It cost over $500,000 for Steam's newest highest-level user to claim his top spot, and he's risking it all over a single Counter-Strike gun
Aug. 19, 2024His profile boasts bans, skins, and… a Discord kitten?
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It’s official - a new user has overtaken the previous highest-level profile’s spot on Steam, and it cost him over half a million bucks to reach it.
As spotted onSteamDB, Steam’s new high-level king is no longer St4ck - it’s a user who goes by “stasik.” Stasik sits at a mind-boggling level of 5,960 onValve’s PC gaming platform, almost a full thousand levels ahead of previous first-place holder St4ck. For those wondering how much it would cost to reach such a wildly high level on Steam, YouTuber ohnePixel has done the math - and it’s a lot. A lot, a lot.
Stasik’s high-levelprofilealso boasts a plethora of game bans, stickers arranged to form slurs and other explicit or offensive images on Counter-Strike weapons, and a “Discord kitten” - with a link presumably redirecting to his partner’s own profile. One notable example of an expensive rifle distastefully decorated with a racial slur includes a nearly $9,000 “Factory New” M4A1 Howl - a bizarreinclusion on an account worth so much, as it could cost net stasik a permaban.
Not much is known about stasik - both he and his beloved “Discord kitten” mark themselves as residing within the United Arab Emirates, though, despite seemingly using Russian text everywhere. What is probable, however, is that he’s downright filthy rich - and he’s either rich enough or simply just reckless enough to plaster slurs all over his publicly visible inventory without needing to worry about a community ban from Steam.
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