CS2 item total market value is nearly $7 billion. Last year, players opened 400 million cases in total. For each opening, they had to buy a $2.5 key, and Valve alone collected $1 billion just from this.

CS2 skins are not a form of consumption, but a form of holding. They can be bought and sold, even though a single policy last year made the market evaporate by $2 billion.

Who would have thought that behind a shooter game there is actually a $6.6B trading market.