Originally posted by Signed:

why would they do that when they are making insane profit of keys?

Money > Community.

Why would Valve lower the price of their money maker of tf2 for just a small portion of people who trade in tf2?

People are leaving the market or moving to other markets in insane rates, in the short term they will make more money if they dont change anything but they could make more money if the market stays alive for a longer time so they will keep selling keys in high rates.

So I think we all can agree the market is not in a good shape keys have reached 12.66 ref and buds fell to 14 keys, the cause of this is the inflation of metal which is growing because metal can be crafted with weapons which the players can get by simply playing the game.

I decided to make this thread to try and come up with a solution to the situation, personally I think that only valve can stop the inflation but I am interested to hear your ideas about fixing the situation.

I have two ideas that could work:

1. If Valve lowers the price of keys from 2.5$ to something like a dollar people would buy more keys thus pumping more keys into the market making the ration of keys/metal better and lowering the key prices to something like 5 ref ( not great but better then 12.66)

2. Valve could set up bots that would sell keys for about 3 ref and delete the metal they are getting, doing so will lower the inflation because metal will be removed from the market and keys would be pumped into it and it could be a permanent solution if valve were to keep those bots around.

Please tell me what you think and suggest your own ideas.

( If you think this is not related here please delete the thread)