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STEAM | December 2014 - Read OP for winter sale questions
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The Dear Leader
Banned
Then your coins into wallpapers and trading cards and the cycle starts over.
AlphaProspector
Member
I wonder how long before all this crashes and burn once they find a loop/hole like with the coal...
I'm glad they are back with an event like this but, holy crap, at least I hope they thought about the scammers and the asshats who are going to destroy this. =/
Glad I held off crafting my badges, I'm crafting like a madman atm, heh.
I'm glad they are back with an event like this but, holy crap, at least I hope they thought about the scammers and the asshats who are going to destroy this. =/
Glad I held off crafting my badges, I'm crafting like a madman atm, heh.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Nice another Steam Meta game that all the rich sad bastards and bots can abuse.
This is another great move by Valve. Also don't even dream of buying anything but crappy games with your inventory gems, there's hundreds of thousands if not millions of 100 gem backgrounds in the market. People will buy all of those and the most wanted games will cost hundreds of thousands of gems. Basically 9 dollars buys you 30000 gems so if the game is priced at 10 dollars, it's still worth buying gems and bidding 30000 gems on it (not taking into account upcoming sales etc. but some people never think that far).
Me too. Low five.
Heebie Jeebies
Banned
Canyon Capers: Finding Gems Profile Background.
They knew.
They knew.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
They will do something about it after it is broken. They can't predict everything so they let it play for a while, before actually doing something.
Jawmuncher
Member
Got like 10K from my backgrounds and emoticons. Now to make badges.
Too bad booster maker is currently unavilable.
Too bad booster maker is currently unavilable.
AlphaProspector
Member
Good point.
The worst, however, is going to be the last 10 seconds of each bid where someone will drop a bomb in gems and always outgun everyone. See it happening. I guess Valve can actually get rid of a bunch of people just by monitoring this event and exposing them.
FiveElementNinja
Member
Syndicate? Well OK.
It'd be a lot easier, but it's hard to ignore with there generally, theoretically, being some benefit to participating. Looking at how far some folks are going to go with it this, then comparing that to just a "fun" level of participation and realizing that it's not going to amount to anything is kind of depressing.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I did it 3 times before it went down and it was incredibly cheap. I did a TitS booster, a Skullgirls booster, and an Final Fantasy XIII booster all for about 450 gems each.
My guess is it's down because they fucked up the cost formula
pfft, you guys can have your gems. I'm pleased with the background I got during a badge crafting frenzy.
AlphaProspector
Member
When it comes back, if it ever comes back, a booster is going to cost 2 million gems or something. I bet the gem counts are already off the charts and rising by the millisecond =/
$3 doesn't sound right, I bought just a little bit over a hundred and it cost me about 80 rubles ($1.4 at the current rate).
trailmix16
Member
where does badge crafting come into this? Are you guys buying cards with the credit from old backgrounds and icons?
derExperte
Member
And I paid 3 because of the 1:1 conversion of the minimum price.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
That's because Russian rubles allow (I believe) a minimum price of 0.03 RUB, whereas in the US the minimum is 0.03 USD.
So literally the cheapest thing you can buy is $0.03. Times 100 = $3.
BinaryPork2737
Unconfirmed Member
The images of the winter sale cards are different when you look at the window from receiving your cards (This is the Clementine card):
They are just blank in your inventory. Doesn't really seem to indicate much though.
The different pieces of artwork for the cards are kinda nice, I guess.
gabrielt16
Member
Is the gem to booster pack page down?
Europeans are at a huuuge disadvantage here. No chance at all to compete against bidders from other countries. US is in the middle, ahead of Europeans but behind most other countries.
Ah, so that's how it works. Never gave it much thought.
derExperte
Member
Very good point I didn't think of. EU has to invest 2x as much when doing this.
From 66.000 to now 53.000.
It's the first and, I think, also the last time I've ever benefited from the gigantic plunge Russian national currency is currently taking.
I for one am glad to pay in my weak ass Canadian money!
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
It's almost like they want to highlight the currency inequality that exists on Steam.
I guess the flip side of this is that people in places like Russia and Indonesia probably won't be willing to bid as many gems on games in the auction, considering their store prices will be lower than the rest of us anyway.
BinaryPork2737
Unconfirmed Member
I didn't even notice the Gem Maker badge you get for converting things into gems for the first time until now.
Could you do any game you had the drops for, or did you have to have the badge to get a booster?
Also, can you make enhanced steam make the bidding page have better sorting and filter options?
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I didn't even notice the Gem Maker badge you get for converting things into gems for the first time until now.
It levels up when you place a bid on an auction (and levels up again if you win!)
There was a drop down box, and you could pick any game - even ones you don't own or have a badge for.
Also I'll see about adding the hiding and continuous scrolling options to the auction page.
Pretty recent. I noticed it when grabbing Blazblue today, but I didn't get it when I got Dungeon Defenders 2 last weekend.
Yeah, that's why I did conservative bids on a few things that interest me.
I mean, they're giving away 100 copies of most of them, so if you're in the first 100 bids, you're guaranteed a win eventually. (at the moment)
YianGaruga
Banned
But all the other bids will stay for the next round. They don't start at 0 again.
Jawmuncher
Member
I didn't even notice the Gem Maker badge you get for converting things into gems for the first time until now.
Weird I have one for auction but not one for gems.
Gem values per background seems to be set by game, and is not impacted by rarity, the Rare background is worth the same as the common ones. I wonder if there was any logic to the values or if it was purely random because some of the 100 gems ones are odd.
Also, I had a lot more badges waiting to be made than I realized. Guess six months of saving will do that.
Also, I had a lot more badges waiting to be made than I realized. Guess six months of saving will do that.