And right now new festives are nothing because they cannnot be traded for one week ;-)

I have the strange impression that this year both crates will contain strange items...

How is that valid proof, the trade was cancelled. Please take a look at the rules before you make another suggestion. No wait, this is not bp.tf...

But ye, 50 dollar for 4 keys and a 2 keys item plus some grammar errors, not that hard to spot, and also not a new method either.

Nope, thats just the usual storytelling and x-balling, either highballing from his side or lowballing from your side, depending which of these numbers are backed by facts (community sales, warehouse stats, ...) or phantasy (bp.tf, ...) :-).

No trading on the forums, and according to current prices you need to add at least 200 more weapons to your offer to buy one :-P.

1.) TF2 is a game, Steam is a platform for valve and developers to make money and for no one else

2.) Valve is not a ponyfarm but a profit oriented company

Always keep this in mind when you talk about market and economy. So who exactly is leaving the market? The people shifting around metals? Valve earns NOTHING on metal, they earn only on stuff that can/must be bought at mannco, plus if you sell this stuff on community market. Did you realize that you cannot sell anything on the market that you got for free, you can sell only items that directly or indirectly (promos, unboxes) have been bought from valve.

Valve couldnt stop the mass idling by technical means so now they stop them by financial means, and apparently this is working very well for them or otherwise they would change something. This has, as always, a negative effect, it seperates the poor from the rich much stronger, aka the ones who spend monies and the ones who dont.

Previously you could pretty easily get an item that was only available for money for items that were available for free with money flowing into the pockets of a user. Now this way takes way more time and effort so its much faster to put your own money into the pockets of valve instead.

Apparently enough people have chosen the faster route so there is nothing for valve to fix, end of story. Bottom line: get yourself a real job.

No its not, no file that belongs to TF2 can interfere with your external webbrowser, you still have that redirect in your systems hosts file, get rid of that to fix your webbrowser. If then your TF2 isnt working then you can worry about missing TF2 files.

You must have bought something at mann co at least 30 days ago but not more than one year ago to list your items on the community market. But you can save that step, you own nothing that can be sold at the community market except crates, and really, no one buys crates, will take ages to get that one cent per crate.

Originally posted by hirou:

When you receive a gift, you had a choice of adding it to the library directly or putting it in the inventory, was this changed?

Looks like my information was outdated, you are right, you have the option to accept it as gift for your inventory.

I still stand to the rest of my post though, valve simply closed the game->item->cash loophole in a smart way :-).

Originally posted by hirou:

I have half a dozen trusted buyers/resellers who I am willing to send games as a gift (this seems to be still possible), but they will then have to wait 30 days to actually sell these gifts

Nope, gifted games are bound to the account, its like unpacking a gift from inventory, there is no reselling.

In case you havent realized, valve is pissed off by people like you, people making profit by stealing valves profit (and hurting their reputation by making the trade system unsafe), it was only a matter of time until they take actions. But instead beeing dumb like blizzard and slap them with the TOS they have chosen a smarter way ;-).