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Team Fortress 2 bug from the latest update has cratered the game's hat economy
- Thread starter Rickenslacker
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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 was at WORK, what the FUCK valve open up the damn market so I can make some money off of it for once in my life >:( these crates are worth $5 a POP and I have PLENTY
If it makes you feel better, you would've completely forgot about the game either way.
What was the last thing you'd consider them awake for versus the last major update they released?
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.
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...
Just like with the dupe glitch... bug was fixed, but the dupes still exist.
This is zero-sum for Valve.
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My point is that some have invested in acquiring certain hats under certain values, I'm sure they're not happy that a "bug" just eliminated most of their inventory value.
how else will people know I still spend money on a 12 year old F2P title rotting in the darkest corners of the internet.
Valve please im begging you, release Chris Remo and Jake Rodkin so i can have an idle thumbs episode about this
"Just" hats. Haha. Get a load of this dude.
Hats in a first-person game, no less. Silly, innit.
Valve just took down the TF2 item servers and put them back up, all the new unusuals currently on the market were put back in inventories and the unusuals currently in inventories were made so you can't trade or sell them (it says it's tradeable after August 2nd but it's not, all new items have a trade cooldown):
cheaper unusuals -> many more exchanges on the steam marketplace -> more money for valve from their cuts
a price drop in higher tier items also means that they may dip under the steam marketplace transaction threshold, which means trades occurring on the platform that valve gets to take a cut from
and there's still plentyyy of expensive cosmetic items outside the scope of this particular bug, for which there will be an increased demand because people will want new status symbols now that some of the old ones are more widely accessible
Valve second tweet
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.
