QUICK RUNDOWN: SOME TF2 CRATES ARE GIVING 100% GUARANTEED UNUSUAL DROPS (1-15, 82, and 85 are the ones I know about) UNUSUAL PRICES ARE GOING DOWN AND CRATES ARE GOING UP THESE CRATES ARE BASICALLY FREE MONEY. SELL THEM OR UNBOX THEM DEPENDING ON PREFERENCE basically the TF2 economy is flipped on its head
======IMPORTANT READ THIS BEFORE DOING ANYTHING====== VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV And NOW: Valve has shut down the item servers and market for the time being, and we should be getting another “update” in a “couple of hours” according to the TF2 twitter, so no more free unusuals for now. No one knows what’s going to happen to the hats, but most people theorize that they’re either going to make the unusuals obtained this way untradeable and unmarketable, rollback the item servers to pre-update status (very unlikely), or do absolutely nothing about it because valve is incompetent
P A T C H E D FUCK VALVO FUCK GABEN FUCK POORFAGS WHY DID YOU HAVE TO RUIN THIS GAME FOR ME FUCK FUCK FUCK I HOPE GABE WILL PERSONALLY REVERT AND BAN EVERY SINGLE USER WHO GLITCHED AND THEN GIVE ME A CHEATERS LAMENT
What's more interesting to me is how Valve will respond to this kerfuffle. This either will elevate their status more or be used against them by EGS shills.
Why the fuck would anyone open the crates when it was obviously gonna get patched? Meanwhile selling the crates was free money AND theres absolubtely nothing valve can do about those, people made hundreds of dollars of this shit and you guys just sat on your asses wasting money to get useless hats that are gonna get rolled back/deleted
Caleb Jenkins
Any updates?
Cooper Long
BASED AND DABPILLED
Blake Collins
>Some worker at valve had enough and brought down TF2 with no survivors just so his fat boss can finally roll over and do something about the game BASED He sacrificed himself for all of us
Aiden Jenkins
What an awful analogy
Jackson Richardson
they actually are you faggot, the ones unboxed from the glitched crates are not on the market anymore
Liam Walker
Unusual prices are going back up so it must mean they were removed.
Henry Diaz
I give zero shits about TF2, but I have some crates in my inventory that could be the ones that are up in price wish I sold them before they disabled the inventory/market, I doubt it'll be worth as much when it comes back
Jayden Allen
>tfw not in because I sold crates instead of unboxing them wtf bro why didn't you include a compilation of steam wallet funds pictures
also it's pretty fucking terribly made
Bentley Walker
What's the deal with trading? Why do traders get the worst of it all?
Gabriel Campbell
Well mine are still in my inventory at least Maybe they all got taken off the market and put back into the owner’s inventory
Aaron Lopez
>check to see if i can grab some hats >lol steam community market unusable for 15 days cuz fuck you >on my 7 year old account for over 1k hours of tf2 and tons of market transactions in the past making a new account to buy them wouldnt work either huh? IM just gunna miss out?
Isaac Brooks
>punish the people selling crates when thats simply suplly and demand but not the ones abusing the bug Nice meme
Also its imposible to reverse the crate sells unless they do a full steam Wide roll back which isnt gonna happen
Best case scenario is they have fun with the fuckup and
>make all the unboxed unusuals yestersay untradeable >But now everyone who didn't unbox gets a freebie too >People get to keep their hats while tradeniggers still burn alive
Asher Ortiz
shill
Brayden Long
immaculate
Brody Ross
if I could, I would have opened 1/2 & sold the rest of the crates if it gets rolled back or whatever you don't lose much but if it doesn't you got some unusuals to remember this shitfest by
Joseph Davis
Traders spend their time playsing stock market instead of playing the game like fucking NERDS and PUSSIES
Angel Barnes
yes, valve stopped all trading and box opening for now
Jaxon Sanders
because Valve can leech off of them without putting any work into the game
Xavier Peterson
>also it's pretty fucking terribly made yeah, i put no effort into it
Valve's employees have self-oversight so are frequently found to be sticking their dicks into spaghetti code just for fun My guess is that someone fat-fingered the percentages on a few crates for some reason. Or... it was done on purpose by a disgruntled employee.
Nathan Evans
Ricardo gave you a chance to make some quick cash and you blew it
Lincoln Fisher
>Valve fucks up on their end >guys who actively sold hundreds of thousands of crates walk away scott free >guys who simply unboxxed get fucked your a dipshit.
What's going on? And how is Ricardo related to this?
Henry Reyes
So I think they deleted all the duped hats from the market since now all the duped hats have gone up in price. The hat I got for 3 dollars is now at 25
Hudson Torres
can i offer you an nice unusual in this tryin time?
Kevin Russell
The crate added in the update that caused this hat the Ricardo Milos hat in the OP in it
Lucas Baker
DUDE IF YOU GOT A ITEM " SOLD" JUST BOOT THE FUCKING GAME UP AND YOU'LL GET THE HATS
Traderfags deserve to be killed on sight and have been a leech on tf2 for 9 years
Lincoln Lewis
the most believable theory I've heard is that they somehow made it so stranges/strangifiers couldn't be unboxed anymore, which is what's contained in those crates, so because there's no other options you always get unusuals
Jordan Bailey
i'm ok with this, i only unboxxed shit and didn't do dumb ass crap like sell on the market.
Isaiah Williams
Imagine playing this has-been irrelevant shit in 2k19
Jonathan Diaz
i sold my old crates at the beginning of the year oh well, win some lose some
still doing great from getting on the crypto train early
Josiah Butler
i bet valve made big cash from steam market transactions and people that bought keys from store and not third party sites
The truth is demand drives the market. Rolex watches for instance make millions of units a year but the demand is there so prices are high. Why would it be different with unusuals? They are a luxury virtual product and people want them. It matters not how flooded the market is, it's a child's understanding of markets. The market will re-stabilise.
Xavier Howard
Yeah since most unusual trades valve gets 0% of the money. Mostly low tier unusual or quick sells are sold on the steam market.
Brandon Adams
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epic even newpipe doesnr work
Juan Carter
D i spent so much money on this game god help me
Ayden Clark
>have a #85 in my inventory >didn’t find out about glitch until a few hours ago the moment the servers go up I’m going to PRESS MY LUCK
Bentley Moore
*PFFFRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT* *BRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPP* HEAR THAT FAGGOTS? THAT'S THE SOUND OF ME SHITTING ON POORFAGS WHEN THEIR ILL GOTTEN UNUSUALS ARE REMOVED
ARE PEOPLE SELLING UNUSUALS FOR 3 REF YET? I CAN BUY A NORMAL HAT FOR 1.3 REF.
William Sanders
Market is still shut down which is why I think they deleted it instead of people buying.
Justin Cruz
you deserve that lucky unusual bro, I'll be counting for ya to get it
Luke Diaz
how do you check your inventory?
Evan Baker
is 85 even bugged?
Luke Peterson
I never played tf2 and I dont know whats going on but D
Kevin Howard
>trade tranny i can't wait for your several thousand dollar unusuals to shit the market overnight when valve lets people keep their hats and punishes the fags who enabled this shit.
Jeremiah Stewart
85 was extra bugged, it was dropping 2 unusuals sometimes
Jordan Clark
Just buy a taunt
Ryan Ramirez
>be dead game >release first content update in half a year >22 shitty cosmetics >also we crashed the economy and caused the price of Unusuals to drop by 99% OMEGALUL
Also TF2 has a Twitter account for some reason
Samuel Young
It would force valve to make games again after all the lawsuits.
It is shut because: >They don't know how to respond yet >They want to fully understand the situation before allowing trades again >They want time to prepare a patch >They want to generate as full an accounting as possible of who got too lucky
Luis Edwards
So what happens if I try and buy a crate or unusual right now?
Cooper Baker
That's a very interesting turn of events. Imagine that in this small microsystem that was created entirely of an idea that a virtual item has a value only because of its drop rarity you could have a vast "investors" network with bots and automatic trading in place, and suddenly by a small bug in the system all of it crashes and burns with people losing their money. Let me repeat - they lose big amounts of money, because they invested in literal virtual cosmetic items from one fucking game, and that these items have a value because someone at valve said so. And now the virtual market with hats is crashing and burning because of a bug? How insane this scenario is, I mean how fucked up on mushrooms and codeine you have to be to run virtual market with hats and crates for a living and be upset because this silly little system that was set up just for shit and giggles has a little hiccup. And suddenly people LOSE TONS OF MONEY!!! It really is a small experiment, a research to check how you can create a market crash and what follows next. Valve won't clean this shit fast, they have to study it, they need this data to see what is going to happen with all these items. Some will go up, others will go down, thousands of people will start buying and selling them and all of it will be used in future for the real market crash. I'd guess the Bilderbergs and Lehman Brothers are waiting for Valve's report already.
what's ricardo have to do with all this? anyone can tell me?
Ian Miller
They won't rollback you fucking retard. That would literally take too long for the 2 people that work on TF2 and would lose them millions in the process
Liam Powell
you can't buy any as the market is down, and even if you somehow manage to get hold on a crate and key, you can't unbox because volvo pulled the plug on item server too
Ethan Gonzalez
fuck you and your shit analogy
Jordan Howard
>enter a casino >one slot machine lets you win 100% of the time >casino staff are idiots; you can play it and win for hours >they finally approach you >"Sorry sir but that isnt how this is supposed to work! We are taking your earnings and reimbursing the nickels you spent playing that slot machine."
If you read the above and think that is fair, makes sense and wont result in a lawsuit I have a bridge to sell you.
they lose nothing if they don't rollback key purchases or market trades user
if you think that's not fair and refuse to give it back, they're going to take you out back & break a few of your ribs good luck suing them btw. bet your 500$ lawyer is going to be able to stand up to them
Christian Hall
What do you think is going to happen to the hats?
Benjamin White
D
Cooper Wright
>He bought hats >He bought a pass
Tyler Torres
1s were being sold for 100 dollars, you would have lost that if you opened it
Jaxon Morris
>*waddles in* why yes, *sniff* of coursh i pray teamgh fordgress doo doo, ids my fabret game! *heavy wheeze* what's your guys's fabret cobsmedig and pony??
your inventory is likely simply a snapshot as item servers are down right now
Ryder Cook
>I didnt make it in fuck you
Oliver Thompson
Is this glitch still going on? There's no way that Valve would let this continue. Their bottom line wouldn't allow it
Brandon Morris
>"Haha, they will just kill you, and the law is worthless anyway!"
Now take your retarded Hollywood idea of what a casino is out of the equation.
Carson Sullivan
BASED
Anthony James
>be millionaire >spend $50,000 on Golden Frying Pans >resell them for double the price because of artificial scarcity >rinse and repeat >??? >profit
Jordan Jenkins
>tf2fags will be able to afford a lawsuit against valve of all companies cant wait to see you seething retards get curbstomped legally
Michael Ward
>This item and matchmaking servers are going offline for maintenance What is Gaben gonna do?
Justin Long
They haven't patched it yet, but every possible way to acquire and open the crates has been disabled in the meantime
Jeremiah Perez
read the thread you fucking troglodyte god this board is shit
Levi James
Its unlikely we will get access to trading this weekend
Wyatt Bailey
you sound extremely booty blasted user, did you seriously invest in a virtual hat currency? too do that is pretty damn illegal all things considered and shows how little you know of economics.
James Wright
d oesnt work like that if you boot the game, got " item recieved from market" and it was my unusual
After a break I came back and decided to sell some keys for 2.33 ref and someone told me they were 7 ref now so I sold it for 2.33 and fucked off from trading forever
Parker Bennett
D
Christopher Diaz
I bought TF2 in 2007 because I saw that you can blow a rocket back at the shooter with a flamethrower. Now that was amazing stuff. This hat shit is just so fucking weird. I really believe that there isn't even a single mentally healthy person involved in the entirety of it.
Camden Flores
ITEM SERVERS ARE GOING DOWN, REPEAT, ITEM SERVERS ARE ABOUT TO GO DOWN IN 10 MIN!
William Ramirez
nah I bought a pc by scamming retard & selling their shit like 7 years back tho
if you really think they're going to let you walk out of there with millions after you cam in with 100$ you're retarded
Dominic Nelson
Valve employee here. We found out that one of the employees went and changed code in cs go, dota 2, and tf2. Only the exploit in tf2 went live. The employee is fired now and the market was shut down to prevent even more damage. In 3-4 hours everything will return to normal. If you have any hats they will become unmarketable and untradeable. Crates will no longer have the extended chance for unusuals.
Ryan Rivera
ever since the advent of scrap bots, making metal has only been getting easier and easier, so the price has escalated.
Luis Reed
LMAO
Cameron Moore
THE MARKET PRICES ARE GOING BACK UP INTO THE $20 AND ABOVE I WAITED TOO LONG TO BUY NOW I GET NOTHING
If you think a casino can legally take away any big profits you won from playing their games as intended, all because something on their end malfunctioned, then go "yeah sorry thats not what we wanted to happen, here is your entry fee now fuck off" you have rocks in your head.
>Unironically comparing realworld money to pixels on your computer which weren't even priced by the creators Not him but you're a fucking retard
Hunter Smith
that actually looks hot
Carson Green
>Yes, Mr. Bond. I see your Haunted Phantasm Jr Killer Exclusive and raise you a Vivid Plama Noh Mercy. >My family spent time in the Team Fortress 2 hat game. How did your family earn your millions? *James' hidden earpiece buzzes with Moneypenny's frantic voice* >James! Don't believe him, James! He obtained that Vivid Plasma Noh Mercy from the 26th July free shit update!
But my hat was one of the ones that was legitimately obtained via the standard 1% drop rate. Prove to me it wasn't.
Isaac Miller
I checked my inventory though the steam app and it’s still the same
Jaxon Gray
>a father of 3 wakes up one morning >has breakfast, puts on his suit >his wife kisses him as he sits down on his computer to work >he boots up steam as he prepares to play the market >but suddenly he sees his worst nightmare >the TF2 economy crashing, hats are worth nothing, Valve has shut down the market and inventories >he starts to sweat, he starts shaking, his hands are trembling >he turns around, he watches his three darling daughters preparing to go to school >yesterday he was planning on starting to save up so he could send them all to college >today, he knows that at best, they'll flip burgers, and at worst, they'll end up in some alley sucking dick for money >his wife asks him what's wrong >he looks at her, his lovely wife, who will soon divorce him because he no longer has a way to provide for her >he stands up, kisses his wife, tells her nothing is wrong >he goes to his garage, takes a rope, hides it under his suit >he heads up to his room, smiling at his wife and children on the way, and locks the door
you fucking troglodyte it doesn't mean jack SHIT if you have something in your ingame inventory if the ITEM SERVER IS DOWN AND WON'T UPDATE IT the unusuals that appear are remnants of your data cache when item servers were still up and running
Im fucking crying, I cant stop laughing IMAGINE INVESTING INTO PIXELS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHHAAAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAH FUCK YOU RETARDOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
It's like when items at stores get miss priced. I remember when I was 9 years old I went to Target or Kmart with my mum in the city. They had FF Tactics advanced and I really wanted it, so I too it to one of those self scan things that tell you the price. It scanned as $2.50 so I ran to my mum and begged her to buy it for me. She didn't think they'd sell it for that much, but the checkout chick said she had to sell it for what it scanned for. We bought two, one for me and one for my brother. Best weekend ever.
>be me >be 2013 >be 20 and in college >spent prior years playing TF2 >really into trading game >real wolf of wall street shit >selling keys for dosh with indian shits >buyin all the fuckin hats >do this for years >go to cash out because wanted money for booze and the devils lettuce >big winter bash and wanted to get blitzed >find a buyer for all my goods >its a Brazilian >used to deal with Brazilians all the time in Tibia >"well i dont typically deal with brazillians, theyre unethical shits but nobody else is buying right now" >guy has decent karma on a couple sites, shows me this >initiate trade >pass over the merch >disconnects and blocks me >fuck Brazilians >the jajajas still haunt me to this day
tl;dr fuck brazillians I hope that guy got shot by his shitty government
NOT TRADEABLE >NOT MARKETABLE NOT TRADEABLE >NOT MARKETABLE NOT TRADEABLE >NOT MARKETABLE NOT TRADEABLE >NOT MARKETABLE NOT TRADEABLE >NOT MARKETABLE NOT TRADEABLE >NOT MARKETABLE NOT TRADEABLE >NOT MARKETABLE NOT TRADEABLE >NOT MARKETABLE NOT TRADEABLE >NOT MARKETABLE NOT TRADEABLE >NOT MARKETABLE NOT TRADEABLE >NOT MARKETABLE
Regular cosmetic sellers are going to make a killing when people try to trade for cosmetics to go with their unusuals I need to find out what looks good with a geisha boy
Phase 1: some crates has a 100% unusual chance Phase 2: entire inventory shut down for a few hours Phase 3: all unusuals from this glitch now marked untradable/unmarketable
Gabriel Wood
Were you seriously buying them expecting to make a profit? Are you delusional? I bought them for the experience, shiny hats, and to dab on trade cucks.
Kevin Davis
>mfw this means nothing to me because I just wanted an unusual after 9 years of playing
If you want unusuals, go buy em quick before people pull out sell offers if you still have crates sell them quick since some people still have buy offers in
see above open one & if it's not unusual instasell everything ASAP remember to confirm on mobile auth
>making the unusuals un-tradeable and un-marketable
The damage is done Thanks to this fuckup the demand for more unusuals is pretty much non-existent now.
And nobody is paying 400 dollars for something that was 5 bucks before.
Jeremiah Moore
what hat
Adrian Harris
fuck it why not free stuff is free stuff /id/nuclearpowerguy
Tyler Richardson
>all of mine are perfectly normal and fine
William Adams
Bought 2 keys on my old item storage account because I had a #7 and the newest article said the items were still useable in game, but it won't open. Definitely going to be pirating some games to recoup that loss.
it doesn't work like that. if it was tradable (at all) you'd be able to immediately list it on the steam market, like they were last night/this morning.
Logan Barnes
>Yes, Baron de Rothschild, the Team Fortress 2 stock market has crashed. >Yes.... are the Halloween hats safe? >Yes, my lord. Also, the gen 2. unusual effects are totally untouched. We managed to circumvent a total black swan event. >Good. Invest heavily in orbiting fire and stormy storm. >Very good, my liege. *turns to window as servant walks out* >I will maintain control by sundown. No market escapes my grasp.
Could the marking have something to do with whether you got your keys from the valve store or somewhere else? Mine aren’t marked and I bought the keys straight from the store
Levi Miller
I mean, even if the unusual is tradable, i wont sell it, first i've ever gotten, idgaf
Benjamin Perry
>Tradefags have scriptbots running 24/7 to buy unusuals if they drop below a certain price >In the dead of US night, a bug causes unusuals to become common >Prices plummet as the market is flooded with bugged unusuals >Scriptbots automatically buying loads of worthless hats >Tradefags wake up and see all their money is gone and their backpack is full of now worthless hats >They start panic buying crates as the price of those skyrockets >Marketplace is locked down so they can't even flip those >When the marketplace comes back up, all the bugged unusuals that their scriptbots automatically purchased can no longer be traded >Now tradefags are stuck with an inventory full of worthless unusuals that they can't even sell and crates that are now back to being worth pennies
How will tradefags ever actually recover from this?
anyone noticed the unusual hats prices are going up? better buy them quickly
Owen Barnes
TF2, even in its grave, will always fucking deliver the entertainment
Luis Mitchell
>have one of every crate up to 25 because at the time I was collecting them and level 1-25 sandwiches >was at work today and only now got to see this It'll be fixed before the next two hours, won't it?
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.
based as fuck. Virtual economy fags need to be obliterated
Brayden Roberts
Party van tonight?
Brody Brooks
Even after a literal free 100% unusual giveaway, Yea Forums is still greedy for more
Classic faggotry from the classic fags
Jack Price
this lmao
man I wanna go sleep but this is too good I wish they took a more serious stance tho, I want to see people livid, right now everyone seems to be very okay with the outcome which kinda sucks
Aiden King
This felt so nice to read. My god I hope the bot-fags get fugged.
REMEMBER TO SELL YOUR CRATES IF YOU HAVE ANY LEFT BEFORE THEIR PRICES DIE AGAIN >REMEMBER TO SELL YOUR CRATES IF YOU HAVE ANY LEFT BEFORE THEIR PRICES DIE AGAIN REMEMBER TO SELL YOUR CRATES IF YOU HAVE ANY LEFT BEFORE THEIR PRICES DIE AGAIN >REMEMBER TO SELL YOUR CRATES IF YOU HAVE ANY LEFT BEFORE THEIR PRICES DIE AGAIN REMEMBER TO SELL YOUR CRATES IF YOU HAVE ANY LEFT BEFORE THEIR PRICES DIE AGAIN
Liam Adams
pretty sure nobody cares about having non tradable unusual, as long as you can get them in crates
Brandon Lewis
So i havent played tf2 in about 5 years or so? Are these worth anything these days?
>unusuals unboxed are a new quality called "Dubious" >item quality is grey rather than unusual purple >they have particle effects still, but also spark or have flies/stink lines appear >not marketable but tradable >everyone who doesnt have a Dubious hat in their inventory gets a Cheater's Lament
I think that's what they'll be doing. Right now is just plugging the issue
Tyler Gutierrez
Good luck trying to sell that shit if its duped. I was lucky I was able to find a fag willing to trade for it.
Julian Jackson
>It's the future and items you buy online get sold and delivered instantly >Notice some retarded intern put the new yeezies or supreme or whatever normalfag expensive shit for $1 >Buy them and it gets delivered to your house and pisses off the fashion cartels
>spent $65 on keys >sold $65 worth of crates >if the unusuals are made untradable permanently I'll have 26 unusuals for free essentially >if they are made tradable I'll be sitting on a huge nest egg
i wonder of those snobby ass tradefags would be ungrateful enough to just delete all their worthless unusuals just because it bothers them knowing they are worthless.
Zachary Bell
Can someone explain what this implies? Looks like I'll be able to trade this once the day comes. Thanks, Valve!
before you say; >But it says tradeable AFTER friday Yes, retard, but you'd still be able to list it on the MARKET, you cant with these. Thus, they truly are untradeable.
Austin Martin
>more people playing the game >no more shitfling of "muh skillz are better cuz I own hatz" >only affected tradefags and unusual fags Are you telling me communism did something good for once?
"Yeah we'll uhhh, handle this eventually" >just leaves them untradeable forever
Landon Cox
Here's a better analogy than your shit >DOW Jones employee accidentally tosses physical stocks out of a 7th story window >People grab that shit off the streets and head right to Wall St. to cash in on employee's incompetence >actual day traders get mad at normies' luck instead of incompetent DOW employee
Henry Collins
You potentially missed out on so much steambux its not even funny. I think people were getting like 10bucks for each correct crate.
Also, its already over. Valve shut down the markets and inventory for tf2.
>people now marketing rare effects cheap buy now from the retards, the other unusuals will be untradable/unmarketable so the values should rise back up
Wyatt Moore
My best catch. I did get an all class robo hat though. Im not fond of dead pres/aces effects though.
Don't listen to tradefags, imagine how many new weapons came out in 5 years while you were away. I can get them for you in exchange for your items. Add me on steam and I'll show you what I've got, steamcommunity.com/id/happymerchant/
DELETE ALL YOUR UNUSUALS SO YOU WONT GET BANNED I REPEAT DELETE ALL YOUR UNUSUALS
Nathan Carter
No, fuck that, the crates won't have any value after this and some people charged their steam wallet to buy this shit, they'd have to refund the money used on the crates and keys, otherwise someone who bought stuff with 50 dollars would only get like 5 dollars worth of trash back.
hahahahahahaha I GOT AN UNUSUAL tough I paid 15 bucks for it since all the 5 bucks unusuals were gone BUT I HAVE ONE Tough I should probably sell it for 16 bucks before Valve delivers trade bans or something to people
>Still have a bunch of hats that tryhard traders had to spent a bunch of money on >didn't have to pay a cent I see this as a win.
Charles Reed
>cheapest unusuals are back at 17€ fuck I should have bought some cheap ones right after the bugged ones got locked could have made a nice extra profit
Brody Allen
DELETE ALL YOUR UNUSUALS SO YOU WONT GET BANNED I REPEAT DELETE ALL YOUR UNUSUALS