Thondush Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Is this bot's crisis fault? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Bakula Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 As mentioned in the multiple other recent threads on this forum, there has been a large spike in supply and sellers. And higher supply plus lower demand equals lower prices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaughingLollipop Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 keys sit in an odd place; they are effectively a dead end at this point they can only open crates, crates that haven't dropped in game for 5 years now crates with 'good' items are of course rare and expensive in their own right (and their quantity can only go down) crates only contain effects that have become trash tier due to oversaturation new effects can only be obtained in cases cases can only be opened by case specific keys a key right now is nothing but a token of value, and in having so little intrinsic value, stability in pricing isn't really something you'd expect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Yeah, people swap mann co supply crate keys for ones for better cases, but that doesn't mean they disappear, they just go to someone else's inventory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzzy gaming Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Check the number of keys in all inventories. You would see there's an increase of about 250000 keys in tf2 in just a month or 2. The increase in supply lowers the price, but we don't know why there's a stark increase in keys amount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creepio Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 3 hours ago, Fuzzy gaming said: Check the number of keys in all inventories. You would see there's an increase of about 250000 keys in tf2 in just a month or 2. The increase in supply lowers the price, but we don't know why there's a stark increase in keys amount. scammers cashing out is my guess. tf2 was the economy of choice. there’s no “honest” excuse for 250,000 keys appearing out of nowhere, especially with anti-scamming measures and fraudulent attempts seemingly being at an all-time high. edit: dishonest developers manipulating their own games to profit through SCM and cash out through tf2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzzy gaming Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 48 minutes ago, creepio said: scammers cashing out is my guess. tf2 was the economy of choice. there’s no “honest” excuse for 250,000 keys appearing out of nowhere, especially with anti-scamming measures and fraudulent attempts seemingly being at an all-time high. edit: dishonest developers manipulating their own games to profit through SCM and cash out through tf2? We may speculate that those extra keys are in fact originally stored in steam market (hence keys are not in everyone’s inventory and not scanned). It can be because dota2 and cs:go keys are not tradable now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roi Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 i havent checked any statistic but probably there are way more keys on the market right now, and that might be one of the main reasons. Secondly after steam summer sale where everybody was leveling up keys demand lowered down, and so the price. Just an opinion nothing factual tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axiom Unknown Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 This may be a combination of the COVID-19 unemployment issues, summer sale, people cashing out, and the sudden explosion of 250k keys for no apparent reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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