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- It's the year 2015. An excited child has just received a $20 Steam gift card from a friend for his birthday. He has been a long time
- Team Fortress 2 player; and he considers himself a dedicated gamer. He plays a variety of games: Battlefield 4, Halo 5, Minecraft:
- Reloaded, but his favorite is still Team Fortress 2. He understands what people mean by the term "spycrab" and "pootis". He
- considers himself a very prolific player in the community; after all, he did kill all those pesky spies on ctf_2fort with his trusty
- Pomson 6000 and vaporized countless poor souls with his mighty Cow Mangler 5000. Hell, he was such a great Pyro with his
- Phlogistinator ("I actually spelled it right!" he chuckled to himself), he had earned the honorary title of "****ing W+M1" from his
- fellow comrades. He had worked hard for that title, and he is proud of it. Sometimes he would join a team, and he would take on a
- role of the leader, and speak to his fellow men through his microphone. He was so effective and so passionate, he is proud to say
- that he is often called a "squeaker" for his great efforts in team leadership. He felt like a shining gem in the Team Fortress 2
- community.
- The only thing that he did feel lacking was cosmetic items. Sure, he is very proud of his beautiful Ghastly Gibus; the Team Fortress
- 2 community saw what a great player he was, and gave him this hat as a sign of respect and integrity. He wears it with great pride
- and always has a sense of respect when he meets a fellow veteran toting the rare hat.
- The child carefully entered the code, and to his delight, he now has $20 on his Steam account! He entered the prestigious Mann Co.
- Store, lined up with weapons and hats, with the face of the legendary of Saxton Hale beckoning him to purchase the goods. He felt
- weird holding this power of money. He bought a few weapons, and added a nice policeman's helmet for the Heavy on top. Heavy seems to
- be the most popular class it seems. He looked at his funds. He had almost 3 dollars left... what should he buy?
- His was scrolling through the endless pages of virtual merchandise when his eyes caught the sight of a glowing item. A Mann Co.
- Supply Crate Key. For $2.49.
- He had heard a lot about keys. His friends told him that keys are important to trading. His friend told him that trade servers are
- where people trade, and to find one, just type "trade" into the servers bar and you'll find some.
- The child checked out, delighted to find that not only he had gotten the Heavy hat, he also received a white baseball cap for all
- the classes to wear. "Valve must really like me", he decided. He did as his friends told him, and within minutes he joined a server
- that looked suspiciously like Minecraft. He did not know what to do with the key; he deletes his crates every time he gets them. He
- was a little hesitant about deleting the Platinum Celebratory Mann Co. Supply Crate #100, but when he got a drop of a cool new
- Sniper rifle called the Machina he deleted without a second thought. He saw that people were selling a lot of items here. Maybe he
- should try and sell his.
- He typed in chat, "selling a key".
- Almost instantaneously, his HUD was bombarded with trade requests. He pressed J, as the requests prompted him to do. A trade window
- opened up, and the person asked "how much?"
- This child is now confused. How much indeed? He wanted to say 10 weapons, but he was afraid that it was worth more than that. Before
- he could type anything, the man on the other side put up a number of items. The child took a closer look. The man put up a pair of
- headphones and a hat that resembled a rabbit. He also put up a ridiculously large number of shiny silver metal gears. He put up a
- beret that said it belonged to a gentleman named Bill, then finally said,
- "this good?"
- The confused child was about to say yes when the man threw up a hat. This was unlike the others; this hat did not have a yellow
- outline, but instead had a purple one. A few weapons were also added, but they seem to have Christmas lights on them. Some of these
- Christmas weapons also have orange outlines to them. The child was delighted. "Finally something good", he said to himself. He liked
- weapons, and he liked Christmas.
- "im overpaying right now, pls let me have a key"
- The delighted child added his key and clicked on the big green button. His backpack now flooded with goodies, he left the server.
- Soon after his departure, the man boasted, "yoo I scammed a noob today I only spent 250 ref on that key try finding one for 300 gg
- fags gonna cashout now see ya bitches" and left the server shortly after, leaving the remaining players moaning and complaining
- about keys being 100 ref a few months ago.
- tl;dr keys
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