An enigmatic Steam user owns 13,000 copies of PUBG: Battlegrounds' black combat pants, each worth about $0.03 on the platform's marketplace. Besides that rather startling piece of information, the rest of the user's profile is completely blank (nice spot, GamesRadar+). As evidenced by the price, this is a rather common drop in PUBG, which raises the question, why would anyone collect so many?
This strange profile was discovered by killmissy on Reddit who asks the obvious question, "What's going on here?" There are certainly collectors who try and accumulate a game's rarest items, to either show off or eventually sell for a profit. An extremely rare Team Fortress 2 hat was traded for $40,000 a couple of months ago, the biggest trade in the game's history. However, I'm not sure anyone is going to find an individual buyer for 13,000 pairs of basic combat pants.
If this user were to laboriously list every single pair of pants on the marketplace, they might net around $390. However, I suspect the simple economic machinations of the free market aren't this user's motivations. There's something more mysterious afoot. "He will own them all, and then he will sell them for millions," writes Killer22250....
