Personalization in video games is the stock in the trade of many titles, such as Fortnite EITHER call of duty: war zone. Although this economic model did not exist ten years ago, the game counter strike global offensive -launched in August 2012- does not escape this trend. A parallel market has been organized to buy and sell weapon skins (skins) in the markets.
On Monday, March 13, there was a sale of almost 150,000 euros on the Chinese platform Buff. It was an AK-47 Wild Lotus, offered at 1,095,000 yuan, indicates the American site Kotaku. This sum may seem crazy to ordinary mortals, but in reality it is perfectly justified according to specialists in the field.
A “quite reasonable” price
What makes the value of the digital item, which can only be used in the flagship shooter for PC gamers, is its appearance in the first place. The Wild Lotus skin is among the rarest and therefore most expensive decorations in the game. This feature alone fetch a few thousand dollars. Except the gun in question shows a “factory new” grade.
When the game generates a skin, it is assigned a random value between 0.00 and 1.00. It is this value that determines the level of visual degradation of the weapon, classified into five categories. Here, the AK-47 Wild Lotus shows a value of 0.00, which brings its price to at least more than 12,000 euros, says Dennis Davis.
An offer of 1.2 million dollars
But we must still add to this the presence of four Reason Gaming holographic stickers, which increase the value of the piece. These four items are true relics for collectors. It was only possible to acquire them within the framework of EMS One Katowice 2014, the second edition of the Major Tournament of counter strike global offensive which took place in March 2014.
However, the sum achieved by the AK-47 Wild Lotus is still small compared to that of a Karambit knife and its Case Hardened decoration. In September 2021, a Chinese collector turned down a $1.2 million offer from US collector Ohnepixel2, who makes videos on this subject on YouTube. According to the CSGO Skins site, the object would be valued at more than 1.5 million dollars.
Source: BFM TV
