CS2 Weekly Drop System Explained – How Does the Weekly Care Package Work?

If you have been active on the internet, you have probably heard of games that “pay to play.” In other words, you will be rewarded with money or items that can be sold for real-world money just for playing the game. However, many of these games are either scams, require you to spend outrageous amounts of money for minimal returns or run crypto mining programs that strain your computer’s resources. However, thanks to the addition of the weekly care package to Counter-Strike, it has become one of the few games that quite literally pay you to play. Simply playing CS2 for a few hours per week can guarantee around $50 per year purely from your CS2 weekly care package. This article explains CS2’s weekly drop system, how to get your weekly drop, when it resets, and how to sell it for real money.

What is the CS2 Weekly Care Package?

The weekly care package in CS2 is a “drop system” that rewards players for playing CS2 matches every week. Once per week, all Prime status players will receive a weekly care package drop with cases, weapon skins, and graffiti. These items can be worth anywhere from $0.03 to over $100, and you will always get two items per week. Outcomes from the weekly care package include:

Each weekly care package comes with four items, but players must select the two items they want the most. Most players take a weapon case(which tends to be the most valuable item in the drop) and a skin, but some opt for other combinations.

How to Get a Weekly Care Package Drop in CS2

Like the sound of the CS2 weekly care package? Luckily for you, it is available to anyone! All you have to do is purchase Prime status, and you will automatically receive a weekly care package upon leveling up each week. If you already bought Prime status or purchased CS:GO when it cost money, then you are already eligible for a weekly drop. If not, follow the steps below to buy the Prime Status Upgrade for CS2:

Now that you are eligible for your weekly care package, all you have to do is play CS2! The first time per week that you level up in CS2 by earning 5000 XP, you will get a weekly care package popup on your screen. Just claim the items you want the most and enjoy your free rewards. If you get average luck, you will probably get around $1 per week from the reward system, meaning purchasing Prime Status will pay itself off in 2 weeks of playing for a few hours per week.

When Does the Weekly Care Package Reset?

You are only allowed to claim one weekly care package per week, so if you want to maximize rewards without wasting time, time your level up so that you level up only once per week. The drop resets every Wednesday at 3:00 AM Central European Time(CET). The corresponding time for your time zone can be found in the table below.

What Can You Get From the Weekly Care Package?

You will get four random drops in your weekly care package every week. However, if you aren’t familiar with CS2’s case and item drop system, you may be confused about how these items are picked to go into your weekly care packages. CS2 has multiple drop pools for both cases and skins. See the drop pools for each item type in the sections below.

CS2 Case Drop Pools

When your weekly care package drops are selected, there is a 1% chance that the case will be from the rare drop pool and a 99% chance that the case comes from the active drop pool. You cannot receive cases from the discontinued drop pool in your weekly care packages.

CS2 Active Drop Pool

• Kilowatt Case
• Revolution Case
• Recoil Case
• Dreams and Nightmares Case
• Fracture Case

CS2 Discontinued Drop Pool

• Operation Riptide Case
• Operation Broken Fang Case
• Shattered Web Case
• eSports 2014 Summer Case
• eSports 2013 Winter Case
• eSports 2013 Case

CS2 Rare Drop Pool

• CS20 Case
• CS:GO Weapon Case
• Operation Bravo Case
• Prisma Case
• Danger Zone Case
• Horizon Case
• Gamma Case
• Operation Wildfire Case
• Operation Vanguard Weapon Case
• Operation Breakout Weapon Case
• Spectrum 2 Case
• Operation Hydra Case
• Spectrum Case
• Gamma 2 Case
• Spectrum 2 Case
• Glove Case
• Operation Phoenix Weapon Case
• Prisma 2 Case
• Clutch Case
• Chroma 3 Case
• Revolver Case
• Shadow Case
• Falchion Case
• Chroma 2 Case
• Chroma Case
• Huntsman Weapon Case
• CS:GO Weapon Case 3
• Winter Offensive Weapon Case
• CS:GO Weapon Case 2

CS2 Skin Drop Pool

The skins you receive in your weekly care package will come from one of the actively-dropping skin collections. As of August 2024, any skins you find in your weekly CS2 care package will come from the following collections:

• The 2018 Inferno Collection
• The Lake Collection
• The 2018 Nuke Collection
• The Bank Collection
• The Train Collection
• The Dust 2 Collection
• The Italy Collection
• The Safehouse Collection

How to Sell Your Weekly Care Package Drops for Real Money

Want to sell your weekly care package items or any other CS2 skins in your inventory for real money that can be withdrawn to your bank account or cryptocurrency? Luckily for you, there are tons of marketplaces out there where you can sell your skins to other users for great prices and then withdraw the money into cash, unlike the Steam Community Market, which doesn’t allow you to withdraw. To find the best marketplaces and trading sites to sell CS2 skins on, check out the links below:

CS2 Skin Marketplaces

CS2 P2P Marketplaces

CS2 Trading Sites