Steamed Steamed is dedicated to all things in and around Valve’s PC gaming service. Hats. It’s always been hats. Ever since Team Fortress 2 first added cosmetics back in 2009, which was (oh no) a decade ago, they’ve been equal parts a cornerstone of Valve’s oft-forgotten multiplayer shooter and a meme at the hat-obsessed game’s expense. Now, however, TF2's maddest hatters are laughing all the way to the bank. A glitch discovered early this morning has seemingly caused earnable loot crates to start spitting out “Unusual” quality items—the rarest of the rare—at an alarming rate. As a result, TF2 items have taken over Steam’s community marketplace, where players can list items they’ve earned in games and auction them off for real money. Specifically, everybody’s selling off their crates at inflated prices, and there’s been a sudden influx of Unusual items on the marketplace, causing their prices to drop significantly. According to the marketplace’s pricing history, crates had prev...