Steam Winter Events
Last night the Steam Auction started. Allowing you to craft useless inventory items like cards, emoticons, and backgrounds into useless gems. You were supposed to use those gems to bid on games. Something went horribly, horribly wrong and bidding got out of control. If you "value" the gems at 3 cents per 1000 the game bids were still hitting several hundred dollars each. Turns out there was a duping bug. So as of right now the auction is suspended with almost no evidence of it happening (all inventory gems are gone too).
But the good news is that the winter sale starts on the 18th, and there does appear to be an event to go along with that as well
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