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STEAM | December 2014 - Read OP for winter sale questions
- Thread starter MRORANGE
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It's currently on sale for $.99!
rainking187
Member
I was pretty disappointed that the essentially worthless items I've gotten from crafting holiday badges in the past for games I'll never play can't be turned into gems.
it's .99 on the store if you want to buy it.
YianGaruga
Banned
it's 0.99
That don't works since the prices fall and people don't buy shit. I have like 5 euro of value on the market, but sold like 20 cent. People don't buy shit. I should make some season-pass model.Let the min-maxing begin
hue
Then how did I get it?
Nice giveaway, thanks. They also need The Descent (Foil) of mine for an outrageously low 50p. Available now at the Steam Market!
YianGaruga
Banned
Get rid of your stuff by listing at the price of the highest buy order. Otherwise you will sell pretty much nothing.
I hate this game.
Woody Invincible
Banned
As long as there are .03, .04, and .05 items worth 80 and 100 gems, prices will be in the gutter. There will have to be a happy medium to emerge from this.
YianGaruga
Banned
Yeah I'm very curious at what point stuff will balance out and what price sacks of gems will be sold, if they should return to the market.
why are people all of a sudden buying the trash I've had sitting in market for months? what's going on?
Cause of this weird gem shit.
Guys, Long Live The Queen is 545 gems and sells for 32 cent per booster
http://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/753/251990-Long Live The Queen Booster Pack
Best deal I saw so far.
http://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/753/251990-Long Live The Queen Booster Pack
Best deal I saw so far.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
So I'm trying to idle, idle master pops up and shows me the game idling, but my Steam status isn't changing. Is this normal? Will I still get cards?
Naked Snake
Member
Well, you know what they say, nothing beats free
Can't justify buying a game I know I won't play anytime soon when I have a big backlog, even for 0.99
I haven't caught that Steam bug just yet.
10 cents profit for your effort. Seems like the market will stabilize pretty quickly once the novelty wears off.
It's not as good as a deal as the Gem packs at 27 cents before the exploit broke loose
DarKshodaN
Member
I guess the gem prices will be really high for Games in the first Round, i stopped bidding for now and just see what happens in the next Round.
IT'S SYSTEM SHOCK 2 FOR A GODDAMN BUCKWell, you know what they say, nothing beats free
Can't justify buying a game I know I won't play anytime soon when I have a big backlog, even for 0.99
I haven't caught that Steam bug just yet.
YianGaruga
Banned
Yeah, like usual the big gold rush is aready almost over. I doubt there will be a lot of money to be made after the weekend, or at least none that is worth the effort.
Woody Invincible
Banned
Will they be restarting bidding every 45 minutes or just rolling to the next highest bidder? If the latter it would kinda suck.
derExperte
Member
I have a few Guarded backgrounds left in my inventory, let's see where we'll end up.
See the FAQ on the auction page, everything's explained there. They carry over.
YianGaruga
Banned
Bids will stay for the duration of the event.
I think some, if not all, the booster packs are dynamically priced to coincide with items that cost $.03 to purchase and reap 80 gems.
Awesomenauts costs 429 gems per booster pack. At the rate of 80 gems for $0.03, that comes out to $0.16 for a booster pack. The lowest price of a booster pack on the market? $0.16. The average trading card price for Awesomenauts? $0.05 per card, which sold 3 times means you're losing a penny per pack. Granted, if you get a foil then you can make gems, I'm just not sure how much.
They all don't come out that cleanly, but many do and some are worse (for the person trying to sell).
Awesomenauts costs 429 gems per booster pack. At the rate of 80 gems for $0.03, that comes out to $0.16 for a booster pack. The lowest price of a booster pack on the market? $0.16. The average trading card price for Awesomenauts? $0.05 per card, which sold 3 times means you're losing a penny per pack. Granted, if you get a foil then you can make gems, I'm just not sure how much.
They all don't come out that cleanly, but many do and some are worse (for the person trying to sell).
Well I have a quick faff around with Temple of Osiris (it's alright, as puzzly as GoL and has some hefty performance requirements) and find I've sold 65p's worth of junk. Crazy days.
Also catching up with that The Order thread makes the whole ordeal, from reveal, to this event, even more than likely to release and reviews reads like some very bizare satire on the industry as it is right now.
Also catching up with that The Order thread makes the whole ordeal, from reveal, to this event, even more than likely to release and reviews reads like some very bizare satire on the industry as it is right now.
Time travel to yesterday.
Hm, so aren't prices likely to stay the same or go up?
I have a feeling the discounts from bidding will be lackluster for most stuff.
YianGaruga
Banned
Yeah I think so as well, but we'll see. You might have good chances bidding on the smaller games, some didn't even have 30 bids yet. On the bigger stuff, no chance.
electroflame
Member
So should I keep my 18,000 gems or blow them all on booster packs?
EDIT: I should mention that I already sold all of my high-value packs. This is purely to get cards to turn into badges.
EDIT: I should mention that I already sold all of my high-value packs. This is purely to get cards to turn into badges.
The gem cost of the boosters scales based on the number of cards in the set. The more cards in a set, the more drop, generally pushing the market price lower. It's not coincidence, but the price consideration is market driven, not by design.
Woody Invincible
Banned
Not really worth the hassle for the small return.
I'm planning on using mine for boosters on badges I'd like to make as well.
Not today. Yesterday was the wild west. I made $10 or so.
Yes. The margins are small, but with a solid library full of lovely anime games you can make some small buck. Not enough for drugs though. You can buy the emoticons you always wanted.
Starwolf_UK
Member
Speaking of which I take it there is no way to see how many gems something is until it is in your inventory.
As backgrounds and emoticons supply starts to fall, their prices will rise.
As card supply increases, their prices will fall.
Eventually, there will be next to no profit on crafting boosters.
However, if you craft them enough, you might get a foil, and that's where your main source of profit comes from.
TL;DR: If you want to do it, do it now. Craft enough to get a foil and you've got a profit.
Is it worth the time? HELL NO LOL
Is it interesting and amusing? HELL YEAH LOL
Another tactic is to buy up all the 80 gem 3 cent emoticons/backgrounds on the market right now. If they rise to above 6 cents, you're making a profit selling each of them.
Ha!
Now we're talking haha.
Alright, time to actually buy games for myself then.
Oh and maybe boosters for the games i really wanna badge for.
Naked Snake
Member
I have negative money breh
Now? Not much. Before? Quite a lot actually. On the plus side you will be able to get some unknown games for much cheaper than it would normally cost you.