He implies more than once that duplicate items are not worthless and should increase in value over time. He reiterates the desire to implement unique items (which I interpreted as hats with actual buffs/debuffs and/or weapons with different buffs/debuffs) and a trading system, but then throws a curveball with the possibility of a crafting system. It does look like they're going to continue taking the 'MMO FPS' route. The nice thing is that clearly people are super excited about whatвЂ™s happening and the fact that 18 months out, the number of people playing have doubled the all-time high is an indication of how much people value that sort of on-going investment and commitment to those products. WeвЂ™re very much at the beginning of deploying these pieces. So, once we have that ability, then we can start giving you the ability to trade those items and then maybe craft those items or whatever and take it in that direction. ThatвЂ™s a pretty big piece of infrastructure to add. So one thing is that we pay incredibly close attention to it and hopefully as we get further down this road, people will go вЂњOoohh, okay, I get it now, That makes a lot more sense.вЂќ But we want to get the stuff out there so that we can start associating unique items with an individual customer. I thought that we had been fairly clear that thatвЂ™s where weвЂ™re going and that people should hang on to that stuff itвЂ™s going to be worth more over time. TheyвЂ™re not duplicates, theyвЂ™re stuff that you can trade with someone else for stuff that you donвЂ™t have, so weвЂ™re in the process of iterating towards a more robust economy in the Team Fortress 2 universe. So, I think itвЂ™ll make more sense to people once they can start trading items, and the things that theyвЂ™re accumulating then have value. Newell: Right, and weвЂ™re in the middle of a fairly major set of changes. How do you guys respond to the complaints of hardcore Team Fortress players are having, because itвЂ™s a pretty major change that you guys made? Say for example you had been working toward a certain drop initially and then now you might get duplicate drops.

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Gabe newell these things take time