Why do we have to pay to open cases?

[w0S]

You have cosmetic items and we have to pay to open cases just like Dota. Really? We paid for the game, and it's widely accepted that you pay to open a case. But cmon, we spent 15 bucks on the game, why do we need to fork out more? Sure, have this poop in FTP games so you can make money, but you already got millions of CS:GO purchases.

Edit: I'm not saying you should get a case and immediately be able to open it for free, but maybe you should get 1 random key drop a week. Seems fair to me.

[Busta]

you dont need to spend another cent, cosmetic items are exactly that, cosmetic

[僕の名前 (仮)]

Why do people think game should be free, just because there are cosmetic items?

In my opinion F2P is a bad business model. Bad for players, not for company.

If they will make CS:GO f2p, they would have to increase price for keys to compensate that.

And then hackers on smurf accounts will ruin the game. There are already 1M+ people who own CS:GO. Don't make game worse for 1M+

F2P only exists because otherwise there wouldn't enough players in it. There a lot of players in CSGO and it will not benefit of having more.

"Having to pay for skins" is compensated by free drops. If they make game free then they would stop making souvenir drops for DreamHack.

[w0S]

Originally posted by SomeGuy:

Why do people think game should be free, just because there are cosmetic items?

In my opinion F2P is a bad business model. Bad for players, not for company.

I'm not necessarily saying the only option is FTP, but let us open the cases for free. volvo pls fix

[Dwane Dibbley]

In this case free=full of hackers

[Skillica]

No, no it shouldn't.

[Don Solo]

You have to pay for the game pay for the map packs that only last a few months pay to get the drops ect this game isn't going free anytime soon

[Lucas]

Skins doesn't effect the way you play games. You treat cases/skins as if it gives you +100 dmg in game.

[Hank Drill]

the game has an economy of its own and its a sucsesfull one at that. Why in the hell would they change thier model?

[Skillica]

^True

[oglisaintpro]

u think u can just pay 15$ for the game and got a case drop, open it and found a 600$ knife ? everything need $

[Trämp]

Kappa

[Hank Drill]

if you could open cases for free then knives wouldnt cost 600 dollars, they would be mabey 50 dollars max and it would just lower the price of everything on the market in acordence to csgo and the cases would be more expensive

[Seven]

Originally posted by Dr. Steve Brule:

if you could open cases for free then knives wouldnt cost 600 dollars, they would be mabey 50 dollars max and it would just lower the price of everything on the market in acordence to csgo and the cases would be more expensive

Half the answers were already about how turning CS:GO into a F2P would be bad, so thanks for answering to this one, I almost lost my sanity.

Originally posted by ImSoAw3some:

You have cosmetic items and we have to pay to open cases just like Dota. Really? We paid for the game, and it's widely accepted that you pay to open a case. But cmon, we spent 15 bucks on the game, why do we need to fork out more? Sure, have this poop in FTP games so you can make money, but you already got millions of CS:GO purchases.

The real question here is : why not ?
Valve is not a charity. If there are people ready to spend real money on virtual items [demand], Valve will sell them [supply].

[Hank Drill]

lol no problem

[Lord Farquad]

Well this is Steam.
Steam is way more different from other consoles since the user-generated content is actually put in games and since CSGO has the most user-generated content, people wants to by that shizz.

They get that shizz from casezz