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Heads up to those who played CS:GO years ago and like money. I was a pretty active player from 2012 to 2014. Back then I got dozens of crates that I didn't ope

Heads up to those who played CS:GO years ago and like money. I was a pretty active player from 2012 to 2014. Back then I got dozens of crates that I didn't open, now worth as high as 31$CAD each. I looked it up last week and it's worth over a thousand dollars in Steam. I cashed in on almost half of it and now I have some cash to buy games for my family and friends.

number6 1y ago
That's already over ten years ago... Wow CS:GO is still the new CS for me, that never catched on and everybody played 1.6
- simlevesque 1y ago
  It's a new game now, CS2. CS:GO isn't accessible anymore. But the loot carried on to the new game.
  - piperswe 1y ago
    You can still access CS:GO, by selecting the "csgo_legacy" beta on CS2
    - zaptrem 1y ago
      Are there still servers running games? Not that it's really necessary since CS2 is basically CSGO with better smoke effects/lighting.
      - davet91 1y ago
        There are community servers, official matchmaking was killed off.
- emsixteen 1y ago
  Source was the game that never really grabbed the 1.6 playerbase, moreso than 1.6.
johng 1y ago
Where would I check to see if I have any of these crates?
- richwater 1y ago
  Go to your Steam inventory and look for Crates.
me_online 1y ago
I did this too! A few hundred dollars in my steam wallet now. Wonder how that compares to the money I would've made/lost by opening all of them.
jjcm 1y ago
Likewise for Dota 2 players. Some of those old / early cosmetics have shot up in price. A friend of mine I used to play with had a $500 item. Getting rid of them may fund your game purchases for a bit. There are plenty of sites out there that can give you a value of your inventory. Just make sure your privacy settings for your inventory are set to "public": https://steamcommunity.com/my/edit/settings https://steamcommunity.com/my/edit/settings (though I'd recommend changing it back to private after you use one of the tools, since scammers will try and target you if you have public high value items).
- DaiPlusPlus 1y ago
  > Some of those old / early cosmetics have shot up in price "Back in my day" you brought your own skins, maps, and mods to your clan's Quake 2 server and they'd be automatically copied-into other players' q2base profile directories when they connected: free and fast. Making skins in a cracked copy of Photoshop 5.5 or PaintShopPro (don't forget to save to PCX!) was trivial and because nothing really mattered no-one could possibly get angry at anything. ...but now you're telling me that if I want to add custom skins to CounterStrike I have to pay other people hugely inflated sums for the privilege of something that was still free and open to all only yesteryear? And we're surprised at how toxic the "gamer" community has become over the past 15 years since tradable lootboxes, cosmetics, and microtransactions became the norm?
evilkorn 1y ago
Made $350 selling all my crates when csgo 2 came out
echelon_musk 1y ago
Did this a few years ago and made close to $350. However, if I reflect on how much time I spent in the game in order to receive that much money it's laughable as it was easily 2 thousand hours of game play. I have two tips: Sell hardware and then you can get real cash. For example, use the Steam Wallet balance to buy Steam Deck Docks which you ship directly from Steam to your customer on eBay. Secondly, use Steam Economy Enhancer.
- shoo 1y ago
  > However, if I reflect on how much time I spent in the game in order to receive that much money it's laughable as it was easily 2 thousand hours of game play. but, you weren't playing the game as a job to make money, you were playing to have fun (hopefully?) so arguably the extra surprise money is a bonus. for me, playing a game in order to make real world money would turn it into an awful grind and sap all the joy out of it
- antonymoose 1y ago
  Personally, I used my Steam Wallet money to purchase several of the most popular skins on a third-party site and resold them there. I probably took about a 15% hit but who can complain for $400 in profit?
Gunax 1y ago
I have some old crates, including the oroginal 'Weapons crate'. But looking at the steam store, it's only worth about $100 usd. Is there a more valuable one?
- skeaker 1y ago
  If your inventory is set to public you can calculate its value with a third party tool like backpack.tf.
hotgeart 1y ago
Same for TF2. I got like ~300€
koakuma-chan 1y ago
We're in a bubble.
- simlevesque 1y ago
  Oh, absolutely!
_carbyau_ 1y ago
Coming from UT/CS and a bunch of other games where skins were simple mods I hate that skins cost so much real world money and so I refuse to spend a cent in protest. Game with cool mechanics and a universe to play it in, that is worth $$$. Making your shirt green is not worth $... it is worth a colour-wheel implementation.
Workaccount2 1y ago
I had a M4 skin that was a rare skin back in 2014. I traded it for a knife back then. The skin is worth over $2k now, oh well.

number6 1y ago

That's already over ten years ago... Wow CS:GO is still the new CS for me, that never catched on and everybody played 1.6

simlevesque 1y ago
It's a new game now, CS2. CS:GO isn't accessible anymore. But the loot carried on to the new game.
- piperswe 1y ago
  You can still access CS:GO, by selecting the "csgo_legacy" beta on CS2
  - zaptrem 1y ago
    Are there still servers running games? Not that it's really necessary since CS2 is basically CSGO with better smoke effects/lighting.
    - davet91 1y ago
      There are community servers, official matchmaking was killed off.
emsixteen 1y ago
Source was the game that never really grabbed the 1.6 playerbase, moreso than 1.6.

johng 1y ago

Where would I check to see if I have any of these crates?

richwater 1y ago
Go to your Steam inventory and look for Crates.

me_online 1y ago

I did this too! A few hundred dollars in my steam wallet now. Wonder how that compares to the money I would've made/lost by opening all of them.

jjcm 1y ago

Likewise for Dota 2 players. Some of those old / early cosmetics have shot up in price. A friend of mine I used to play with had a $500 item. Getting rid of them may fund your game purchases for a bit. There are plenty of sites out there that can give you a value of your inventory. Just make sure your privacy settings for your inventory are set to "public": https://steamcommunity.com/my/edit/settings https://steamcommunity.com/my/edit/settings (though I'd recommend changing it back to private after you use one of the tools, since scammers will try and target you if you have public high value items).

DaiPlusPlus 1y ago
> Some of those old / early cosmetics have shot up in price "Back in my day" you brought your own skins, maps, and mods to your clan's Quake 2 server and they'd be automatically copied-into other players' q2base profile directories when they connected: free and fast. Making skins in a cracked copy of Photoshop 5.5 or PaintShopPro (don't forget to save to PCX!) was trivial and because nothing really mattered no-one could possibly get angry at anything. ...but now you're telling me that if I want to add custom skins to CounterStrike I have to pay other people hugely inflated sums for the privilege of something that was still free and open to all only yesteryear? And we're surprised at how toxic the "gamer" community has become over the past 15 years since tradable lootboxes, cosmetics, and microtransactions became the norm?

evilkorn 1y ago

Made $350 selling all my crates when csgo 2 came out

echelon_musk 1y ago

Did this a few years ago and made close to $350. However, if I reflect on how much time I spent in the game in order to receive that much money it's laughable as it was easily 2 thousand hours of game play. I have two tips: Sell hardware and then you can get real cash. For example, use the Steam Wallet balance to buy Steam Deck Docks which you ship directly from Steam to your customer on eBay. Secondly, use Steam Economy Enhancer.

shoo 1y ago
> However, if I reflect on how much time I spent in the game in order to receive that much money it's laughable as it was easily 2 thousand hours of game play. but, you weren't playing the game as a job to make money, you were playing to have fun (hopefully?) so arguably the extra surprise money is a bonus. for me, playing a game in order to make real world money would turn it into an awful grind and sap all the joy out of it
antonymoose 1y ago
Personally, I used my Steam Wallet money to purchase several of the most popular skins on a third-party site and resold them there. I probably took about a 15% hit but who can complain for $400 in profit?

Gunax 1y ago

I have some old crates, including the oroginal 'Weapons crate'. But looking at the steam store, it's only worth about $100 usd. Is there a more valuable one?

skeaker 1y ago
If your inventory is set to public you can calculate its value with a third party tool like backpack.tf.

hotgeart 1y ago

Same for TF2. I got like ~300€

koakuma-chan 1y ago

We're in a bubble.

simlevesque 1y ago
Oh, absolutely!

_carbyau_ 1y ago

Coming from UT/CS and a bunch of other games where skins were simple mods I hate that skins cost so much real world money and so I refuse to spend a cent in protest. Game with cool mechanics and a universe to play it in, that is worth $$$. Making your shirt green is not worth $... it is worth a colour-wheel implementation.

Workaccount2 1y ago

I had a M4 skin that was a rare skin back in 2014. I traded it for a knife back then. The skin is worth over $2k now, oh well.