I idled 15 accounts today for 10 hours straight, I got 0 items on all accounts... I run textmode, I did connect.

Did anyone else idling, get their items this week? I will try to update steam again and idle tomorrow, but this is really weird...

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Now we will have to... play... the game. OH GOD.

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Fuck that, I'll just stop getting free pennies.

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Long time coming.

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My current PC cannot handle TF2 well, at lowest setting its only 10fps max...
There is no other way to get items aside from idling, im not big fun of idling, i really liek to actually play TF2, but...

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If the game itself runs poorly on your PC what's the point in getting items for it?

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profit.
profit is the point of everything

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Because it runs perfectly fine on my main PC, all i need to play TF2 there is new videocard, and now im waiting for better prices on high-end cards.

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Then actually play it on your PC.

11 years ago
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Why do people try to make up excuses for doing something wrong. Yours is one of the worst thought out excuses I've ever seen by the way.

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lolwhat? Excuse? No. Tryharder.

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Yaaaaay!!!!! finally justice has been done. most of the people I know are idlers. Awesomeness :D

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This is a victory for the common person.

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and victory of democracy!

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Hail to the king (Gabe)!

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Hats off to Valve! YAY :D

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the "common person" doesn't have the time to play (one) video games 10 hours a week..
although 15 accounts idling just for the sake of idling is indeed over the top

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Prices of everything will rise so I would not exactly call it a victory.

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Exactly the oppose, I think. TF2 keys are the most important item, and the price can't rise if refined metals quantity decrease.

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Does this mean that the supply of keys on the market should drop? Since most idle accounts add 2 keys to the market and there won't be any new accounts just for idling there should be less keys on the market, right?

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There should be less of everything over time, surely?

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It only works that way if you felt the need to use all of your wallet though. I found it better to just buy a game with the leftover amount.
I don't know about heavy multi accounting though, could indeed be quicker and more effective for the keys.

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Good. You should be banned from Steam. You and all of your 15 accounts.

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+10

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+9001

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Over nine thousands!

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Billion!!!

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Pff I had 105.

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....why?

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Valve disabled textmode idling

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Guess that Valve Economist finally learned about idlers and told Valve to cut it because idling increases supply without increasing demand, making prices go down.

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well I still have like 80 refined (pure and weapons) and 40+ keys in stock across 5 accounts, I just won't buy anything anymore except new weapons (if there will be any)

oh by the way say farewell to cheap craft hats, cheap stranges, "cheap" salvaged crates and cheap anything overall, because until now the average TF2 player could buy pretty much everything relatively cheap except keys and high tier items

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NICE one Valve :)

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I'm not really in favor of idling at all, but now I expect the drop system to have some changes to, as this way it won't be possible to see hats or even some strange weapons anymore.

11 years ago
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Autoclick...
With Virtualbox you can install and run 2, 3, 4 or more windows on a single computer and autoclick can press ok...

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The risk of a ban isn't worth the trouble imho..

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They have banned a person who had 6800 account, not those with 10-15 account

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The problem is that you automate your game. You're using a bot to interact with it. That is a bannable offense

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But you can't do that in text mode and not many computers can run 4-5 TF2 at once. I'm not complaining, simply stating the problems.

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You need a good cpu and 8-12 gb ram and you can run 6-7 tf2... 8 core cpu = 7 tf2 ( 1 core for steam and the operating system )
One AMD 8-core cpu costs 100-150 euro

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You do not need 8 core cpu to run 7 tf2. You can run 16 tf2 with 4 core cpu and 16gb ram in normal mode. Having dedicated tf2 server and other tf2 accounts join same map, around 170-200mb ram per accounts. In text mode I could run 32 accounts in 1 map, having least 2 or 3gb memory left.

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Textmode will no longer produce drops anyway. Valve made sure of that :)

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I predict a drastic change in the steam economy.

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Stock up on metal now.

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The more I think about it, the more it makes sense. Valve essentially just got rid of cheap labor on steam. I predict a mass inflation of value in the steam inventory and possibly everything in the market place. I don't think it'll be instant but it will happen and when it does, the TF2 bubble would've officially popped.

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Heh heh heh. Good job, VALVe!

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Tipically, last years they do nothing, and they have to do one bad thing to complete the years of bad things...
I expect with that they not change the price of tf2 keys in the economy, if that success i will get really angry with valve ¬¬

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Store price won't change for sure, and market price has nothing to do with Valve (other than their fee).

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This is a little disappointing. My daughter likes to play with me against bots on a lan server I set up. Since she is new to the game, she has almost nothing. So I was letting her account idle once or twice a week just to help get her some different things to play with, which she was grateful for. She is young, so dedicating a lot time into playing the game is unrealistic. Not that this is a game killer or anything, but she did get excited each time I told her to check the new things she had acquired.

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I hope you're fucking banned.

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Closed 11 years ago by Laudes.