{"id":6276,"date":"2020-07-12T15:53:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T15:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/the-most-expensive-csgo-skin-purchase-in-history"},"modified":"2024-07-19T14:05:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T14:05:22","slug":"the-most-expensive-csgo-skin-purchase-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/cs-go\/the-most-expensive-csgo-skin-purchase-in-history","title":{"rendered":"Someone paid $100,000+ for a CS:GO skin, the most expensive skin purchase in history"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the biggest driving forces behind the success and popularity of CS:GO is most definitely the game’s skin market.<\/p>\n

Following the introduction of the Arms Deal update in August 2013, skins formed a virtual economy due to their rarity and other high-value factors that influenced their desirability.<\/p>\n

This soon led to skin gambling and some really big affairs around it. The biggest scandal was the one which included Trevor “TmarTn” Martin and ProSyndicate<\/a>, owners of CSGOLotto.<\/p>\n

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\nCS:GO skin gambling is definitely a dark part of CS:GO history (Picture: Valve)<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite some questionable ethical issues behind the CS:GO skin market, and even some legal grey areas, this important part of the CS:GO community continues to thrive to this day, and it is even one of the biggest reasons why we still don’t have the CS:GO Source 2 Update.<\/a><\/p>\n

Most of the trades in this economy are being done with Steam money, which can not be pulled out from this closed system, but that doesn’t mean that people won’t spend astronomical sums of real money just to have some of the exotic and rare skins they desire.<\/p>\n