Someone, decided to use said exploit to duplicate the "uncolored-canvas" Tiny Monkey and make it even more profitable, and it did. Was usually known and used to duplicate items in famous games like Team Fortress 2 or Dota 2, where alot of items could have reached even thousands of dollars in value. One day, a Steam exploit plagued the inventory system, making it possible to "overwrite" certain items via a specific trade url method. The devs took notice of this, and just found it funny. It was eventually put on the market for something like 50$ dollars, and then 100$, until someone (after buying it) put it on the market for even 200$ (it wasn't specifically this rounded, probably 250$ or 240$). The Tiny Monkey was around 10$, but this one was considered a "glitched variant" of it, which increased it's value. However, the Tiny Monkey passed through many players, until someone actually noticed the difference between this version, and another one. When the Star Heads events became a thing (not the ones released nowdays) everyone noticed that those specific heads had a distinct canvas color (purple) and noticed the rarity of them. This head believe it or not, was the Tiny Monkey, an "uncolored-canvas" Tiny Monkey to be precise. The head remained in his inventory until he traded it away to a random player found in the online matchmaking. The items, after testing were deleted, except for the head, which was forgotten in one of the devs inventory on Steam.Ī dev (someone even says it was Dan himself) took notice of this something along the line of a month before the realease, but instead of deleting it, he decided to keep it since he liked it anyway. One is said to have been one of the weapons, one was either a gem or a yarn, and the last one was a head. To test it out, they created a couple of placeholder items using the Steam API and tools. well, I don't want to see another victim of this whole mess slowly getting dragged into insanity.īefore BattleBlock Theater's release on PC, The Behemoth was working on the inventory system of the game on Steam. Ok listen, I shouldn't tell you this story, but I see you seek the truth among everything else in this situation. Has it been so slow and gradual, that no one's noticed or cared- that we've all grown numb to this? Or is this truly the will of the people, damning us into malevolent rule under the sickly smile of this tiny-headed hoodlum? I do not wish for answers, I merely beg for them. However, it does scare me no one's talking about this. Who allowed this? Who is letting this continue? Whom on this ungodly planet had devoted so much of their time, their money, their *lives* to the horrible, wretched worship of Tiny Monkey? Not only were people wanting to buy this for 5 dollars under the cost of the game itself, whomever controlled this market was selling it for more than double the game's value. Not only that, there were active buy requests for up to $10. Tiny Monkey had become worth more than $40. That was until I double-checked recently, to find very disturbing progress indeed. I told many of my comrades about Tiny Monkey, jokingly guessing there was a group slowly artificially keeping the price up. I thought little of it, "surely someone bought a ludicrous amount as a joke, right?" How wrong I was This wasn't an absurd amount like the Castle Crashers head before it, no, this was a modest fund compared to that, but still over 500 times the price of anything else on the market. For one reason or another, its price had surged to somewhere around 10 dollars. That was, however, except for Tiny Monkey. There was the occasional fluctuation here and there, including one anonymous individual who bought almost 54 normal heads from me of his own volition, but for the most part, that was it. I saw that most listings in the market had crashed, even the rarest star-heads being reduced to 7 or 5 cents. I believe I first saw Tiny Monkey's rise to power about a year ago now. This has since vanished though, overthrown by a new, more powerful overlord. There was one listing that stood out out for a Castle Crashers head, one which can't typically be sold, being sold at about 1000 dollars. Most star-heads were at least worth a few cents, and the most expensive ones were the rare ones that have never been re-released. When I first checked the community marketplace, what must have been years ago now, things were different. Most items are sold in the dozens for the minimum price they can be sold at, by wayward souls desperate to make any amount of money. The market is too old and too over-saturated to have any worth these days. Not to sell anything, no, but to stare in awe of what I see before me. Every few weeks I check the Battleblock Theater community marketplace.
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