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Team Fortress 2 Megatopic + Trade: BLUE MOON UPDATE
Biqus:
everytime i play a server now there are 20 people with unusuals on
gr8dayseth:
hey haven't played tf2 in a bit what'd i m- oh dear god my eyes
gr8dayseth:
lol i opened the game for a minute and found a cosmetic drop (!) that i'll actually use (!!) it's my lucky day i guess
scarf
it may not be a guaranteed unusual but i don't care much for unusuals these days anyhow, especially since now pretty much everyone will have one
Defendor:
i always appreciate cosmetic drops, regardless if they're unique or not. They are such rare finds.
Masterlegodude:
--- Quote from: http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=53025 ---On the evening of Thursday, July 25th, a bug was introduced that allowed some older crates to grant an Unusual hat on every opening. We fixed the bug the following morning and decided to trade-lock the hats from the bugged crates while we evaluated the situation.
Over the past week, we have been discussing ways to address this situation with the goal of minimizing the impact on the TF2 community as a whole, while preserving the experience of customers who had simply opened a crate, made a trade, or purchased from the market on the 25th, unaware that a bug produced their item.
During our investigation we discovered that a small number of accounts acquired these hats and a smaller portion of those accounts acquired an exceedingly large number of them. Based on this, we've decided that if you currently own one of these Unusual hats, the first one added to your account will be made tradable. Any other Unusual you have received due to the bug will remain permanently trade locked. If you decide that you would rather not have these trade-locked hats on your account, you may instead elect a full refund on any number of them.
The number of Unusual items being made tradable represents about one month of the regular Unusual drop rate.
A few of you were concerned that you had done something wrong by opening a bugged crate, and proceeded to delete your hats. While we appreciate the concern, you didn't do anything wrong, so hats from bugged crates deleted before the tradable date will be restored to your accounts with the same restrictions described above.
Item tradability, restoration, and the refund support page will be made available in about a weeks time. We will post an update when that exact date becomes available.
We apologize for the inconvenience of this incident, and we’ve added safeguards to prevent incidents like this in the future.
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'The Crate Depression of 2019' is now a canon event