This is not a competition idiot.

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WHY ARE WE DOING THIS? Depression, no plz!

why the fuck do people have to raise keys. LEAVE IT AT 6

Jesus fucking christ why.

Seriously stop the entire trading community (or at the very least 80% of it) fucking hates you for even suggesting this.

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 "fucking 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

To Whom It May Concern:

Gentleman are we really doing this to ourselves? Just think over one year ago these glorious keys that now taint the economy once were priced at...... get this 2.55 to 2.66 ref! Now one year later, we seem to be going over this ridiculous habit of adding a scrap or two EVERY week just to rise the price of these keys. What is happening? Why are we doing this? Will this ever end? And unfortunately at this current pace we will never end this madness. The real reason for this (and Cleverpun or any other admin i could care less if you hide it or ban me) Is people like the kind backpack.tf admins who run this site continuously allow the prices of keys to rise for there own benefit. As do these greedy sharks roaming around the tf2 community currently and continue to scam keys at low prices and sell them for above back.tf prices. Can this be stopped? At this point i think it is nearly impossible to do but we could do our share by at least stopping these weekly key raises. That way its harder for people like the generous admins here at backpack.tf and the sharks to gain more and more profit. All i ask is for people to join me to stop these absurd price changes and limit on how much these go up. Perhaps we could compromise and maybe do these once every 2 weeks? That way the prices do not continuously go up for the benefit of others.

Let us all come together and break Mr. Trollerais vote and make sure it does not go through for the time being. Together we can all make a difference and not end up with a future like the story on top of mine were keys are worth that insane amount.

Please refer to my posts in the last suggestion that was accepted, and look at the percentage of it. I have explained everything there: http://backpack.tf/vote/id/525372b44cd7b86d128b4568#525385404cd7b8b04d8b4567_parsed

and in some other posts in that page.

NOTE TO ADMINS: Please raise the limit for making key suggestions to 1 rec or higher and add a time limit of 1 month. Even the suggestions themselves cause the prices to go up, because people consider them as forecasts. I don't want to get into another lengthy discussion, and I only hope that you have all understood that the current system needs to be changed.

At this rate the trade market will crash -_-

Yeah, rise the price of keys and break the tf2 economy.

Seriously, why are you getting this proof and all that stuff. Why to just keep the price at flat 6 refs (i know it's 6-6.11) and be happy?

Every key rise will pass one after another. It's like rape, you can't do anything about it no matter how much you scream or try to avoid it (!pc command'll catch ya). Brad Pitt for best tool maker and string puller. ;)

Dem massive warning.

And that's why I only buy keys in the store.