Silver Dot Posted October 10, 2010 Share Posted October 10, 2010 I got all my hats so far, not trading a single one. You know you should save all your shit, it's not like your bag's full. In a month all your so called 'crap' will be worth like 2 hats each. Quote Link to comment
dark1thought Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 spending £30 for a bunch of hats + weapons is just stoopid... Thats why I did it Quote Link to comment
Chikennugget1 Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 I have 2 Mann co crates+orange paint can, all dropped.I can't even open the crates, I won't spend 5€ to discover what shitty stuff theres inside.So yeah, if you have 2 hats you can get the crates.(But I'll see if I like your hats ). Quote Link to comment
TheGreenGrasshopper Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 3cans of paint and 3 mann co boxes, none of them that I actually want but I don't rlly feel like trading them away. Quote Link to comment
Dr. Pannenkoek Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 Wait a minute,You mean....A mann co. crate is worth more than 4 weapons (to be crafted?)FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUU- Quote Link to comment
Darkstar Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 Wait a minute,You mean....A mann co. crate is worth more than 4 weapons (to be crafted?)FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUU-;DOh such a good deal I got. Quote Link to comment
Dr. Pannenkoek Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 Wait a minute,You mean....A mann co. crate is worth more than 4 weapons (to be crafted?)FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUU-;DOh such a good deal I got.Ah well,At least I crafted......THE MEDIC'S MASK! Quote Link to comment
Balmung Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 Crates are usually traded for around 2 new weapons. Quote Link to comment
Noshire Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Crates are usually traded for around 2 new weapons.Hope this doesn't count as necro-posting, but I just wanted to show what happened to crates in the course of the last 3 or 4 months. At the very beginning of the crate period, I used to sell one crate for 1-2 reclaimed metal. Later on, just as the quoted posting states, they went away for 1-2 weapons or one scrap. Nowadays, people sell bundles of 15 crates for a total of 2 weapons, and no one wants to buy them. Same here - opened 2 of my 15 crates with some spare money left from my recent steam game purchases, but I just can't trade the rest away - people don't even want them as gifts in a normal trade anymore. It's like crates have got a negative value nowadays.What do you think will happen to crates in the future? Will Valve decide to add some sort of crafting recipe (like, 9 crates for 1 scrap, for example, or one of the 1000 suggestions on SPUF), or will they keep it the way it is now, because they don't want any potential money to be crafted into stuff people who bought the game can actually make use of without paying more? They might even hope that people whose inventory is full of crates would buy backpack expanders.All this doesn't mean I didn't like the Mann Co. store, to get back on topic. I agree that most prices are a bit too high - the nametags, paints and other one-use items could easily be sold for half the current amount. I did it twice, but I'm just not willing to spend 5 dollars to rename a weapon again. It's a nice concept and it's the best way for Valve to get some more money out of TF2, so they can continue supporting the game.Still, I wonder what will happen to the open crate market in the close future? Quote Link to comment
MrZunz Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 They will lower the price for keys most likely, so another shitstorm will occur which feeds Gabe Quote Link to comment
Clavus Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 As long as we just keep devaluing crates in the community, Valve will probably do something about it at some point. What I don't know. Hopefully more than just a key discount. Quote Link to comment
Darkstar Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 I actually think that they should include the key in the droppable items, it seems more logical since how much crates drop right now. But I think as well, them severly cutting the price would be good as well, seeing as its £2 for just a bloody key. Quote Link to comment
TheGreenGrasshopper Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 boycotte crates, nuff' said Quote Link to comment
Hundred2 Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 (edited) As long as we just keep devaluing crates in the community, Valve will probably do something about it at some point. What I don't know. Hopefully more than just a key discount.VINTAGE CRATES.That need.VINTAGE KEYS. Edited January 25, 2011 by Hundred2 Quote Link to comment
Noshire Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Seeing that Valve - with a certain valve-time delay, of course, but still - generally listens to the needs of the community, I do also hope that they will change something in the way the whole crateconomy works right now. There's thousands of possibilities to still give people a reason to buy keys while, at the same time, also involving people who don't want to pay extra in the whole crate business.Mr. Green is a good example for a nice solution; with just 1 Euro (if it hasn't changed, checked it about 1 year ago), you can buy 1000 virtual coins, which you can spend on cool stuff. Still, if you don't want or just can't afford this, there's always the other way of just earning them slowly by playing. Despite this "way of getting them for free", people most probably still keep buying lots of coins. That's what I call a balanced system; neither side has a disadvantage, and everyone is happy with their decisions.I think something similar should be done to the crate-key system. Maybe make keys craftable - something in the prize class of 1.5 refined. You can get a crappy weapon, thus losing value, a misc item (the value of which depends on how useful it is to you), or a hat, which would get you even more value. Quote Link to comment
Ywa Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Who wants to play retail TF2? No updates + all awesome glitches. Quote Link to comment
Chikennugget1 Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 I hope the crates will become craftable (even if it's just to get scrap metal). I might have 5 or 6 crates that I dropped and that I can't open unless I waste 5€ to see that I already have what's inside them.I prefer the little gesture that has been made for christmas (free christmas keys).And droppable/craftable/any free way to get keys without paying. Quote Link to comment
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