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It's all about showing off. Who has the most expensive skins, coolest looking skins, etc. I have a buddy I play with, he'll drop $100 on a skin on the secondary

by 67726e 11y ago

It's all about showing off. Who has the most expensive skins, coolest looking skins, etc. I have a buddy I play with, he'll drop $100 on a skin on the secondary market and loves it when someone gets all bent out of shape because he has such nice/valuable items. Others in the thread have touched on this, but this is definitely ensnaring naive, young kids into gambling and taking risks with expensive items. Seems at least once a week I'll be in a match wherein a prepubescent kid will tell his team how he gambled away $100 worth of skins, or got scammed by a "friend" in some kind of gambling pool. Folks also are constantly trying to trade-up, to convince someone to take a skin with less value for one of greater value. I personally unboxed a +$300 knife skin, and at least once a day I get some telling me some sob story, trying to get me to trade it for whatever shit they have to offer.

WorldMaker 11y ago
I was so glad when Valve finally let you set your Steam Inventory to private (or friends only), as for a while I got a random friend invite or message from a stranger wanting me to give them my TF2 hats. The best part of that was how many of them wanted me to just give them my hats rather than trade anything for it, given my somewhat low playing stats I guess they assumed I was dumb enough not to realize the trading value of one hat in particular (which I actually do wear when I randomly play TF2, so hah). So many "Hey, I see you haven't played TF2 in a while. I like your hats, would you give them to me as I play TF2 a lot and want to look cool" messages... Again, glad that my Steam Inventory is now private and I don't see that any more.
- 67726e 11y ago
  Hell, my problem is just people spec'ing me in game and asking me to either make a lopsided trade or, as you mentioned, just go give it to them. I think I got at least a dozen friend requests from strangers the day I unboxed my M9 on a maxed out casual server.

by 67726e 11y ago

WorldMaker 11y ago

I was so glad when Valve finally let you set your Steam Inventory to private (or friends only), as for a while I got a random friend invite or message from a stranger wanting me to give them my TF2 hats. The best part of that was how many of them wanted me to just give them my hats rather than trade anything for it, given my somewhat low playing stats I guess they assumed I was dumb enough not to realize the trading value of one hat in particular (which I actually do wear when I randomly play TF2, so hah). So many "Hey, I see you haven't played TF2 in a while. I like your hats, would you give them to me as I play TF2 a lot and want to look cool" messages... Again, glad that my Steam Inventory is now private and I don't see that any more.

67726e 11y ago
Hell, my problem is just people spec'ing me in game and asking me to either make a lopsided trade or, as you mentioned, just go give it to them. I think I got at least a dozen friend requests from strangers the day I unboxed my M9 on a maxed out casual server.