Valve made insane amount of money from CS2 cases just last month alone

The money-printing machine that is the Counter-Strike 2 skins market continues run smoothly, as the CS2 player count rises, the skins market cap booms, and Valve takes a cut of everything.

In March 2025, a total of at least 32 million cases were opened by players in Counter-Strike 2.

Every case opened costs the player $2.49 for the key, which is paid directly to Valve. On top of that, many of the cases opened are purchased on the Steam marketplace, where Valve takes a 15% cut.

In keys alone, 32 million cases is just over $82 million. Add in the cut from players buying cases on the Steam marketplace (some of which may not have been opened but simply sold again as players attempt to profit from rising case prices), and it’s well over $100 million in revenue just from cases alone.

This figure doesn’t include the rest of the transactions on the marketplace for other items like knives and skins, where again, Valve takes a 15% cut.

CS2 players love opening cases

Case-opening statistics are technically not public, but this figure is a pretty accurate estimation that likely underreports the true number, if anything.

Website CS:GO Case Tracker determines the number of cases opened by tracking the new skins added to the database over the month, which come from the cases when opened. That means that the true number will be even higher, as cases opened in private inventories may never be tracked on the skins database.

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In total, the tracker counts that 2.065 billion cases have been opened in the history of CS:GO and CS2. At $2.49 in keys alone, that would be over $5 billion. However, key prices have risen over the years, so this won’t be totally accurate.

For whatever reason, March is typically the strongest month for case openings. March 2024 saw a record 38 million opened, for example.