Gaben dun Goof'd

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The virtual "Holiday Auction" Steam first announced yesterday evening seemed like a cute idea at the time. For a limited time, users would be able to trade in unused or unwanted Steam Inventory items for "gems," which could in turn, starting Monday, be used to bid against others on codes for 2,000 Steam games, 200,000 copies in all.

In practice, things didn't go quite as planned. Shortly after the event launched, users of the Steam subreddit started discussing the appearance of possible duplication exploits, letting users create gems out of thin air. Soon, accounts showing billions of presumably ill-gotten gems started appearing, and the secondhand market for selling gems in exchange for real money saw prices quickly deflated to ridiculously low levels.

Once the anarchy became apparent, Valve shut down the auction Thursday night, seemingly removing the gems from everyone's inventory and posting the following apology on the Holiday Auction FAQ: "Sorry, but there have been some issues with Gems and the Steam Holiday Auction has been temporarily closed. The elves are working frantically to get the issues sorted out, and the auction will start again as soon as they're done."

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/12/steams-first-holiday-auction-halted-after-dupe-bug-ruins-market/



Looks like it was a complete disaster.  Not really sure what they were expecting though, but I guess I should be used to this kind of stuff from Valve and Steam.

lol

Poor Gaben.

Lol, Valve doesn't seem to care too much about producing games, since they created an infinite, self-sustaining cashcow within Steam. They're actually worse than Square Enix with releases.

The PC elitist/fanboys that kiss Valve's and Steam's ass are the scum of the gaming industry. So annoying.