On today (26/07/2019) at around 5 o'clock (Greenwich time) a catastrophic error led to the greatest crash of the tf2 economy up to date.
So why did this happen?
From different sources i recieved different explanations, so from what i can tell, a "bug" made it so that EVERY SINGLE crate from the first and third generation of crates gave you an unusual. This was almost immediately discovered and soon word was spread everywhere and this led to tf2 crates being the most sold items in the steam community market. And naturally all crates prices inflated.
Third party sellers, such as marketplace.tf have stopped all buy orders, and many traders on backpack.tf are losing an arm and a leg.
Word has spread that when this will be fixed all accounts that recieved an unusual in this period will recieve a trade ban, or that all the unusuals will turn back into keys, or that all the inventories will be reset as of the day 25/07/2019 (one day before the incident).
There is nothing else to say, hopefully this will be fixed soon.
So why did this happen?
From different sources i recieved different explanations, so from what i can tell, a "bug" made it so that EVERY SINGLE crate from the first and third generation of crates gave you an unusual. This was almost immediately discovered and soon word was spread everywhere and this led to tf2 crates being the most sold items in the steam community market. And naturally all crates prices inflated.
Third party sellers, such as marketplace.tf have stopped all buy orders, and many traders on backpack.tf are losing an arm and a leg.
Word has spread that when this will be fixed all accounts that recieved an unusual in this period will recieve a trade ban, or that all the unusuals will turn back into keys, or that all the inventories will be reset as of the day 25/07/2019 (one day before the incident).
There is nothing else to say, hopefully this will be fixed soon.