Bro seeing this NiP lineup brings me way back. I remember me and my friends betting our pocket money on Lounge and watching the games together. Easier times FeelsStrongMan
Bro same. Me and my boys did nothing but play CS back then cuz it’s all there was tbh. None of these BRs were out and COD was dead. Cs was the shit. Lounge was the best too 😂 there was also a huge trading site I used but I forgot what it was. Good times bro
yea lounge was the only way me and the boys could legally bet back in the day. I remember betting nip, astralis glory days and when TSM was randomly #1 team. Easier times...
"Introducing the Arms Deal Update, which lets you experience all the illicit thrills of black market weapons trafficking without any of the hanging around in darkened warehouses getting knifed to death." Sounded way more epic back then.
As someone reading that for the first time, it still does sound pretty epic xD I'm guessing it's because you were way younger that it doesn't sound as cool anymore
Wish we got arms deal 2 as a 10 years CS:GO anniversary update :D imagine a case full of old Valve designs such as Case Hardened, Fade, Ultraviolet etc + the old knives (bayonets, karambit) but in some new finishes.. would be cool.
they are scared of killing the market thats why they dont wanna produce too much skins in short time back then valve would push 5 cases in a year now 1-2
I believe the guy walking through the picture at 0:46 is Ido Magal, one of the CS:GO devs. There is a player model in the game that looks like him (one of the Balkan models)
I never really played CS:GO but I remember you could just download skins from a passionate community that made them for free and copy paste the files into your game. What a time to be alive....
Hah! Hell yeah, I remember those days. My most popular video on my old RU-vid account, was my 11 year old self showing how to install skins on CS:S (With a video tape camera, I then converted digitally). Got like 200k views and that was HUGE back then.
Online FPS games would never be the same, and not for the better. To be fair, Team Fortress 2 sort of started it. Skins, hats, crates, trading. I remember people were less concerned about playing the game, and would just chat about trading cosmetics. It felt weird. Like the purity of the game had died. However, CSGO took that to a whole other level. The gambling addiction and get rich quick scams are tales of online legend now.
When they cared about improving monetisation and profit more like it. If they cared, they wouldn't have asked a shit tier dev studio to make the game. They care more now though
@@invertedcrayon this moment causes s1mple to spring into existence Fifflaren thought he only pressed the arms deal patch but he also hit release bugged character: s1mple
What others see: WOW! Huuuuuge historical event for CS:GO and NIP legends! What I see: Ahh the reason why I was a gambling addict. (Lost 50-60k) Ohh and NIP legends
1 million? Bacon IQ lmao. This click worth trillions of dollars now. Nearly every online game and even some singleplayer games have skins now. Thats MUCH MUCH more than 1 million.
@@bluedevil7250 Actually, they did. TF2 was the first game to have the concept of skins. Then cs:go was the second. Valve invented skins and the marketplace.
El momento en que arruinaron un juego shooter clasico , haciendo asi un negocio enorme , y esta es una de las trabas por las cuales el juego no se actualiza finalmente por que tiene mas peso en skins y dinero como base de datos , que como juego en si.. Increible que los jugadores historicos hallan sido complices de esto , la verdad lo que es el dinero , como siempre mueve todo , aparte de darle skins , les habran pagado por esto mismo , en ese dia era un apuesta un ver que pasa , hoy es un negocio gigante la tienda del cs go. Yo que juego desde 1.3 y tengo hoy 30 años , sinceramente nunca me gustaron los skins , lo que valoro y amo es el juego , no el negocio , yo juego un shooter , si quiero ganar o perder me voy al casino.
@@eduardowormittag2113 considering Valorants average Viewers and Players are 7 Times as high...it failed massively. It used to be the top 3 Twitch title. Valve messed up big time. More and more Countries banning loot boxes aswell
@@Pamysia If we go by your line DotA is also a failure, we all know Riot steals ideas from Valve and dumb down the gameplay aspect so more people can play it - nothing new here. Despite that CSGO still beats Valorant at tournaments to this day.
@@Pamysia Can you be any more deluded? CS GO literally has double average monthly players, sitting at 35+M while Wanna-be CSGO sits at barely pathetic 15M... Valve messed up big time? Why? Because they turned a mod for Half Life into a franchise and created the most popular version of Counter Strike and whether you want to believe it or not, if not skins, CSGO would have been forgotten about probably around 2015-2016 and now the game is going to be 10 years old on 21st of August 2022 and it's doing better and better. every. single. year. If you really are deluded enough to believe skins were downfall of CSGO then you're just straight up an idiot. Also you're confusing Loot Boxes with Cosmetic Skins, predatory "Loot Boxes" drop *undisclosed* items which may or may not offer an advantage to a player. CSGO's cases clearly display the skins that the case contains. Only way CSGO's cases would be in any REAL legal danger is if the case for example would drop a AK47 skin with +20 extra damage which it would literally make that a predatory microtransaction and give an unfair advantage to players that decide to spend real money. Get your f**king shit together before commenting bruh, you're embarrassing yourself. Edit: I forgot to mention your pathetic remark about "viewers", see that's the difference between CSGO players and wannabe-CSGO players... CSGO players actually PLAY the game and not spend all day on twitch like a f**king looser and watch some virgin streamer that never touched grass or a woman, play the game for them. Hence why CSGO has WAY more players and wannabe-CSGO has WAY more virgin incel viewers.
NIP were given the opportunity to release the Arms Deals update to CSGO. By pressing that button it forced everyone to update. This update brought skins and cases to the game.
Crazy that valve unintentionally started the biggest cancer in gaming and in some ways the wider world with NFT's. Sometimes it sucks to be ahead of the curve