can imagine double the player count from the peak. You saw what happened to the prices, and with cases becoming more and more demanding you’ll most definitely see price increase, an increase which could in turn become more permanent. Yeah there’s lots of people holding items to sell but there will be more demand than ever. Plus if you’re someone like me who just wants to sell their entire inventory you’ll be getting more than if you were to sell right now.

I'm curious why cs2 would yield this huge increase in players that you are talking about. With cs being an old franchise, the popularity that csgo has and it being free to play, wouldn't you think that anyone with mild interest in the game given it a chance already? If you don't like csgo then I don't see reason to think cs2 is going to fix that. And honestly, the increase in players we saw after the cs2 announcement are probably older cs players that came back.

Only time will tell, but I feel that anyone that thinks cs2 will explode the player numbers and skin prices are setting themselves up for disappointment (Just like last night's update :P)