throwing accusations without knowing the full story beforehand. Nobody except Overkill and Starbreeze know the full story and we may never know it, because there isn't a reason to know.

[Fuzen]

Originally posted by King Saxicolous:

The skins don't deteriorate over time. If you have played CS:GO, then the way skins work will be familiar. They come with one of five qualities, and it will remain that quality.

I've never played CS, but i think i get it? So if i were to buy a Mint-Condition skin, it will be Mint-Condition forever, it will never become Lightly-Marked or worse, right? If so, i'm okay with that, that's fine. And i said it's scummy because i thought skins would deteriorate overtime, don't tell me *you* don''t think it would be a sh itty thing to do. Spending money on crates to get a cool skin and then it ends up being garbage because you used it too much, i mean come on.

But if it's like you said, then all is good with the world, i have no gripe with them, thanks for clearing this up. Besides, like Optimist Primes said, it's probably either Valve or whoever the publisher is that made them do this whole Skins thing.

[King Saxicolous]

Originally posted by Fuzen:

Originally posted by King Saxicolous:

The skins don't deteriorate over time. If you have played CS:GO, then the way skins work will be familiar. They come with one of five qualities, and it will remain that quality.

I've never played CS, but i think i get it? So if i were to buy a Mint-Condition skin, it will be Mint-Condition forever, it will never become Lightly-Marked or worse, right? If so, i'm okay with that, that's fine. And i said it's scummy because i thought skins would deteriorate overtime, don't tell me *you* don''t think it would be a sh itty thing to do. Spending money on crates to get a cool skin and then it ends up being garbage because you used it too much, i mean come on.

But if it's like you said, then all is good with the world, i have no gripe with them, thanks for clearing this up. Besides, like Optimist Primes said, it's probably either Valve or whoever the publisher is that made them do this whole Skins thing.

Correct, skins will never get worse, and will remain in whatever quality that you obtain them in. I also don't really care about skins detereorating as I'm not a big fan of a majority of the skins, and I persoanlly find the ones with marks in them a lot nicer looking a majority of the time (exceptions are the single color skins, ie Royal Blue for the CAR-4). I can see why people say it's scummy, but nobody is making you buy the skins, so if they were to deteriorate (which would be realistic) it would be the buyers fault for spending money on opening things, or buying the skins.