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I made about $65 playing D3, which turned out to be pennies per hour. But it paid for the game, and it made me feel good about wasting so much time.

I also just sold a TF2 hat for $56... not sure how I feel about that one. http://i.imgur.com/Loqrvbw.png

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I can only guess that top traders in TF2 make the same kind of money as in this article

hah, that would be quite awesome, if only it was possible to get the money out of steam (which seems not to be possible).

Not directly, but I'm sure you can come up with a scheme where you get friends to give you money IRL and you transfer Steam money or gift a game to them.

Trade items for keys/purchase keys with Steam Wallet funds, sell keys via Paypal for slightly under the "legit" price, ???, profit.

(for the uninformed, keys are basically virtual lottery tickets in TF2 and DotA2 whose "legit" price is pegged at $2.50 a pop)

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