Major Update Speculation V16: The Monoculus RIFT Well Spun Hat Promo Edition
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[QUOTE=Zeos;39981853]What am I even supposed to do with metal? It's not like craft hats are nearly worth as much, so you can't really make anything worth trading.[/QUOTE]
Metal has seriously gone down in value a lot. Keys are like four refined now.
Wonder if Valve will make it so hats are cheaper to craft or something since the whole "hats are rare and special" thing is obviously out the fucking window and has been since the first "event crate."
Add the ability to craft tools and maybe divide hats into series so you potentially reduce the randomness of crafting a hat while still keeping the option to do so and metal will skyrocket.
Had this been a year ago, with my 8 refined metal I would have been able to buy 3 keys, putting me closer to the set of items I want. There aren't even any recipes for weapons that I really need to waste metal on, as weapons themselves are cheaper and cheaper.
I have no idea what's happening, but I'd say the market isn't exactly keeping the price of the keys down either.
They're tools, you can destroy a lot of them by uncrating 200 crates out of boredom, hoping to get some unusuals. And since they can be put on market to be sold for wallet money, just like mann co keys, the keys meant for trading for items get recycled right there - instead of purchasing from mann co, when new keys are being injected.
In my opinion, this, along with the increased popularity of idling, is what makes the whole metal-keys balance go to shit. And yes, the whole economy is filled with greedy assholes. That is the most important factor.
yea, metal seriously needs a better use.
Recipes are so ridiculous right now, people just wait for the item to drop, individual hats aren't really worth that much and making "craft only" hats didn't work either, those just became worth less and less as they became more common than dropped hats.
One of the biggest long term mistakes in crafting, I believe, was making scrap only 2 weapons, not three. The long term effects of that seemed to have sped up the metal deflation over many years. The relative slowness of adding new hats with crafting numbers is also a big factor.
If we had weekly craftable hats with numbers, the metal would drop considerably.
I love using 3 ref and making a random hat
it's a fun little gamble
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;39982069]seriously[/QUOTE]
I'm not surprised. Given what some of the TF2 players make [I]monthly[/I] from their hat's/weapons out of the store, I could totally see someone justify buying a saxxy account to themselves as an "investment".
Anyway, while I'm not fond of the idea of consumers taking dev kits from developers, this should at least prove how much support Oculus can get, and hopefully fund the making of more kits, which even more devs will want to buy, after seeing how fast even the expensive, [I]unfinished[/I], dev versions of the Oculus Rift sells.
Also, for all traders buying the Rift for the hat, that just means after they get their item, the rest of us can buy their essentially-new Rifts for like $250 or something.
Also, speaking of reselling items that came with promos, how much are Valve store edition Sandiviches selling for by themselves, still plastic wrapped and basically new-in-box, but with just the code used? I still have mine, and since my brother also has one, I don't know that we need two.......
[QUOTE=ObiWonTwo;39982206]I'm not surprised. Given what some of the TF2 players make [I]monthly[/I] from their hat's/weapons out of the store, I could totally see someone justify buying a saxxy account to themselves as an "investment".[/QUOTE]
i love it when i whip out my saxxy in front of a guy with his "themed" super-rare burning one-of-a-kind unusuals
usually they stop and stare for 30 seconds saying nothing, and it's like they suddenly realize money or sharking can't get them the (second) rarest item of the game :v:
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;39982258]i love it when i whip out my saxxy in front of a guy with his "themed" super-rare burning one-of-a-kind unusuals
usually they stop and stare for 30 seconds saying nothing, and it's like they suddenly realize money or sharking can't get them the (second) rarest item of the game :v:[/QUOTE]
yeah but phishing sure can fucking Max now I know who to blame for all those people sending me 'free steam game' links
this is directly your fault
[QUOTE=Judas;39982203]I love using 3 ref and making a random hat
it's a fun little gamble[/QUOTE]
it's not really a gamble though, it's essentially turning 3 refined in to 1.5-2 unless you get a double-cross comm or something that just came out an hour ago
anything you can craft with three refined you can more or less buy with the refined instead
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;39982258]i love it when i whip out my saxxy in front of a guy with his "themed" super-rare burning one-of-a-kind unusuals
usually they stop and stare for 30 seconds saying nothing, and it's like they suddenly realize money or sharking can't get them the (second) rarest item of the game :v:[/QUOTE]
I can't even imagine how good that must feel
[editline]20th March 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=The Calzone;39982322]it's not really a gamble though, it's essentially turning 3 refined in to 1.5-2 unless you get a double-cross comm or something that just came out an hour ago
anything you can craft with three refined you can more or less buy with the refined instead[/QUOTE]
yeah, but to be honest, the little "Crafted by [me]" mark is what makes it special
[QUOTE=Steel & Iron;39982253][url=http://steamdb.info/app/213800/]Killing Floor 2. Promos, maybe?[/url][/QUOTE]
Not killing floor 2 incorrectly labled "DLC 2". It's been sine corrected and confirmed by TW.
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;39982258]i love it when i whip out my saxxy in front of a guy with his "themed" super-rare burning one-of-a-kind unusuals
usually they stop and stare for 30 seconds saying nothing, and it's like they suddenly realize money or sharking can't get them the (second) rarest item of the game :v:[/QUOTE]
self made hootsalot and community wiki cap wompa stompa combo usually puts the unusual braggers in line
Reminds me a of a MvM game I was in where everyone had wiki caps and self mades except for the random dude who wasn't in our party who had an unusual football helmet right when they were retired and he was trying to brag about it. Psyke was like "I HAVE 27 SELF MADES" when he started going on about "look at my rare hat!"
[QUOTE=Zeos;39981227]Any particular reason that keys are now worth 4 ref when just a few months ago it was like, 2.66?[/QUOTE]
You might be interested in reading this: [url]http://tf2finance.com/2013_03/[/url]
that is, if the responses in the thread aren't complex enough lol.
[QUOTE=Judas;39982336]yeah, but to be honest, the little "Crafted by [me]" mark is what makes it special[/QUOTE]
I can appreciate that. I'm that way with weapons. I still have a few of my crafted weapons from when they just came out even though the stranges have long since been released
[QUOTE=ned_ballad;39982370]self made hootsalot and community wiki cap wompa stompa combo usually puts the unusual braggers in line
Reminds me a of a MvM game I was in where everyone had wiki caps and self mades except for the random dude who wasn't in out party who had an unusual football helmet right when they were retired and he was trying to brag about it. Psyke was like "I HAVE 27 SELF MADES" when he started going on about "look at my rare hat!"[/QUOTE]
I can only imagine the framerate drops that resulted from that round.
One day, the hat I MSPainted all over will get in the game, and then I'LL have the sparkles. You'll all see.
[QUOTE=Judas;39982336]yeah, but to be honest, the little "Crafted by [me]" mark is what makes it special[/QUOTE]
Not for the traders, though. Even painting your hats with expensive paints makes it barely special for them. They just take it as if you were a simple peasant and won't pay more for your hat, unless you start doing commentaries on youtube where you talk about how you moved in to a house with nonfunctional toilet.
So yeah, it might be special for you, but it wouldn't save the economy.
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;39982258]i love it when i whip out my saxxy in front of a guy with his "themed" super-rare burning one-of-a-kind unusuals
usually they stop and stare for 30 seconds saying nothing, and it's like they suddenly realize money or sharking can't get them the (second) rarest item of the game :v:[/QUOTE]
its not the second rarest but I see your point
[QUOTE=ned_ballad;39982370]self made hootsalot and community wiki cap wompa stompa combo usually puts the unusual braggers in line
Reminds me a of a MvM game I was in where everyone had wiki caps and self mades except for the random dude who wasn't in our party who had an unusual football helmet right when they were retired and he was trying to brag about it. Psyke was like "I HAVE 27 SELF MADES" when he started going on about "look at my rare hat!"[/QUOTE]
I kinda felt bad about him when we started talking about stuff that he would have zero understanding of without prior knowledge of the subject.
[QUOTE=ned_ballad;39982370]Psyke was like "I HAVE 27 SELF MADES"[/QUOTE]
this is how I know you're not making the story up
[editline]20th March 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=HazzaHardie;39982424]its not the second rarest but I see your point[/QUOTE]
[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3797350/ShareX/2013-03/2013-03-20_20-18-57.png[/img]
The only thing that's rarer is the memory maker but no one really cares about it
When the 2013 saxxies will be given out they'll probably start outnumbering golden wrenches tho
Neat, I have one of the fourth rarest.
Kinda wonder what the rarest non-unusual cosmetics are, that aren't one-of-a-kind.
[QUOTE=The Calzone;39982322]it's not really a gamble though, it's essentially turning 3 refined in to 1.5-2 unless you get a double-cross comm or something that just came out an hour ago
anything you can craft with three refined you can more or less buy with the refined instead[/QUOTE]
i crafted the scarf
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;39982473]this is how I know you're not making the story up
[editline]20th March 2013[/editline]
[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3797350/ShareX/2013-03/2013-03-20_20-18-57.png[/img]
The only thing that's rarer is the memory maker but no one really cares about it
When the 2013 saxxies will be given out they'll probably start outnumbering golden wrenches tho[/QUOTE]
[img]http://puu.sh/2kYju[/img]
HEH
Did anything just update for anyone? I swear I just saw the window pop up.
Top Notch is rarest.
[B]COME ON RE6 PROMOS[/B]
[QUOTE=Lium;39982617]Top Notch is rarest.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Everything;39982532]that aren't one-of-a-kind.[/QUOTE]
Being an exclusive hat doesn't count. >:|
[QUOTE=Lium;39982617]Top Notch is rarest.[/QUOTE]
As are Amber's Rad as Hell Hat, Uncle Sam, J.Axer's Dapper Topper, Dueler, Philateler, and Gifting Man From Gifting Land.
The catch is that all of these hats were specifically made with the intent of only having 1 ever exist.
[QUOTE=Psychopath12;39982672]As are Amber's Rad as Hell Hat, Uncle Sam, J.Axer's Dapper Topper, Dueler, Philateler, and Gifting Man From Gifting Land.
The catch is that all of these hats were specifically made with the intent of only having 1 ever exist.[/QUOTE]
Aha, but Amber's Rad as All Hell Hat isn't unique any more.
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