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Re:How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online by huac on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @12:50PM (#15697375)
> Some digital items obtained from loot crates have sold for over $1,000.

That's been happening for years. Hats in Team Fortress 2 sold for ~1500 (Burning Kabuto was around there IIRC), and a knife in CSGO went for 24k (apparently, http://read.navi-gaming.com/en/team_news/Rarest_and_expensiv...).

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Re:How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online by Namrog84 on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @02:46PM (#15698473)
I think the point was that PUBG is still in early access, and has been out for less than a year.

CounterStrike and Team Fortress have been full fledged releases for many years prior to reaching those numbers.

Its not the absolute number that is impressive, its how quickly it has reached comparable values with these longstanding behemoths.

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Re:How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online by berbec on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @02:13AM (#15702001)
Sounds like what I ended paying^H^H^H^H^H^H to buy http://www.wowhead.com/item=21025/recipe-dirges-kickin-chima...
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Re:How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online by kofejnik on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @05:39PM (#15699888)
Golden Frying Pan in TF2 is around $2500 currently and has been reported to sell at over $5k at some point
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