Steam opens market for players to buy and sell in-game items with cash

NotAdmin · Dec 13, 2012

If you're half-serious about gaming (and we all are), you know of Steam, the gaming network from Valve. Steam allows for buying games on-line, sometimes with great discounts, and is used by millions of players worldwide.

They now are adding the ability to buy in-game items, as reported by The Verge:

Valve has unveiled a new section of Steam that provides a place for players to sell in-game items to others using real currency. The Steam Community Market has launched in beta with support for Team Fortress 2, but will host more games in the new year. Players can use Steam Wallet funds to buy items like keys or crates; the former unlocks the latter, which contain mystery items. The implications go far beyond enhancing your Team Fortress 2 performance, however — essentially, you can now buy games with money earned from playing other games.

Steam will charge a 5 percent transaction fee on all purchases, and there are also chargeable fees specific to the game that the publisher sets: in Team Fortress 2's case, this fee is 10 percent, meaning that Valve will take a total of 15 percent of all transactions. While the beta is limited in scope so far, the impact on Steam's economy down the road could be huge.
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Source: http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/12/3761090/steam-community-market-open-team-fortress-2

For those of you who do not know, EntropiaPlanets has been offering Steam integration for quite some time now. At this very moment, the steam profile is disabled, but I intend to get that sorted out pretty soon.

Nor Alien · Dec 13, 2012

Every body want's to be like MA!!

What will the steam intergration do fo EP?

eoden13 · Dec 13, 2012

I wish entropia would integrate with steam... I already added It as a non-steam game and use steam to capture screenshots.

HoloSquad · Dec 15, 2012

It would be a dream for entropia to team up with steam

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