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Hanky Panky 7 Jan, 2013 @ 6:33am
Inflation
So what ever happened to keys being 2 ref? ToD tickets being 1 ref? what are people driving the prices up! keys are selling for flippin 3.66! there's an infinite source so why drive up prices?!
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Hanky Panky 7 Jan, 2013 @ 7:23am 
yea I meant that anyone can buy them, but thats besides the point.
Last edited by Hanky Panky; 7 Jan, 2013 @ 7:24am
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His Wardship 7 Jan, 2013 @ 8:19am 
It's pretty simple. The number of keys in the economy rarely increases, people are always uncrating though, hoping for that Unusual. (And when they do get one, it's usually awful). Whereas, no one ever uses metal for crafting, who in their right mind would spend 2 rec for a weapon that can be bought for 1 scrap? Crafting was created before trading was implemented to facilitate access to all weapons.

Keys aren't actually getting more valuable, they're pretty much static, the value of metal however, is constantly decreasing, and therefore you need more metal to buy the same amount of keys.
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gukingofheart 7 Jan, 2013 @ 4:16pm 
Maybe it's time for metal to retire and create some new way to craft something.
Last edited by gukingofheart; 7 Jan, 2013 @ 4:17pm
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His Wardship 8 Jan, 2013 @ 12:11am 
Originally posted by KingOfHeart:
Maybe it's time for metal to retire and create some new way to craft something.

I doubt that. Metal is still used extensively when new weapons are released. Releases are just so rare though that it doesn't counteract the people with 100 idle alts using a VM.
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