Video games large Valve walked away virtually $1 billion richer in 2023 due to Counter-Strike circumstances.
That’s according to data from CS Case Tracker – as spotted by Dextero – which studies that gamers opened 400,318,821 circumstances final 12 months, producing an estimated income of $980 million. This determine does not take into accounts the 15 per cent minimize that Valve takes from circumstances offered on the group market, pushing the whole income that the corporate produced from this stuff climbing properly north of $1 billion.
CS Case Tracker additionally studies that the most well-liked day for unboxing circumstances was April twenty fifth following the launch of the Anubis Assortment Bundle. In the meantime, the outfit says that the announcement of Counter-Strike 2 on March twenty second – maybe unsurprisingly – result in a “important” rise within the variety of gamers unboxing circumstances.
Oh, and Wednesday is – on common – the most well-liked day for unboxing circumstances in Counter-Strike; on mixture, 15.73 per cent of circumstances have been opened on at the present time of the week, coming in forward of Thursday’s 14.26 per cent.