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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

All of their other games economies wod crumble if they did that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm not familiar with TF2, why would it break other game economies?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It would set a precedent for valve just pulling the plug on a game/marketplace. If all your digital collectibles in a game, some "worth" thousands of dollars can't be accessed/used, everyone would start fire sales on their other inventories.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

This makes sense, thank you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Especially bad when TF2 was pretty much the prototype for valve's item marketplace!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

pretty much yeah