• Confessions of a botter: how one man amassed (and lost) $10,000 worth of Steam Market items armed wi
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Shame you can't withdraw money from the steam wallet, or else he would be [I]loaded[/I]
10,000 dollars worth of high-end loot lost forever. [editline]11th May 2013[/editline] Ouch.
[QUOTE=Thunderbolt;40604166]Shame you can't withdraw money from the steam wallet, or else he would be [I]loaded[/I][/QUOTE] Could've easily sold some of it via PayPal. :v: Honestly, this guy is smart as hell.
Friend of mine was telling me that when the first major EVE market crash happened, a friend of [I]his[/I] saw the patterns in the market leading to that and exploited it for massive profit. CCP responded by banning him saying he was in on it.
I did the same thing too I just knew to stop when Valve updated the TOS
So it's against the ToS to have like, say, 5 steam accounts each with a copy of the orange box, running on several PC's and idling for months on end to generate items to craft into metal and gather hats to sell?
[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;40604342]Friend of mine was telling me that when the first major EVE market crash happened, a friend of [I]his[/I] saw the patterns in the market leading to that and exploited it for massive profit. CCP responded by banning him saying he was in on it.[/QUOTE] It's kind of sobering to realize that a videogame can have a real market that can be crashed.
"oh shit people are using the horrifically fucked up system we implemented, what should we do?!" "BAN THEM" christ I miss tf2 when it was an FPS game
[QUOTE=cccritical;40606964]"oh shit people are using the horrifically fucked up system we implemented, what should we do?!" "BAN THEM" christ I miss tf2 when it was an FPS game[/QUOTE]Good for you.
[QUOTE=cccritical;40606964] christ I miss tf2 when it was an FPS game[/QUOTE] It was when I played yesterday.
[QUOTE=legolover122;40607273]It was when I played yesterday.[/QUOTE] You'd have to find a "vanilla" server, and they're getting rarer and rarer.
Anndd the tf2 "market" prices jump!
[QUOTE=Intense Funkid;40607421]Anndd the tf2 "market" prices jump![/QUOTE] Yeah, just look at all those Vintage, Strange, and Genuine items lost forever. If Valve can make them disappear at the drop of a hat, it kinda makes me realize that I should stop placing so much value on TF2 items. The game's just getting older and older anyway. At least I stopped spending money on it; now I just deal in TF2WH credit. My rule on new collectible items is: can I trade away some of my existing items to make enough WH credit for it? No? Then it's not happening.
[QUOTE=Shugo;40607989]Yeah, just look at all those Vintage, Strange, and Genuine items lost forever. If Valve can make them disappear at the drop of a hat, it kinda makes me realize that I should stop placing so much value on TF2 items. The game's just getting older and older anyway. At least I stopped spending money on it; now I just deal in TF2WH credit. My rule on new collectible items is: can I trade away some of my existing items to make enough WH credit for it? No? Then it's not happening.[/QUOTE] I took all my items and turned them into videogames through trades. I realized a long time ago that having hats really isn't worth it when you can have actual things like money, or at least a videogame that I can play.
[QUOTE=Van-man;40607333]You'd have to find a "vanilla" server, and they're getting rarer and rarer.[/QUOTE] Theres a shitton of vanilla server up, what are you on. They might have a couple server management mods but the gameplay remains the same.
He should have consistently cashed out. That was good automation work.
boy its just like gambling, making thousands of dollars playing a card game, and then getting thrown the fuck out once they realize youre counting cards
Should've constantly cashed out.
[QUOTE=cccritical;40606964]"oh shit people are using the horrifically fucked up system we implemented, what should we do?!" "BAN THEM" christ I miss tf2 when it was an FPS game[/QUOTE] I'd happily start playing TF2 regularly if it was how it used to be, or at least not too far into the hats/item bonanza e.g. the first class updates. Now I go on and there's like 50 different weapons I don't know about and everyone looks stupid as fuck, or they're not even playing and just trading.
[QUOTE=Lukeo;40616007]I'd happily start playing TF2 regularly if it was how it used to be, or at least not too far into the hats/item bonanza e.g. the first class updates. Now I go on and there's like 50 different weapons I don't know about and everyone looks stupid as fuck, or they're not even playing and just trading.[/QUOTE] You have several options. Join a vanilla server. Join a decent server where trading is frowned upon. OR Get over it, learn the new weapons, play the new gamemodes, and maybe make a few dollars off hats while you're at it. No point crying over an artstyle that died 3 years ago, it's still the same game except with a hell of a lot more content.
[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;40618230]You have several options. Join a vanilla server. Join a decent server where trading is frowned upon. OR Get over it, learn the new weapons, play the new gamemodes, and maybe make a few dollars off hats while you're at it. No point crying over an artstyle that died 3 years ago, it's still the same game except with a hell of a lot more content.[/QUOTE] Too much effort compared to just hopping on Counterstrike :v: Besides I gave away all my hats some time ago, wouldn't want to spend my time on trading servers
Learning python is even worse than this :v:
[QUOTE=Lukeo;40616007]I'd happily start playing TF2 regularly if it was how it used to be, or at least not too far into the hats/item bonanza e.g. the first class updates. Now I go on and there's like 50 different weapons I don't know about and everyone looks stupid as fuck, or they're not even playing and just trading.[/QUOTE] Eh that doesn't really bother me. I usually just ask people "Oh cool what's that new medigun or whatever?" And they say "Oh, it's the whatever that does this and that." And I say "Cool," and go back to using my vanilla Spy loadout.
I used to do this on Neopets for food items. :v:
traded hats for keys and got torchlight 2
I can't be the only one who believes that this hat/item/weapon/whatever economy is getting ridiculous, right?
[QUOTE=Aphtonites;40640423]I can't be the only one who believes that this hat/item/weapon/whatever economy is getting ridiculous, right?[/QUOTE] Other games have this too
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