Gaming Skin Trading: A $50 billion industry ripe for blockchain disruption
https://medium.com/waxtoken/gaming-skin-trading-a-50-billion-industry-ripe-for-blockchain-disruption-c99b6c885562
What you just saw was a “skin,” a customization to the way a particular virtual weapon in the video game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive can look like. This particular version, the Souvenir AWP | Dragon Lore, warranted a mind-boggling $35,000 price tag. Just like a tangible collector’s item, the rarity of the skin itself gives it a high ‘float value’ and an even higher price tag.
https://medium.com/waxtoken/gaming-skin-trading-a-50-billion-industry-ripe-for-blockchain-disruption-c99b6c885562
What you just saw was a “skin,” a customization to the way a particular virtual weapon in the video game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive can look like. This particular version, the Souvenir AWP | Dragon Lore, warranted a mind-boggling $35,000 price tag. Just like a tangible collector’s item, the rarity of the skin itself gives it a high ‘float value’ and an even higher price tag.
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Wee Its just a skin or does that affect how powerful the weapon will be? Can that dragon skin makes this one shot blow like a dragon that the bullet goes through thick walls that even when a target hides behind a truck, the bullet will go through. Seem pretty pricey for a skin with no use but bragging rights.
This is a weapon from CS:GO with a rare skin applied. People have paid a lot of money for just skins that do not affect the power or accuracy of a weapon, they just look cool!
It's hard for me to understand how people can pay such money for virtual weapons, am I shocked? I do not consider myself an avid gambler, but even if I was such a person, would I be able to give such a sum of money?
