No clue what will happen. A lot of gems bought were exploited for. Valve need to decide what to do.
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Problem with returning those exploited gems you paid for means the event will still be screwed up and pointless. And what is why Valve need to decide what to do.
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i just got gems(500k+) wich i bought on market back. no tradeable, no marketable.
valve messed up so hard...
i had no clue about a glitch, saw an opportunity of getting loads of cards and used it, i even sold a lot of them cause i was thinking they will be a lot cheaper in a few days. got around +20$
rollback all market transactions and wallets looks like only choice for valve to solve it
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I assumed valve wanted to crush the cards price to make the market hiperactive, is not the first time they make something weird.
Anyway, haven't they got a shitload of money from that 1 cent on every transaction?
I though the ones loosing money were the people that put orders on items before this mess.
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How, exactly..? o_O
People sell things quite cheep on the market all the time, what made cheep gems any different than cheep cards, considering that useless items like chat emoticons could be crafted into like 100 gems each and there are people on Steam who had hundreds of emoticons sitting in their inventories.
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Supply and demand.
When there are thousands for sale, then the price goes down.
We've all watched it happen with cards since the beta.
I can remember selling a regular card for over $2US that would now sell for $.03US.
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Yes, but creating supply also have "costs". Cards cost nothing to create - you just idle game.
Gems cost at least 10 items worth those few cents - that's means only moron will give them away for less than than those items cost.
When hundreds of them are being sold so cheap, it's obvious they aren't legal.
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You can't idle in games you don't own, so cards aren't "technically" free. o_O
Also, you seem to be really over valuing backgrounds ect...
Just because you can't sell them for less than $.01 ($.03 in the market), doesn't mean that they're actually worth that much, otherwise myself and others would have sold those useless backgrounds and emoticons on the market already and trust me, I tried many, many times and they NEVER sold for even the lowest price you can list them for.
So your line of reasoning for your entire argument is completely flawed, sorry.
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You can't sell cards you don't have, and those you can sell you got for free.
As for backgrounds - those that you can't sell are worth shit in gems. You'd need to use so many of them, you'd want to get more than 1 cent for them. Especially knowing you can get boosters for them, which are worth more than 1 cent...
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You completely missed the point of my first sentence... -_-
Cards aren't actually free, since you have to buy a game to be able to idle in it to get cards.
The rest of my reply still stands as well...
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Wait, you buy games to get cards, or you buy games to play them and get cards by accident? (that's why I call them "free")
As for rest - well, I don't know how anyone wouldn't find it suspicious that they can buy gems for 3 cents and change them into boosters worth 10 cents...
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You're still completely missing the point... o_O
Discussing anything with you is like beating my head against a wall, no sense in continuing.
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It didn't show "million of gems for 3 cents" it showed just a few for sale at 3 cents at any given moment even though that wasn't really the case, it did show that millions where sold in the past 24 hours but that's not something you see as a buyer only as a seller.
It's rather normal for the market to crash during a steam event and each and every time people panic, and sell their items for wayyy below their value thinking it's their last chance to sell, how could the guys who take advantage of those situations know this time it was due to an exploit? imo they couldn't.
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There's tons of items out there that you wouldn't be able to sell in a million years, just because YOU think that the item is actually worth 3 cents because people simply can't sell them for less doesn't mean other people see it that way as well.
Honestly I find it quite ridiculous that you think thousands of people even took the time to consider this to be due to an exploit and then proceeded to buy them nonetheless when everyone and their mothers know that every sale the steam market freezes and prices drop/increase at ridiculous rates.
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You're partially right. But items that don't sell didn't give lots of gems. One way or another, you had to lose at least 10 cents to create gems.
Nobody would lose 10 cents to create gems you'd sell for one cent. Especially when they could just create a booster worth those 10 cents...
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What makes you say that? Among the stuff I have, the cheapest ones gave more gems.
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i_do_not_get_it_.-._btw_the_url_works_regardless_:P
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Disabling formatting in a line doesn't count
And the URL works? I remember Reddit links broken by the lack of underscores, must be a recent change.
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Oh man, I just woke up to check the bets on the games I got my eyes on and then I learned of the brazillion gems duped and everything shut down.
I should have known something was fucky when the gems' price dropped like a bass.
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If they didnt reset it most of game will be auctioned with high cost of gems.
and they already closed the auction event temporarily.
Also for those who exploited it will be banned.
For those who bought gem on market will be refunded with Email as a Proof. ( I guess)
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i bought 45000 gems from market
and now they are gone
will i get them back or .... ?
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