(09-11-2013, 10:26 AM)Andreas17 Wrote: I just don't understand how the price of keys would go up, you pretty much have an infinite supply and the demand's the same as always, it's just fucking bullshit
Yes I researched this part (learned a lot from backpack.tf website as well, tons of economy specialists on there) and what I got from it was simply:
1. People get an infinite amount of refined, for free, in the game, and use it to buy keys (or sell it via paypall for money to buy keys).
2. Unusual prices go down because people sell them for less keys/buds, so the prices for the keys and buds go up.
3. People are stupid and try to earn money by increasing the price on backpack.tf because they are greedy.
I don't know how much you know, but there was this guy on Backpack.tf called Long. He had 1000+ keys in his bp and raised the key prices by 1 ref just by himself (because he has a lot of rep).
Until Long was banned because admins discovered he 'carded' keys. Carding is stealing credit cards, and use them to buy mass amounts of keys from individuals on Steam.
Thousands got banned, TF2 economy goes to shit.
That's all I know.