CSGO Unboxing Streamer: A Charity-Driven Tycoon

Chapter 7 Spending money like water

Lu Yiming's extravagant spending caused gasps from the viewers in the live stream.

These days, the main selling point of game streamers' live streams is consumption.

For example, Bao Ge, who joined the Wukong platform in July this year, had a viewership of 43 million during his first live stream.

Every day, the number of red envelopes sent out in the live broadcast room is in the hundreds of thousands or even millions.

Considering that Lu Yiming's live stream only had a mere two hundred viewers, yet his popularity had already reached over four thousand, his popularity rating was twenty times the default.

Currently, Qiezi, the top streamer in the CSGO section, has a stable audience of 200,000, which roughly translates to around 10,000 viewers in his live stream.

This reminded Lu Yiming of Bao Ge's popularity of over 40 million people, and he couldn't help but gasp.

[WDNMD: The streamer is so stingy! He spends tens of thousands so easily, and then just throws in a gun skin worth twenty yuan?]

A barrage of comments scrolled across the screen.

Many viewers in the live stream then responded.

Lu Yiming noticed this and smiled, "Thanks for the reminder! Let's start by increasing it from twenty to one hundred! We'll roll for more expensive gun skins once the popularity steadily surpasses ten thousand!"

The words fell.

The host started flooding the chat with comments.

Lu Yiming smiled and continued his shopping trip.

He had already bought the knife, decided to open the gloves himself, and all he needed to buy was the main battle gun skin. Without hesitation, he looked at the AK first.

And it was after seeing the Quenched AK skin.

Subconsciously, he searched for the template "661".

[South City Flowers Haven't Bloomed: Holy crap! You actually dared to watch this?]

The Quenched AK No. 661 is the highest-priced AK skin in CS:GO.

You can see that the price for a brand new product starts at 18,000.

There were only three items for sale on the market, with the most expensive being a four-piece holographic Titan set for only 80,000. Lu Yiming forcibly suppressed the urge to pay.

I glanced at the barrage of comments, which were full of question marks.

Lu Yiming said softly, "This one is really cheap at over 80,000. If you're interested, you can buy it. After playing with it for a few months, you can sell it to me for 100,000!"

That's how it works sometimes.

The opportunity is right in front of me, but I just don't have the extra money in my pocket.

However, Lu Yiming also realized that no matter how cheap it was, he would stop there.

You can see a chorus of boos in the comments.

Jewelry worth over 80,000 yuan is not something everyone can own.

however.

One person listened to this.

At this moment, Lu Yiming smiled at the comments but remained silent.

He immediately started looking at the price of Dark Gold 661. There was no stock of Brand New in this price range, and he hadn't heard of any Brand New Dark Gold 661 being released until the year Lu Yiming was reborn.

Then, there was no stock in the slightly worn range, until it appeared in the well-worn range.

Wear is at 0.200
It was covered with a quad holographic IBP.

The price is 120,000.

[Wasn't this originally listed at 160,000? How come the owner couldn't hold onto it?]

[Haha! When this was listed for 160,000, some marketing accounts helped promote it, but unfortunately, one of those accounts was an idiot who said it was worth 160,000 because it was a brand new, unique 661.]

[Hilarious! The brand new unique 661 rifles haven't even been released yet! There are only two or three slightly worn unique 661 rifles.]

I remember it was three games, but one of them was marked with a red card, so saying it was two games isn't wrong.

[Is the owner of that account with the legendary 661 gold item selling it? It was also listed for 160,000, which is why this one dropped in price?]

The prices of CSGO skins are not fixed.

It's somewhat similar to an antique.

Prices are relatively transparent in markets with large inventories.

Rare and scarce items are expensive and their prices fluctuate greatly, depending mainly on the demand relationship between buyers and sellers.

When Lu Yiming saw in the comments that someone had obtained a slightly polished Dark Gold 661, he immediately inquired about it.

Following the prompts in the comments, I entered the forum and found a post.

The accompanying image is a Dark Gold 661 Quadruple Holographic Titan.

And there is text below it.

I need money urgently!
I won't take the knife for 160,000.

You can use any platform, or even Taobao's escrow service!

[South City Flowers Haven't Bloomed Yet: You're not planning to buy it, are you?]

Lu Yiming looked at it very carefully.

They practically had "I want it" written all over their faces.

I saw the comments section.

Lu Yiming nodded with a smile and said, "Yes! But I don't know if he sold it yet, the post has been up for half a month!"

The words fell.

The screen was filled with question marks. It wasn't until Lu Yiming started trying to contact the account owner that they began typing "666" in the comments!

Sixteen hundred thousand!

Even if you can't afford a house, you can still buy a regular car.

At this time, as a top CSGO streamer, Qiezi's inventory of high-value cosmetic items was mostly borrowed from others. It's estimated that he has around 50,000 such items among CSGO players in China.

The similar FPS game CrossFire has over a million concurrent players, and a Fire Kirin weapon in the game only costs a few hundred yuan. This amount of over 100,000 yuan has a huge impact on them.

Good luck.

Lu Yiming contacted the account owner through the attached contact information.

The other party's first words were, "I won't take the knife."

Lu Yiming responded with a smile, telling him to put it directly on the Bafu platform.

The entire transaction lasted fifteen minutes.

Seeing the Dark Gold Quadruple Holographic Titan 661 that appeared in Lu Yiming's inventory, the more than 300 viewers in the live stream increased the number of question marks they typed.

New gun in hand.

Of course, you should try it out in the game.

The Quenched AK is very reliant on special effects, but fortunately, he has upgraded his equipment, and with all the effects turned on, the gun looks amazing in the game.

"Holy crap! Boss! A Dark Gold Tempered AK???"

"What! Dark Gold Tempered AK? Where is it?! Holy crap! A quadruple holographic Titan?"

"Zzzzz~ Zzzzz~"

"Whose idiot used that live microphone?! Turn it off!"

It's set to matchmaking.

Lu Yiming's teammates saw the AK in his hand.

Although I didn't recognize 661.

But they recognized the holographic Titan sticker.

Currently, the holographic Titan sticker has become so rare that its price has soared to 20,000, causing a stir in the game.

When the game started, all of Lu Yiming's teammates surrounded his game character.

Lu Yiming knew that this game was over.

The live broadcast ended that evening.

The live stream attracted 2,700 viewers, with an average of 370 viewers online at any given time.

Looking at the data, Lu Yiming laughed and said, "It's already surpassed what I could achieve in a year. You really have to be willing to spend money to do live streaming well!"

After sighing, he twisted his neck.

Silently say "Open data panel".

Name: Lu Yiming

Age: 23 (single)

Main occupation: Warehouse Manager
Secondary Career (1): CSGO Game Streamer (Tier D 43/500)

Secondary Profession (2): Not yet unlocked (will be automatically unlocked when Secondary Profession 1 is upgraded to Rank B.)
Looking at the data.

Lu Yiming began to ponder.

Today, after the prize draw was increased to 100, eight out of the twelve winners gave away a membership card.

If it's not about money, then you should be more frugal.

Lu Yiming even wanted to double the number of winners.

Unfortunately, it wasn't just that he didn't have enough money to support such spending, but also that he didn't have that much energy.

As the number of viewers in the live stream increased.

Previously, only guild members advertised, but now even people selling the videos have appeared, along with some deliberately malicious and disruptive individuals.

He was doing live streaming while also handling these miscellaneous tasks.

After a live broadcast.

I'm really mentally exhausted.

At this moment, he opened a document on his desktop.

It contains his short-term and long-term plans.

His short-term plan includes things he's already doing, such as buying luxury jewelry to attract attention and unboxing Dragon Sniper rifles.

Long-term plans are things that can be invested in. In order to avoid unexpected events, he tries to replace many words with their initials, so that he can remember them as long as he sees them, but others will only be confused.

After hesitating for a moment.

He included the phrase "add moderators to the live stream room" in his short-term plan.

Moderators are like the management team in a live stream. They have special powers in front of ordinary viewers, such as banning certain people from speaking and kicking them out.

In most live streams, if enough gifts are sent, the streamer will grant the room administrator privileges.

However, the relationship between room managers and live streamers is not one of employment, making them difficult to manage.

Lu Yiming wanted someone who could help him distribute the prizes, but when money was involved, a lot of trust was required.

After closing the document, Lu Yiming sighed, "I still don't have enough money! I'll have to wait until next week to see if there's a chance!"

(End of this chapter)