March became a month for record opening CS:GO cases.
According to csgocasetracker.com, CS:GO players opened 39,475 million cases in March 2023. This number became a record for the entire history of the game. For comparison, 27.7 million cases were opened in February.
Why did players open so many cases?
The number of open cases can be directly linked to other recent CS:GO records. First, the game regularly breaks peak online records. The last one was a week ago: then the game was played by 1,519,457 people simultaneously.
In addition, the game renewed the record of unique players who entered the game in a month. This number is 27,766,694. All this happened on the wave of interest due to the announcement of Counter-Strike 2 and the issuance of access to limited testing of the big update. For this reason, a massive number of players returned to the project, due to which not only online but also the number of open cases grew.
How will this affect the economy of the game?
Before we say how this will affect the game, it is worth mentioning how much Valve earned from the opening of these cases. The calculation will be simple, and we will not even consider the profit from the commission on the Marketplace. Let's count only the earnings from the keys and get $100 million, which Valve received only from the sale of keys.
And the impact of the opening of such many cases on the economy is straightforward - there will be fewer cases in the Marketplace, and their price will increase. Each case costs about $1, which was unimaginable a few years ago. So you had already missed the moment when it was necessary to invest in cases, but even now it will bring you a good profit in a couple of years.
However, there is another effect on the economy that many people forget about. Army-quality skins have become much cheaper because they were knocked out much more in the last month than in all other months. So it is highly unprofitable to keep blue skins in your inventory now.
The cases will soon be worth their weight in gold if the pace of their opening does not decrease.
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