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STEAM | December 2014 - Read OP for winter sale questions
- Thread starter MRORANGE
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Not anywhere in the near future it won't.
Booster pack market is also almost completely tapped out, with people listing booster packs for retarded amounts of money, as if people can't just make their own for much less.
With the way both card and booster values are plummeting due to this, I think people would be better off holding on to their cards/boosters until after the sale. Once the Steam market recovers, and goes back to normal levels.
GoldandBlue
Member
Well I'm already seeing Holiday 2014 wallpapers and icons for sale on the market, so I'm assuming that's all you get for crafting.
Servizio
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So what you're saying is this is an excellent time to buy cards?
Definitely, especially of games that previously had very little supply, like f2p games. Put in reasonable but low buy orders and you should get almost anything.
Definitely. I'll probably end up buying some extra boosters myself, to level up some of the badges I want.
They won't recover for the most part unless crafting for boosters or gems disappear after the sale. While Valve made it so cards aren't completely worthless by not allowing sacks to be sold, you can still get 1000 gems for $.30, which is more than enough to craft a booster pack. That caps the value of a booster pack at $.30 and each individual card at a max of $.10. Coupled with normal drops, I wouldn't be surprised to see the average card value dip to around $.05-$.08 per, if the booster crafting mechanic stays for good.
And my high school teachers said I'd never amount to anything.
Depends. You can be restricted from the certain aspects of it, such as the Market:
Or you can be prevented from access Steam Community at all:
NingenJanai
Member
Why do I always miss all the fun? >.<
Will never happen. Gems don't expire and boosters will continue to be craftable.
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'd be kind of tough to do, since the games on auction aren't identified by their normal App ID. I'd have to write a back-end server process to scan through all 133 pages of the auction, map those items to regular App IDs, then capture the gem value. And once the auctions start moving forward at a regular pace, this process would need to be done several times an hour.
For it's admittedly limited use, I just don't think it's feasible to implement. I agree it would have been nice for Valve to do this themselves.
The auction ends on the 18th, though, and I don't think auctions will live on as a general feature as Valve can't manually add games to user accounts without pushing them through Steam's backend as a purchase, meaning the entire cost comes out of Valve's pocket.
Edit: To clarify, I'm saying once the auction is over, gems will probably stop being obtainable aside from market purchases (unless Valve imposes an expiry date), so there'll be a finite amount.
Edit edit: Well, now they're non-marketable, so saoirseshrug.gif, haha.
itllgrobak
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Unpacked about 100 Boosters; two Foils.
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I finally got my third one overall since cards were introduced. It'll never sell.
Since you can craft any booster for like a 3 cents, there's no point in buying booster nor cards anymore.
Great Valve, Great!
GoldandBlue
Member
Wooow, had no idea this shit went down. Damn, how is valve gonna dig themselves out of this ditch?
3 cents a booster? How? This whole thing is going over my head
GoldandBlue
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Wonder what's gonna happen. Will people who purchased the million gem sacks get to keep them?
orthodoxy1095
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Booster pack I have went from $0.95 in value all the way down to $0.30 in like two hours. Jeez this is going down hard.
Buy gem sack for 3 cents. Use gems to craft booster. Done.
Chairmanchuck
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You could have bought a gemsack worth 1000 gems for 3 cents. Boosters range from 400 gems to 1200 gems.
The Dear Leader
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Buy Sack O' Gems for $.03, said stack contains 1,000 gems, use said gems to buy boosters.
Servizio
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You know the steam.tools website that gives you a value for your Steam inventory?
Apparently mine has lost ten bucks worth of value since the auction stuff started. I wonder if there's going to be any sort of action that's going to re-introduce value for cards after this, or if they're just burning it down.
When cards were first introduced there was the whole 'Series 1' idea like maybe they'd be of limited quantities at some point. I wonder if something like that is going to happen after this. It would take all of the lazy devs signing off on a new round of cards and backgrounds though, wouldn't it?
Apparently mine has lost ten bucks worth of value since the auction stuff started. I wonder if there's going to be any sort of action that's going to re-introduce value for cards after this, or if they're just burning it down.
When cards were first introduced there was the whole 'Series 1' idea like maybe they'd be of limited quantities at some point. I wonder if something like that is going to happen after this. It would take all of the lazy devs signing off on a new round of cards and backgrounds though, wouldn't it?
what the hell did I craft my shitty holiday backgrounds then for? I can't click on the gem sacks on the market now and I couldn't when the event started either.
Valve gets two cents actually.
GoldandBlue
Member
lol man I feel dumb crafting cards and turning my extra stuff into gems. They're pretty worthless now if people can get millions for 3 cents.
The Dear Leader
Banned
Using backgrounds for gems was the best way to get gems when it went live, then the gem price went to hell and it became better to buy the sacks.
my sack is on the market
By laughing at everyone and taking their 15% cut on market transactions (or 2 cents on 3 cent gem bags).
Also, holiday sale cards were above 20 cents an hour ago and now seem to all be under 20 cents.
Yeah, the app developer cut of 10% plus the transaction fee of 5% is rounded up to 1c on particularly worthless items, so in the case of the gems Valve gets both as the "app" is Steam itself.
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GoldandBlue
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So now there are those luck enough to have those sacks that can craft a shit of boosters for themselves and bid like crazy, while the rest of us have nowhere near enough to bid. Nice, eh heh heh heh.
Wish I would have bought more.
Are gems sticking around (for booster crafting) after the sale?
Yes.