Gallery cases ever be discontinued?

[SnowStrmツ]

Will the Gallery Case ever be replaced and discontinued?

Something I've been thinking about is to get armory passes and take out gallery cases to maybe keep them in case they maybe get discontinued and sometime in the future rise in price just like all operation cases

What will happen to them?

[Møghunden]

Skin prices are very low, would not assume value will go up for many years

[n3kt0]

Нет. Кейсы же с других операцию не исключили? Значит и здесь рано галерейный кейс оставят тоже

[grOggy style⸻]

there are a few options here:
Gallery cases will randomly be given a limited status and a deadline like the deagle at which point people will farm them into oblivion
Gallery cases will randomly be taken off of the armory pass and replaced with something else
Gallery cases will stay in the armory pass forever until valve discontinues loot boxes or shuts down cs2.

Only option 2 is remotely profitable if you're planning to invest now. I personally have invested in some gallary cases but I don't expect to make profit on them.

Reasons they may not get discontinued:
It's too profitable for valve
Valve wants to solve the problems with case supply (the anubis package was unsuccessful in doing so)
Valve didn't give it limited status like they did the deagle which means it might not ever be discontinued
Valve may want the armory store to operate a similar way to the item store where things don't get taken off of it and consumers get more options

Reasons they might get discontinued:
Valve may want to replace the contents of the armory pass at regular intervals
The armory pass may get too cluttered with enough updates so they decide to cut some content
The armory pass is abandoned and valve can't be bothered to maintain it, so refund people with active ones and close it down (they did this with the premium stats in csgo)

It's explicitly mentioned that the passes don't expire so they're likely here to stay. It's a very risky investment to make but it's a classic case of "valve works in mysterious ways" that will either leave you burned (like with the enfu sticker capusle/ M4A4 Griffin / RMR), or in profit.

[grOggy style⸻]

Originally posted by Møghunden:

Skin prices are very low, would not assume value will go up for many years

this isn't necessarily true. when a case is discontinued they immediately rise in price, from there on supply decreases as they get opened and they continue to rise in value. We can see this happen with every operation so far.

I genuinely believe that in the unlikely event that these cases were to be discontinued without warning, they'd shoot up in value to at least 5x within a few years.