Welcome to my Quest for BUTTERFLY KNIFE. Granted, it's not got the same ring to it, but the
idea behind it is the same as my Quest for Karambit video. It cost me $1,500 virtual
dollars to get one of those, but I might have just been unlucky. Let's see how long it takes
for me to unbox a butterfly knife! Okay, so this could take a while. I'll speed
it up a bit until something interesting happens. My first purple and it only cost me $15 to
get it! Looks like it has an average value of 64 cents. I'm... surprised it's that much,
to be honest with you. Still, onto the bigger and better weapons!
GASPPPP gah. Just my luck. Remember that in theory there's double the chance of a rare
item landing either side of the one you get, so you shouldn't be too surprised when this
happens once in a while. And now for some uber 48x speed footage, since
I seem to go through a rather dry load of cases. Thanks, Gabe.
YAY! A water elemental glock, worth an average of just over 8 dollars. This has been a rather
poor start to the Quest for Butterfly Knife, but hey, it would be unfair to redo it. But
surely if I gamble away enough money, I'll make a profit? That's how it works, right?!
See, it's all onwards and upwards from here. There's not much information on this weapon,
but it averages out in the market at just under $5. Not too shabby, though it hardly
makes up for all of the crates I've opened so far. A butterfly knife will solve all that.
Boom. Take that, probability, you don't apply to me anymore! I'm raking it in now. Valve
had better watch out. Next stop: Covert weapons. They're so close I can smell their sweet gassy
aroma. Gah! Another point to the side items. Don't
worry, it's the middle's turn next! Just need to up the speed a bit...
Okay, not a Covert, but there's nothing wrong with a Classified Stat-trak, worth an average
of just under $25! And how about that, just $75 later I get my
first Covert, worth an average of $56 on Steam Wallet, a system that I can't legally take
money out of again. Hmm, I've spent as much as I earned this week,
but I was only going to waste it on something else anyway. It's definitely been worth it
and I'm sure to make it back at some point! What can I say, I don't mind giving Valve
this money because they've earned it. I get so much fun out of the game and they don't
try to get money from you like EA does. This is almost a donation and I even get something
back from it! Like now! Oh. Almost. It's because I didn't
knock on the table 4 times before clicking ROLL that time. I should have listened to
that Gypsy woman! I wonder why everybody who shows themselves getting knives on Youtube
is so lucky. I bet they don't have to unbox hundreds of crates to get them!
Yes! I know, I'm going to upload the unboxing of this one crate onto youtube so it looks
as though I'm as lucky as everybody else! This one's worth just under $16, so not as
good as the other one, but at least it looks nice.
Anyway, some nice 64x speed here to get through the stupidest, most unfair bad luck that I've
ever had. Just look at all that money. Not to mention the cost of the crates in the first
place. Right. A thousand dollars on skins for a game.
And over 400 crates. What is it that I've got from it?
Let's add it all up and see if I've recouped my losses.
Using the current valuation on Steam Marketstorething, I constructed this table. Since I didn't bother
checking to see what exactly each of the 402 cases I unboxed were, I decided to use the
average value of all the different weapons of that category and from that, the weighted
average of all different conditions. This means that the actual value COULD HAVE BEEN
HIGHER! But, as always, could also have been lower. Not that you'd be in that section,
since you'd definitely be lucky if you did this challenge.
Using these values, I calculated the value of the 402 weapons to be $414! Not bad...
until I consider that I could have got the same thing from the market-place and saved
myself almost $587. For that I could have gone and got myself 3 butterfly knives as
well. BUT HEY, where's the fun in that? $1,000 down, an unknown amount left to go.
My search for my Butterfly Knife continues. And now to ask you- how much virtual money
will have to spend altogether before I get the knife? $1,001? $9001? Closest suggestion
wins a cheap weapon from my inventory, cos I'm a cheapskate like that.