Armory Pass Insights! Steam Market Banned in Russia?│CS2 Skin Market Update

[@SkinomiCS2]

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[@Sparkles]

I'm sitting tight, thank you.

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[@brieflean]

It's the year of case openings. Unless you risk it all and go with what you got for the lore

[@BenYoungDrums]

don't you have to being trade banned for a year?

[@rasberiii]

its pretty refreshing to see a skin economy channel that doesnt tell you what to buy and sell and just tells you the numbers and lets you come to your own conclusions

[@SkinomiCS2]

The reason for this is because i think it is not too responsible to tell people what they need to buy, no one knows what will 100% go up in price. However, if asked, I can give my opinion, people are smart enough to make their own decisions.

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these last two vids are performing really well ! Happy for you

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Great video! The intro is really unique as well! Keep it up!

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Lets go! Long awaited vid is up!

[@BuStLiNg_]

Thanks for the video and i can see sparkles comment u made it🎉

[@SkinomiCS2]

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[@no_alias_for_me]

It's so hilarious to me that we have channels dedicated to the "stock" prices of CS items. Very interesting to watch tho. Maybe I will invest in some cases...

[@SkinomiCS2]

The total market is worth just under 4 billion USD hahahah, its huge for what it is.

[@pheonix1636]

another very nice and clean update.. keep up the good work..

[@SkinomiCS2]

Thanks, will do!

[@dracotolga]

i love statistics and cs2 :) so i subbed your channel and liked video. keep going ^^ greetings from Türkiye

[@SkinomiCS2]

@@dracotolga thank you!

[@ReDMooNTVV]

great content. Please keep up the good work

[@SkinomiCS2]

Much appreciated

[@MaxKuznetsof]

I'm from Russia. Steam won't be banned here since steam always complies with Russian goverment requests to delete certain content. Discord didn't.

[@SkinomiCS2]

Hmmmm, that's interesting, although it won't matter anyway, vpn is plentiful. Never stopped chinese citizens from anything anyway.

[@Buzzle.]

@@SkinomiCS2too bad those chinese cause most of the cheating and make a ton of cheat clients.

[@SkinomiCS2]

@Buzzle. I'm Chinese Australian, so I have both sides to the story. The environment in China is quite repressive, the population is large and competitive, cheaters are often people who struggle in real life. I hate cheaters, but also I think that is the reason why China is the brewing ground for it.

[@oxymiron]

выполнение этого бреда ничего не гарантирует тем более в перспективе, так что нужно учитывать сценарий блокировки в том числе

[@Oliverii]

Steam has LGBTQ2S+ content

[@TapirTot]

Thanks for the update

[@SkinomiCS2]

You are very welcome!

[@Petter_GM]

That intro is brilliant

[@SkinomiCS2]

Thanks mate, the author is in the comments.

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Sick ass intro with the pattern templates!!!

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Thanks mate. I've tagged the author in the description, he takes free lance work.

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Lovely video!🔥

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[@Toebump]

Intro is cool, I like the move from marvel to CS

[@SkinomiCS2]

Thanks mate, the author is have linked in the comments.

[@ThatGOLDenHAM]

Its like if a investment banker played CSGO :)

[@SkinomiCS2]

Hahahaha, don't want to sound like a nerd here but investment bankers concern capital raising more so than investment analysis. I am an investment analyst btw for my day job. Thanks for the view mate.

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​@@SkinomiCS2 Only the capital markets team, I could tell :)

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@jusmyname9024 thanks mate 👍

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THANK YOU KUMA WHAT THE HELL SPARKLES BEAT ME

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Hahahha, thanks mate. 😂

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Thanks

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Welcome

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Great video bud

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Cheers mate, appreciate it.

[@ashenone3251]

From where did you get the ROI stats? I want to see how they change.

[@SkinomiCS2]

CS ROI website, or check out Brongo on twitter. He is excellent at what he does.

[@flameguy3416]

Wouldn't them using an alt account be considered ban evasion

[@SkinomiCS2]

I do not think so. The accounts are banned from selling and trading skins away, the purpose of this is to lock the skins they have illegally obtained for a long period of time. They are not evading the ban by trading on other accounts.

[@MrManson1337]

great video

[@SkinomiCS2]

Thanks for the visit

[@seezyBANG74]

Why did agent skins risen so much? Any explanation?

[@SkinomiCS2]

So it rose a few weeks back as the lack of a new operation has meant no new agent skins. Then FOMO caught on between investors. It declined after rising by over 100%, only for armory to release with no new agents. Another round of rises occurred with this, and now again another cycle of corrections

[@Bozopack]

It was never confirmed that only deagle is limited

[@SkinomiCS2]

I think that is the consensus right now, albeit with reliance on a bit of mosaic theory. The battlepass lasting forever and only deagle clearly labelled as limited suggests as such.

[@Ilovebeingfat]

@@SkinomiCS2 I feel like the charms and whatnot will go away at the same time the deagle does. Im just speculating the same as everyone else but I think all of these collections will be gone at the end of this battle pass similar to how the havoc and control collections were discontinued after broken fang ended.

[@enzovanderschueren8548]

Quick question, I have a lot of charms, i spent basically on my points on the small arms charms thing. Is hoarding them useless? As they'll forever be available for anyone with the armory pass even after the 90 days? Or will they at some point be hard to obtain.

[@samsom9302]

Well the items will rotate, it will just have the name armory pass. If the items will stay forever no one's gonna buy the pass and valves ain't gonna make money so if you don't mind holding long you should be good ngl.

[@SkinomiCS2]

My theory is that the collections will rotate but they will come back at later dates, so they will never breach a price where they are at now. However, there is a very high likelihood that I am wrong because who knows what Valve is thinking. But either way, the prices right now are going to be their highest for a while. Additionally, it is a bit early to tell which colours are going to cost a premium. For example, green hat means 'getting cheated on' in Chinese, so I would imagine those costing a bit more than the other colours for the agent charm.

[@PercyOBJ]

I think they are only going to go down in value. You’re banking on cs players to actually care about charms. Most people I feel hate the charms because valorant did it first and they don’t add much to the game

[@PercyOBJ]

Plus, they are going to be in an abundance of

[@samsom9302]

​@@PercyOBJcs had charms in the code long before valorant came out, also charms atm have one of the best roi, most people I know like the charms aswell as all things that came out in cs were and will be hatet but will always make profit etc. valve knows that the skin economy is a huge part of their success so I don't really think that they would make such s dumb decisions and rotate the items back etc. none gonna buy their pass with items that are already on the market which equals to less players

[@kopes28]

Why tf didnt Anomaly not get banned?

[@SkinomiCS2]

@@kopes28 according to Sparkles, anomoly farmed below 400 stars which was the threshold for the ban.

[@maxime_vhw]

Isnt this game fun. A 100Usd deagle skin being listed as affordable. Im lucky to have a few, but its wild how much we pay for pixels.

[@SkinomiCS2]

Welp, there is a reason why the total market cap is almost 4b. Although the printstream i listed under affordable is actually field tested, so like 35-40 usd.

[@maxime_vhw]

@@SkinomiCS2 ohh yea FT makes sense. I should have payed more attention haha

[@HerbaceousM8]

leetify needs to update, i dont know if even 60% of russia can run cs2 with Network and hardware issues

[@SkinomiCS2]

That was the only data point I was able to find about region split for CS playerbase unfortunately.

[@HiitsBAKER]

Armory is pernemant?

[@SkinomiCS2]

Appears to be the caee. Yes

[@idk1original]

My Hopes Are Getting lower every day for my m4

[@SkinomiCS2]

M4 fade?

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[@Taikado4080Clips]

You should upload faster since theres many others who uploaded this info a day sooner, much love tho😅

[@SkinomiCS2]

Hi there, thanks for your comment. This is a weekly update series which sort of does a round up for the week. Although I would like to upload more often, I work a full time job as an investment analyst during weekdays, so this is the best I can do rn.

[@daveis2gr8]

Why did anomaly get away with it??? He farmer 600 stars and just got away Scott free

[@SkinomiCS2]

He made a video discouraging it. Lol. Check his channel. I think that video is the reason.

[@Sparkles]

@@SkinomiCS2 It's because he farmed under 400 stars. Anyone under 400 didn't get banned.

[@bageljosher]

@@Sparkles^ this exactly there was a point where valve “cared” and that was about above or below 400 stars (10 passes)

[@CS2GGWP]

​@@Sparkles sir you are very active regarding these.... nowadays hope ur ban will be lifted soon

[@ntnt4050]

Also Türkiye banned Discord for some bullys behaviours and this was not even discords problem because bullies was using a vulnerability in the goverments system. This bullies will keep going this on some other apps or they will use VPN so discord ban is useless. Sad for people using it for good things.

[@SkinomiCS2]

I agree. Although I think banning the platform is never the right solution.

[@jacoblarsson6500]

Are we gatekeeping this channel?

[@SkinomiCS2]

Hahahahaa, i hope not.

[@emreak1585]

I like your channel name

[@SkinomiCS2]

Thanks mate. Stands for Skin Economics CS2

[@StageByOne]

Russia getting a full on block would be a blessing

[@SkinomiCS2]

I think the average Russian citizen is a victim of their regime as well, but I do get where you are coming from.

[@SinisterCS]

Man i kinda feel sad if russia gets banned of steam, but on the otherside now you wont get yelled at in russian and may have competent players 😂

[@SkinomiCS2]

I doubt anything will change. Vpn is very plentiful.

[@SinisterCS]

@@SkinomiCS2 i think so too, but lets wait and see

[@butziman4990]

1:45 is this legit? i mean she isnt showing any emails or anything

[@SkinomiCS2]

She did not show the email on purpose. Im 99% sure it is legit. Gabe follower also retweeted this. It's been long known that emailing gabe's adress will sometime yield replies from Valve.

[@samsom9302]

It's been confirmed idk who I watched but yea thought it was fake first aswell

[@ignitron2710]

Valve themselves already confirmed the pass is permanent in a FAQ. I dont know if i can post a direct link to it.

[@tribecs2]

[@SkinomiCS2]

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[@mAdcaTzm4a1]

Cheaters coming back even on competitive. Lol

[@SkinomiCS2]

Not experiencing this in OCE, wouldn't surprise me though. The anti cheat definitely still needs work.

[@sgrae4388]

kinda weird that you're implying heyzeus is banned when he is not

[@SkinomiCS2]

Heyzeus? Sorry, where do I imply this?

[@SkinomiCS2]

Oh, I see. I think you misunderstood, that is how i reference people in my videos, I paste the source typically at the top left.

[@sgrae4388]

@@SkinomiCS2 my apologies, I see what you’re saying, but he isn’t the source for that image. Have a good day.