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The Inferno/Nuke collections were released right before the major for souvenirs, so you are probably right. My bet is that if they do add another two new collections it will be mirage and overpass.

They claim March 30th will end

https://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2020/03/28819/

When it actually end, along with Twitter time stamp

https://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2020/03/29379/

But don't expect the same thing happen this time again, because this time is already a weekend for them. Depends if Valve are fully work from home status, if they are, then they can pull an update on a Saturday, if not, then we will have to wait for Monday.

It's very possible.

"Winners. Valve, in its sole discretion, will select a minimum of ten (10) winning entries and announce the winners on https://blog.counter-strike.net no later than November 21st, 2021."

It means the case should come this week or next and I doubt they will announce winners first then release case at a later date, they will probably just use the case release as the announcement like they did with cs20.

I was thinking earlier they could release stickers with the case and put the sale on later. But I really hope they just sale everything so we don't go through the will they, won't they thing again.

It has that yellow/blue MLG logo, it means next major will have Vertigo collection, but I think they will renew the collection into Vertigo 2019. And they will release it few days before August 20th, 2019 (Starladder Berlin major) just like last time when they added Nuke2018/Inferno2018. And possibly come along with Dust 2 2019 collection.

https://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2018/09/21005/

I don't think they are ready to drop the Cache renewal yet, it's still early. But I think Souvenir Cache collection will be discontinued after March 31st, they will convert into a normal drop collection when they enter back into the map pool in 2020 as Cache 2020.

There are already files added into the game that lets you to sign up PW account and link to steam account. I don't know what do you mean by "Different platform", but this looks like it's going to be the same thing as how they did it with Dota 2, you link your steam account to PW and play on their Chinese servers along with -PerfectWorld launch option from your steam client plus those censored stuff like skull, communist, blood will be removed.

https://store.steampowered.com/join/pwlink_csgo/

http://cncsgo.com/steam-csgo-cn-pw-join.html

Assuming each player gets roughly 1 case drop per week and having 27 million unique players (https://blog.counter-strike.net/) with say 20 million prime players and each of the prime drops being equally likely it would be 4 million cases per week of each case type (if all players play enough and my assumption with no. of prime account is right).

So it is probably lower than 4 million cases for each type (as my assumptions are quite optimistic) and an upper bound. I guess the real number will be quite a chunk lower.

No idea how many rare drops drop though.

The way I look at it is, Valve needs to monetize stuff regardless what is going on. By definition, they can't release tournament items because there is no major unless they insist releasing them through an online tournament, there were previous rules (IIRC) that whoever didn't participate in the major in person will not get stickers, but those RMR series are still happening as usual, so I'm assuming major is not cancelled but being played online and will have stickers with exception this time due to CO19. They cannot postpone the major any further, as you can see this virus is not going away any time soon.

But, I have a feeling at some point Valve will start selling us BattlePass that grants access pass to operation, viewer pass to major within a year interval. They just have all the endless monetizing button all set, letting you buy endless souvenir token, letting you buy endless operation stars. These two passes are the same thing that ask you to do stupid grinding, it's just they are stepping stone for Valve to raise price on passes, while giving you more new junks like patches, wallpaper, craftable voicepack for agents, etc. It's not a speculation because that's just how things work in Dota 2. Same formula different game. Would be a dickmove if they sell special crosshair model though.

The only thing that will happen in the upcoming weeks/month is just a normal case as they have already added 2 new maps few days ago, it is impossible to have a new operation right now all of a sudden. Last time when the operation dropped on November 19th 2019, the closest map update DLC to that was on July 31th, 2019 , that's 3.7 months gap. By adding 3.7 months on top of Swamp and Mutiny, we get somewhere around November, but that's Rio major. So, I'll say somewhere between Rio major (Nov 9-22) and Spring 2021 major (May 10-23), which is mid February like Operation Wildfire.

No notes of case moving to common drop pool.

https://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2020/03/29379/

Release Notes for 3/31/2020

2020.03.31 -

[ MAPS ] – Breach and Studio are no longer available on official matchmaking servers. – Anubis and Chlorine have been added to official Casual, Deathmatch, and Scrimmage game modes.

[ OPERATION SHATTERED WEB ] – Operation Shattered Web is now over. Players who have an Operation Shattered Web coin in their inventory at this time will receive commemorative inscriptions on their coin with the number of completed operation missions and number of stars attained.

[ PRISMA 2 CASE ] – Introducing the Prisma 2 Case, featuring 17 community-designed weapon finishes, and the Horizon Knives in Chroma finishes as rare special items.

[ MISC ] – Players who are eligible for cross-promotional content from The Master Chief Collection and Half-Life: Alyx will be able to receive the cross-promotional CS:GO items even if they are VAC banned in CS:GO. – Fixed game state integration data output for clients in team coach slot. – Fixed misalignment of agent poses on main menu. – Added missing voice lines for Mr. Muhlik

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To answer your questions:

1. Don't bother buying Fnatic ,NV,C9, VP, or probably LG this major, there will be a huge amount of these for sale as they are the peoples favorites and will take FOREVER to get to a worthy profit, assuming all stickers will be 75% off after the final. Small teams that will most likely never return to the major are a no go as well, like spylce, gambit, etc. So choose the teams in the middle, their sticker prices will usually increase 100% within about 6 months and that's about as fast a turnaround you can hope for.

2. Like others have said stickers will most likely never go to the price they were in 2014 due to the size of the audience and the abundant knowledge that there is a possibility the stickers could be the next 2014 Kato Titan Holo. So will it take time ,yes.

You could go for the gamble and try to buy stickers of teams who you may think will have a roster change like C9 or VP after the major. As we have seen in the past with G2,Titan,Fnatic a roster change directly affects the price of stickers.

Actually, the United States have a weird law regarding it's foreign citizens and taxing. If you're an American citizen, you must file a tax report every year, regardless if you haven't even visited the US this tax-year. (The only other country that does this is Eritrea)

It's really unlikely that the IRS will notice or care about your market transactions, but if you have "Country: United States" on https://store.steampowered.com/account/, you should probably file as an American /just to be sure/. Valve won't send your info off to the IRS unless you go over $20,000 in sales anyways, so you really shouldn't worry unless you have something big planned.

Yes, there are two more tournaments per region and each have more points for first place than this first one.

Only 1 team from Asian regionals will get a contenders invite slot as per: https://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2020/04/29428/

Tyloo placed 23rd - 24th from Berlin so they only have points from RMR1 tournament (1500 or 1600 depending where they finish). Vici gets 1350 from this tournament. RMR2 has 2000 and RMR3 has up to 2500 points for top place.

Just adding this info from yesterday's update. ( https://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2019/01/22720/ )

It says "These new maps are only available in Defusal Group Sigma for Casual and Deathmatch, but in the coming weeks they’ll be added to Competitive matchmaking."

That "in the coming weeks" imply it is after Katowice 2019 major, and we know Valve do these map pool adjustment after every major, and this is it, they are pushing for Zoo and Abbey only, they are not going to bring back Cobblestone rework at this time.

I believe they are saving it for Cache and Cobblestone rework together on a later date.

Hey,

Stripe is used as the backbone payment processor for many companies, whether that be Spotify, Lyft, or otherwise (https://stripe.com/en-ca/customers), and process billions in transactions. We also have the ability to payout using Stripe Connect, but that is limited to Canadian users.

As another comment mentioned, we're also going to be adding more withdraw methods very soon besides crypto (but I think your post is mainly about deposit methods).

(Disclaimer: I work on CSGOFloat)

users were not banned. they were even warned to stop using it before the shutdown of bots and also opskins was asked to resolve obligations with users, with mentioning a date

https://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/expresstrade/

Ok maybe not extremely impoverished people but poor in regards to western societies standards, people can still be poor and have food, water, internet connection etc.

They are getting fucked out of their life savings and crypto is a release from that

https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=VEF&to=USD&view=10Y

With each passing day, the chance of a sale diminishes.

In Valve's last blog post

> Operation Broken Fang ends April 30th, so now’s the perfect time to queue for Broken Fang Premier with friends. And if you’re an Operation Pass holder, you have one month to complete missions, collect stars, and redeem rewards from the Operation Shop.

This would have been the ideal time to announce a sale with the last month to participate in the event. As we approach closer to the actual end date, it would be bad publicity for valve to milk the pass for new players who may not have enough time to grind all missions in time.

you consider this a big update? https://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2020/09/31687/ the last "big" update was maybe when they released the fracture case but even that was just community updating their own maps and valve changing a few settings

No you get the officical number from the official cs go blog. https://blog.counter-strike.net/ and right now the number is 24 million.
When I talk about 11 million it was actually between 10.5 to 12.5 million between 2016 to 2018 before cs go went free to play. So if we talk about case drops now, it is double the rate of 2016 to 2018 in total but split between prime and non-prime cases.
The steam chart number tells you the average con-current user count, that number means there are 700k players playing 24/7, that is 168 hours per week and 672 hours per months. But a normal player probably only play 10 to 30 hours per months. There are of course those who play 40 hours a week and those who don't even play every months and play 2/3 hours here and there.

The M4A1-S got significantly buffed. So all M4A1-S prices went up sharply. That was a good night of quick & sick profits :)

The update: https://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2019/03/23488/

This was the update where the french needed to use the p250 to open cases. It was only available in france but valve then made this update and made it available for the rest of the world.

https://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2019/06/24545/

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they announced it on the day of the 20th anniversary, they forgot untill the last minute and panicked. Its like forgetting you and your partners anniversary and then saying their present is to go and choose there own present. if this was planned it would have been started months earlier and released on that date and if they did not give a flying fuck they would have done nothing.

Valve makes edits to many tournament stickers after the fact during majors all the time.

This major alone, they updated several autograph designs after release. Anyone who had purchased the originals will see them automatically adjusted to their new versions:

https://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2019/08/25188/

> [ BERLIN 2019 ] – Updated autograph stickers for dexter, VINI, ableJ, KSCERATO, yuurih, ANGE1.

That's because they made it a free app with 4k support https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.valvesoftware.steamlink&hl=en_AU. I also have the hardware version but it's 1080p and wasn't very convenient as it needed it's own ethernet cable.

My TV has the APP and it streams in 4k, it's actually really nice to use as my tv is connected via ethernet.

The controller is no good tho, i use a xbox one controller for it.