Hey, my wallet went from $5 to $18 since this gem thing launched, I don't feel like a chump ;-)
I'm not too angry, I got a 20 game from my wishlist for 1.2 and got the badge, but now I'm done with the auction stuff, I don't wanna end with a lot of useless gems.
I'm not arguing we are idiots for losing out on this, we definitely won out if we played it properly. I'm arguing about the people that still complain about how Valve benefits from all this.If you play the auctions right, it's just like eBay, where you can end up getting a great deal on something you want. If getting a good deal on something I want makes me a chump... well then...