carnival73: .
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Now for the larger irony
If you check back GOG forums around 2009 / 2010
I created a thread pointing out that Steam forums had TF2 hat traders
and I asked everyone if they thought it possible that Steam would allow us to start
trading Humble Bundle keys as well.
I also asked Steam
Within a week's time the TF2 trade board started allowing for key swaps and sales
Which carried over to GOG and other forums
So I may have, indirectly, influenced the game trading market six or seven years ago
Key shops were in existence before I brought up the trading idea but there were not as many of them
and they had more notoriety back then where as now they seem to be more widely trusted.
Reminds me of a story of how I met this guy Bill back in 1984. We were discussing programming and MS-DOS and then I told him "Bill, how about an operating environment with a graphical user interface? Stuff like icons and windows, instead of having to type in commands. Wouldn't that be cool?" Looking back, I may have indirectly influenced the PC market for the next 3 decades or so.