New CS Weapon Pricing - The CS Market

Interesting. I just assumed they would be making static changes to the prices; a one-time deal. This dynamic price idea is very intriguing, but I doubt that it will change things all that much. Price for AK and M4 will probably go up for a couple weeks, then drop back down once players can't afford them as often anymore. I expect to see an ebb and flow of prices for all weapons, I hope they graph it on SteamPowered.com at some point. With all the AWP-whores out there though (and I have been one) this might put a damper on sniping. I'll be sad when the Scout is no loger so cheap though. I hope the pump shotty doesn't climb too much. And I'll bet the Glock and 5.7 drop to about 5 bucks before long ;P



EDIT: Oh yeah, this absolutely ruins tactics for competetive play. I don't care myself since I hardly play anymore, but having to alter strats each week based on the new pricing is gonna be giving a lot of clans headaches soon.

april.....fools....late? sigh.....another reason to go back to 1.6 I guess

to be honest, i think this is really going to affect people who are into league plays.



i think it is unfair. but who am i to say right?

If you go to the steam forums you deserve to be tortured with the whining of little emo kids.



These changes are interesting, but I wonder how they'll actually affect gameplay.

as they should

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That doesn't make sense... if the price increases by the percentage of dollars which are spent on it, then the prices would always go up. Probably less than 1% of the dollars are spent on the dualies, but the price is still going to go up because thats greater than zero.



But then, they say that they sort the list and the top half go up, and the bottom half go down. This is contradictory, because then they can't use the percentage directly. They are probably going to have to use some algorithm where the price is modified for weapon X by:



{

Percentage of money spent on X



MINUS



Median percentage of money spent

}



By this logic, if 10% of the people buy M4's, and 1% of the people buy elites, then the M4 would go up by about 5%, and the elites DOWN by about 4%.



So the prices won't change as much as they seem to suggest. Fix your news posts, csnation and valve.

People are already complaining to high Heaven about this...

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/f...s=&forumid=37

Hooray, bring on the whiney "cyber athlete" kiddies and their bitching and moaning!

The prices change weekly..

i love how the mac10 is projected to be cheap. it's my fav gun to rush with especially if T's lose first round. this will be interesting

So..the economy part of the game will change every week? Hm.



Not too bad for us regular folk, but I'm sure it'll be a bitch for clans and tourneys.

what kind of crack do the people who make these kinds of changes smoke?

once again - i go away from my comp and this happens... i will never post news as long as zips is awake =)

$930 for a deagle? Bah.