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Steam Trading Cards

Post by Neelpos » Wed May 15, 2013 6:47 pm

http://steamcommunity.com/tradingcards

Now you may be asking, what the fuck is this?
That is an incredibly valid question with no acceptable answer. Though the first tidbit on the official page is the best summary.
Steam Trading Cards are virtual cards earned by playing games on Steam. Sets of cards can be turned into game badges and tradable Steam community items.
You can get stuff like chat emoticons, game coupons, special profile backgrounds on your community page, and other stuff. It's weird.
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Re: Steam Trading Cards

Post by tehENEMY » Wed May 15, 2013 7:31 pm

Why the fuck is this?
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Re: Steam Trading Cards

Post by Neelpos » Wed May 15, 2013 7:42 pm

I don't know but I've got two spare invites I scooped up on the market for $1.25 that I'm gonna sell, because damn that price just keeps rising, $2.30 right now
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Re: Steam Trading Cards

Post by dragoonofdeath » Wed May 15, 2013 8:57 pm

I don't even want to begin understanding what the fuck this is.

But I joined the little group thing for it, cause what the hell.
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Re: Steam Trading Cards

Post by ja raul » Wed May 15, 2013 8:59 pm

just another form of hats.. start collecting you nerds!
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Re: Steam Trading Cards

Post by jmtokx » Wed May 15, 2013 9:06 pm

Wish I hadn't overlooked them when they were 80 cents a piece.
Grabbed mine at 2.30
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Re: Steam Trading Cards

Post by mbaxter » Wed May 15, 2013 10:30 pm

I hope they push the invites out quick. I'm not paying to get in but I love getting sucked into gimmicks designed to make you spend more money.
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Re: Steam Trading Cards

Post by Mega » Wed May 15, 2013 10:32 pm

I really dislike this.
Making people unlock useless shit they can spam if they are a high "level" is just dumb. Just the idea of any form of gamerscore is retarded because it's nothing more than a way to measure your e-penis. Just the whole idea of trading cards on a fucking service like steam is just retarded.
Fuck this shit.

Also I hate image emoticons in chats with a fucking passion
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Re: Steam Trading Cards

Post by Neelpos » Wed May 15, 2013 11:13 pm

I wouldn't be so quick to judge, especially considering one thing you can earn from this service is game discount coupons. It wasn't too long ago Gabe (it was Gabe right?) was talking about coming up with a way to reward those players that actively contribute to the community, and are overall beneficial to it. People who are a positive influence and ones you'd WANT playing your game. This entire trading cards thing is really really far out there, but I can definitely see its relation to that idea.
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Re: Steam Trading Cards

Post by jmtokx » Thu May 16, 2013 9:51 pm

Price went down to 20 cents,
I'm not great with inflation and deflation regarding Steam so why did it go down so low?
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Re: Steam Trading Cards

Post by Neelpos » Thu May 16, 2013 10:02 pm

Because the only reason it even went over $2 was because people were excited and weren't thinking, so the price was driven up as that's the price people were paying. Now the only people willing to buy are every rational person who wasn't gonna pay over 20 cents in the first place. Meanwhile I made $4 off dumb impatient people.
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Re: Steam Trading Cards

Post by dragoonofdeath » Thu May 16, 2013 10:31 pm

Read into it, while a neat and interestin feature, especially if it gets implemented into all (Or atleast most) steam games, it's just another quick cash grab.
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Re: Steam Trading Cards

Post by Hoodedsniper » Sat May 18, 2013 1:25 pm

i sold all my invites for $2.50 and bought 3 Dota 2 keys and got 3 new taunts from chests.

What a good day.
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Re: Steam Trading Cards

Post by Elanos » Sat May 18, 2013 6:02 pm

I has three invites if someone be wanting them.
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Re: Steam Trading Cards

Post by dragoonofdeath » Sat May 18, 2013 11:19 pm

Anyone got Don't Starve cards? Noone plays this game apparently. I can't get any cards for it.
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