If it makes you feel better, you would've completely forgot about the game either way.Yeah, I miss what TF2 was before it became a hat-begging simulator.
Honestly getting a little joy from seeing Valve fuck up like this.
What was the last thing you'd consider them awake for versus the last major update they released?I remember when hats first came out as random drops and I got one. It was so cool to be one of the few people with hats. This was back when games had communities. The game is still very good but I feel like it needs new content. They been silent for a while now but once the money train gets interupted they wake up. Kind of a shitty thing to be honest. TF2 is still my favorite MP game of all time. No ones made anything quite like it.
I think they might roll this back. Otherwise it ruins the economy doesn't it?
They can fix the bug, but they can't do anything about the damage that's been done. A lot of money has exchanged hands (via their marketplace, or otherwise). Nothing they can do when money has exchanged hands. Especially taking into account that exchanges will have happened between countries and all that...I think they might roll this back. Otherwise it ruins the economy doesn't it?
This doesn't really hurt the economy in the sense that Valve can't make money off of it anymore. Realistically you'll just see a flood of cheap low tier unusuals and a price drop in the higher ones.
how else will people know I still spend money on a 12 year old F2P title rotting in the darkest corners of the internet.
Rollbacks would be unlikely at this point given how much money and items changed hands especially with how long they took to stop it.
I really hope they just let this be. It only really hurts high end traders but even then not all hats were available to be unboxed and neither were most of the unusual effects so a large portion of hats will still retain their value. Valve still made a fuck-ton of money off this bug. Worse case scenario would be that they could make unboxed unusuals untrade-able but all this would do is throw a bone to big ticket traders, Valve would make more money otherwise.
This doesn't really hurt the economy in the sense that Valve can't make money off of it anymore. Realistically you'll just see a flood of cheap low tier unusuals and a price drop in the higher ones.
Update on the Unusual situation: All Unusuals from the bugged crates have been marked as non-tradable for the time being. We are evaluating what steps to take with these items and will have another update for you after the weekend
Why wouldn't it? They didn't scam Valve or anything, they just sold items on the marketplace. It's not like it's being paid with no money.There's no way that order ships, especially since they publicly bragged about it.