[Steam]-y Thread 30: Throwing titles out the window!

[banthesun]

Isn't this going to hurt the Mann Co. Store?

The following is my uneducated guess, so please don't take this as gospel.

There's gonna be as many people uncrating goods as before, so there's not going to be any decrease in demand. There'll likely be a few immediate fluctuations in price as spare keys are bought up by people who would have otherwise used the store, but it should eventually fall back to a stable level. The difference is that now the people who sell keys will now have a safer way to sell them, and that all the money traded for keys is going to be going back into steam's system. I presume they've actually planned this quite carefully.