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Unboxed a Miami Nights Team Captain last night  I knew my pages upon pages of unopened crates would pay off eventually, even though I only had 4 that gave guaranteed unusuals
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Mercury Crusader posted:Since there's apparently a market for World of Warcraft Classic, is there a market for Team Fortress 2 Classic? TF2 Classic is a mod, but it’s TF2 alpha/beta instead of release, so it’s funky.
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Jul 27, 2019 00:38
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UPDATES ! 1. All glitched hats have been removed from SCM and returned to inventories. 2. Most if not all glitched hats appear to be tradelocked (not tradable or marketable).
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Jul 27, 2019 00:42
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Anarch posted:UPDATES ! That seems like a alright way to handle this. dont take away the things you unboxed but make them unable to be circulated.
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Jul 27, 2019 00:48
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Seems like a good solution to me. People who bought/unboxed a cool hat for themselves can keep it, and people who like doing the trade economy thing don’t have to worry about the market being flooded.
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Jul 27, 2019 00:48
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Booted this up after ~4 years of not playing and, drat, this game is still amazing. Any goon servers still around?
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Jul 27, 2019 00:49
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I'm fine with a tradelock. I don't trade away the really neat drops I get, they're like little RNG trophies. I still have an australium rocket launcher from my second completed MVM tour of Two Cities 
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Jul 27, 2019 01:03
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In all the time I've played TF2, I've never gotten an Unusual. Then again, I've never opened crates, so that's probably why. ...I think I might have said something similar to this a few pages back. What is the deal with Unusuals, anyway? Mercury Crusader posted:Since there's apparently a market for World of Warcraft Classic, is there a market for Team Fortress 2 Classic? There was going to be a mod to let you play TF2 as it was back in 2008, but it got yanked due to some issues with how it was to be implemented.
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Jul 27, 2019 01:32
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Max Wilco posted:What is the deal with Unusuals, anyway? What's the deal with designer clothing and sports cars? They are (lol were) status symbols and make you stand-out against the rest. - So I'm having a great time reading all the salty people on Reddit complaining about 1) abusing the bug and being stuck with lovely unsellable unusuals and 2) not abusing the bug and wanting Valve to give them free stuff because they... didn't abuse the bug? Someone bought 20+ unusuals for pennies, now cannot sell them, and wants Valve to compensate them for the price they SHOULD be at, since, "Tampering with already sold product is illegal" They should call this the Summer Salt update
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Jul 27, 2019 01:41
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I have zero sympathy for people who spent money on glitch unusuals to flip them and are now unable to. Anyone could have seen this coming. Sorry you lost out on your terrible investment.
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Jul 27, 2019 01:44
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Max Wilco posted:In all the time I've played TF2, I've never gotten an Unusual. Then again, I've never opened crates, so that's probably why. It makes it easier for me to click on heads
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Jul 27, 2019 01:47
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Just had the wildest match I've had in quite a time. People got to talking about trans issues (by way of someone bringing up pokemon lol), and they were actually talking instead of just spamming binds or spouting off memes. The supportive outnumbered the critical, and one of the main "against" people seemed to actually be considering what was being said, and I honestly think his perspective had shifted significantly by the end. It all culminated in a really intense round on Fastlane of all maps to boot. TF2 is: so good.
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Jul 27, 2019 04:25
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Valve is damned if they do and damned if they don't. There's a lot of people that may or may not have known what they were getting into, thousands of glitched hats (minimum, could be tens of thousands) already changed hands on the marketplace by people with varying levels of knowledge on it. That and there's nearly 200 countries in this world and they're going to have to resolve it in a way that is satisfactory for most of them, and I imagine just going "sorry you won at lootbox gambling too much because of glitch, so we're making your normally transferrable prize/shiny locked to you forever and worth nothing compared to the prize people exchange for other games/prizes" and throwing their money back isn't going to fly even if their ToS claims they can do that.
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Jul 27, 2019 05:00
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I don't think they're damned if anything. This is both the simplest and the easiest solution and I can't really imagine anyone being mad about it save for the people who were trying to make a quick buck.
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Jul 27, 2019 05:49
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lovely Wizard posted:Valve is damned if they do and damned if they don't. There's a lot of people that may or may not have known what they were getting into, thousands of glitched hats (minimum, could be tens of thousands) already changed hands on the marketplace by people with varying levels of knowledge on it. Somehow I doubt Valve is too concerned about being damned by people who thought it was a good idea to invest in glitched video game hats.
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Jul 27, 2019 06:08
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Anarch posted:UPDATES ! I opened two, and it seems like nothing's been done to them - they're still listed as being available for trading at the start of august, just like they were when I unopened them. I'm guessing Valve let slide those cases where someone just unboxed one or two (most people I'm guessing), and hit hard those who were trying to abuse it (people ready and willing to spend thousands on hats ie. hat barons). and hey if the hats in my inventory are gonna actually stay marketable, and I can sell them after I get bored of TF2 again, I'll have made a net profit, especially since one of them's an all class edit: wait no Valve has just been lazy I just realized, since its already untradeable for a while they just didn't flag them to be untradable while they think about what to do SpiritOfLenin fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Jul 27, 2019 |
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Jul 27, 2019 06:23
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The Headshot Kills strange part took a huge nosedive as well. No idea whether it was in one of the popular crates (how would I even find out? TF2 wiki doesn't really bother to list strange parts) or if the economy as a whole is collapsing.
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Jul 27, 2019 06:34
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It was, it was in 82 or 85, one of the affected crates.
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Jul 27, 2019 06:35
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drat missed my chance to unlock an unusual scout hat. Oh well.
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Jul 27, 2019 08:31
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Ariong posted:Somehow I doubt Valve is too concerned about being damned by people who thought it was a good idea to invest in glitched video game hats. Steam market has a feature to automatically buy hats if they reach a certain price. Literally thousands of these were sold that way with no knowledge of the buyer. Not to mention people who just figured the prices were tanking because new hats came out. So a lot of people legitimately didn't know. This is going to be hilarious to see how this works out and I legit hope they let the hats stay tradeable and the unusual market crashes once and for all. Shitty Wizard fucked around with this message at 08:51 on Jul 27, 2019 |
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Jul 27, 2019 08:48
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A price crash is actually better for valve anyway; most people do unusual trading in grey markets for cash. No one is going to try to find a middleman if their hat is only worth like $15-20, they'll just use the market, and valve gets a cut there.
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Jul 27, 2019 08:54
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This entire fiasco has been hilarious. 
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Jul 27, 2019 08:54
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Araxxor posted:This entire fiasco has been hilarious. For any one that hasn't heard this. Old now (2016) but still good. Worth a listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF52sL2wi1c
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Jul 27, 2019 09:04
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Grapplejack posted:A price crash is actually better for valve anyway; most people do unusual trading in grey markets for cash. No one is going to try to find a middleman if their hat is only worth like $15-20, they'll just use the market, and valve gets a cut there. This is good for hatcoin.
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Jul 27, 2019 09:57
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If anyone's really upset valve could offer to buy back any glitched hat for the price paid (if bought on the market or traded-for) and then just destroy it. I vaguely know someone who tried that poo poo with the US government; she "recently" "found" some extremely rare and valuable coins in a safety deposit box that her late father style from the mint decades and decades ago and tried to talk the government into buying them back from her for half the estimated value. The government just seized them as stolen property instead.
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Jul 27, 2019 13:04
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lovely Wizard posted:thousands of glitched hats (minimum, could be tens of thousands) quick note here but within the first 10 minutes of the glitch being common knowledge 14,000 crate 85s were sold on SCM and some people are estimating the total amount of unusuals unboxed during the fiasco around 100,000, give or take
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Jul 27, 2019 14:16
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crabf posted:quick note here but within the first 10 minutes of the glitch being common knowledge 14,000 crate 85s were sold on SCM and some people are estimating the total amount of unusuals unboxed during the fiasco around 100,000, give or take Insane.
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Jul 27, 2019 14:20
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I think best case scenario is Valve deciding that it's not good to have such minimal attention being payed to a product that has a ton of money being cycled around/through it. Doubt that'll happen though.
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Jul 27, 2019 14:40
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I wonder how much money Valve made out of this. All the keys being bought, all the market transactions where people buy crates&unusuals... Its definitely gonna be quite a spike.
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Jul 27, 2019 14:46
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We were warned years ago! (I miss TF2 comics) Anarch fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Jul 28, 2019 |
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Jul 28, 2019 21:10
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Anarch posted:We were warned years ago! I miss TF2 everything. It feels more like we have a husk of a game left after they handed the weapon balance changes over to some other people a year or two ago. So much fun stuff was nerfed.
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Jul 28, 2019 22:15
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from my memory all the weapon changes was poo poo people have been complaining about since forever so i dont really get that one. the whole spirit of the game is lost mostly in that the involvement from its creators is gone, theres no more funny images showing upcoming stuff, no more funny tie in comics, no more funny blog posts, no more funny videos, etc
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Jul 28, 2019 22:24
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I'm still sad they nerfed the Sandman/Cleaver combo for no reason, it was one of my favourite gimmick loadouts. I don't think I ever ran into a single person complaining about it
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Jul 28, 2019 22:32
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Dang, this update really riled up the hackers, i feel like were booting one every other game im in. Some obvious like the spinning snipers others not so much like that huntsman sniper that knew where i was hiding despite never breaking cloak.
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Jul 28, 2019 22:40
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Its good to see the spirit of old TF2 silliness still lives on. Just had an amazing game on dustbowl where the vast majority of players were just goofing off, about half the server being demos spamming emotes in a giant circle, most other people lingering around that doing silly stuff, and the Anti-Cap Squad protecting the cart from the couple of people trying to cap, and then the t-pose heavies near the very end just before people started to leave. Now that's the TF2 silliness I remember.
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Jul 28, 2019 23:05
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Broken Cog posted:I'm still sad they nerfed the Sandman/Cleaver combo for no reason, it was one of my favourite gimmick loadouts. I think I ever ran into people complaining about it every fuckin game but that's okay people complain about everything that kills them in the shoot-em-up videogame
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Jul 28, 2019 23:48
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Broken Cog posted:I'm still sad they nerfed the Sandman/Cleaver combo for no reason, it was one of my favourite gimmick loadouts. I don't think I ever ran into a single person complaining about it
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Jul 29, 2019 01:09
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Previously you could easily tell when someone was a scammer because their backpack was private but now they’ve started going public with a bunch of glitched unusuals to appear legit. Small investment high return I imagine 😕
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Jul 29, 2019 09:54
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Broken Cog posted:I'm still sad they nerfed the Sandman/Cleaver combo for no reason, it was one of my favourite gimmick loadouts. I don't think I ever ran into a single person complaining about it Same, seriously, the reasons they gave for nerfing it were utter bullshit too. The ball and cleaver even used different archs, if you could hit someone with a ball, then managed to hit them with the cleaver, you deserved that kill just as much or not more than any sniper that clicked a head or spy that managed to get in poking range of someone. And the "bug" on the righteous bison. And nerfing the caber to the point of it being a straight up downgrade. Goddamn this game is a mess.
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I feel that way about the axetinguisher. The puff and sting play was one of the best bits of counter attack the pyro had against heavies. It was rewarding play and helped a great deal.
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