Counter-Strike: Global Offensivehas once again set a record for the most cases sold in a single month. While March saw CS:GO players purchasealmost 40 million cases–an all-time high for the 11-year-old game–this month those same players shattered that record with just over 50 million cases purchased.
The news comes courtesy ofCS:GO Case Tracker, a site that estimates the total number of cases purchased each month through publically available data. According to the site, an “estimated 50.3 million CS:GO cases were unboxed in April 2023,” with a “staggering” 9 million Anubis Collection Packages purchased alone.
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The Anubis Collection went on sale on April 25, accounting for the huge spike you see in the graph. The collection features 19 colorful new weapon skins with designs vaguely based on ancient Egyptian art. The M4A4 Eye of Horus is particularly desired among players, with good-quality versions selling forover $2,000 on the secondary market.
It’s estimated that the 9 million Anubis Collection cases sold generated $22 million on their own. That’s not even counting the 41.3 million other cases sold, which would have made April a record-breaking month even without the Anubis Collection.
Prices for these older cases have steadily improved in the days since the Anubis Collectioncaused prices to collapse. It’s thought that players all sold their old cases to raise liquidity to purchase the Anubis Collection. This flooded the market with older cases and caused their prices to drop dramatically. The recent Paris Major is thought to have had a similar effect on stickers, although prices have recovered somewhat by the time of this writing.
These massive sales are good news for Valve as it continues to host the closed Counter-Strike 2 beta. Players will be able to transfer their current CS:GO inventories to CS2 when it goes live, although Valve hasn’t made it clear exactly how this process will be undertaken.
In other Counter-Strike news, a Finnish newspaper has created a custom CS:GO map in order to smuggle the truth into Russia.Helsingin Sanomatcommissioned two map designers to create a map with a secret room where Russian players can enter to receive uncensored reports from the war in Ukraine, specifically concerning Russian atrocities committed against Ukrainian civilians and its own soldiers. The hidden room can be found near the Eternal Flame monument on the map. The idea is similar toMinecraft’s Uncensored Library, a map designed to allow Minecraft players to access unfiltered news reports in countries with oppressive censorship laws. you’re able to find the Helsingin Sanomat map in Counter-Strike’s Steam Workshop page.
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