Gold from Gold: The Deconstruction of Golden Wrenches

Antar Bolaeisk · 05-08-2010 8:47am #1

Seems a few people, spurred on by Jon "WiNGSPANTT" Tran, are going to delete their ultra-rare Golden Wrenches in TF2 but they are not going to perform such an insane act without good reason, they're raising money for a charity called Child's Play.

I think it's such a great idea, to have a positive effect on so many children from a free in-game item and, were I lucky enough to have received a Golden Wrench I would definitely be joining in. Wonder now if any of the other 92 Golden Wrench wielders will part with their weapons and TF2 will see the end of the Australium powered tools.

thewheel2.0 · 05-08-2010 9:12am

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

they're raising money for a charity called Child's Play.

And people look down on gamers? Thats great these guys will be getting my donation.

ProjectColossus · 05-08-2010 12:01pm

I put some cash in the pot. Some good finally comes out of the golden wrench BS

humanji · 05-08-2010 1:03pm

What are golden wrenches?

Burgo · 05-08-2010 1:12pm

humanji wrote: »

What are golden wrenches?

http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/Golden_Wrench

ProjectColossus · 06-08-2010 3:41am

Some extra info here, on the official TF2 wiki

SeantheMan · 06-08-2010 5:16am

Yeah I gave $15 dollars too, for charity so...why not

I see Antar is there also with 15 @ no.517

Antar Bolaeisk · 06-08-2010 7:26pm

SeantheMan wrote: »

Yeah I gave $15 dollars too, for charity so...why not

I see Antar is there also with 15 @ no.517

I see some $500 dollar donations on that list as well!

SeantheMan · 07-08-2010 9:40am

I bet it was Valve themselves and probably PopCap, or else someone that just has waaayyy too much money. Fair play to them though

:)

Antar Bolaeisk · 24-08-2010 10:37pm

Wow, over $30,000 for the deletion of a couple of virtual items is not bad going at all.

Jonny7 · 25-08-2010 11:11am

Wow cool, 30,000 dollars*!!

(*includes 96% administration costs)

thewheel2.0 · 25-08-2010 12:52pm

It warms thee heart...great story!

SeantheMan · 25-08-2010 1:45pm

I was playin there about 2 weeks ago, when a message came up sayin some fella had just destroyed his Golden Wrench

Aparantely he had heard of the Gold from Gold...but misunderstood it

quarryman · 25-08-2010 2:03pm

ProjectColossus wrote: »

Some extra info here, on the official TF2 wiki

I've read that link and I still can't understand how the players were "awarded" the wrenches. Did players actually decrypt code or did they actually "find" them in the game?

Antar Bolaeisk · 25-08-2010 2:34pm

quarryman wrote: »

I've read that link and I still can't understand how the players were "awarded" the wrenches. Did players actually decrypt code or did they actually "find" them in the game?

They just got lucky, Valve made a certain number of wrenches available each day and then there was a minuscule chance of crafting a wrench on that day.

SeantheMan · 26-08-2010 11:11pm

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

They just got lucky, Valve made a certain number of wrenches available each day and then there was a minuscule chance of crafting a wrench on that day.

I think it was over a few days, using all the items you had you had to craft...I wasted...at least 20-30 items trying to get a wrench :P even items that I always had equipped, Sandviches, Kritz, Backburner...everything all went into trying to get a wrench :P

Antar Bolaeisk · 27-08-2010 1:28am

SeantheMan wrote: »

I think it was over a few days, using all the items you had you had to craft...I wasted...at least 20-30 items trying to get a wrench :P even items that I always had equipped, Sandviches, Kritz, Backburner...everything all went into trying to get a wrench :P

Tell me about it, my backpack still hasn't recovered

Gold from Gold: The Deconstruction of Golden Wrenches

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