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After having a brief 'discussion' of this in the shoutbox earlier and being told my opinion is formed because I sniff too many hallucinogenics - I thought I would pose the question to the rest of you.
Last night I recieved the drop of the M4A1-S Icarus Fell (Factory New) - A skin on Counter strike CS:GO (see image below) - Now in my opinion the skin doesn't even look that good and just to clarify having the skin gives no in game advantage whatsoever - No play to win here, purely cosmetic! BUT - the skin is rare. In CS:GO you get skins buy opening cases with keys, or as random drops. This skin is DROP only and is very rare, which makes it almost DOUBLE rare as there is no opportunity to buy 50 cases and hope for the best.
Okay so currently this skin is on the steam marketplace for around $150 - sometimes known to be sold for as up to $180 - So I , in my opinion anyway, was acceptably excited for getting this dropped (especially as I didn't even win the game, I lost). Due to the time, it was about 5 AM UK time, most of my CS:GO friends and comrades were asleep so I had no one to hype about it to. So I came to the trusty FFF shoutbox full of nice people and friends!
Oh boy..
Anyway, cutting out the dramatic nonsense I was trying to portray there; I was pretty much called out on the whole aspect of digital content and it's value. With @Six and @soulcorruptor finding it extremely difficult to fathom that an online skin which gave no advantage to the player other than to BEDAZZLE THE ENEMIES WITH ITS AWESOMENESS could fetch for up to $150 - until I told them that the top skin in the game fetches around $2500+
They said that paying $150 for a skin, or anything more than $10 is absurd. In my opinion this is because they are used to seeing these sorts of prices in a marketplace like PSN where it is not set by the users themselves - Set purely to make developers money so prices set competitively with most items being considered uncommon due to their availabiliy to purchase in infinite quantities.
I was saying that putting away 5 or 10 dollars over the space of 30 to 15 weeks really isn't that ridiculous and spending money on your primary hobby (if CS:GO is that..) shouldn't be an issue as people do that with their cars or other hobbys and arent looked down upon in the same way.
They also went on to say that the skins were overpriced - to which I argued they were not as they were regularly bought at the price of $150. I perhaps stated they may be OverVALUED.
Anyway guys, i'd like to hear your opinions on this. Is it really so ridiculous for someone to spend $150 on their hobby if it's a PC game compared to if it was a new cosmetic feature on a car? Are they overpriced? Over valued?
Do I sniff hallucinogenics?
PS: sorry to edit if anyones already started quoting or replying but how does this differ from say a Sims expansion pack which includes cosmetic furnitures only and no extra in game features? Sometimes costing expensive amounts too and released with the aim of making a profit - whereas the steam marketplace is non-withdrawable, only able to be spent in steam (to my knowledge) and often just used to buy another skin afterwards anyway.
Last night I recieved the drop of the M4A1-S Icarus Fell (Factory New) - A skin on Counter strike CS:GO (see image below) - Now in my opinion the skin doesn't even look that good and just to clarify having the skin gives no in game advantage whatsoever - No play to win here, purely cosmetic! BUT - the skin is rare. In CS:GO you get skins buy opening cases with keys, or as random drops. This skin is DROP only and is very rare, which makes it almost DOUBLE rare as there is no opportunity to buy 50 cases and hope for the best.
Okay so currently this skin is on the steam marketplace for around $150 - sometimes known to be sold for as up to $180 - So I , in my opinion anyway, was acceptably excited for getting this dropped (especially as I didn't even win the game, I lost). Due to the time, it was about 5 AM UK time, most of my CS:GO friends and comrades were asleep so I had no one to hype about it to. So I came to the trusty FFF shoutbox full of nice people and friends!
Oh boy..
Anyway, cutting out the dramatic nonsense I was trying to portray there; I was pretty much called out on the whole aspect of digital content and it's value. With @Six and @soulcorruptor finding it extremely difficult to fathom that an online skin which gave no advantage to the player other than to BEDAZZLE THE ENEMIES WITH ITS AWESOMENESS could fetch for up to $150 - until I told them that the top skin in the game fetches around $2500+
They said that paying $150 for a skin, or anything more than $10 is absurd. In my opinion this is because they are used to seeing these sorts of prices in a marketplace like PSN where it is not set by the users themselves - Set purely to make developers money so prices set competitively with most items being considered uncommon due to their availabiliy to purchase in infinite quantities.
I was saying that putting away 5 or 10 dollars over the space of 30 to 15 weeks really isn't that ridiculous and spending money on your primary hobby (if CS:GO is that..) shouldn't be an issue as people do that with their cars or other hobbys and arent looked down upon in the same way.
They also went on to say that the skins were overpriced - to which I argued they were not as they were regularly bought at the price of $150. I perhaps stated they may be OverVALUED.
Anyway guys, i'd like to hear your opinions on this. Is it really so ridiculous for someone to spend $150 on their hobby if it's a PC game compared to if it was a new cosmetic feature on a car? Are they overpriced? Over valued?
Do I sniff hallucinogenics?
PS: sorry to edit if anyones already started quoting or replying but how does this differ from say a Sims expansion pack which includes cosmetic furnitures only and no extra in game features? Sometimes costing expensive amounts too and released with the aim of making a profit - whereas the steam marketplace is non-withdrawable, only able to be spent in steam (to my knowledge) and often just used to buy another skin afterwards anyway.