CS:GO cases. What is it and why do you need it
Yuriy SheremetCSGO is not just one of the most popular team shooters and the ancient esports discipline. Besides tactics, shooting, grenade throws, and other mechanical features of the game by Valve, which has conquered millions of players, there is a cosmetic aspect of the game.
Over the years of the game’s existence, CSGO skins have grown into a standalone subculture: there are lots of forums full of enthusiasts ready to exchange items and talk about the drop rate of “pixels” for hours. All this did not appear from scratch. Initially, there were cases.
In this material, we will talk about the main in-game item and everything you have to know about it: what CSGO cases are, how to get them, what is dropped from them, and how to make money on cases.
What are CSGO cases?
The answer to the question is obvious and extremely banal: CSGO cases are literally cases. Cases, boxes, packages, treasures – you can call it as you wish but the idea is all the same.
There are cosmetic items, which can brighten your inventory and you can brag to your friends and teammates about it. In simpler terms, a case is a consumable item, from which you can get much more valuable items.
Despite the case’s structure is simple and trivial, the diversity of this in-game item is astonishing. Since the release of CSGO, dozens of cases from various collections with absolutely different content have been released.
Every item is unique in a few aspects: their content depends on the collection the case is dedicated to and the items dropped from it also differ in quality, patterns, etc.
How to get a CSGO case and how it drops
The procedure of receiving cases is also pretty simple. You only need to play to get it.
If you dig a bit deeper, you will find out additional parameters for getting cases. Valve does not provide particular numbers but the tendency can be noticed:
- CSGO cases drop randomly after the end of the matches. It is dropped both in competitive matches on the official servers and the custom ones.
- Players who play less receive drops more frequently. The number of played hours per week will not increase the chance of receiving “the desired box”.
- The in-game counter of case drops is reset twice a week. It is reset every Thursday and Sunday.
Once again, you have to understand that luck is a tricky thing. The counter reset twice a week and a small number of in-game hours will not guarantee you an item drop.
The guaranteed chance of getting a CSGO case is to buy an item. It can be done on the Steam Community Market where hundreds of positions are available. Also, you can use different services to buy in-game items.
Another way to receive a case is to exchange it. It can be done on Steam in the community section, contact a teammate who got a case after the match, and use special marketplaces.
There is one more method to get a case but it is free and does not require spending time. It is called IDLE servers.
What are IDLE servers?
IDLE servers are used as a hub for players who want to get cases in CSGO without playing on the official Valve servers, buying items, or communicating with other users during the exchange. Such servers were designed for this purpose, so they have their own features:
- The duration of a match on IDLE servers is as short as possible. A match frequently lasts 1 round with a minimum timer of the round;
- Standard CSGO rules do not work there – you can stay AFC on such servers without getting kicked or banned;
- It has an anti-cheat. Without the VAC system, the drop of items is impossible in CSGO.
These servers are frequently used when new operations and new CSGO cases are released. However, it is not worth forgetting about the principle of the item drop because it is used on IDLE servers: there is no guarantee of getting a case or any other item but if you stay on such a server for 10 hours, you will probably get the desired item.
How to open a case
Free advice is seldom cheap, so opening CSGO cases requires investment. We are not talking about cosmic sums of money but you will have to deposit your Steam account.
You will need to use keys to open CSGO cases. It is sold in the game and has a fixed price – $2,50.
You can also use special services to open cases. There are lots of them in the global network, so we will not focus on them.
What can you get from a case?
The range of CSGO cases is big and its content is even more diversified. Weapon skins can most often be found in cases: AKs, Ms, Famas, AWP, Desert Eagles, and other weapons available in the game.
Besides, there is a chance to drop an extremely rare item in every case. There are two types of very rare items: knives and gloves. The first ones drop from collection cases (the regular ones), and the second ones drop from the special ones, which are called the glove case.
There are other cases, for example, musical cases. It includes different musical themes but the value of these cases is not high.
Ultra-rare items like knives and gloves have the highest value. There is no proven information about the drop rate of one or another item, however, small pieces of information leak due to gambling laws of a row of countries (cases and the procedure of skin drop in CSGO are frequently related to gambling). For example, after CSGO was released in China, Valve revealed the drop rate of rare items. According to the information on the network, it is equal to 0.26% but there is an opinion that the number is different. In any case, it is a fact that it is almost impossible to get such an item from the very first case.
However, average skin, which has got a lucky pattern combined with quality, can become expensive.
How to make money on cases
Finally, we have reached the most savory point of our exhaustive guide. Earnings on cases in xgo is real and it is not always betting on CS GO gambling website.
It will be enough to devote time to it to earn money on in-game pixels. We will explain now.
CSGO frequently receives different updates, which add new cases to the game. During the first hours and days of the release of a fresh item, its price rises significantly on the community market due to the small number of copies. If you get this case during this period – our congratulations, you will have a profit. You read about what increases the chance of getting a fresh case in this material above, in the section about IDLE servers.
Besides, you can dig into market relations and become a case tycoon. The idea is that the pool of CSGO cases is dynamic and the most ancient variations of cases disappear from it with time. These cases are frequently expensive because they are rare and some sort of unique.
When a new operation or a series of cases is released, you can wait a week or two for the price stabilization and buy a few dozen items at an affordable price. The next step is to wait.
Yuriy Sheremet – Expert in mobile gaming and esports among shooters and MOBA games.
At EGamersWorld, Yuriy, as in 2020 when he joined the portal, works with content, albeit with adjustments to his area of responsibility.