Mann Co. Store
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The Mann Co. Store is an in-game micropayment service included in the Mann-Conomy Update. The store allows players to purchase in-game items such as hats, weapons, and action items using money stored in their Steam Wallet. Creators of community-contributed items receive a percentage of sales for anything they've created.
Items bought from the Mann Co. Store are not craftable or immediately tradable; previously, items purchased from the Mann Co. Store were not tradable. After the Hatless Update, tools and action items (excluding Pile O' Gifts and the Secret Saxton) bought from the Mann Co. Store were given a 2-day waiting period before becoming tradable. Following the Manniversary Update & Sale, untradable weapons and hats that were previously purchased from the store can be now traded, and newly purchased items can be immediately traded as long as the purchaser made their first purchase more than 30 days earlier.
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Pricing
Prices vary greatly, with newer and rarer items priced higher than older and more common ones. As a rule of thumb, rare items cost ten or more dollars while common items cost less than five. These prices preserve the values of crafted or dropped items. On occasion, the store will have sales on hats and weapons.
Purchasable items
Previously purchasable items
Non-purchasable items
Weapon testing
Weapons can be tested by selecting the desired weapon in the Store, and clicking the "Test it out!" button. This will give the player the selected weapon for one week. The weapon cannot be crafted, traded or deleted. During the testing period the player can buy the item for a 25% discount.
Events-specific pages
During some events, special pages will show up in the store for a limited time.
Scream Fortress Halloween event. October 27, 2010 through November 8, 2010.
Summer Sale. June 30, 2011 through July 11, 2011.
The Dr. Grordbort promotionals page. July 20, 2011.
Mann Co. Store Sale added in celebration of the public release of Steam Trading. September 6, 2011.
Very Scary Halloween Special event. October 27, 2011 through November 6, 2011.
Limited Mann Co. Cap
Anyone who makes a purchase from the Mann Co. Store will currently receive the Mann Co. Cap, an all class baseball cap with the Mann Co. symbol on the front. Though Valve has claimed that there is only a limited amount of time before this cap will be unavailable, the cap has been available since the release of the Mann-Conomy Update on September 30, 2010 and has been since a promo for any player to purchase their first item or items.
Bonus items
For every $20/£15/€15/600 rub spent at a time in the store, players will receive a free item. This will be a standard random drop with the uncraftable property attached. Hats and other rarer items generate with the same chances as the Secret Saxton gift.
Update history
- Mann Co. Store added to the game
February 24, 2011 Patch (Community Map Pack Update)
- [Undocumented] The Bombing Run, Chieftain's Challenge, Napper's Respite, Handyman's Handle, Old Guadalajara, Stout Shako, Carouser's Capotain, Sober Stuntman, Dr's Dapper Topper, Hard Counter and Pugilist's Protector were added to the Mann Co. Store.
April 14, 2011 Patch (Hatless Update)
- Added paint preview to hats.
- [Undocumented] The Mann Co. Store featured item is no longer viewable by default from the main menu. It will appear upon selecting the 'shop for items' button.
- [Undocumented] Tools and action items (Excluding Pile O' Gifts and Secret Saxton) bought from the Mann Co. Store now have a 2 day wait before becoming tradable.
- [Undocumented] The Rimmed Raincatcher was added to the Mann Co. Store.
- [Undocumented] The Dr. Grordbort's Victory Pack was added to the Mann Co. Store.
- Fixed a bug that caused team color paints to appear to be coming out of the wrong cans for the store icons
- Added The Original, The Dragonborn Helmet, The Pip-Boy, The Anger, and The Wingstick to the Mann Co. Store.
- Reorganized the tabs in the Mann Co. Store into Bundles, Guns, Hats, Misc, Tools, and Maps to make it easier to find specific items.
- Added a new Hot Items tab to the Mann Co. Store to show real-time popularity of items in the Mann-Conomy.
- Purchased items are no longer announced in the chat text.
October 13, 2011 Patch (Manniversary Update & Sale)
- Experimenting with a new store interface with a subset of players
- Non-newly-released weapons in the store can now be tried out for free once per week.
- All items purchased in the store can be used for crafting and can be traded after a few days.
October 13, 2011 Patch #2
- Items purchased from the store are no longer craftable.
- Items purchased from the Store during the window where store items were craftable have been made craftable. Items purchased from the Store moving forward will continue to be uncraftable.
Bugs
- The information and preview for the Über Update Bundle claims that there are items for 7 classes inside; however, the Pyro's Detonator is overlooked.
- If a bundle contains two hats for one class, such as the World War Wednesday Bundle or Manno-Technology Bundle, the preview will show both items being worn at once.
Additional notes
- In an online interview, lead designer Robin Walker explained that nearly everything purchasable at the Mann Co. Store is also available to find via drops or crafting. "Our main goal to make sure that all gameplay affecting items are findable, so that no-one can buy an in-game advantage over someone who’s choosing to find their items." [1]
- Items that are bought or given as a bonus from the store will be tagged as purchased (cannot be traded or crafted) or promotional (cannot be traded).
- Visiting the Mann Co. Store will also add any outstanding items to the player and it will resolve issues with items in invalid positions in the player's backpack.
- Items that were received from spending more than $20 at the Mann Co. Store, whilst untradable themselves, could originally be crafted with other items into metal to make items which were tradable. This was removed in a subsequent patch.
- When buying hats from the Mann Co. Store, buyers can look at painted variants of hats they are interested in buying.
Demonstration of purchasing
References
Gallery
A redesign of the front page added during the Manniversary Update.
A redesign of the inventory pages added during the Manniversary Update.
The front page of the store as seen when using a Free-To-Play account.
The former front page, as it appeared until the September 6, 2011 update.
