You can now sell your skins in the tactical shooter Rainbow Six: Siege, just like has been possible in Counter-Strike for years.
What feature is being discussed? Ubisoft’s tactical shooter Rainbow Six: Siege launched the Beta for the “Rainbow Six: Siege” marketplace on January 30, 2024. From now on, you can trade cosmetic content there.
On the marketplace, it is possible to sell weapon designs, uniforms, headgear, or charms, for example. This also applies to attachment designs, operator portraits, map backgrounds, and drone designs.
Rainbow Six: Siege follows the example of Valve’s mega-hit Counter-Strike with the introduction of the marketplace. There, trading skins has been a daily routine of the shooter for years.
How does the marketplace work? You can access the “Rainbow Six: Siege” marketplace via the official website Ubisoft.com. There, you can select the “Sell” section and specify the items you want to sell. However, it is not possible to trade with all skins, but only with those that are shown to you in the marketplace.
If you want to sell a specific skin, you set the sale price yourself and then wait for interested buyers. You can have 5 different buy orders and 5 different sell orders at the same time.
In the marketplace, R6 Credits are used as payment, Ubisoft’s in-game currency for the shooter, which you must purchase with real money. However, Ubisoft takes a 10% transaction fee from each trade.
First skins already cost triple digits
Shortly after the launch of the marketplace beta, some players have already spotted money and offered particularly sought-after skins for sale. Particularly high credit amounts are currently being demanded for charms and weapon skins, which can only be obtained by attending the Six Invitational, the world championship of the shooter.
The weapon skin “Six Invitational VIP ’19” has already been sold 3 times for 100,000 R6 Credits. That’s about 833 euros, assuming the standard price of the cheapest package of 600 R6 Credits for 4.99 €.
Another particularly sought-after skin is “Glacier.” It was one of the first eSports skins of the game. It came into the shooter in 2016 and was only available for a limited time. Until recently, there was no way to obtain the skin – even though it is very popular among many players. Therefore, it was to be expected that it would be traded on the marketplace.
Ubisoft will definitely be pleased if they earn 10% from the trade of a skin that had to be purchased with real money back in 2016.
Counter-Strike, the model, is also very lucrative for its developer Valve through skins: Steam: Despite much criticism, Counter-Strike 2 is a financial giant hit for Valve due to casino mechanics
