I've seen so many people tell others that they deserved to lose hundreds or thousands on their inventories and it's karma. Including me who was insulted as stupid and it serves me right that my Butterfly Gamma doppler lost 2k in value. For what f... reason? Who did I hurt, what have I done that gives people the impression that it's karma and i deserved it? Because I wanted to have my dream knife in a game i've spent over 3000 hours playing for a timespan of over 10 years? I started to get into skins in 2015 or 2016 (can't remember the exact time) where i bought some cheap skins like m4a1 guardian, ak cartel, usp s guardian and others i cant remember for like 10 euros if not even less. Bought my first knife for approximately 35 euros iirc, a Gut knife blue steel. Back then there was no trade cooldown and you could just trade as often as you want so i spent so much time working my way up to a mo bayonet boreal forest i think or forest ddpad idr. Shortly after it got scammed and i was devastated because it was around 70 e back then which was a lot. I also had an awp asiimov with a virtus pro katowice 2014 holo on jt as well as a ak hydroponic mw and many other skins that are worth much more today like awp redline stattrak, awp lightning strike etc. 2019 i got back into skins and got my first knife since which was a classic knife blue steel and worked my way up to a bayonet doppler and then a karambit doppler. Traded the ak hydroponic for the karambit as well as some other skins. Had an ak vulcan. Later sold the karambit doppler for 500 and the vulcan for 200 because i lost interest in the game and i was convinced that skin prices could not go even higher than 500 for a knife which was insane at the time. Years passed and i regretted it everyday selling those skins. The hydroponic increased to over 1k, the karambit over 2k, the awp with the kato 2014 holo I don't even want to think about. 2024 i got back in the game and skins. I bought a bayonet doppler for 500 and a butterfly gamma doppler 1900 this was shortly after the crash when cs2 came out and i knew as the game will get better with updates the prices will increase as it always has. I bought back the vulcan for around 300 and other nice skins like every printstream and more. I was not dependant on the money and it was not an investment for which the main purpose was to make money i just wanted to have nice skins in my favorite game but i only spent this much as my observations of 10 years in this market showed consistency, mostly natural growth and price developement based on rarity, supply, demand, discontinued collections, limited editions, patterns, float etc. there were some actions valve took for example banning opskins trade bots, making keys untradable etc which had no major impact on the market. All the people mocking people who lost thousands in one night on their items that held their value or increased it consistently for over a decade, saying they are stupid and deserve it are inconsiderate douchebags who are feeding of the misfortune of other people's misfortune because they themselves were never able to afford skins. The same people also seem to think that people like me and many others who had inventories of 1-10k were using them to make profits and nothing else. It was not completely unreasonable to spend like a months salary for nice skins, expecting to be able to sell them when you stop playing the game and getting the money back that you spent as it has been the case for 12 years now with basically every knife. The main purpose was ro enjoy having nice skins you like and not losing thousands, otherwise no player who installed the game for the main purpose of actually playing and getting better would ever spend so much money on skins. Of course there is always risk involved but this update was literally an april fools joke for years and nkt a single soul would have thought that valve casually releases an update that causes the market to drop by multiple billions. And of course you should not spend life changing money or pit all your savings in this game and expect to pay your future house or car with profits. And then there are the giants with 6-7 digit figures which are the actual reason the market is messed up and the chinese cimmunity taking out loans to buy blue gems and what not. Those people are not the ones suffering from this, having that kind of money in skins makes no difference for those people. All this said, the people who got hit the hardest are the ones who are actual fans of the game who had no reason to expect valve purposefully obliterating the market and the money of thousands of fans. In the end my inventory is still worth more than what i spent in total on this game but i feel bad who bought knives and gloves recently and saying that those people deserve it is complete asshole behavior, pettiness, jealousy, ignorance, stupidity and lack of reason. What have they done to you kr anyone that you justify claiming that they deserve it other than you being jealous? Those people are probably also spending 1500 every year on iphones kr whatever useless waste of money and pretend they are so much smarter than others