Skins are one of the reasons why CS:GO became popular. Now there are countless skins and cases in the game, and prices of several thousand dollars for weapon coloring are no longer surprising. However, this wasn't always the Case because, initially, there were no skins in the game. So what were the first skins in CS:GO, and how much do they cost now? We will tell you in this article.
The first appearance of skins in CS:GO
CS:GO was released on August 21, 2012, and failed to become popular upon release. The peak of players in the first month was 52,261. After that, the audience of the game immediately began to decrease. The spike occurred in May 2013, when CS:GO had 53,379 simultaneous players.
However, the real growth began in August 2013: then, the first Case was added to the game. It was called Weapon Case and had nine skins, not counting knives. A unique feature of CS monetization was that any skin that dropped out of the Case could be sold for real money, which raised the popularity of skins and the game itself to the sky. A year after the first introduction of skins, the online peak reached 277,192 players.
But what were the first skins in CS:GO? Let's consider the five best of them and compare the prices on release and now. It is worth mentioning that the CS:GO weapon case currently costs $69. The official trading platform indicates all prices.
The best skins from the Weapon Case
USP-S | Dark water
The first USP-S skin was the USP-S | Dark water. The skin got the "Restricted" rarity, which dropped quite often because this category was in second place among the most frequently dropped.
USP-S | Dark water doesn't exist as "Direct from the factory," so we will consider the coloring as "Slightly Worn." At the exit of the Case, the pistol cost about $6. Then the price dropped to $0.70.
This was a fairly ordinary skin until Weapon Cases stopped dropping at the end of the match and became scarce. Then the price of skin began to rise, and now the cost of USP-S | Dark water is $63.32.
M4A1-S | Dark water
An unprecedented situation today: the same coloring for two types of weapons in one Case. The skin is also "Restricted." A few months after the release of the Case, the price of the M4A1-S dropped to $0.59.
Now the skin costs $65.59.
Desert Eagle | Hypnosis
Let's go to the first skin of the "Classified" rarity. Of course, in terms of appearance, this skin on Desert Eagle is far from the best, but at that time, it was the only one, so it was in demand. The minimum price for it was $2.84.
Now the cost of Desert Eagle | Hypnosis as "Direct from the factory" is equal to $94.65.
AK-47 | Case Hardened
The most exciting skin from the first CS:GO case. AK-47 | Case hardened was the first skin that introduced patterns into the game. There are a thousand different coloring pages for AK-47 | Case hardened, which differ in cost. The more blue, the more expensive the coloring. The minimum skin price at the time of release as "Direct from the factory" was $12.90.
The price at the current moment is a very interesting topic for discussion. For example, last year StatTrak AK-47 | Case hardened in the best pattern with four stickers Titan (holographic) Katowice 2014 sold for $400,000. However, the skin costs about $300 on the Marketplace.
AWP | Lightning strike
The first skin on AWP was AWP | Lightning strike. This coloring has become the rarest in the Weapon Case, except for knives, and it originally cost about $8. Yes, the skin was grossly underrated, but that spoke more to market volume than AWP demand.
Over time, the price began to rise. Now AWP | Lightning Strike as "Direct from the factory" sold for $571.
The first skins in CS:GO are inferior in appearance to the current skins, but many have become legendary over time. They not only entered the game's history but also created stories related to their sales, for example, the AK-47 from this list.
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