And almost half that value is in the stickers on the thing.
The surprise announcement of Counter-Strike 2 (opens in new tab), currently in a limited beta and due to launch this summer, came with one very important piece of news for existing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players. All of the weapon skins from CS:GO will be carrying over to the new game. CS:GO’s skins market has always been a fascinating side element of the game’s success, and rare skins going for silly money has been happening for a long time now, but this element of the CS2 announcement saw even fairly unremarkable skins begin to spike in value (opens in new tab).
Now, an AK-47 skin has become the most expensive gun in CS:GO and probably videogame history (thanks Dexerto (opens in new tab)). The skin is a minimal wear StatTrak Tier 1 Case Hardened AK-47 with a Blue Gem pattern, the latter of which is pattern 661 which, apparently, is the blue-est Blue Gem one can get. In addition to this, the gun has four Katowice 2014 Titan Holo stickers applied to it, which are each valued at around $60,000 (opens in new tab).
