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This is very true, and it wouldn't be a problem at all if promos weren't limited, but our currency isn't sustainable so this habit of traders will be the end of them. So uhh, gg tf2

Well what we really need is more rare promos. I was thinking the same thing, this is why the price of buds has increased from $20 to $25 in only a time span of a few months. If anyone deletes a pair of buds or stops playing the game yet has them in their inventory, it's gone forever. There's no getting it back. It's like de-inflation, we're running out of acceptable currency so we have to ramp up the price of our rare promos. I'd love to see what other people think about this, regarding ideas towards the TF2 economy, aka how to save it. I forsee buds being the cost of Max Heads a year from now (With max heads then being 4x those) and keys being the only acceptable transferrable currency. It makes me almost want to sell my unusuals, retain about 30 buds, and just come back to the community in 2 years and see if either the economy has collapsed, bringing an end to the unusual trading we once knew less than a year ago, or if there will be a savior, such as a new rare promo added to the game, making the order of rare promos like this: HOUWAR > Max > Buds > This New Promo > Bills > Rest. That way, my buds would be worth a ton. It's really quite a realistic market. You can cash out now and have hard cash, or you can wait and if the community trips over itself then you have nothing, if it doesn't, you'll have a lot to cash in. Like stocks.

Here's my solution: Add another few rare promos that are non-genuine such as the bills/buds/max that can substitute as currency as the current ones do now. I say non-genuine to make sure they aren't craftable/droppable in regular form, which if I'm right, all genuine items are at some point. If say a major update came out regarding the Meet The Pyro and Valve had a promo in which, in celebration of the last class update, they awarded players with all milestone achievements a special promo, that would be valued at a high price, most likely similar to buds or maybe even more, considering the smaller amount of players that most likely have completed all the milestone achievements. And I'm not talking like Valve would warn people to get the milestones before Meet the Pyro for the promo, it would just happen, that way there's no chance anyone could just go to an achievement server and get all the milestones so they can attain the promo, they would only get it if they genuinely had (or previously visited an achievement server) all the milestones.

Anyways that was long as hell but I guess that's just how I see it. Again, totally want to hear other people talking about this. Reply!