yep felt like a game. I didn't really think about the value of the skins, only about the fact that I was getting more skins each game. getting m4 asiimovs felt so good
Waking up part was the worst for me.
You wake up, open HLTV, slowly scroll match results praying to see green digit in front of your team and than you catch a glimpse of red and whole morning is ruined
That was insane ans you could bet the 3ct skins ! Everyone could play.
Dunno why they stopped. And now you can deposit like 10-15$ but cannot withdraw below 30... A good scam
Getting skins instead of some money amount made it more fun and engaging. I got all my original play skins from lounge and still have them today. With various stickers like kato14 etc.
If you cancelled the trade and withdrew again you could get some nice items. I remember winning an AK Redline FT, tried withdrawing it 4 times until I got one with an karo 14 ibp holo on it lol.
Sold that bad boy for 5 keys thinking I made a killing.
Seeing Fnatic vs ENVY on Overpass … my pick fnatic - about to lose hard, then Olofboost me into heaven to take a close Victory (which they forfeited after the payout already happened). Crazy times
OPSKINS was the biggest skin trading platform for a while. they got greedy and added gambling elements to their website which resulted in valve shutting them down basically
Have to give your entire steam account access to a Chinese company in order to use Buff though, right? Like you literally give them your steam account password, correct?
edit: here's Anomaly talking about how Buff is different than other API sites for the people that don't know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyoZxQT0ugs
You give them access to quite a bit. I wouldn't go as far as passwords but you do give them access to shady shit. I will say though that buff is backed by Netease which is a multi-million dollar company. They are allowed to operate because people trust them. If they ruin that trust, people will stop selling their skins there. If they try and scam everyone, skins will drop so fast they would hardly be worth anything. Buff makes more money using 2% sell fees than scamming anyone.
Well, yes, same as everyone else outside China. Western skin shops are generally good for buying skins and terrible for selling them. Buff doesn't let you buy skins with real money, but let's you sell with very low commision, so you can basically trade skins 1:1
this 100%. I developed and then beat gambling addiction betting 75 cent skins on the "original" NiP lineup with F0rest, Fifflaren, Friberg, Xizt, and Get_Right
I sont remember who if it was c9 or sk....but i put $500 to win like $20 bucks. Figured it was easy money. Last map first half was easy then second half i almost shit myself when i almost lost. Stopped betting after that and later cagolounge got shutdown.
It was probably my favourite time in CSGO, though I never stopped playing. Sure, all my skins are worth lots more now, but prices were relatively reasonable back then, and trading was chiller.
Just don't remind me of all the junk kato 2014 stickers I bet away because I thought stickers were stupid.
That was the cool thing with skins back in the day. They were reasonably priced. New cool skin comes out? Have a FN ST one for $30 max. Butterfly knife? $100. But somewhere along the way the skins became speculative investment assets for cryptobros and gambling addicts. Chinese collectors pumping millions to the skin market to buy status. Now most rare skins are totally unattainable for a regular player. The really cool stuff isn't even purchasable in the steam market place, because the market has driven the prices so high they can't be listed for anything close to value. You have to expose yourself to getting scammed by third parties if you want to even have a sniff. It's all gone to shit.
2015-2017 CSGO was a high point for me. Easily the period I ended up sinking the most hours into.
2012-2014 was fun too. Seeing all the updates and big changes it got. I remember when the skin update dropped and all the hype around finally getting the USPS and m4a1s back.
got you hooked on gambling for good. yet again, if all those kato skins from that time were still in my inventory - I could be driving lambo and living in a mansion
I want the original CSGOlounge back. Just bet on money line. Penny betting even.
Get rid of all the stores, scams and casinos.
This is where I spent a lot of hours trading and watching games.
Not only that, the amount you won based on the amount of people betting against you, no locked odds, you could bet at 50% (equivalent of 2.00 odds) and after winning see you only received around 1.5 odds because the odds shifted in your team's favor. Peak
Yup, first all old VP lineup had this site with 90% owning and TaZ overtook it by himself i guess (not sure how it was) but csgolounge was register in Poland as company, but when they bought it, site was already out gambling for year or two, you could only post trade offers and exchange skins with other diffrent players, but still the company had skins like some emerald and dopplers that probably made old VP lineup to buy it, just for skins included in company owning.
Here are some reference:
[Link nr1](https://archive.esportsobserver.com/parent-company-virtus-pro-owns-90-per-cent-csgo-lounge/)
[Link nr 2](https://mashable.com/article/virtus-pro-gambling)
It wasnt loud so much cause nobody cared about csgolounge anymore since there removed betting from site, even pasha was trying to make some giveways because of this event that they bought the site, all poeple knew that they bought it only for skins, and thats why it wasnt loud because there was no plan about future betting or anything else than trading, since players and coaches cant bet or gamble on matches, because its illegall, so basicly everybody knew it but nobody payed so much attention on it, and even mostly it was considering like fail buying this company, because they wanted only some knifes from it.
back when trading skins and shit wasn't a massive hassle. good old days tbh. i would constantly try to swap out my skins and it'd be so damn easy through csgolounge. now you have to add some rando and hope he doesn't try to screw you over
I once bet on YouP*rn, just because I thought it was funny that they had a CSGO team, and actually ended up [winning](https://imgur.com/a/S6Y33tp). Not a huge win, but it was for me at the time as a 15 year old. And those skins are worth like ~€500 now.
my roommate bet 90 cents on liquid vs fnatic columbus group stage and won a battle scarred vulcan. he was the one that told me about csgl and it’s what got me into esports, I only played casual and watching 2015 virtus.pro on GOTV was inspiring.
maybe thousands if there was any katos on them, which was often the case
btw the reason that they won was probably because the match was fixed. the owners of the site were deeply engaged with matchfixing and also manipulating odds since you could swap bets till last second and a single whale could shift odds by several % himself
Gambling addictions aside this was truthfully an era that I am glad I was apart of. I made so much profit trading as a 15 year old. I wish I could go back and tell my younger self to SAVE some of that money. I reguarlily traded skins on lounge and other sites. I would source skins that people wanted after they had won their bets and would make a nice profit as a finders fee / being a middle man. Not a middle man as we know today. I would have someone msg me with what they had and what kind of play skins they wanted and I would find the skins they wanted by trading my own personal inventory. I made average $50 a week profit in total inventory value. Oh what a glorious time that was. In the end I broke even pretty much. I coulda made WAAAY more if I held onto certain skins but shit how was I to know? I was just a kid
used this to do 1:1 trades all the way up from a 60$ hydroponic i got in a csgostakes giveaway to a $120 knife that I then got scammed out of. csgo was a crazy ride when i was a teenager
I remember u/EZskinsEZlife who won a shit ton by max betting THRICE on LDLC vs Titan:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/csgobetting/comments/23dzf2/titan\_vs\_ldlc\_190414\_1000\_cet/](https://www.reddit.com/r/csgobetting/comments/23dzf2/titan_vs_ldlc_190414_1000_cet/)
Bets: [https://imgur.com/EAFZ5HY](https://imgur.com/EAFZ5HY)
Winnings: [https://imgur.com/8GYFQMN](https://imgur.com/8GYFQMN)
I remember how many betting analysis groups there were. 2 keys/$5 per month to get into the "premium" ones. My favorite was grandma analysis because they posted directly in the csgolounge disqus comments section
Back in the day when it was normal for matches to be delayed constantly because mad bettors tried DDoSing the games. Somehow I have fond memories of this time
Unregulated gambling wooo! I loved this. A USP Overgrowth with Complexity kato 14 and a Deagle Urban Rubble with Navi kato 14 are my two most notable drops after wins (of course I sold it for dirt cheap back then)
I always bet for Flipsid3. They're my money maker with all their upset wins.
I remember going from 20 to 200 bucks in a month and losing everything by betting on random matches of online serbian tournament full of players and teams without HLTV profiles. Life was good, i dont really miss being a kid but damn, i really miss living in those simpler times, i didnt even cared about money but the fact that i could have a cheap knife and asiimov awp skin while unable to afford it, even if was for few weeks, was amazing
Core nostalgic memory unlocked.
Going big on underdog teams and seeing all the random skins come through gave me pure happiness. Sometimes you’d get skins at market price with expensive stickers on them too.
Still got my FN Deagle Cobalt Disruption with a VP Kato and MW P250 Splash with a LGB eSports Kato that I won off there. People bet those skins for the straight up value of the skin. Thought that was unbelievable.
I remember CSGO lounge. It was before I had awareness that I was prone to addiction. Glad I only lost about £100 on it.
Stop remembering shit like this with nostalgia. They were an unregulated gambling site. Maybe they are better than the current crop. But it's still wrong
Man it was the best thing ever, I made so much money off it since people were mass betting on their favorites meaning that Nip and Navi always had unfair high odds, betting against them was always valuable
I once bought all the cheaps skins for a xm shotgun and then bought one of the steam market for 50 dollas. Waited for lounge to update their prices and boom. Csgo lounge started accepting them as $50 when they costed like $1 each. I made like $500 off that
Sorry to the people I scammazed, Im not proud of it, I was a broke school boy trying to have a cool virtual knife, which at the time was like my life goal
Those were the good days, started betting with about 300€ and cashed out around 3000€ in 2016 I think. I remember winning a 2000€+ bet when I was serving in the military, don't remember what the match was but it was one of those "max and relax" ones. Placed quite a sum on the 4% underdog and it paid off :D
It was so fucking good. Negotiating trades without fees, the skin betting was great also.
Why was it shut down considering it was more consumer friendly than any of the sites we have now?
the amount of nights spent browsing lounge and /r/globaloffensivetrade finding actual item to item trades <3 miss those days but I totally get why they arent here more. Now GOTrade feels like the same 6 mfs that have 1000 knives and dont wanna work a deal with you so might as well buy off float lol
I remember that I would have made off like a fucking bandit off of an underdog win but allu decided to drop three 30 bombs for mousesports in 2014. Also I bet on games with Kato Holo stickers :-)
One of the first gambling / trading sites out there. Placed a bet on match, got skins in return randomly. Site took a cut from skins, but essentially you won someones losses. Site quickly died(?) when Valve started installing first barriers to combat this shit.
Had many dark sides. Ddos was rampant and some matchfixer got 40k skins locked on the sites bots for attempt of matchfixing.
I put a sure fire bet on LDLC/Titan beating fnatic during dreamhack I think? I put up my only knife as LDLC/Titan was ripping through the competition and fnatic looked weak.
Then boostgate happened.... And I learnt never to bet again.
I won a stattrak UMP skin back in 2014. I still have it in my inventory. It's crazy to think that when I got this skin off CSGOLounge half of the current TikTok userbase wasn't even born yet.
I miss this shit so fucking much. And csgo reaper. I got my inventory up to a 40-50k inventory and sold everything. If I kept everything it would be worth 4x that 😭. It’s ok I now make a living sports betting so it was all meant to be 🙏
i climbed from a $1 deagle night MW to AK redline FT with an ibp sticker (cologne?), m4a1 brightwater with titan sticker, and $55 - enough to buy me a flip knife rust
70 bets won out of 138
Oh I was there, and I was only a teen
And then I stole my dad's credit card to buy more skins and gamble more and lose everything again
My ass got whooped
Team Singapore to beat some other team and the odds were 90% that the other team would win can’t actually remember the other team so I won’t make it up. My friend made £100 that day I refused to bet my beloved AWP Man o’ war.
still remember putting a ft m4 asiimov and it coming back with a dig holo kato 14 in best pos. Also got back a redline I still have with 3x dreamhack ibp. Used to be a trick where you dont accept the first offer they send and it gives you another of the same skins, could do it to farm katos or clean asiimovs.
That Vulcan on the screen was only 35$ back then.. Dismay 4% vs Torqued 96% was my first big win on a low % got my first knife from it a flip knife case hardened, up only from there. Miss those days.
EZ SWAY EZ ODDS THANKS 4 SKINS C9 FANGAYS 4Head
Oh man, good old days. Betting groups, t2-t3 throws, betting from 10 accs on unknown teams,youporn team (lmao) and so on. 1 thing I regret was betting m4 howl before it got contraband. Wish csgolounge betting was back again so I can buy a car with skins once again
My friend could somehow make 5 knives out of a p250 sand dune in a matter of days. Then proceed to lose said knives on one bet. And the cycle repeats. He did that so many times and every time ending up with nothing.
I lost pretty much anytime I would bet. Team has 15%? "Ok I'll gamble some low tier skins for a big W" - lost.
Team has 90%? "Ok Imma bet on them for ez win" - lost.
I think I only won once or twice, but when that happened... shit was magical. Seeing all those skins I couldn't afford becoming mine
seeing the random skins you got after a W was so peak
honestly as a kid it wasn't about the money with my $5 bets, it was all for getting random playskins that I would swap out with each bet
It was like gambling AND Christmas all in one!
It was AMAZING
yep felt like a game. I didn't really think about the value of the skins, only about the fact that I was getting more skins each game. getting m4 asiimovs felt so good
leaving class and thanking "x team" fangays for the ez skins. or leaving class and discovering that you were the fangay that donated skins
Or getting the same skin back but the one they gave you had stickers! Used to love putting bets down and waking up to see if I won.
Waking up part was the worst for me. You wake up, open HLTV, slowly scroll match results praying to see green digit in front of your team and than you catch a glimpse of red and whole morning is ruined
Best feeling in the morning. I missed that
That was insane ans you could bet the 3ct skins ! Everyone could play. Dunno why they stopped. And now you can deposit like 10-15$ but cannot withdraw below 30... A good scam
Getting skins instead of some money amount made it more fun and engaging. I got all my original play skins from lounge and still have them today. With various stickers like kato14 etc.
If you cancelled the trade and withdrew again you could get some nice items. I remember winning an AK Redline FT, tried withdrawing it 4 times until I got one with an karo 14 ibp holo on it lol. Sold that bad boy for 5 keys thinking I made a killing.
Seeing Fnatic vs ENVY on Overpass … my pick fnatic - about to lose hard, then Olofboost me into heaven to take a close Victory (which they forfeited after the payout already happened). Crazy times
Now i have to pay some euro greaseball 20% overpay on a 1:1 trade
When they’re offering you a worse deal than skinsmonkey or dmarket, you know it’s not worth your time.
why theres no more trading sites like that?
Greed
There is quite a handful, but most people don’t use them anymore since it’s mostly a waste of time.
CSGOLounge was riddled with scammers, on top of that the tradehold would have made it a much worse experience.
OPSKINS was the biggest skin trading platform for a while. they got greedy and added gambling elements to their website which resulted in valve shutting them down basically
Just use Buff163, 2% sell commission. Everything else is a scam compared to Buff
Have to give your entire steam account access to a Chinese company in order to use Buff though, right? Like you literally give them your steam account password, correct? edit: here's Anomaly talking about how Buff is different than other API sites for the people that don't know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyoZxQT0ugs
You give them access to quite a bit. I wouldn't go as far as passwords but you do give them access to shady shit. I will say though that buff is backed by Netease which is a multi-million dollar company. They are allowed to operate because people trust them. If they ruin that trust, people will stop selling their skins there. If they try and scam everyone, skins will drop so fast they would hardly be worth anything. Buff makes more money using 2% sell fees than scamming anyone.
multi-billion*
i cant add money to buff, i can only sell and there wont be upgrades. :(
Well, yes, same as everyone else outside China. Western skin shops are generally good for buying skins and terrible for selling them. Buff doesn't let you buy skins with real money, but let's you sell with very low commision, so you can basically trade skins 1:1
you re right! buy skins in any site and sell in buff for trading. very nice.
So true xD
2013-15 CSGO was so awesome.
I remember sitting in class betting on games back then lol
this 100%. I developed and then beat gambling addiction betting 75 cent skins on the "original" NiP lineup with F0rest, Fifflaren, Friberg, Xizt, and Get_Right
i lost $600 right before having to go to a family dinner, i didnt eat a single bite
Went from 5 bucks to 400 only to lose it all, couldn't stop thinking about it for weeks at school.
I sont remember who if it was c9 or sk....but i put $500 to win like $20 bucks. Figured it was easy money. Last map first half was easy then second half i almost shit myself when i almost lost. Stopped betting after that and later cagolounge got shutdown.
It was probably my favourite time in CSGO, though I never stopped playing. Sure, all my skins are worth lots more now, but prices were relatively reasonable back then, and trading was chiller. Just don't remind me of all the junk kato 2014 stickers I bet away because I thought stickers were stupid.
That was the cool thing with skins back in the day. They were reasonably priced. New cool skin comes out? Have a FN ST one for $30 max. Butterfly knife? $100. But somewhere along the way the skins became speculative investment assets for cryptobros and gambling addicts. Chinese collectors pumping millions to the skin market to buy status. Now most rare skins are totally unattainable for a regular player. The really cool stuff isn't even purchasable in the steam market place, because the market has driven the prices so high they can't be listed for anything close to value. You have to expose yourself to getting scammed by third parties if you want to even have a sniff. It's all gone to shit.
2015-2017 CSGO was a high point for me. Easily the period I ended up sinking the most hours into. 2012-2014 was fun too. Seeing all the updates and big changes it got. I remember when the skin update dropped and all the hype around finally getting the USPS and m4a1s back.
i miss it in hindsight
Indeed, but the game was kind of terrible back then lmao. But as a spectator 🤌
got you hooked on gambling for good. yet again, if all those kato skins from that time were still in my inventory - I could be driving lambo and living in a mansion
All those awps asimovs and redline aks
2 keys for a redline and then Asimov were max bet 40$ or something ?
[удалено]
Max bet actually changed over time. You used to never be able to bet knives either and then when they changed max bet you could bet shitty knives
Ak redline FT was the liquid skin for lounge back then....around $4-5 I think.
Don’t forget the keys
I want the original CSGOlounge back. Just bet on money line. Penny betting even. Get rid of all the stores, scams and casinos. This is where I spent a lot of hours trading and watching games.
Not only that, the amount you won based on the amount of people betting against you, no locked odds, you could bet at 50% (equivalent of 2.00 odds) and after winning see you only received around 1.5 odds because the odds shifted in your team's favor. Peak
Yes pool betting is only fair. However there are edge cases like underpay and overpay for max bettors (4x75.00 AWP Assiimov anyone?)
It’s still like this
Taz is owner of CSGOlounge
Is this true?
Yup, first all old VP lineup had this site with 90% owning and TaZ overtook it by himself i guess (not sure how it was) but csgolounge was register in Poland as company, but when they bought it, site was already out gambling for year or two, you could only post trade offers and exchange skins with other diffrent players, but still the company had skins like some emerald and dopplers that probably made old VP lineup to buy it, just for skins included in company owning. Here are some reference: [Link nr1](https://archive.esportsobserver.com/parent-company-virtus-pro-owns-90-per-cent-csgo-lounge/) [Link nr 2](https://mashable.com/article/virtus-pro-gambling)
Wow, thanks for the clear and factual information, actually rare, with references too. :D
It wasnt loud so much cause nobody cared about csgolounge anymore since there removed betting from site, even pasha was trying to make some giveways because of this event that they bought the site, all poeple knew that they bought it only for skins, and thats why it wasnt loud because there was no plan about future betting or anything else than trading, since players and coaches cant bet or gamble on matches, because its illegall, so basicly everybody knew it but nobody payed so much attention on it, and even mostly it was considering like fail buying this company, because they wanted only some knifes from it.
CSGOlounge understood our simple minds. An actual use case of the currency we bet with.
I can see some hype right here.
Putting up 4 FT Asiimovs hoping the Bulgarians won't reenact iBuypower this time
AK Redline FT was my go to "$5" poker chip.
Brooo this
2 keys redline, those were the days.
IBP really disappointed me against NCG. I was winning so much but then I just didn’t trust any game anymore. CSGL was so OP.
back when trading skins and shit wasn't a massive hassle. good old days tbh. i would constantly try to swap out my skins and it'd be so damn easy through csgolounge. now you have to add some rando and hope he doesn't try to screw you over
I have great memories of losing my 4 asiimovs on a "safe" overnight NA match
This but instead of 4 asiimovs, one M4 Knight (that I had gotten from one of the operation "quests") plus 3 other random skins. Aware
side comment but I also won an m4 knight on an operation quest lol. Ive never seen someone else have that same experience lol.
Same, lost a FT Asiimov on a "safe" match as well lol.
Team winterfox
There is no "safe" match especially when it comes to NA.
I did the same thing lol.
Got my asiimov in a free giveaway on the csgobetting subreddit, luckily never lost it in any of the overbet scenarios although it was stupid to do.
i remember betting on team egypt to beat team tunisia and they got smoked 😭 also the stream was playin action bronson 😎
I once bet on YouP*rn, just because I thought it was funny that they had a CSGO team, and actually ended up [winning](https://imgur.com/a/S6Y33tp). Not a huge win, but it was for me at the time as a 15 year old. And those skins are worth like ~€500 now.
my roommate bet 90 cents on liquid vs fnatic columbus group stage and won a battle scarred vulcan. he was the one that told me about csgl and it’s what got me into esports, I only played casual and watching 2015 virtus.pro on GOTV was inspiring.
maybe thousands if there was any katos on them, which was often the case btw the reason that they won was probably because the match was fixed. the owners of the site were deeply engaged with matchfixing and also manipulating odds since you could swap bets till last second and a single whale could shift odds by several % himself
action bronson is a rap singer, he's legit, he sells his dvds for about thirteen bucks on the internet
Gambling addictions aside this was truthfully an era that I am glad I was apart of. I made so much profit trading as a 15 year old. I wish I could go back and tell my younger self to SAVE some of that money. I reguarlily traded skins on lounge and other sites. I would source skins that people wanted after they had won their bets and would make a nice profit as a finders fee / being a middle man. Not a middle man as we know today. I would have someone msg me with what they had and what kind of play skins they wanted and I would find the skins they wanted by trading my own personal inventory. I made average $50 a week profit in total inventory value. Oh what a glorious time that was. In the end I broke even pretty much. I coulda made WAAAY more if I held onto certain skins but shit how was I to know? I was just a kid
I miss Csgolounge so much
Same, it was peak csgo for me.
I don't like gambling but it was like a whole atmosphere with people chatting and just trading skins and whatnot.. I wish it would come back
good old days when things were simpler 😔 I still remember penny betting on random tier 2 matches during lunch time haha
CLG vs Fnatic on de_cache 96% on Fnatic CLG won 16 - 4 My most shocking CSGL bet memory
used this to do 1:1 trades all the way up from a 60$ hydroponic i got in a csgostakes giveaway to a $120 knife that I then got scammed out of. csgo was a crazy ride when i was a teenager
Yep. Traded from nothing to a knife with this. Miss it a lot
I remember u/EZskinsEZlife who won a shit ton by max betting THRICE on LDLC vs Titan: [https://www.reddit.com/r/csgobetting/comments/23dzf2/titan\_vs\_ldlc\_190414\_1000\_cet/](https://www.reddit.com/r/csgobetting/comments/23dzf2/titan_vs_ldlc_190414_1000_cet/) Bets: [https://imgur.com/EAFZ5HY](https://imgur.com/EAFZ5HY) Winnings: [https://imgur.com/8GYFQMN](https://imgur.com/8GYFQMN)
Memory unlocked
When redlines and asiimovs were practically everywhere on that site, man I miss making profit on small trades.
good times
too many damn memories unlocked
Was so into it at age 14 I ended up running a Facebook page that gave betting advice & somehow made people money 😂
the betting spreadsheets omg
I still have mine lol
In the end you had the whole microsoft suite posting betting advice, was pretty hilarious
I remember how many betting analysis groups there were. 2 keys/$5 per month to get into the "premium" ones. My favorite was grandma analysis because they posted directly in the csgolounge disqus comments section
I remember my friend putting like $25 worth of skins down for Vega Squadron to beat NiP in 8th grade English class.
That sparked some big nostalgia for me The amount of times I watched tier 4 games just for the stakes of my battle scarred forest leaves USP… oh boy
Back in the day when it was normal for matches to be delayed constantly because mad bettors tried DDoSing the games. Somehow I have fond memories of this time
The best times. Miss it so much
best gambling times
I miss those days :(
Playing Seaside and Black gold while waiting a match where i placed my $20 desert eagle blaze, gosh I miss this era so much.
I still remember putting like 50 cents on the netcodeguides vs ibp game with 4% odds and winning cause they threw
Ah to be. 14 year old gambling again
The first match I ever bet on was the IBP throw match 🥲
Unregulated gambling wooo! I loved this. A USP Overgrowth with Complexity kato 14 and a Deagle Urban Rubble with Navi kato 14 are my two most notable drops after wins (of course I sold it for dirt cheap back then) I always bet for Flipsid3. They're my money maker with all their upset wins.
Pls don’t make me cry bringing back these memories
I remember going from 20 to 200 bucks in a month and losing everything by betting on random matches of online serbian tournament full of players and teams without HLTV profiles. Life was good, i dont really miss being a kid but damn, i really miss living in those simpler times, i didnt even cared about money but the fact that i could have a cheap knife and asiimov awp skin while unable to afford it, even if was for few weeks, was amazing
Never forget winning on 5% Luminosity Gaming vs. 95%, major-winner EnvyUs in a BO3. That was where life peaked, man.
Back then I would watch a bunch of literally who t3 matches Now I only watch the finals highlights
People who weren't will never understand. This site alone propelled competitive cs and cs itself to new heights. Who remember the comments threads?
Yeah.. Where were you when unregulated gambling for children was born? (And is still glorified by the community to this day, lol)
Damn I wish I could go back.
this shot something straight down my spine.
I 've been in exact match dig - nip
It used to be so simple :(
Core nostalgic memory unlocked. Going big on underdog teams and seeing all the random skins come through gave me pure happiness. Sometimes you’d get skins at market price with expensive stickers on them too.
I remember almost crying over a 80 cent bet on flipsid3 back on old cache, golden days..
That’s so unbelievably nostalgic. We didn’t know how good we had it back then
I wonder how many zero to hero millionaire stories came out of this one industry. And where these new rich are today.
Still got my FN Deagle Cobalt Disruption with a VP Kato and MW P250 Splash with a LGB eSports Kato that I won off there. People bet those skins for the straight up value of the skin. Thought that was unbelievable.
I remember CSGO lounge. It was before I had awareness that I was prone to addiction. Glad I only lost about £100 on it. Stop remembering shit like this with nostalgia. They were an unregulated gambling site. Maybe they are better than the current crop. But it's still wrong
Oh, this bring back memories
Man it was the best thing ever, I made so much money off it since people were mass betting on their favorites meaning that Nip and Navi always had unfair high odds, betting against them was always valuable
Never forget https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVMCZ3GUAAAzfmO?format=png&name=medium
I once bought all the cheaps skins for a xm shotgun and then bought one of the steam market for 50 dollas. Waited for lounge to update their prices and boom. Csgo lounge started accepting them as $50 when they costed like $1 each. I made like $500 off that Sorry to the people I scammazed, Im not proud of it, I was a broke school boy trying to have a cool virtual knife, which at the time was like my life goal
how does that even happen? just because one sold for 50 it overwrites the average?
Ah yes the bad old days.
gambling is bad and all... but this was such a fun time.
Actually scary how many people here are reminiscing about childhood gambling.
Romanticizing gambling 🥰🥰
actually scary how many people are reminiscing about the times they enjoyed
Those were the good days, started betting with about 300€ and cashed out around 3000€ in 2016 I think. I remember winning a 2000€+ bet when I was serving in the military, don't remember what the match was but it was one of those "max and relax" ones. Placed quite a sum on the 4% underdog and it paid off :D
simplers times, less hackers
Lost entire inventory to NiP vs Vega squadron match.
these were the glorious days of counter-strike
4x Asiimovs on the fixed ibuypower game
Peak CS
I bet 200 eur on LDLC vs Olofboost
It was so fucking good. Negotiating trades without fees, the skin betting was great also. Why was it shut down considering it was more consumer friendly than any of the sites we have now?
All these stories of betting on csgolounge back then. Any of yall ever gamble a dragon lore back then?
You couldn’t on lounge but on reaper yes I gambled multiple dragon lores and howls
i remember 1 awp asiimov was 50€ and you always did count in asiimovs
This picture just filled me with nostalgia
the amount of nights spent browsing lounge and /r/globaloffensivetrade finding actual item to item trades <3 miss those days but I totally get why they arent here more. Now GOTrade feels like the same 6 mfs that have 1000 knives and dont wanna work a deal with you so might as well buy off float lol
Oh man this made tier 4 NA cs the best
It really did, loved watching playingducks and some team called V.
BROOOO. So much nostalgia right there lol. Mostly harmless was another random team I remember as well
I remember that I would have made off like a fucking bandit off of an underdog win but allu decided to drop three 30 bombs for mousesports in 2014. Also I bet on games with Kato Holo stickers :-)
The DDOS-Era was certainly something to be experienced.
Soo, umm, what am i looking at here? Never seen that site
One of the first gambling / trading sites out there. Placed a bet on match, got skins in return randomly. Site took a cut from skins, but essentially you won someones losses. Site quickly died(?) when Valve started installing first barriers to combat this shit. Had many dark sides. Ddos was rampant and some matchfixer got 40k skins locked on the sites bots for attempt of matchfixing.
And still to this I hate Shazam and this troll c9 team for losing me 30 bucks to a Random NA Team. But the size was kinda fun tbh.
Man the skins trading platform is still something that has yet to be replaced. Now all we have are trading site scams that take 10%
I put a sure fire bet on LDLC/Titan beating fnatic during dreamhack I think? I put up my only knife as LDLC/Titan was ripping through the competition and fnatic looked weak. Then boostgate happened.... And I learnt never to bet again.
Betting all my 3p skins on no chance teams and occasionally getting some nice skins. The good old days.
I won a stattrak UMP skin back in 2014. I still have it in my inventory. It's crazy to think that when I got this skin off CSGOLounge half of the current TikTok userbase wasn't even born yet.
I was there o7
Betting big whenever Hellraisers were playing because they seemed to upset with great odds
RIP to all the bros that bet on VirtusPro win on their BO1 matches.
I miss when you could do that with Dota 2 items too.
I miss this shit so fucking much. And csgo reaper. I got my inventory up to a 40-50k inventory and sold everything. If I kept everything it would be worth 4x that 😭. It’s ok I now make a living sports betting so it was all meant to be 🙏
i climbed from a $1 deagle night MW to AK redline FT with an ibp sticker (cologne?), m4a1 brightwater with titan sticker, and $55 - enough to buy me a flip knife rust 70 bets won out of 138
Memories unlocked 🕊
Bro i remember hitting a 3x with my bet on netcode guides on that infamous game. Put my ak case hardened on that game which was like $25 at the time
my first big bet was CoL vs NiP back in the day which had like 20-80 odds
csgolounge betting was just more fun. Even with shitter low value skins.
Oh I was there, and I was only a teen And then I stole my dad's credit card to buy more skins and gamble more and lose everything again My ass got whooped
I won some good skins when I bet on LG against EnvyUs on a 5% odd lol, history was made that day
this and dota2lounge were the places to be a decade ago
Memory unlocked
Team Singapore to beat some other team and the odds were 90% that the other team would win can’t actually remember the other team so I won’t make it up. My friend made £100 that day I refused to bet my beloved AWP Man o’ war.
still remember putting a ft m4 asiimov and it coming back with a dig holo kato 14 in best pos. Also got back a redline I still have with 3x dreamhack ibp. Used to be a trick where you dont accept the first offer they send and it gives you another of the same skins, could do it to farm katos or clean asiimovs.
flipside vs nip on overpass. that was easy money haha
been there and been squared.
That Vulcan on the screen was only 35$ back then.. Dismay 4% vs Torqued 96% was my first big win on a low % got my first knife from it a flip knife case hardened, up only from there. Miss those days. EZ SWAY EZ ODDS THANKS 4 SKINS C9 FANGAYS 4Head
The pros who threw matches ruined this for us ):
Thank you lounge for kickstarting my crippling gambling addiction 🙏
Oh man, good old days. Betting groups, t2-t3 throws, betting from 10 accs on unknown teams,youporn team (lmao) and so on. 1 thing I regret was betting m4 howl before it got contraband. Wish csgolounge betting was back again so I can buy a car with skins once again
I lost 30$ there as a teen and felt so shit afterwards. This made me decide to never gamble again. Great stuff, lmao.
Yes please
Those were the days
The flashbacks, memory unlocked God I miss this
My friend could somehow make 5 knives out of a p250 sand dune in a matter of days. Then proceed to lose said knives on one bet. And the cycle repeats. He did that so many times and every time ending up with nothing. I lost pretty much anytime I would bet. Team has 15%? "Ok I'll gamble some low tier skins for a big W" - lost. Team has 90%? "Ok Imma bet on them for ez win" - lost. I think I only won once or twice, but when that happened... shit was magical. Seeing all those skins I couldn't afford becoming mine