ValveA Team Fortress 2 player randomly decided to delete an extremely rare item – a Golden Frying Pan worth just shy of $7,000. As it turns out, it’s not the first time they’ve ruffled feathers this way.
Digital goods can be worth a pretty penny on Valve’s virtual marketplace. Look no further than rare Counter-Strike skins as a prime example, with some selling for more than a million dollars each.
Team Fortress 2, another Valve game, happens to be the same. Rare collectible goods are often traded online for hefty sums of cash as players look to flaunt their material wealth. At least, that’s the case for some. Others simply want to watch the world burn.
For a player by the name of Gregarious, they’ve become infamous for setting piles of cash on fire. They just turned heads by outright deleting one of the game’s rarest items from existence, and it turns out it’s not the first time either.
ValveTF2 player deletes Golden Frying Pan worth $6,800
As first spotted by Polygon, the Team Fortress 2 community has been in disarray lately after a player went rogue and deleted an exceedingly rare item.
The Golden Frying Pan is a variant of a popular melee weapon. You’ll know it when you see it, and even when you hear it as connecting with a strike makes a distinct sound. Furthermore, enemies killed with this weapon are left immortalized as golden statues.
The melee weapon was introduced in 2013 though only 435 were ever created. Obtaining the item required some outrageous luck and thus, it became a collector’s item.
Unfortunately for collectors, though, that number has dwindled. Gregarious hopped into a match on August 12 and deleted their Golden Frying Pan in the middle of the game. This sent an alert to everyone in the lobby, notifying them of the insane act.
At the time of writing, the melee item holds a value of roughly $6,670 USD. Who’s to say what might happen to the frying pan economy now that there’s one fewer in rotation, however.
Visiting the player’s now-locked Steam profile furthers the notion that they committed this act with the intent to stir the TF2 community. “Are you still mad?” their bio reads.
According to other accounts, this isn’t the player’s first time deleting the very same item in Team Fortress 2. With over 10,000 hours of gameplay logged on Steam, it’s clear they have a knack for riling TF2 players up.
