Seven years ago, Valve introduced Operation Wildfire Case to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Today, CS.MONEY Blog finds out how much you can earn on CS:GO skins from this operation and tries to analyze price changes.
Best Skins from Wildfire Case
At first glance, Wildfire Case is stacked with primarily the best CS:GO skins: AK-47, Dealge, AWP, M4A4, USP-S and Glock-18. And it’s not just a bunch of ordinary weapon finishes lying around in a yellow crate. These AK-47 and M4A4 are Covert skins, while AWP and Desert Eagle are of Classified rarity. Such combos don’t come around very often. Usually, a skin case can have one Covert skin for a meta weapon and one for something like a SCAR-20.
For example, the Chroma Case comes with Covert Galil AR and AWP skins. In this pair, the sniper rifle has an obvious advantage. But is there a clear leader, the best skin among the duet of AK-47s and M4A4s in Operation Wildfire Case? Yes, it’s pretty easy to determine which one is better. Anyways, this is an interesting case (pun intended), which is a very rare thing for CS:GO.
But we’ll leave it for later. First, let’s recall and recalculate all the contents of the case. In addition to weapon skins, Wildfire Case also contains thirteen knives. Well, actually, it’s one knife, the Bowie Knife, but of various knife patterns:
- Bowie Knife Vanilla;
- Bowie Knife Fade;
- Bowie Knife Case Hardened;
- Bowie Knife Safari Mesh;
- Bowie Knife Slaughter;
- Bowie Knife Night;
- Bowie Knife Crimson Web;
- Bowie Knife Scorched;
- Bowie Knife Blue Steel;
- Bowie Knife Stained;
- Bowie Knife Urban Masked;
- Bowie Knife Boreal Forest;
- Bowie Knife Forest DDPAT.
AK-47 Fuel Injector’s price: is it the best AK skin ever?
Can you guess the prices of these two Covert skins? Okay, here’s a tiny hint: one can cost over $400, and the other is around $14. Yes, that’s right, AK-47 Fuel Injector is thirty times the price of M4A4 The Battlestar. And there are several reasons for it.
First, the AK itself is the most popular gun in CS:GO. Therefore, the best AK skins are always more expensive than similar skins for M4s and other weapons. For example, AK-47 Asiimov is 10% more expensive than M4A4 Asiimov. It’s pretty simple. AK-47 is the primary assault rifle. The weapon is relatively cheap, so players buy it almost every round, meaning that owners can spend time inspecting their skins in most rounds.
Secondly, M4A4 The Battlestar has serious competition among its own kind. Even before this skin’s appearance, CS:GO had some other popular skins for M4, like Bullet Rain, 龍王 (Dragon King), Asiimov and Daybreak. And they are much brighter, catching the eye instantly and – surprise! – attracting players more. This turns into a situation where the rarer M4A4 The Battlestar skin costs several times less than the more common M4A4 龍王 (Dragon King).
Was it worth it to invest in Wildfire Case?
This question has three equal answers. So, let’s consider the case, its best skins, and the knives separately. Wildfire Case itself has been worth cents for a long time, and only in February 2019, its price started growing. Now, Steam Marketplace lists this case esteemed at about 90 cents. It’s not a big deal in terms of case prices, but it’s still a severe increase of 20 times in five years. That is, it was profitable to invest in this case.
Wildfire skins have also risen in price. Surely, the prices for meta weapons increased the most: AK-47 Fuel Injector, Desert Eagle Kumicho Dragon and AWP Elite Build. Their value has increased several times since the moment they appeared in the game. And again, the beautiful M4A4 The Battlestar was the exception. This skin’s price has not grown at all. Finally, the knives from the Operation Wildfire Case also saw price increases. For example, the initially cheap knife in csgo Bowie Knife Fade has risen in price about three times since the case was added to the game.
Investing in skins from Wildfire Case could be profitable, as well as in the case itself. Most of the popular skins have risen in price as expected. But you must know that this boost happened because Wildfire Case made it into the rare drops pool. By the way, we have already talked about what cases drop out after matches and what it depends on. You can read more about it here:
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