Haven't played in years, what's up in TF2?
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[LOL!] Dr.Brown
Mildly Menacing Medic
The market has not crashed at all. I do not understand why some people are going around saying that. I do 100's of trades per day.
Transactions continue even in the worst economic periods, it doesnt mean the economy's doing well.
[LOL!] Dr.Brown
Mildly Menacing Medic
Unfortunately many people have zero concept of what the term inflation means.
SuperNewman
Face-Melting F2Per
To sum up what has currently happened:
More metal is created every day, it is basically worthless, as the only thing you can really do with it is to craft weapons worth less than the metal, or hats. People with items backed by real money (Keys) decided to ask more and more, and now keys are worth 20 ref, because of all of the ref floating around out there that no one really wants.
Also, people with keys pretty much decided the same thing about all of the old "currency" items, such as bills hats and earbuds. I think buds are 3 keys, now.
Unusual hats are now valued in keys only, due to keys being the only TF2 item that has any sort of real "monetary" backing, as they only come from one place, and they cost a set amount.
[LOL!] Dr.Brown
Mildly Menacing Medic
A great explanation imo for the most part. My minor disagreements - metal is far from worthless. Metal is traded for items every day. It is currency. It is one of the causes of inflation as new metal enters the market every second. I do not know why you would say nobody wants ref considering people use ref to purchase items all.day.long. 1 refined metal is $0.12 while one key is $2.49. Anyways, people running around screaming the market is dying/dead are hilariously ignorant. They just sound like bitter burned out people that need a break from the game.
SuperNewman
Face-Melting F2Per
It's worthless as far as "monetary value", however, craft hats have not really gone up in price at all, so now you can get decent cosmetics for just about every class for a couple of keys.
Edit: I have so many drop weapons now, that my current goal is to replace every unique weapon that I own with a self crafted one.
[LOL!] Dr.Brown
Mildly Menacing Medic
its what dimes are to dollars, it is not worthless in monetary value terms. people buy refined for real cash every minute.
SuperNewman
Face-Melting F2Per
Unless you are going to use that ref immediately to trade for items, I see that being an insanely stupid proposition, due to the daily freefall in the value of refined. If you're not going to be using it to get items, its basically a wasted bp slot, imho.
[LOL!] Dr.Brown
Mildly Menacing Medic
thats the thing, there is no daily freefall in the value of refined. keys have been worth 16 to 20 refined for the past how many months now? it has been relatively stable for the most part. keys are your "dollar" bills and scrap, reclaimed, and refined are your pennies, nickels, dimes roughly speaking for analogy purposes.
