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Searches no longer return trades with faded icons
Noticed this when I did a search for scorching hoodie. I have a trade up where I had faded out the icon, now the search for hoodie with scorching effect returns nothing. Did a quick test to verify. Put up a new trade, searched, it was returned as a result but not the one with the faded icon. Removed the icon in the new test trade, results return nothing again. Checked with a more standard item, a craftable fro which recent experience told me there should be tons of trades where the fro portion were completed. A lot less returns now, all strictly with available fros.

Is this an intended change? I can definitely see it being a helpful option when searching for items flooded with partially completed trades, but there are times when you want the completed trades to show up- to see what others have gone for in recent trades, most commonly. If this is an intended change, I believe that one should be able to choose to allow faded icons to be returned in the results as they used to be.

Not sure whether this should go under General Discussions, Suggestions, or Bugs & Problems. I apologize if I selected the wrong sub forum.
Last edited by A Distinctive Lack of Vincent; 16 Jan, 2013 @ 12:35pm
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His Wardship 16 Jan, 2013 @ 12:32pm 
It's an intended change, it stops you from having to sift through 100 sold EAs to find one person who is still selling. A toggle may be nice though.
Varren 16 Jan, 2013 @ 12:46pm 
A toggle is absolutely needed here.

This change makes it much harder to gauge the value of an Unusual since you can no longer see trades where it has been sold. Price suggestions on backpack.tf are going to be much trickier to find evidence for unless we're given the option to view trades where the item has been sold.
norby89 16 Jan, 2013 @ 12:56pm 
Originally posted by Varren The Goddamn Hatman™:
This change makes it much harder to gauge the value of an Unusual since you can no longer see trades where it has been sold. Price suggestions on backpack.tf are going to be much trickier to find evidence for unless we're given the option to view trades where the item has been sold.
It's not like you could search for sold items before the update, unless the person who sold it was trading several items in the same trade.

Either way +1 for more advanced search.
Varren 16 Jan, 2013 @ 1:00pm 
Originally posted by norby89:
Originally posted by Varren The Goddamn Hatman™:
This change makes it much harder to gauge the value of an Unusual since you can no longer see trades where it has been sold. Price suggestions on backpack.tf are going to be much trickier to find evidence for unless we're given the option to view trades where the item has been sold.
It's not like you could search for sold items before the update, unless the person who sold it was trading several items in the same trade.

Either way +1 for more advanced search.
That's true, which is why I made this suggestion:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/tf2outpost/discussions/6/864957182755383495/
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Date Posted: 16 Jan, 2013 @ 12:27pm
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