As someone who has been playing Counter-Strike for over 15 years, here's some advice: Don't open Counter-Strike: Global Offensive cases. It's simple! You will only find junk. And yet, and yet, and yet, for some reason, when I get paid, I plunk down 20 pounds or so and take a couple of boxes of muddy brown MP9s worth 15 pesos out of the box. So do as I say, not as I do.

After all, you could be a freak like this 18 year old who, after being banned at Valorant (for reasons that are not clear), tries OG, spends a modest 34 hours in the game, and then opens a case with a 387 pattern Karambit blue-gem knife in it is. The key here is the pattern: the 387 pattern is considered the number one pattern in the game for Karambit knives, is incredibly rare and the bluest blue, and depending on the condition of the weapon, could be worth over $200,000. One in slightly better condition is estimated to be worth $1.5 million, and it is estimated that there are only 12 of these knives in the world.

I' No, I'm not jealous; CS:GO streamer and crate unboxing addict OhnePixel managed to catch the lucky knife owner right after unboxing. ["Everyone's like freaking out right now," said the individual." Yeah, I actually had an offer of $150,000."

"That sounds very expensive."

"That's too low," Orne said immediately.

"The last one that sold was well-used (knife condition, also randomly assigned) and was a dupe, and that one sold for 118,000. You have unboxed CS:GO's finest.

Either way, it's ridiculously expensive. ' said Amboxer. 'And Amboxer said, $200,000 is... It's like helping out your parents.' As for why he ended up opening the crate, the player says he got paid and basically plunked the money into the game: "I actually got banned on Valorant. Then a friend told me about CS:GO and he was opening cases, so I started."

Well, sometimes it's luck, and sometimes it's how the heck did it happen. This virtual knife is somehow worth a whole house. But that is how they get you, and I am definitely not going to log on and open 10 cases for this.

"Are you going to go back to Valorant?" asks OhnePixel at the end of the call.

"Probably not," laughs the lucky winner.