The cost of a skin for CS:GO may increase for various reasons. The issue may be that the quantity of the item on the market is limited, too many players want to buy it, or the skin suddenly became fashionable due to the fact that one of the famous e-sports players appeared with it. In addition, the list also included skins that increased in price in previous years, but in 2022 remained at the same level. These are the skins that were associated with the most famous events on the item market for CS:GO in 2022.
Sport Gloves| Pandora's Box
It is not surprising that among the most expensive and discussed items are often not only skins for firearms, but also knives and gloves: due to the fact that the probability of their drop is lower, the cost is high even for relatively inexpensive ones. Sport Gloves Pandora Box stand out even here background: the price of options with low float over the course of a year reached 30 thousand dollars, and for an item with high wear and tear it was at least several thousand.
You can get these gloves from two cases – Glove Case or Operation Hydra Case. Detailed textures and a noble purple color give these gloves a memorable look and make them the subject of interest of many collectors.
Sport Gloves| Vice
This year another design of sports gloves has gained popularity, namely Vice. They can only drop from Clutch Case, and on trading platforms the price starts from about a thousand dollars. A unique feature of this glove skin in CS:GO is the combination of three colors – pink, turquoise and black. The newest options with minimal traces of use can cost more than 20 thousand dollars.
AWP| Dragon Lore
Among the skins for firearms, the most famous is without question name AWP| Dragon Lore. A regular version of this gun can cost several thousand dollars, but a souvenir version can cost hundreds of thousands. The number of souvenir copies of this skin is small due to the fact that it can only drop from Cobblestone souvenir cases, and this card is not currently used in tournaments. Currently, only about six thousand copies of Dragon Lore – quite a bit, considering that the community CS:GO has more than 20 million players.
USP-S| Printstream
In order to get into a list of the most famous and discussed, the skin does not have to have an exorbitant price. An example of this is USP-S| Printstream, which gained popularity in 2022 after the launch of Recoil Collection. Many people opened cases with the goal of getting this particular “Secret” skin. quality. In the first months of its appearance, the price for copies with low float exceeded $150, but by the end of the year it decreased, and now the skin for USP-S has become more available, like other skins from this series.
AK-47| Wild Lotus
Finally, another skin that has been in demand all year – this is AK-47| Wild Lotus. The cost of some copies exceeds 8 thousand dollars. However, there is still an opportunity to save money, since it looks very good even with a high float. The probability of getting a skin from the case is small, since it has a “Secret” quality. So buying it could be a worthwhile investment, as demand for it is likely to continue to grow.
Of course, these are not all the skins that defined the CS:GO item market in 2022. Which skins do you remember most?
