Future of skin prices?

[tyaga]

Do you guys think skins are currently overpriced due to hype and will drop slightly again?
Or stay where they are now and only keep going up as CS2 releases?

Asking because I want to invest big into the game and debating whether I should start now or wait

[SL4D3G]

might slightly lower during major but most likely will continue to go up. all you need to know is you gotta stomach the loss short term, beacuse if u look at any graph on almost every skin eventually it goes up. i would invest into cases tho. stickers are oversupplied tbh and skins is always a gamble, some take way too much time to profit

[Jo.]

I don't think CS 2 will do well because is 95% CS GO ...

[McFlyte]

Bud... If that was easy to answer, everyone would be millionaires....

[HaŦŦrick ✓ 🛠 🗽]

Originally posted by Jo.:

I don't think CS 2 will do well because is 95% CS GO ...

that makes no sense. csgo was doing great even before CS2 beta was released

[Irene ❤]

Valve did throw in a statement "benefit from Source 2 lighting and materials" so the current case skins and a few old skins have skyrocketed. The best is to try it out if you have beta access.

[tyaga]

Originally posted by SL4D3G:

might slightly lower during major but most likely will continue to go up. all you need to know is you gotta stomach the loss short term, beacuse if u look at any graph on almost every skin eventually it goes up. i would invest into cases tho. stickers are oversupplied tbh and skins is always a gamble, some take way too much time to profit

My plan was to invest big into cases and stickers. Those are big for profit.
But also maybe dopplers and fades, howevery they doubled in price since cs2 announcement like

Originally posted by Irene ❤:

"benefit from Source 2 lighting and materials"

mentioned.
I wonder if they might drop in price a bit in the following months as their current price was driven a lot by FOMO and investors etc

[caipi]

Originally posted by klinski:

Originally posted by SL4D3G:

might slightly lower during major but most likely will continue to go up. all you need to know is you gotta stomach the loss short term, beacuse if u look at any graph on almost every skin eventually it goes up. i would invest into cases tho. stickers are oversupplied tbh and skins is always a gamble, some take way too much time to profit

My plan was to invest big into cases and stickers. Those are big for profit.
But also maybe dopplers and fades, howevery they doubled in price since cs2 announcement like

Originally posted by Irene ❤:

"benefit from Source 2 lighting and materials"

mentioned.
I wonder if they might drop in price a bit in the following months as their current price was driven a lot by FOMO and investors etc

Anything is possible, no one can predict what will happen. The probability that with CS2 even more players will play CS is relatively high. And then, I think, prices will rise even more.

[KM]

Ofc, people came back cause of the CS2, And when CS2 comes out they will go up again. Then it will settle a few month's after.

[tyaga]

Originally posted by An@n'Z:

Ofc, people came back cause of the CS2, And when CS2 comes out they will go up again. Then it will settle a few month's after.

settle or go down slightly?

Also I think that the first operation or case in cs2 will be in very high demand cuz its the first official skins with new gun models

[SL4D3G]

i think fades and dopplers are only gonna drop if they get their looks nerfed

[Einheri]

Originally posted by klinski:

Originally posted by SL4D3G:

might slightly lower during major but most likely will continue to go up. all you need to know is you gotta stomach the loss short term, beacuse if u look at any graph on almost every skin eventually it goes up. i would invest into cases tho. stickers are oversupplied tbh and skins is always a gamble, some take way too much time to profit

My plan was to invest big into cases and stickers. Those are big for profit.
But also maybe dopplers and fades, howevery they doubled in price since cs2 announcement like

Originally posted by Irene ❤:

"benefit from Source 2 lighting and materials"

mentioned.
I wonder if they might drop in price a bit in the following months as their current price was driven a lot by FOMO and investors etc

The prices haven risen because the playercount increased due to the announcement of cs2. 1.4 million people playing, while it was around 800k prior to that. More people are buying skins, therefore the prices rise. There weren't enough cases opened to compensate the bullish trend. (Market value rising) Very recently there was somehow a market correction, since the value decreased. That's probably because 1.4 million players is more or less the maximum amount of players playing this game. Playercount isn't rising anymore, cases got opened, therefore the correction. Since people are noticing (like you) that the market value increased there are probably people "investing" in skins to make money. Therefore i would assume that the prices are going to rise for some time, slowly though, with some corrections. Maybe the cs2 release attracts some more people as well therefore rising market value. People "investing" to make money doesn't reflect the "real" market value either, since these are people not interested in the skin but the money they can make. They are going to sell anyway once the trend is over. The time to make big money is most likely over. I think the prices are more or less at an high, since the playercount probably peaked. I doubt btw. that inventmentgroups are interested in the csgo market, because they can make way more money trading at the regular stock market. "Investor" in csgo terms are people that can invest 50 or 100k in skins, which is a lot for regular people but not for investment groups.
Once the game has been out for some time the prices are probably going to drop, since people are leaving the game playing something else and selling their skins.
If you want my long term prediction: Nothing is going to happen. Prices are going to be the same more or less like they were before the announcement once the hype is over and players are leaving. There is no way to short skins (betting on dropping prices), so if your intention is to make money you better sell before players are leaving again.
If the federal bank changes the interest rate, there is a lot of market movement. That's big news for the stock market and a lot of trades happen because of that. Just for a short period of time though. It's the same with valve, since they are basically the central bank for skins determining the interest rate in various ways.

This is no trading advise and haven't traded a single skin in my life, because i think it's retarded. I'm not familiar with fancy patterns on weapons either, so don't take this as a concrete analysis either. Take it as an educated guess or something.

[Zerguet ⇄ trading 500 knives]

to the moon 📈📈

[Einheri]

Originally posted by zerguet ⇄ trading 350 knives:

to the moon 📈📈

With an inventory like that, i hope that you know what you are doing...

[HaŦŦrick ✓ 🛠 🗽]

Originally posted by Lennart Bedrager:

Originally posted by zerguet ⇄ trading 350 knives:

to the moon 📈📈

With an inventory like that, i hope that you know what you are doing... :Diving:

pretty sure that dude already pulled the W card.

[Numide 💎]

I sold 400euros worth of knives and gloves in 2021 now theyre worth €1k i have depression now