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[quote]Bidwell was taking stock of some of our older merchandise this week and found out some idiot's been using one of our warehouses to store pallets of spoiled mayonnaise. Raccoons all over the place. Fancy Fedoras, Prussian Pickehaubes, Football Helmets -- these items were part of Mann Co. history. Some of them were the first items we ever shipped. They deserved a better end than rotting in a puddle of rotten condiments and raccoon poop, let me tell you.
Here's a complete list of all the stock we lost: BATTER’S HELMET, SOLDIER’S STASH, PYRO’S BEANIE, DEMOMAN’S FRO, FOOTBALL HELMET, MINING LIGHT, PRUSSIAN PICKELHAUBE, TROPHY BELT and FANCY FEDORA. That's right, folks: These hats are gone.
For the next two weeks, we're selling anything in the warehouse that wasn't damaged. Purchase and craft these things while you can, because once the two weeks are up I'm burning the warehouse down. Also, I don't know if you can get rabies from wearing a hat that a raccoon bit, but if you can don't come crying to me about it. If you don't want your hats to give you diseases, don't buy them out of warehouses, that's my advice. That's just one of the reasons I wear as few clothes as possible at all times. Never been sick in my life.
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Item retirement FAQ
Q: What is happening to this set of nine hats in two weeks?
A: These items will no longer be sold in the store, randomly dropped, unboxed as unusuals, or acquired through crafting.
Q: What happens to copies of these items that are already in my backpack?
A: All existing copies of the items will remain unaffected.
Q: What about older crates that have these items as a potential drop?
A: Crates that contain these items will still have a chance at unboxing them in normal quality only.
Q: How will I now acquire these items?
A: These items are still useable in trading.
Q: Will these items ever come out of retirement?
A: No. Once an item is retired it will stay that way.
Q: Will more items be retired in the future?
A: Advance notice will be given if any other items will be retired.[/quote]
H: Rare demomans fro w: buds
what
[editline]10th January 2013[/editline]
is this an elaborate joke
I don't
what
that's fucking stupid what
Joy, another excuse for traders to jack up prices
...what are you doing?
let's remove some of the most iconic and popular hats, at no actual advantage, that'll help us in some way!
oh boy
i have a vintage demoman's fro, can't wait to be hounded to hell and back for it
People will be jacking the value of Vintage versions of these items to ridiculous heights.
Q: Will more items be retired in the future?
A: Advance notice will be given if any other items will be retired.
seriously what the fuck is this?
But,
all of those except for the Football helmet and beanie are good hats, just, why?
Oh, come on!
[SUB]I know how you just read that sentence[/SUB]
Half of me likes that I won't accidentally craft a useless football helmet, but the other half of me dislikes that there will be no more unusual ones and you can't buy them.
[QUOTE=ned_ballad;39171255]let's remove some of the most iconic and popular hats, at no actual advantage, that'll help us in some way![/QUOTE]
Because it will break the game completely if they're gone
I bet that economist is behind all this.
WHAT THE FUCK, VALVE
Items that still somewhat match the original style of the game? NO MORE
Why
Fucking why would you make more collectables
It's like they're poking at the trading market to see what happens. They know the outcome of making hats limited makes them shoot up in price, so why do this?
Seling [b]RARE[/b] Nuts Bolts Fotball Helmet FOR HEAVY 4 BUD!!
Fuck ooooofff. This will just add more bullshit to the trading system. Retiring items is fucking retarded.
I blame that economist.
this seems like an incredibly stupid conceptual experiment that Valve decided to do after the economist suggested it
what is this supposed to accomplish? is it supposed to make more sales for community hats? and what'll happen when community hats get "retired?"
this is stupid and they need to go back on it
What the fuck Valve, this is stupid
I literally just traded away my unusual demo fro
fuck meeeee
Fuck you Valve. Killing off some of the most iconic hats there were.
I salute you, fallen hats.
inb4 buying 99 copies of those hats.
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Why couldn't they have just made them drop-only?
Seriously.
It occurs to me that I own a level 0 Vintage Trophy Belt.
Wonder what the hell it's worth now.
I honestly don't know why they're doing this.
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