引用自 Laykan：

Breakfast from Gaben: Today's Special is a Dish Called "Absurd".

A fiery hello to everyone! It seems our beloved digital benefactor, Gaben, has decided to update the menu. He has specially prepared a signature dish for us—a pig in apples, only the apples are inedible and the pig comes with a surprise.

For the starter: A soup made from devalued knives. Wonderful! Now, whoever was saving up for a blue-phase knife as a down payment for an apartment can just buy two instead. And live in both. Virtually, of course. Thank you for teaching us the basics of financial literacy and showing us that real investments are in cosmetics for pixelated weapons.

For the main course: A hot dish called "The Community That Isn't There." The game is sold in the region, but accessing its community is a quest with "Impossible" difficulty. And viewing your own screenshots or those of your friends has become a secret feature. To activate it, you apparently need to find an Easter egg hidden somewhere in the privacy settings by Gaben himself.

This is just a masterpiece of absurdity! We buy a product, but its social functions are cut off. It's like buying a car but not having the right to look at its color. It's a feature, you see.

And so now a question for our dear administration: why are you introducing these brilliant new features that nobody asked for? Without warning, without announcements? You know we users are a patient lot, but there's only so much we can take.

So get ready, technical support. Get ready for a tsunami of complaints, each one starting with the words: "I can't even look at the pixels I created myself." You wanted distinctive features? Now you have one—mass bewilderment.

Best wishes and patience to all in this circus of freaks!

引用自 cSg|mc-Hotsauce：

引用自 Laykan：

Breakfast from Gaben: Today's Special is a Dish Called "Absurd".

A fiery hello to everyone! It seems our beloved digital benefactor, Gaben, has decided to update the menu. He has specially prepared a signature dish for us—a pig in apples, only the apples are inedible and the pig comes with a surprise.

For the starter: A soup made from devalued knives. Wonderful! Now, whoever was saving up for a blue-phase knife as a down payment for an apartment can just buy two instead. And live in both. Virtually, of course. Thank you for teaching us the basics of financial literacy and showing us that real investments are in cosmetics for pixelated weapons.

For the main course: A hot dish called "The Community That Isn't There." The game is sold in the region, but accessing its community is a quest with "Impossible" difficulty. And viewing your own screenshots or those of your friends has become a secret feature. To activate it, you apparently need to find an Easter egg hidden somewhere in the privacy settings by Gaben himself.

This is just a masterpiece of absurdity! We buy a product, but its social functions are cut off. It's like buying a car but not having the right to look at its color. It's a feature, you see.

And so now a question for our dear administration: why are you introducing these brilliant new features that nobody asked for? Without warning, without announcements? You know we users are a patient lot, but there's only so much we can take.

So get ready, technical support. Get ready for a tsunami of complaints, each one starting with the words: "I can't even look at the pixels I created myself." You wanted distinctive features? Now you have one—mass bewilderment.

Best wishes and patience to all in this circus of freaks!

I sold off most of my stash back during the summer. Over 80 knives. I still have more from the past 13 years but that was the majority of them.

This only made me feel like I made the right choice at the right time.

It was the correct decision for Valve to do this.

It helps make covert items go up in value.

It helps those from spending thousands of dollars trying to open a case just for a knife.

It also keeps people on Steam for trading and buying/selling items and will eventually decrease the amount of hijacked accounts from 3rd party phishing logins.

:nkCool:

引用自 Laykan：

引用自 cSg|mc-Hotsauce：

I sold off most of my stash back during the summer. Over 80 knives. I still have more from the past 13 years but that was the majority of them.

This only made me feel like I made the right choice at the right time.

It was the correct decision for Valve to do this.

It helps make covert items go up in value.

It helps those from spending thousands of dollars trying to open a case just for a knife.

It also keeps people on Steam for trading and buying/selling items and will eventually decrease the amount of hijacked accounts from 3rd party phishing logins.

Oh, so that's how it is! While everyone was crying into their inventory knives, you made the smartest deal—sold imaginary pixels for real money. Brilliant.

I completely agree. Valve didn't just do the right thing, they orchestrated a great purgatory for the hamsters hoarding virtual treasure.

You are absolutely right in your heresy:

"Helps increase the value of rare items" — Of course! Nothing heats up the market like a panic sell-off by some and the blind faith of others. This isn't a crash, it's a "market correction" under the gentle guidance of Gaben's Invisible Hand of the Market.

"Helps those who spend thousands trying to unbox a knife" — Oh yes, this is the highest form of care. Before, a person who spent thousands on a knife was just an fool. Now they spend thousands and become an investor. Feel the difference? It's like charity, but with a knife-pull animation.

"Reduces stolen accounts" — The most subtle trolling. Phishing sites will now go out of business due to the market downturn. Thieves will starve and leave. Valve is fighting cybercrime by simply making it not worth the effort. Brilliantly and inhumanely.

You are the prophet who foresaw the bubble bursting. And the rest of us are either panicking suckers or resigned adherents of a new digital religion, where our wallets are the sacrificial altar.

Welcome to the bright future, where your former knives are now someone else's problem. And may the power to sell at the peak be with you.

引用自 Malfunctioning Robot：

Digital items never had real value, this change should reduce the idiots falling for scams business.

Posted half an hour after the community bug was fixed.

Welcome to not being relevant

引用自 Laykan：

引用自 Malfunctioning Robot：

Digital items never had real value, this change should reduce the idiots falling for scams business.

Posted half an hour after the community bug was fixed.

Welcome to not being relevant

Oh, you mean the "irrelevance" of not being able to access the communities for games we actually own? Or the "irrelevance" of those once-proud knife owners who are now starring in their own tragic version of Storage Wars?

I think Valve has introduced a brilliant new philosophical concept: "Selective Irrelevance." Some things are so irrelevant that they prevent you from using features you paid for. Meanwhile, other irrelevant things are so relevant that they can evaporate your life savings.