1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:04,200 Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of SHOW ME YOUR SKINS by Kinguin! 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,000 By the way, Team Kinguin is one of my previous teams 3 00:00:08,100 --> 00:00:11,100 Those, who follow the scene for a little longer, probably remember about it 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:15,000 My today's guest is a person who remembers me playing in Team Kinguin 5 00:00:15,100 --> 00:00:16,900 Back in the day he was probably still actively playing 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:18,600 I'm not really sure about it 7 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:20,500 But we know for sure he was a professional player 8 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:21,900 And now he's a famous CS:GO caster 9 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:25,000 Probably most of you already know who am I talking about 10 00:00:25,300 --> 00:00:27,800 It's Kuba "KubiK" Kubiak 11 00:00:27,900 --> 00:00:28,800 So let's start with another episode! 12 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:34,800 - Hello Kuba - What's up! 13 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:38,700 Some time ago you were a pro player 14 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:42,300 and I guess you remember the times when they introduced skins 15 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:45,200 Could you tell us what was their impact on esports 16 00:00:45,300 --> 00:00:48,100 Now you're casting matches and probably see what's happening 17 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:52,900 How did it look from your point of view? 18 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,400 Skins had a huge impact on viewership of the matches 19 00:00:55,500 --> 00:00:59,300 When professional bookmakers weren't involved in esports, 20 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:05,600 skins were bringing in the audience 21 00:01:06,300 --> 00:01:14,700 so disparity between matches featured on Lounge and those, who weren't, was colossal 22 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:19,800 and this is my first thought when it comes to skins and esports 23 00:01:19,900 --> 00:01:24,100 skins brought a lot of viewers to CS:GO 24 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:27,400 and in some degree had an impact to development of the game 25 00:01:27,500 --> 00:01:29,100 You mentioned Lounge 26 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:37,900 Were you trying to trade and upgrade skins at the beginning? 27 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,400 When it comes to trading, it wasn't my thing 28 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:45,800 I was trading my skins with friends and borrowing knives for a while 29 00:01:45,900 --> 00:01:47,700 To check if it's nice to play with 30 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:53,400 Being a streamer and cooperating with some skin websites 31 00:01:53,500 --> 00:01:55,500 made me use some of the skins 32 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:57,600 It was my only opportunity 33 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:03,100 Being a streamer also meant sharing skins with my viewers 34 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:08,900 I had a lot of stream partners 35 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,800 but skin partner was always the special one 36 00:02:12,900 --> 00:02:18,600 because thanks to him I could organize a lot of giveaways 37 00:02:18,700 --> 00:02:23,300 When it comes to Lounge, I had a short episode - maybe week or two 38 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:26,300 during which I was trying to bet on matches 39 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:27,800 but then, when there wasn't enough matches in Europe 40 00:02:27,900 --> 00:02:30,500 I started to bet on NA teams 41 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:34,200 and I didn't have time to analyse all of them 42 00:02:34,300 --> 00:02:38,600 Ands I said before, trading wasn't my thing 43 00:02:38,700 --> 00:02:43,000 but I remember it was a great option for my viewers 44 00:02:43,100 --> 00:02:48,400 Was there a time when you wanted to upgrade your skins to play with them? 45 00:02:48,500 --> 00:02:53,700 Did you even care about it? Or maybe you remember some of the skins you've had back then? 46 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,500 Yeah, I remember some of them 47 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:02,800 My favourite one was Karambit Tiger Tooth Factory New 48 00:03:02,900 --> 00:03:06,600 Definitely the best skin I've ever had 49 00:03:06,700 --> 00:03:09,600 But when I was moving out from my family home 50 00:03:09,700 --> 00:03:13,200 I decided to sell some of them to have money 51 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:15,800 so I could live on my own 52 00:03:15,900 --> 00:03:18,700 It sounds funny, when skins support adult man in living on his own 53 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,400 but it was a huge thing for me 54 00:03:24,900 --> 00:03:32,700 Thanks to this I could buy new smartphone 55 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:38,200 When it comes to AK-47, I remember my sub 56 00:03:38,300 --> 00:03:41,400 sending me Wasteland Rebel skin, 57 00:03:41,500 --> 00:03:43,500 and I still have it in my mind 58 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:45,500 I think that would be all 59 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:50,000 The moment, when I got Tiger Tooth, 60 00:03:50,100 --> 00:03:55,300 other skins were way out of my league, the prices were 5 times bigger 61 00:03:55,400 --> 00:04:08,200 So I'd say I was quite content with skins that I've managed to get 62 00:04:08,300 --> 00:04:12,100 So you didn't put any of your money to get skins? 63 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:18,000 No, I didn't have to. I've had some sponsors 64 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:21,800 and they were topping up my wallet on the website 65 00:04:21,900 --> 00:04:24,600 And I could basically do whatever I want with the winnings 66 00:04:24,700 --> 00:04:33,900 so I seized the opportunity and did what I like 67 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,000 It works the same nowadays for the streamers 68 00:04:37,100 --> 00:04:39,600 Most of them are being sponsored by some skin websites 69 00:04:39,700 --> 00:04:44,500 Anyway, do you remember the value of your skins? 70 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,500 Of course if you want to share it with us 71 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:53,600 Sure thing. I think Karambit was worth more than $520 72 00:04:53,700 --> 00:04:58,500 At the time I bought iPhone 6s. I don't know how much was that, 73 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:02,200 But I think back then its price was less than $750 74 00:05:02,300 --> 00:05:05,300 so I think Karambit covered all the costs 75 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:13,200 The whole rest of the skins was sold for about $780 76 00:05:13,300 --> 00:05:14,900 As I said, Karambit was the most expensive 77 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:24,600 I didn't really pay attention to other skins, because I got them for free 78 00:05:26,700 --> 00:05:35,200 Most recently I sold remaining skins so I could save some money for Cyberpunk on Steam 79 00:05:37,100 --> 00:05:41,100 What's interesting, I still have some steam funds left 80 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:44,100 So I'll probably use it to buy another games I'm waiting for 81 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:47,500 I also remember buying Mafia III from skin money, 82 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,000 but it was my worst purchase, I was totally disappointed 83 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:53,500 However thanks to skins I could add new titles to my library 84 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:59,100 I suppose you're one of the few that managed to benefit from skins 85 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:02,300 People open cases and most often lose the money, 86 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,600 but you're proving that it's possible to benefit from it 87 00:06:06,700 --> 00:06:13,400 I've also seen you playing on jackpots. Could you tell as a bit about it? 88 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:20,900 As I said, it was back when I was stepping into adulthood 89 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:25,300 It has obviously changed over the years, 90 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:29,500 but winning on jackpot $50 or $100 was great 91 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:35,600 I just needed 600 PLN a month, I spent 400 PLN for my rent 92 00:06:35,700 --> 00:06:38,100 rest was for my things 93 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:47,300 So it was a great thing to win $200-300 on jackpot, because it was enough to cover my rent 94 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:57,000 It was my own system to earn money, the excitement was incredible 95 00:06:57,100 --> 00:06:58,800 I was getting really emotional 96 00:06:58,900 --> 00:07:06,600 After winning I was going to my flatmate Maniek 97 00:07:06,700 --> 00:07:11,700 and was telling him: "I won! Tonight party's on me" 98 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,600 So I'm not hiding that there was a ton of emotions 99 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:19,900 We could all see that you were super happy 100 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,700 But we also know you need some luck to play in this kind of games 101 00:07:23,500 --> 00:07:26,100 And how is it going nowadays KubiK? 102 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:31,000 You're obviously still playing, but are you using skins? 103 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:37,800 I don't care about it anymore. I'm using normal knife and rifles 104 00:07:37,900 --> 00:07:43,200 For now I only think about skins when it comes to my viewers 105 00:07:43,300 --> 00:07:48,500 I get my wallet topped up and then I play some games to give skins away to my viewers 106 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:53,500 So it's my last and most fun thing about skins 107 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:56,400 But I think it's because I don't play CS that often 108 00:07:56,500 --> 00:08:00,800 I would care more if I played regularly 109 00:08:00,900 --> 00:08:06,600 The only thing I was missing were gloves, always had default ones 110 00:08:06,700 --> 00:08:10,900 Maybe I'll catch up on that in the future 111 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:15,800 But first of all I need more time to even spot the difference while playing 112 00:08:15,900 --> 00:08:23,300 as you said, I analyse a lot of games and don't pay attention to skins 113 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:28,200 I often use third-party program that sets up bots and they don't use skins 114 00:08:28,300 --> 00:08:34,700 so from job's POV skins are put aside 115 00:08:35,300 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaking about gloves, they weren't a thing during your pro times, right? 116 00:08:40,700 --> 00:08:43,700 That's right. Back when I was a pro, glove skins didn't exist 117 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:48,600 I think it was 2017, when I started transitioning to coach role 118 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,800 and I think at the beginning there were just too expensive 119 00:08:53,900 --> 00:08:55,500 Do you have any glove skin now? 120 00:08:55,600 --> 00:09:03,700 I do, yes. Now I have the yellow ones that I opened from the latest case 121 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:05,700 And how about them? They're pretty. (laughs) 122 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:07,100 But how about the price? 123 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,000 About 150 dollars 124 00:09:09,100 --> 00:09:12,900 Exactly... I think they could cost even more than knives 125 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:19,000 My gloves aren't that expensive. Previously I had red ones that were worth over $620 126 00:09:19,100 --> 00:09:21,200 I don't remember their name, I could look that up 127 00:09:21,300 --> 00:09:25,100 But I sold them and got the new ones from the case 128 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:26,700 So that was nice 129 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:35,000 Wrapping it up, if you became a player once again 130 00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:39,900 Are there any skins, that you'd like to get? 131 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:49,900 There's a lot of skins that I really like, but the problem is I don't remember their names 132 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,400 My viewers are the ones that educate me about skins 133 00:09:54,500 --> 00:09:59,000 I often ask them about my next moves relating skins 134 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:03,900 Then they give me the names of skins and I'm getting surprised 135 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:09,800 What's worth noting is that tournament organizers no longer use default HUDs 136 00:10:09,900 --> 00:10:15,500 Nowadays, you won't see the names of skins and it's because many players were using inappropriate names 137 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:20,400 There's no default HUD, so I don't know the names of new skins 138 00:10:20,500 --> 00:10:25,300 Back in the days I just could see it's, for example, AK Neon Rider 139 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:30,200 Now it's way different, so it's kinda problematic 140 00:10:30,300 --> 00:10:35,400 But there are many skins from the new collection I'd like to have, especially the gloves 141 00:10:36,500 --> 00:10:41,000 Gloves I was talking about are Hand Wraps | Desert Shamagh 142 00:10:42,700 --> 00:10:47,100 They cost $160 and as you said, gloves are cool thing 143 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,800 I recently bought whole yellow setup but I think I'll show it in some different episode 144 00:10:53,000 --> 00:11:02,500 I have one last question for you: do you think skins have impact on your perfomance? 145 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:08,800 I think they don't, but people like when something looks nice and is cool 146 00:11:08,900 --> 00:11:16,500 So when there's an opportunity, you don't need to wonder 147 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:18,900 Just use skins for yourself 148 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,900 Let's remember that buying skins is cool about one thing 149 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:24,500 It's almost the same as investing in real estate 150 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:29,400 If we decide to buy, we can always sell it and not always lose 151 00:11:29,500 --> 00:11:34,300 Buying skins in Valorant is for example similar to buying a new car 152 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,100 That just like that loses half of its value 153 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:41,000 If you buy a skin in Valorant, you can't trade it or sell it 154 00:11:41,100 --> 00:11:49,400 So I think it's nice that you can still trade or sell your CS:GO skins 155 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:58,900 And it's also a part of entertainment, it's a part of CS:GO and it's nice to have skins 156 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:03,800 I agree. Some people even make money from trading 157 00:12:03,900 --> 00:12:10,200 Some of them store old stickers that over time gain in value 158 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,000 I just checked my Karambit and now it's worth around $780 159 00:12:14,100 --> 00:12:18,700 so I think old skins and cases really gain in value 160 00:12:20,500 --> 00:12:35,100 One of my subscribers decided to invest 1000 PLN in skins and decided to leave them for 5-10 years 161 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:45,000 And I suppose now it's worth 2-3 times more 162 00:12:45,100 --> 00:12:50,700 This is how it works. Skins don't improve your skills 163 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:55,600 but my friends often tell me they get better movement 164 00:12:55,700 --> 00:12:59,500 so there's a slight impact 165 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:04,000 Thank you KubiK for sharing your stories 166 00:13:04,100 --> 00:13:07,300 and huge thanks for tuning in 167 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:12,200 Thanks a lot for hospitality 168 00:13:15,500 --> 00:13:17,800 And I invite you to visit Kinguin website 169 00:13:17,900 --> 00:13:19,900 that offers cool items that you can purchase 170 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:24,800 Remember to hit "subscribe" button, click "like" 171 00:13:24,900 --> 00:13:29,700 and share your inventory to get a chance to take part in next episodes 172 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:30,600 See you!