Now all these items are out in the wild, however, it's unclear how Valve will provide a more long-term solution. Many players are speculating that Valve will simply prevent item trading until the issue is resolved. "What is going to happen? Should I unbox crates? Can I get banned? OH MY GOD!!!!", reads one post on Reddit.Īccording to a post currently at the top of the Team Fortress 2 subreddit, third-party trading site Scrap.TF has closed its doors until the glitch has been fixed, while the moderators have warned players to avoid trading TF2 items until Valve has introduced a hotfix. It's a full-scale economic disaster, and it seems to be causing a fair bit of panic amongst those in the trading community. Equally, the crates I bought cost £0.03 a few days ago (with only one sold per day), but have been sold 3418 times today at around £2.04. One hat I received, which cost £18.26 before the crash, is now being sold for £4.95.
I tested this out, and indeed found myself opening four Unusuals in a row. Supply Munition Series, with prices for Unusuals from said crates dropping, and the price of the crates themselves soaring. The bug seems to apply to certain lines in the Mann Co. The problem began following TF2's latest summer update, which introduced a number of new cosmetic items and, seemingly, the Unusual drop rate glitch.
But thanks to a new glitch, many of TF2's crates have shifted their Unusual drop rate from one per cent to 100 per cent, making the items rather more attainable and completely upending the TF2 social hierarchy. Normally, the most basic of these could cost you around £20 via the Steam community marketplace, with the alternatives being to trade your way there with materials, or chancing it via opening hundreds of crates. While the game itself hasn't received a huge amount of attention from Valve in recent years, the TF2 hat economy has remained a core part of the community, with many players seeking to trade their way to rare "Unusual" hats with pretty particle effects - the mark of a truly elite TF2 player. Team Fortress 2 players are obsessed with them.
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