I buy my keys from either market or mannco store :o

Good, those prices are stable for the most part.

Eeyup, tho I think buds may raise again

Yeah the new prices makes scrapbanking metal to keys seem pointless

Exactly.

I haven't traded metal for keys in forever. I have sold keys but all of those were quicksales where I sold them for a significantly lower price than backpack.tf recommended at the time.Hopefully people will be more resonsible in the future;

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I haven't traded metal for keys in forever. I have sold keys but all of those were quicksales where I sold them for a significantly lower price than backpack.tf recommended at the time.Hopefully people will be more resonsible in the future;

One can only hope.

Why don't we just delete metal? It seems like a stupid idea but because more metal is coming into the mannconomy and less keys, more metal means easier to buy keys, key prices bump up. Also buy keys from just the mann co store, so that more keys are generated hence lowering the value of such coveted items

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Why don't we just delete metal? It seems like a stupid idea but because more metal is coming into the mannconomy and less keys, more metal means easier to buy keys, key prices bump up. Also buy keys from just the mann co store, so that more keys are generated hence lowering the value of such coveted items

That would not work, at all. Getting rid of metal would be like getting rid of cents to the dollar. What would you buy hats with? What would you buy weapons with, how could people start from a f2p account and trade their way up without metal and only keys? If anything keys are not necessary as currency, not metal. You cannot buy metal from the store, it is as close to a true currency as we have. Getting people to delete their metal will not be possible, and more importantly the key price is a false value explained by the cycle I listed on the main page. It is not the metal to key ratio, it is people overvaluing keys artificially. If you're a student of economics you will be familar with "tulip mania", which is what I compare the keys to.

Essentially, the reason why keys are so high is that people are greedy a-holes who are constantly one-uping each other by ripping people off a little bit more than the last person.

Well I'm still gonna scrapbank to keys, worked for me before

Well considering in scarpbanking you sell a wep for a scrap each, so that's about 27 weps a ref. Keys are now about twelve ref so that's about 324 weps you'll need. And on average you get hmm eight drops, given that about three of those are crates. It would take months to save up enough metal to get a key.

The moment it went to 10 ref, I stopped considering metal for keys.

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The moment it went to 10 ref, I stopped considering metal for keys.

Thanks the psychological barrier I was hoping would stop a lot of people, unfortunately not the case. Stores price things at $9.99 because they know $10.00 looks like a lot more, even though it's only one cent higher.