With the announcement of the "Origin 2" engine, CS:GO has reached a record high of 1.5 million online users, and the new players who helped it exceed 1.5 million online at the same time are not necessarily for the CS:GO game itself.
CS:GO2, represented by the "Origin 2" engine, will optimize the game's map, props, matchmaking, performance, and most importantly - "picture optimization", new lighting and shadow effects, causing changes in the appearance of CS:GO accessories, and the monstrous wave of the jewelry market.
The constant influx of new players, as well as long-time veterans of the game, are rushing into the money-making CS:GO trinket market.
The jewelry market is in full swing
Mobile Game Matrix has written about some strange things about the "CS:GO" market before, such as its prosperity and relative stability, its deception, and its dark side of trading.
Especially after the emergence of the jewelry rental platform in the past two years, the market of "CS:GO" has basically risen steadily, and it is not an exaggeration to enter the sentence that entry is to earn, which has also led to more and more merchants who do not play games but only play the market in the past two years, which has muddied the waters of the "CS:GO" market.
And the jewelry market, which has been restless, has been completely crazy with the recent "Origin 2" news and the appearance of real pictures.
A series of gemstone knives that soared as the light efficiency improved
First of all, there is a game market and can make money through the game market, not only the game "CS:GO", but almost all the financial management, and the market size and stability of such a high market, "CS:GO" is indeed unique.
In particular, the word "picking up money everywhere" has not been exaggerated in the "CS:GO" market in recent months, in the words of the old brother Tieba that is, "buy pigs to enter, you can earn hemp!" ”。
Take the recent typical skyrocketing case, the "MOUZ" team its 2021 Stockholm holographic print, in January 2022, its market price was still at 6 yuan a piece, and after the "Origin 2" news came out, the price rose all the way, the highest rose to 857 yuan, and it is still stable at more than 700 yuan, more than a hundred times.
Others, whether it is thousands of large pieces, or a few cents and dozens of small pieces, are all in the skyrocket, especially in the actual machine display, the appearance effect of the improved jewelry, its market will immediately react.
There has even been a wave of detectives with distinctive pants and shoes in the game because players can see the characters' legs and feet in the game after the "Origin 2" engine update.
Last year, the total increase of jewelry did not exceed 300, and the jewelry that soared by 5,000 in a few days after the announcement of "Origin 2" became 1,000, and even on tens of thousands of large accessories, there was a situation of an instant increase of 10,000 overnight. "The price jumps up in the blink of an eye" is not an exaggeration.
Even in inappropriate but realistic words - "Seeing the various news from CS:GO, the first time is not to see the official to determine the authenticity, the market can give you more answers".
For example, Apex, the conductor of the well-known CS:GO team Vitality, was complained by players for his poor performance in recent games, and even the news that he was retiring, after the news reached China, the first reaction of players who were enthusiastic about the market was to look at Buff (the most well-known jewelry trading platform in China), and through the price trend of the player's sticker on the buff, the truth of the news was determined.
It can be said that before March, as long as players with related accessories in their hands, in this market frenzy, do not need to resell jewelry, can make a lot of money. And if you stock up on related accessories last year, or start to increase your position after the news of "Origin 2" came out, it will be even more profitable.
In the self-reports of a large number of ordinary players with little principal, doubling the principal in a month or earning tens of thousands a month is considered late or timid. And if the principal is large or there is a habit of hoarding goods early, it is not uncommon for 60,000 to directly change to 180,000, which is not the batch that has earned the most, let alone the real big businessmen and uncles in the game.
The bull market of "making money everywhere" has driven players crazy, and has also attracted a large number of new people who want to "pick up money", and the big businessmen who are mixed in it have also begun a series of operations.
Increase your position! Open a position! Pull it all up!
Compared with ordinary players who operate according to the rhythm of the market, big businessmen are obviously more premeditated, and the rise of many jewelry has the operation of big businessmen behind it to a certain extent.
At the same time, the various dumping and "guidance" groups of "CS:GO" have also been extremely active recently, and many well-known businessmen and uncles are calling the shots in the group, which is called to take everyone to make money together, and command the players in the group how to stock up, what to stock, how to get out, how to increase positions and open positions, and when to pull the price of accessories.
Major community platforms have also begun to appear all kinds of analysis stickers for sharing money-making experience, and then allowing players to join the group to make money together or the jewelry market. Among them, there are many old brothers who analyze the head, there are also people who catch the wind to fish in troubled waters, and even black-hearted businessmen who want to pull players who don't know much to enter the field as leek harvesters.
Therefore, in such a chaotic situation, players are more and more cautious about all kinds of analysis stickers, and even when writing analysis stickers, there are high requirements for relevant financial and trade qualifications, and various market-related memes have appeared.
Collection quotes of some playing memes
Even if the jewelry market has recently ushered in a retreat, the reasons behind it are varied, some say that the rise is too high for retail investors to take advantage of the high point to pull down the price; It is said that the rise itself is an inflated price, which is a normal fall; It is said that this is a conspiracy of big businessmen, public opinion is about to collapse, shipments pull down prices, and then buy at low prices from players who ship from the crowd, and continue to fiercely increase positions and build positions.
In any case, the current CS:GO still presents a crazy phenomenon, the old big merchants have not yet exited, and the new people who want to enter are also pinching the funds and waiting for the right time to enter. In the face of huge profits and the recent bull market, everyone has killed red eyes one by one, what can make money by buying, what accessories can burn, seems to have become the only thing that a large number of players pay attention to.
Although there are many ridicule elements on the map, it is also the current situation of a large number of players
In fact, the jewelry market of "CS:GO" today reminds me of the exaggeration of the Japanese bubble economy, and the madness of Bitcoin, compared to these two cases, the "CS:GO" market is much smaller, but the same is its increasingly outrageous increase, and money is more and more just a digital sense of déjà vu.
Some people shout that as soon as "Origin 2" comes out, "CS:GO" will continue to be popular for at least a few more years, and the accessories will rise sharply, and they will continue to increase their positions fiercely; There are also people who shout "everything is so expensive, in the end no one plays with accessories, laugh and watch the market crash"; There are also new players who want to enter and ask everywhere how to enter and buy what will go up...
No one can say if and when the CS:GO market will crash, but what I do know is that the cosmetics market, which involves too many players' interests, cannot make everyone a permanent beneficiary, just like a summary of the status quo issued by some players:
"It seems that everyone is making money, money can't come out of thin air, there will always be people will be leeks, although most leeks feel that they will not be leeks, the bull market in the market has created a wave of opportunities to get rich, but the best time to enter has long passed, the rest is to cut leeks time."