The economy that has developed in Counter Strike: Global Offensive around the sale of skins is of considerable scale. Every day, transactions totaling millions of dollars take place in the game, and the cost of individual rare skins reaches tens of thousands. Until recently, the record-breakingly expensive skin was Souvenir AWP Dragon Lore, which sold for $61,000 in January 2018 after the Boston Major. Its unique feature was the Skadoodle sticker – player of the Cloud9 team, which won the major that year.
Two years later, this record was finally broken. The most expensive skin turned out to be rarer than Dragon Lore and complemented by stickers that can no longer be purchased in the game. A Chinese collector purchased a Stattrak M4A4 Howl with four IBuyPower Katowice 2014 stickers for about $100,000. This price was made possible due to a combination of several features, each of which in itself makes the skin quite rare – The probability of getting Howl is 0.003. It is reported that the collector plans to resell his acquisition for even more money – Therefore, there is a possibility that the new record will not last too long. The current owner of the skin offers potential buyers to pay $130,000 for it.
