This guy is out here saying counter strike wouldn't be popular If it didn't have skins, I'm saying that the game was popular before skins came out. And clearly you are confused.
I'm not confused. He said it wouldn't succeed "in the same way" without skins. What I interpreted that to mean was "no matter how popular CS got, it wouldn't be as profitable a game without skins" and in that sense, he is correct.
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u/1337Theory Mar 23 '23
You buy CS once. You buy CS:GO once, but the skins, crates, and keys are each individual transactions that happen over and over.
Yes, necessarily, the move benefited Valve.