Many people this days will realise that keys are increasing in price. And what does that mean? That means it will/may affect the following:Buds,Unusuals and Economy. Let's say if the keys are further increased to a certain extend where a key is like a bud,the unusuals/buds/hats in the game will be cheaper and everyone will easily own one and when that happens,everytime you uncrate an unusual with a hard earned key,it will no longer be the old tf2 where people will get excited because of the fact that they have received an unusual but instead it will make them feel that their hard earned keys has been wasted.Well even if you get a key in the furture when it is worthed like 30 ref? What would you possibly do with the key? Unbox? Trade? Problem is keys are not even a cosmetic like buds they are just a tool,a currency that people use to uncrate and buy other cosmetics with so if you somehow get a key when it somehow reaches 30 ref in the furture you will just get to hold on to the key and do nothing with it.In any cases if the keys do reach 30 ref,the price of refined metal will also rise as more people will buy them from the market and therefore turning the refs into a higher price.Now when the refs are turned into a higher price,it will no longer be even possible to even earn a hat.Therefore affecting tf2 greatly,other games will be affected as well especially valve games because if there is no tf2,people might switch to the next big game which is dota 2 and of coarse more people would buy keys from dota 2 and do the same thing like tf2 therefore causing 2 big games to fall which of coarse Valve wouldn't want that and the dear players such as I wouldn't want that so hopefully the keys don't raise up any further or there may not be a tf2 in the furture.

The recent price suggestions already shows that unusuals and buds are dropping in price and the main cause is because of the price of the keys being expensive.