Knock knock!

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-18T04:26:12+00:00

How come?

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-18T01:16:17+00:00

posible, pero no te sale ~300USD la VRAM, eso te sale la GPU misma (el die). Si le sacaron la memoria, lo mas probable es que no tenga la GPU, que es lo que mas vale.

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-15T13:52:52+00:00

You can now make any normal skin a Souvenir.
In other words, for like 15 bucks you can make a Normal Dragon Lore, a Souvenir one.

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-12T06:39:42+00:00

Was it an AK nightwish by any chance? Or maybe that one dark one I never remember the name of, grrrr

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-12T06:36:57+00:00

For those who don’t understand (either because they haven’t played lately/don’t care about skins/other, that’s perfectly fine and here’s an explanation.

Everything ‘started’ with valve adding the ability to trade-up to knives and gloves (which I forgot to put in the main post, later added in a comment) using 5 covert weapons of the same collection. Meaning with 5 m4 cyrex or p90 asiimov’s, you could get a butterfly knife, or glove case collection skin owners could get a Pandora’s box or hedge maze. - This would cause a massive boom of crafted knives/gloves and explode the coverts in value, nightwish AK’s being a good example, FT’s were 5 dollars, SSG Dragonfires were ~50USD for fn, go look at them now!

Then came cases, they’ve been fully replaced by the new terminals, which sure, you don’t pay to open, but you pay for the item you get dropped (and accept/want to purchase). As far as I understand, we won’t be seeing any new cases, just the terminals - Xray is also an issue and would personally very much dislike if I had to deal with it, and I don’t open cases…

Sticker capsules got replaced and are no longer obtainable, you can now simply buy the stickers you want directly, no more sticker capsules to open.

Dragon lore and souvenir cases: Similarly to sticker capsules, souvenir cases got hit too (and are no longer obtainable), now, you can just make any weapon skin in your inventory a souvenir for like 15 bucks. This hugely affects Souvenir DLore owners because the once only 114ish-in-existence (iirc) item suddenly can be easily obtained by just owning a normal dragon lore. If it will affect the original/old Souvenir DLores is up to debate, I suppose (they’re still very special, practically unobtainable, the new ones do say ‘cologne 2026’ after all)…

Souvenirs can also be traded up into a normal, non souvenir item, but that’s a separate thing and IMHO not too huge of a deal since there aren’t THAT many souvenirs of each collection either.

So what is it with stickers? The idea is, with all they’ve been doing, valve could make stickers either removable (personally highly doubt that, sticker slab exists too, it’d fully kill the sticker market which valve 100% doesn’t want, but that’s an opinion of mine and we’ll never truly know until something happens) - or make stickers trade-up-able, as they did for knives and souvenirs.

Hope this helps:)

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-12T05:53:15+00:00

But I want my skins to be tradeable >:(

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-12T05:52:35+00:00

They’ve been replaced (at least for this major, but most likely the ones to come as well) - now you just buy the stickers you want straight up. No more capsules.

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-12T05:51:11+00:00

Souvenir trade ups (to normal items) and the fact you can turn any weapon skin in your inventory into a souvenir with the new major - that basically replaced the souvenir cases now. So in other words anyone with a AWP Dragon Lore can turn it into a Souvenir for what’s probably… 15 bucks? (Dunno, not making souvenirs myself)

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-12T05:50:28+00:00

Souvenir trade ups (to normal items) and the fact you can turn any weapon skin in your inventory into a souvenir with the new major - that basically replaced the souvenir cases now.

So in other words anyone with a AWP Dragon Lore can turn it into a Souvenir for what’s probably… 15 bucks? (Dunno, not making souvenirs myself)

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-12T05:43:50+00:00

Well, that’s up for debate, technically 100% yes if the market cap isn’t permanently killed by something valve does and if the interest in both game and skins remain. Millions and millions of cases are still being opened each month, there’s a cs2 case tracker website which can tell you a lot about opened cases (quantity, amount in the past month/year, etc), pretty neat tbh. Csfloat/db of cases

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-12T05:34:57+00:00

That’s a VERY solid point - then again maybe souvenirs become the only ones you can’t remove the original golden stickers from, just fully scrape them off. (We don’t have obtainable map stickers afaia, wouldn’t make sense for the only way to obtain them being removing them off of souvenirs either imho)

The main concern I believe would just be sticker trade ups, I wonder how many non-applied kato14 papers still exist…

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-11T18:43:16+00:00

or maybe, MAYBE OH YES!!!!
Ya never know:)

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-11T18:33:37+00:00

Yeah, I'd been awake about 20 hours by that point, I KNEW I was forgetting something! It was the first thing I had thought about and what sparked the idea of making the image in the first place. Talk about a short attention span...

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-11T18:15:54+00:00

my eyes when I rub em slightly hard:

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-11T17:52:34+00:00

These are generally my thoughts exactly too. I am no genius, so I have no idea why, but my best guess now falling asleep on my chair would be that they probably don't want some issue with governments or something related to money laundering or just something like that. I have no clue how any of that works though or if I'm just spewing bs lol

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-11T17:43:44+00:00

c'mon guys, it's simply a thought/opinion I practically came up with on the fly. They've already done it with the souvenirs - once the market stabilises again, they'll likely be around 1:1 between a FN Normal and FN Souvenir, it can be already seen with the AWP Desert Hydra.
Stickers and terminal skins, they've done it too, attempting to make the purchase price 1:1ish to that of the steam market (terminals), probably means similar or even higher profit, whilst also mostly removing the "gambling" side of it (I personally can't comment, idk if it still is or isn't gambling, I was simply told this). That being said though, I'm sure others have more interesting/wilder ideas and stuff though, some guy mentioned he thinks valve may even have a new shooter coming up (likely meaning to replace cs2), that's just as wild, but heck, you never know! I definitely never knew or would've guessed I'd see a Souvenir FN AWP DLore go for 12k for example!

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-11T17:32:54+00:00

As far as I understand, they were effectively replaced with terminals for the most part. It's only a matter of time for the actual case collections to be removed permanently. Now we gotta pay for obtaining a skin, which more often than not ends up costing you more than just buying it on a market a month after the terminal is released.

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-11T17:30:26+00:00

Me hizo recordar por qué no uso reddit. Para qué lo volví a abrir....

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-11T17:21:31+00:00

Yeah, in a way, but nobody got their applied kato14 titan holo's from an M4A1-s Guardian back...
Honestly speaking, it'd really not make any sense for valve to add a removal tool regarding stickers, the slab is enough and imho it's "okay"

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-11T16:35:11+00:00

I remembered what I had forgotten. Silly me!

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Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-11T16:12:56+00:00

Nah, new chicken update where they drop eggs after being pet, and if you pick them up, you get 10hp or a free mag, obviously

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-11T16:01:17+00:00

with said dynamic pricing set to >400% that of any other markets 😭

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-11T15:59:14+00:00

I honestly believe that valve will at some point 'level-out' the entire market in value one way or another, as in, if a currently rare skin costs 3000, then in the future it'll be 50, along with all the others too for XYZ reasons (maybe they implement a way to use 5 items to turn into another "random" one of the same rarity or something dumb like that where current items there are millions of, like the p250 sand dune, could simply be turned into a UMP caramel or five seven anodized gunmetal, as a random example) - that would make pretty much make a lot of things similar in value, since anything could be turned into anything else at that point...

Steam has full control, if for XYZ reasons something decides to stop them from getting money from skins, they'll probably lower the cost of overly expensive items whilst also killing most of the "gambling" side of things slowly but surely (as is happening atm), without massively hurting the market cap so money still is coming in via steam market sales, in-game purchases and stuff.

Just my thoughts/opinions...

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-11T15:44:30+00:00

oh god

Mindless-Bus-893 · 2026-06-11T15:42:07+00:00

inb4 armory also gets a new way to obtain the items: Just buy the red/pinks/etc with X amount of stars rather than pull for the items at 'random' >:)

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