The market for items is a mess.

[Usernamehere]

The majority of market items in Payday 2 are completely worthless, and if you check the Steam market almost every one of them has ten thousand sell listings for $0.03 each. People who actually want these items are likely to just trade their friends for them or even get them themselves, and so the market is oversaturated to the point where it's in a perpetual state of crashed.

I'm curious as to whether or not Overkill or someone could introduce something to solve this problem, because clearly there are thousands of Payday 2 players like myself with dozens of skins that they don't want and can't seem to get rid of. I have had skins for sale since 2017 - they're still there. You know how many times my dozens of Payday 2 skins for sale on the Steam market has sold?

Once.

So yeah maybe there will be some kind of a way to resolve this. Especially since I think there might be a maximum amount of them that can be owned at any given time, because I haven't been getting them at the end of heists anymore.

[BitsOfSkin]

Considering the backlash these items caused to begin with, on top of the way that lootboxes and other microtransaction are slowly being regulated across the globe etc.?
Don't expect this to change.

[Grizzly]

unrelated but while looking for a way to just delete skins on steam i found out there are skins for steam itself. for the whole platfrom. lmao

[Usernamehere]

Originally posted by BitsOfSkin:

Considering the backlash these items caused to begin with, on top of the way that lootboxes and other microtransaction are slowly being regulated across the globe etc.?
Don't expect this to change.

Yeah, true. They shouldn't even exist at all.

[Infinite Thwomp Works]

I don't think anything can be done to fix it at this point. The amount of over-saturation is so ludicrous at this point that adding a trade-up system is only going to devalue the few high-rarity skins that haven't bottomed out (and I highly doubt Overkill would let us get Legendaries from such a system anyway).

In hindsight, Overkill probably shouldn't have ever made them a daily drop. It seemed like a reasonable idea at the time -- after all, PD2 was supposed to be "done" and the playerbase was expected to wither away over time, so why not open the floodgates for the people choosing to stick around -- but that backfired rather spectacularly when they had to restart development on PD2 to stay afloat.

[Tiretracker]

The biggest travesty is the few items I want --- not legendaries ---- are the few that are still valuable.

Wonder if I'll ever get a BarbWire chimano....

[Usernamehere]

Originally posted by Tiretracker:

The biggest travesty is the few items I want --- not legendaries ---- are the few that are still valuable.

Wonder if I'll ever get a BarbWire chimano....

Which ones do those happen to be?

[BitsOfSkin]

Originally posted by Tiretracker:

The biggest travesty is the few items I want --- not legendaries ---- are the few that are still valuable.

Wonder if I'll ever get a BarbWire chimano....

...€5,34 for the stat boost version?
What the absolute ♥♥♥♥?!
Hell, even the regular mint version costs almost €1,30

[Sunday Driver]

I wouldn't call it a mess. Them becoming so cheap overall is the best result most could hope for who want to collect and play with them in the game or those who disagreed with their inclusion in the first place. While they'd never rug pull them back out after they started being distributed (as that would cause double outrage) you can sure let market forces put the price so low that you can now pay for most of them by picking up pennies from the street so anyone can get them now and there's no significant barrier.

So overall it's been a good result for us. We got the new skin and outfit system that involves both free and DLC payments and not the loot crates and market BS and the boost thing that was also causing outrage has already been neutered too. I hope that's a sign for how things go in the future and we don't get any more gambling loot crate BS, even if it's called "safes" and "drills" instead of "crates" and "keys".

Also no buying of in-game money with real money (AKA Shark Cards, whatever Elite calls them and the others doing this awful game design ruining and predatory choice).

[Usernamehere]

Originally posted by Hoxilicious:

I wouldn't call it a mess. Them becoming so cheap overall is the best result most could hope for who want to collect and play with them in the game or those who disagreed with their inclusion in the first place. While they'd never rug pull them back out after they started being distributed (as that would cause double outrage) you can sure let market forces put the price so low that you can now pay for most of them by picking up pennies from the street so anyone can get them now and there's no significant barrier.

So overall it's been a good result for us. We got the new skin and outfit system that involves both free and DLC payments and not the loot crates and market BS and the boost thing that was also causing outrage has already been neutered too. I hope that's a sign for how things go in the future and we don't get any more gambling loot crate BS, even if it's called "safes" and "drills" instead of "crates" and "keys".

Also no buying of in-game money with real money (AKA Shark Cards, whatever Elite calls them and the others doing this awful game design ruining and predatory choice).

Indeed, yes. It could be a lot worse.

To be honest I was motivated to write this topic partially because I have roughly a dollar's worth of Payday 2 skins for sale that I may never get to use, and wanted to hear thoughts from the community about the ordeal. Maybe even some way to figure out how to get rid of them and get just a bit more money in my Steam wallet.

[Thermal Lance]

Originally posted by Usernamehere:

Originally posted by Hoxilicious:

I wouldn't call it a mess. Them becoming so cheap overall is the best result most could hope for who want to collect and play with them in the game or those who disagreed with their inclusion in the first place. While they'd never rug pull them back out after they started being distributed (as that would cause double outrage) you can sure let market forces put the price so low that you can now pay for most of them by picking up pennies from the street so anyone can get them now and there's no significant barrier.

So overall it's been a good result for us. We got the new skin and outfit system that involves both free and DLC payments and not the loot crates and market BS and the boost thing that was also causing outrage has already been neutered too. I hope that's a sign for how things go in the future and we don't get any more gambling loot crate BS, even if it's called "safes" and "drills" instead of "crates" and "keys".

Also no buying of in-game money with real money (AKA Shark Cards, whatever Elite calls them and the others doing this awful game design ruining and predatory choice).

Indeed, yes. It could be a lot worse.

To be honest I was motivated to write this topic partially because I have roughly a dollar's worth of Payday 2 skins for sale that I may never get to use, and wanted to hear thoughts from the community about the ordeal. Maybe even some way to figure out how to get rid of them and get just a bit more money in my Steam wallet.

Dump the useless items to a trash bot account and buy a steam card.

As you said yourself. They are worthless and by the time you manage to sell enough of them pd3 will be out and nobody will care about pd2 skins outside from collectors.

So yeah, to the trashbot it goes.

[Sunday Driver]

Originally posted by Thermal Lance:

Originally posted by Usernamehere:

Indeed, yes. It could be a lot worse.

To be honest I was motivated to write this topic partially because I have roughly a dollar's worth of Payday 2 skins for sale that I may never get to use, and wanted to hear thoughts from the community about the ordeal. Maybe even some way to figure out how to get rid of them and get just a bit more money in my Steam wallet.

Dump the useless items to a trash bot account and buy a steam card.

As you said yourself. They are worthless and by the time you manage to sell enough of them pd3 will be out and nobody will care about pd2 skins outside from collectors.

So yeah, to the trashbot it goes.

Best solution to the clutter and praise be to the people who set up these open trashbot accounts.