Gems are back guys. Business as usual I guess.

[HunterSeeker]

[TuanLe]

no booster pack. Gem is useless now

[lart]

Will be interesting to see if people get to keep the gems that paid 100+ times lower due to buying duped currency compared to the normal market price.
People now entering the auctions, if they resume the normal way, would have to spend 100+ times the money or amount of cards recycled to compete in the auctions.

[HunterSeeker]

Messaggio originale di MIXMA:

no booster pack. Gem is useless now

They have not relaunched the event so lets see how it goes.

[HunterSeeker]

Messaggio originale di lart:

Will be interesting to see if people get to keep the gems that paid 100+ times lower due to buying duped currency compared to the normal market price.
People now entering the auctions, if they resume the normal way, would have to spend 100+ times the money or amount of cards recycled to compete in the auctions.

it's about 10% the price, not 100 times lower. The market pricing was 0.3/bag.

[lart]

Messaggio originale di HunterSeeker:

t's about 10% the price, not 100 times lower. The market pricing was 0.3/bag.

Market price was $0.03/1000 gems. Recycling 1000 gems was about $3.50.

[HunterSeeker]

Messaggio originale di lart:

Messaggio originale di HunterSeeker:

t's about 10% the price, not 100 times lower. The market pricing was 0.3/bag.

Market price was $0.03/1000 gems. Recycling 1000 gems was about $3.50.

That's not true. A $0.03 CSGO background can get you 100 gems -> $0.3/1000 gems.

How in the world did you come up with 3.5 per 1000 gems. That is impossible.

[Chewy102]

I put a 98 gem bag order for $0.03 each to use up my spare wallet cash. It is a PAIN to open them all. Get 2-3 and they are gone from the inventory till I wait for a few seconds and refresh.

Even with 98K gems I don't think I'll ahve odds of winning any bids.

[BillyTheFish]

Gems are back, but the event is still down.
Unless they perma-ban all the exploit users and change it from an auction to a raffle, it'll still be 'richest bidder wins' though - and where's the Christmas fun in that?

[HunterSeeker]

Messaggio originale di BillyTheFish:

Gems are back, but the event is still down.
Unless they perma-ban all the exploit users and change it from an auction to a raffle, it'll still be 'richest bidder wins' though - and where's the Christmas fun in that?

They did and their gems are removed. Or at least some of them. I guess it's really not hard to detect when someone conjure up 18 billion ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gems out of thin air

[Matt]

Messaggio originale di BillyTheFish:

Unless they perma-ban all the exploit users

I know at least one was community banned...

Messaggio originale di BillyTheFish:

it'll still be 'richest bidder wins' though

But that's exactly how an auction is supposed to work.

[Chewy102]

Messaggio originale di BillyTheFish:

Gems are back, but the event is still down.
Unless they perma-ban all the exploit users and change it from an auction to a raffle, it'll still be 'richest bidder wins' though - and where's the Christmas fun in that?

Yeah, Im a few hours late to the news. Got out of playing game, opened the gem bags and found the event in on hold and talks of bans and what not.

Should I be in a bit of fear for buying 98 bags for 3 cents each? It is just $2.94 for 98K gems and feels like it might be a tad much.

[Morus]

I think its hard to say who is a exploit user, ya...i bought them for a lower price than expected. But how could i know it was dupped gems? I also sold all my cards thinking that they would lose their value since now it was that cheap to make booster packs...

[lart]

Messaggio originale di HunterSeeker:

Messaggio originale di lart:

Market price was $0.03/1000 gems. Recycling 1000 gems was about $3.50.

That's not true. A $0.03 CSGO background can get you 100 gems -> $0.3/1000 gems.

How in the world did you come up with 3.5 per 1000 gems. That is impossible.

You're aware that not all backgrounds go for 1. for $0.03 2. yield 100 gems.
I just checked a random background that goes for $0.2 and yield 60. That's $3.40.

Taking your best case example one would have to pay $0.30/1000, that's your 10% or said otherwise if you want to compete with someone who spent money $30 on duped gems, you will have to shell out $300 or recycle 10.000 CSGO cards. Sounds fair.
Multiply this x10 for a worse case example.

[The doctor is in]

nah im missing tons of gems that i had in bids they did not put those back so they must be still tied up in bids

worse the auction / marketplace is toast.. not good so its like going to be impossible for regular folks since there is so much distortion i think... cause of the counterfit gems and harm to marketplace its going to be sad event... bunch of losers other than the crooks (ok steam going to also make money on it which is sad, the only people who look like going to get hurt are members who were not involved in fraud) the harm is done steam i dont see has rolled back the marketplace/transactions. so honest people take bath.

[Chewy102]

Messaggio originale di Morus:

I think its hard to say who is a exploit user, ya...i bought them for a lower price than expected. But how could i know it was dupped gems? I also sold all my cards thinking that they would lose their value since now it was that cheap to make booster packs...

I dropped a number of cards to get 500 gems. Without the bags I bought, Id bet I could get maybe 2-3K gems total from all the cards I could get from the games I own but haven't played them after the card updates.

Now I got 98K and thinking it might not have been a good idea. No way in hell I want to loose this account over something like this.