Idea for preventing misrepresentation of items

[shadyfan]

As we all know a lot of newbie traders get easily scammed by being offered a Strange Festivized instead of Strange Festive weapon. Or uncraftable instead of craftable version of some promo items (like Lucky No. 42). So my idea is to have similar alert as for the one for users that are being often impersonated. Something like that:

 

 

 

 

I know there will still be people who will always fall for these scams, but I think this would stop some attempts, as scammers usually send links to the stats page of the misrepresented item.

[Nikolay]

Is there a difference between a strange festive eyelander and a festivised one?

[shadyfan]

6 minutes ago, Nikolay said:

Is there a difference between a strange festive eyelander and a festivised one?

 

I don't think it's possible to festivize an Eyelander, so for now only a Festive Eyelander exists.

[duskfen]

Lol this is actually one of the smartest things Ive seen on here for a while

[Zodiak]

finally some good shits, so that newbie traders won't fall into that again

[Vrakos Anthrakir]

1 hour ago, Nikolay said:

Is there a difference between a strange festive eyelander and a festivised one?

one exists, one doesn't

[ajdislikesyournamingpolicy]

+1, this is such a good idea I cannot believe no one thought to voice this beforehand.

 

Thanks OP, doing lords work out here

[OverduePixels]

2 hours ago, ajdislikesyournamingpolicy said:

+1, this is such a good idea I cannot believe no one thought to voice this beforehand.

Mengh did, a while ago.

 

Nevertheless, its a good idea. It might not stop all from getting scammed but even if it stops very few out of many from getting scammed via this method, thats a win in my book.

[ajdislikesyournamingpolicy]

7 hours ago, OverduePixels said:

Mengh did, a while ago.

I being bullied by zeus

Thanks Mengh, hopefully devs will see prayge

[shadyfan]

10 hours ago, OverduePixels said:

Mengh did, a while ago.

 

Nevertheless, its a good idea. It might not stop all from getting scammed but even if it stops very few out of many from getting scammed via this method, thats a win in my book.

 

His idea actually looks better, with a red text and a link to the Festivized version. The only sad part about this is, it's still not implemented after almost 3 years. And yeah, I also believe there will still be people falling for this scam, but at least sending them this link won't work for them anymore.

[mcextraTTV]

This is an amazing idea, good thinking. I wouldn't mind seeing this implemented immediately. 

[The Red Chicken]

Big brain as fuck we need this shit, it should also be applied to like lucky no 32 and that stuff

[Strange]

On 7/8/2021 at 9:40 PM, The Red Chicken said:

Big brain as fuck we need this shit, it should also be applied to like lucky no 32 and that stuff

42, not 32