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STEAM Announcements/Updates 2013 - Summer sale start date? No one knows, don't ask
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Joe Molotov
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You oughta get one card per Magicka DLC you own. So I could get like 27 cards.
Ugh. I didn't even like Rochard but I'm sure I'll regret not nabbing the DLC for a buck.
Fare Godmace
Member
My first Offspring Fling card is already worth less than $0.30. Valve really should reconsider how the whole trading card economy works, its ridiculous that everything is immediately worthless. They should implement really rarity stats for each card, rather than just common and foil. Then you'd at least have a chance of getting something valuable.
They also need to come up with something else to do with cards other then crafting badges. It seems like only a handful of people care about buying cards for each game, and once they craft the badge they have no reason to buy more.
Tying card drops to certain achievements so that people will actually have to play the game to earn cards might be a good idea too. It's just too easy for everyone to grab cards just so they can resell them.
They also need to come up with something else to do with cards other then crafting badges. It seems like only a handful of people care about buying cards for each game, and once they craft the badge they have no reason to buy more.
Tying card drops to certain achievements so that people will actually have to play the game to earn cards might be a good idea too. It's just too easy for everyone to grab cards just so they can resell them.
Yu-Gi-Oh! f2p
SteveWinwood
Member
Who said the cards needed to be worth something? Maybe this is the intended effect of an increased pool of cards... like everyone said it would be many weeks ago.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Wow, didn't know CS version is serious business 
dark_inferno
Member
No games no play...
Wow, didn't know CS version is serious business
It isn't. Unless people are posting hard numbers, it's just the braying and naying of folk who like the feel of one game over another.
What I think is worse is that no matter how long you play a game you dont get the whole set
Tizoc
Member
Anyone please?
Last Baron
Member
It's a little weird that the TF2 card market seems to be relatively untouched by all the undercutting. Are they maybe the only ones getting bought with any regularity?
YianGaruga
Banned
Steam should just deposit money into my Steam wallet automatically instead of giving me cards. this sucks.
Out_Of_Ammo
Member
Heh, I actually PLAYED offspring fling for a while instead of just running in the background. I have to say it's really fun. And the soundtrack rocks.
Stitch
Gold Member
Yeah, getting paid for playing a game is really bad. Screw you Gabe!
most people didnt play TF2 before it went f2p so they'd have to spend 9$ to earn a single card drop
ussjtrunks
Member
I've been playing it too so different to Hotline Miami that I tried earlier lol
Last Baron
Member
Even still, listings for each card is 1000+. Supply has gotta outweigh demand at that point.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
So essentially beta players already have advantage over non-beta for cards eh?
MMBosstones86
Member
Can't you technically get them all via Booster Packs?
And that's the point, you aren't supposed to be able to do it all by yourself.
So essentially beta players already have advantage over non-beta for cards eh?
yes. Cards are now basically being used to sell for money. Post-Beta, I imagine more people will craft badges as the prices will be dirt.
Joe Molotov
Member
All I'm hearing in this thread is "Waaah, I can't make a lot of money for doing nothing, THANKS GABE! >_<"
StopMakingSense
Member
A) You really can't judge how much a card is going to be in the first couple hours of the game cards being added.
B) There's really no way to tell how popular cards are going to be.
C) Either way it's free money you didn't have before.
Buttonbasher
Member
Are you guys getting a wild keyboard bug from using Steam chat from within Offspring Fling? It's typing each letter a ton of times:
SourCinnamon
Member
So I've been playing Offspring fling and I think it's a pretty fun game. The soundtrack is beautiful (especially in the second set of levels). I just don't get why the gold times are so small. I usually spend twice that time for almost all levels.
MMBosstones86
Member
or "why don't all games have cards?!
The gold times are there for challenge, sort of like the A+ time requirements for Super Meat Boy. Anyways, I kind of like the artstyle, reminds me of something that I can't quite put my finger on...maybe Yoshi's Island or Tetris Attack.
lol
I might try it tonight and see if it happens to me. I'm guessing it has something to do with Adobe AIR clashing with the Steam overlay.
Steam threads will never be the same again.
Any cards for games that have appeared in bundles or super super cheap in the past aren't worth much. Too many copies of it. But still, free valve monies is free valve monies.
ussjtrunks
Member
Ok guys got my 1st steam card and its on the market at 17c do I sell now or hold out lol
I'm confident they'll find a way to keep their value more or less as it is now, otherwise putting them on the market would be meaningless and I don't think Valve wants that.
Out_Of_Ammo
Member
There are even times that are harder than the gold ones (dev times). I just beat one of those and got a rainbow flower.
I'm not saying that cards should just be free money for everyone. But if Valve wants to make money off of marketplace transactions, there needs to be a reason to buy the cards at a reasonable price.
Currently there is a small portion of the Steam community who want to get the badges to raise their Steam level, or get the badge of their favorite game to display in their profile, once they have their badges the card economy will die. It has a potential to a be a cool meta game, they just need to do a lot more with it.
That's kind of the point of TRADING cards. If you got them all by yourself, it would be meaningless.
almostheathen
Member
Yea I got this earlier also.
That or an extra card for every bit of dlc you purchased after Paradox released the uncomplete 'Complete' Pack. Crafty buggers.
Game is using 90%+ CPU for me, developer said it could be to do with Adobe Air and controller support. Disabled that but there is no bloody chance of me using K/B for this kind of game. Idling till my CPU fries or I get the last card drop, hopefully the later comes first.
It's a decent game at best. The mechanics are great and I love the art style, but the level and puzzle design was horrible disappointing. You can immediately see the solution for almost every level, it's just a matter of going through the motions.
I also had a lot of performance problems on my (outdated) PC, simple 2D games shouldn't be so resource intensive. The controls weren't as responsive as I would have liked either, but that's probably because of the unstable frame rate.
Nabs
Member
fffffffffff
Cydonian__Knight
Member
3/4 of my Magicka drops were Lightning Elements :/
I H8 Memes
Member
I find the entire Steam Market to be confusing on an economic level. I'm sure money enters the market at some point from some people, but then after that it's just the same money being recycled. Valve takes a cut of the sales, and people selling things get their Steam dollars. But then those people just spend it on Steam games. It's like the same money being recycled around different Steam functions. It's like the Paddy Dollars from that episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Or the way nobody can leave the city in Dark City.
Glass Rebel
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