Mann Co. store hats craftable!?

[[FmAh ◑] Mleah]

As soon as this happened I knew that craftable hat prices are going to go down, because now non-craftable will be more rare, seriously Gaben, way too f**k with us. Craft hats are becoming cheaper already, it's absolutely ridiculous. Post whatever you think on the matter, I don't care if it supports my ideals or not. Maybe I should be happy about the matter, but now my backpack has dropped by $20 value already from this, so yeah, I think I this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Tito Shivan]

Keeping hats uncraftable hurted Valve and the hat makers, because people was not buying the hats.
Who in his mind would spend $10 on a Robro 3000 bought on the store, with an uncraftable quality.

Buying them to support the author is nice and all, but purchasing customers were paying not precisely cheap hats and received a 'inferior' (As in has less abilities) item than people who had them crafted/dropped.

If the crafted item is 'better' than the money-bough one, people will choose to aim for the crafted instead of for the store one.
Then:
-Less people buy the hat on the store.
-Hat makers get less money from their creations.
-Hat makers have less incentive to create items for the game.
That's a bad vicious circle.

Non-craftability was a bad, hurried patch to solve a self-created problem. A patch that lasted far too long in time. The store is right now as it should have ever been.
Sorry for your loss, but it's just part of the Mannconomy game.

[TheNoobishNinja [FF]]

Only the Hitman: Absolution items and Magnifecent Mongolian in dirty are rare.

[Tim Timsen]

Originally posted by TheNoobishNinja:

Only the Hitman: Absolution items and Magnifecent Mongolian in dirty are rare.

Why exactly the Magnificent Mongolian? Because you have one?