But everythig is still the same price, which makes no sense.
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That would make ref more valuables, not less. A key, with a fixed value, is worth more and more refs as time passes.
I think it's the exact opposite. It's too easy to farm metal from drops, the update from Valve only stopped the farmers for a couple of days before they found other ways to keep the drops coming. More metal means it has less value so you need more to get a key.
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the price for keys didn't go up, instead ref lost value.
if you bring in the exchange rate key <-> USD and metal <-> USD and compare the current rate with the rate a year ago you'll see.
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Everyone is still elling refs for .25 cents - .27 cents in paypal...
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"still" ... as in "opposed to $0.55 USD a year ago"?
like I've said, the value of metal has dropped. others have already pointed out that it's an inflation, while the price of keys is determined by the key price on the mann co store and on the steam market.
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Refined just keeps flooding the market more or less, all you can turn it into is a random hat so it keeps on piling up and up which means that people are less likely to take something that gets less and less rare every second in exchange for something that has actual monetary value.
Even with item drops being harder to farm, metal is still being made constantly and not really being used up. For key trades to go lower Valve would have to release a use for metal that everyone would be clammoring to get metal for.
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I can tell my grandkids my stories when you could sell 2 hats for 1 key
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My grandparents came to United States back in 1889 on a steamboat wearing nothing but 2 hats
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The price of keys has been the same - 2.49.
What's changed is the exchange rate between "hard" items (keys, mann up tickets, purchase only items) and "soft" items (nametags, ref, weps, hats)
Keys are desirable because you can sell them on the community market for Steam Wallet funds. However, because people can buy keys from the community market, not as many new keys are being purchased. The entire time, the supply of refined metal increases simply because so many people play TF2.
This isn't the only reason - If you look at TF2Outpost, the ONLY people who actually buy and sell at these ridiculous 9 ref prices are resellers who are making massive profit off of the entire operation - buy for 8.22, sell for 8.33, then next week buy for 8.33, sell for 8.44. Actual people aren't paying these prices, only resellers are.
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That rate only applies to normal folk, Mr. bear. It's not of any concern for the rest of us. ^^
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the ref prices are going uppppp! It went for 7 ref for one key to 8.33 per key. Why?
Steam Market Value is the same. Everything is the same. Why is it going up? Ref value is the same too. People are still selling for 25 cents...
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