You are forgetting greed . and that the average person isnt aware of how market values and selling works . No . I didnt miss your point . You gave them more credit than they deserve . I know plenty of people who would purchase if there was a reason . Too many drops are basically pointless clothes that are restricted to a particular person , weapons that are basically useless . the fact that you can get skins for your tier 1 weps . which you should have moved on from by wave 3 , and thus dont even seeget to enjoy for over 70 % of the time that you actually play that class 95 % of drops can be purchased on the steam marketplace for less than the cost of a keyThere is no value right now in the games skinsand you can argue it however you want . but it isnt going anywhere and hasnt increased in months . At most it might take a day or two to make the skins for a single crate . especially the weapon skins which are just that . a reskin assuming you pay your art team . at most 30 $ an hour , thats 16 hours . 480 $. it could cost them 480 $ for an entire crate . ill even double it for you for the benefit of the doubt . at 2 . 50 per key , 384 keys would equal that 960 $. oh . the community even makes skins FOR them sometimes . they dont even have to pay their people to do it . They are moneygrubbing . the overall cost per key for the quality and use of the skin is far less than decent . Its atrocious .