when digital knives cost more than real ones...

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Im abit of a gamer, but have never gotten into the world of Counter Strike Global Offensive. (massively popular computer game)
I have heard plenty about their in game markets selling weapon skins for crazzy amounts tho haha
Well recently I decided to do some googling and found that some of their knife skins resell on the aftermarkets for thousand$$$$$$

The most expensive I found sold for $23,850!
Tbh as a lover of games Im not entirely surprised, but at the same time holy cow! I could buy alot of REAL knives for that much!
Heres a pic of the knife
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I have seen similar on craigslist for sale. I am always surprised how much they are asking, but never this much!
 
Why the hell would anyone pay $100 much less $23,850 on a fictitious knife in a video game? I couldn't see spending that much on a real knife....serious wtf moment...guess the old saying a fool and his money are soon departed is true lol
 
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If you have rocks in your head instead of brains its perfectly fine to spend that much money on a digital knife
 
People are spending real money on digital knives 😱😱😱😱
I can understand buying a map expansion pack for call or duty or halo, but that's ridiculous.

I'll bet they're the type of people who have to have their butter knives dulled, and rubber caps put on their fork tines.
Since they can't have real knives they spend money on digital ones.
I'll bet they also play the Sims for the digital swimming pools and bowls of soup that don't require them to wear water wings.😁😁😁😁
 
That looks like a decimal point, not a comma. I'm betting it was sold for $23.85.

I remember hearing of people selling their World of Warcraft accounts ten years ago for close to $1000 if they had a maximum level character. I just couldn't wrap my head around it........
 
If I remember correctly there was a decision at some level (I don't recall if it was a judgement ) that what is actually being sold is not an object but code. The code belongs to the software company. As such, the online seller has no right to actually sell it.
My memory of it is a bit foggy; it was years ago and related to World of Warcraft.
 
riversidedep said:
That looks like a decimal point, not a comma. I'm betting it was sold for $23.85.

I remember hearing of people selling their World of Warcraft accounts ten years ago for close to $1000 if they had a maximum level character. I just couldn't wrap my head around it........
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No one adds the third decimal place for cents though. Other countries however will use a period instead of a comma and a comma instead of a period.
 
On the bidding site we all know and sometimes love, there's only two knives over 20 thousand so who the hell buys a digital knife for that price. Daggers have a few more more expensive but very few


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Back many years ago I played a game called Everquest... it was a massive time sink and when I eventually decided I was done with it, I parted out my account, selling off equipment and characters to a net of 7200.00.....

Bought a Colt AR15, 10 mags, 1000 rounds of 5.56 ammo, Glock 17, 5 mags, 500 rounds 9mm ammo, Remington 700 SPS tactical bolt action rifle, 500 rounds 308 ammo, half a dozen knives and a good used 69 Chevy stepside with a fresh rebuilt 350.......it was a good trade IMHO

I'm still flabbergasted at what digital products are worth in real dollars, but nothing really shocks me anymore.
 
Wait a tick...Hawgsnawt you are serious, you were able to actually sell your ever quest game account for that much money, someone out there really paid 7k for a game? What am I missing here? I thought video games/online games were 50 to 100 bucks?! Geeze
 
Hawgsnawt said:
Back many years ago I played a game called Everquest... it was a massive time sink and when I eventually decided I was done with it, I parted out my account, selling off equipment and characters to a net of 7200.00.....

Bought a Colt AR15, 10 mags, 1000 rounds of 5.56 ammo, Glock 17, 5 mags, 500 rounds 9mm ammo, Remington 700 SPS tactical bolt action rifle, 500 rounds 308 ammo, half a dozen knives and a good used 69 Chevy stepside with a fresh rebuilt 350.......it was a good trade IMHO

I'm still flabbergasted at what digital products are worth in real dollars, but nothing really shocks me anymore.
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That is awesome and amazing. I applaud you for ditching the game. It is sad to me to see and hear these people that literally miss out on real life by sinking so much time into video games. I recently visited my cousin in NOLA. Her fiancee, who we'd never met, literally just sat there and kept playing his video game while we walked through the door into his house. No greeting, no help with bags (we didn't need it, but still). Just sat there. I didn't meet him for 1.5 hours later. He just sat there playing a video game with a headset on. He's like 25. Disgusting. Today, my wife and I are having a get together to celebrate our birthdays and my wife finishing her Masters. I invited my step sister. Her fiancee can't make it because every Sunday he LARPs some Star Wars game with friends.
 
I thought these virtual knives went into the low thousands: That is, in CONFIRMED actual prices for these: Like $900-1800... I'm not kidding... (Maybe they went to 8000, I don't remember). Some of the more expensive ones I saw (maybe because of the skin paint) were exactly identical to the REAL United Cutlery Karambit that I buy for $30 with the intent to only use the shoulder harness for my real dagger sheaths, chucking out the actual Karambit knife and its plastic sheath... (Not badly made in surface finish, just very dull and unsharpenable because of the concave edge: Probably well hardened and holds an edge well, but also likely untempered so very brittle, just like the low-end SOG crap stuff)

What really gets to me are not the prices, but the "unboxing" videos of these virtual knives, where the player films his own reaction to his apparent discovery of the virtual knife, or auction win, whatever.

There are even some compilations of these "reactions", with the "ten best knife box-opening reactions" on Youtube etc...

The reactions involve the longest and most bizarre orgasmic screams you could ever imagine a human uttering. When I came across those on Youtube, I thought they were among the strangest sights I had ever seen. Truly the absolute depths of strangeness...

There is a lot of weirdness going on in this world, and unlike the old days, people are not embarrassed at all to display it...

Gaston
 
blade dude said:
No one adds the third decimal place for cents though. Other countries however will use a period instead of a comma and a comma instead of a period.
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No one pays $23,850 for a digital knife either......or do they? lol

If this is real and not some kind of error or typo, it must have been someone with a lot of money to waste.....Or maybe he just put it on a credit card with no intent to ever pay.
 
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