Valve stacks colossal cash from case openings in March

Steam's community market economy and Counter-Strike's cosmetics market has been the talking point for quite a long time under any topic that relates to video-game economy and the industry in general. Even with Valve doing the bare minimum in terms of quality of life improvements towards Counter-Strike 2, the game continues to drive massive profits for Valve.

As recorded by csgocasetracker.com, 34,867,419 Counter-Strike 2 cases were opened in March alone, netting Valve a massive 87 million dollars from just key sales. These numbers on csgocasetracker.com are based data from CS2float, a reliable Counter-Strike 2 skins monitor. The number could go further when accounting for accounts that go under CS2float's radar, skin sales revenue from the community market and a few other factors.

According to a group of Reddit users, with streamers like OhnePixel, Anomaly, etc making content with Counter-Strike 2 cosmetics as the core subject, a big part of the community gets influenced to follow their tracks and open CS2 cases of their own, in an attempt to make a quick buck.

Some social media users have pointed out that a small portion of this revenue from March alone, a measly 10% when put back towards improving Counter-Strike 2. The player numbers have also been on a steady climb since Valve put out the Armory update and the received a massive boost with the most recent "Spring Forward" update which brought in several new weapon collections and a new case.