trading cards, but no badge-craft?

[pgann]

I got card drops while playing the game, but then when I went to check badge progress, the option wasn't there.

I've played me a LOT of Steam games, and any that have trading cards always have them for the sake of crafting into badges.

But not this one? Or is this some error I'm having? Anyone able to confirm?

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Steam badges mean what in the real world?

[pgann]

like the trading cards, they don't mean anything. I think you get "Steam experience points" for it, and then you get a wallpaper that you can use on your desktop or your steam profile, and sometimes you also get a coupon for a random game. So that has some financial impact.

I'm just asking, for people who got card drops, do they see the option to "view badge progress"?

It just seems odd to me that a dev would bother to make the cards but not the badge-craft.

[Vesmé]

Same here. Got my four trading cards, but no "view badge progress."

[slime recipes]

Originally posted by Gay and Married:

Steam badges mean what in the real world?

"Last year, I was homeless. On the streets, begging for cash, with nothing but a cardboard box, a cup of change, and my $5,000 gaming rig with 4 GTX Titans and a watercooled 8-core intel processor. I was struggling to get by.

That is, until I crafted my first Steam Badge. As the counter by my level jumped in value, I damn near squealed with delight as a new wallpaper called my steam inventory home. A young man, not much older than 35, peeked at my profile, taking note of the "1" next to my name. "You are clearly a committed young man," he stated while handing me a $20 bill, "we could use men like you in our company."

That earned me my first real job, working the mailroom in a New York highrise. Even with the low pay and the poor benefits, I had the money to afford my first apartment. With that, I knew I must increase my steam level, at any cost necessary.

By level 10, I received a promotion, as I departed the dark mailroom and occupied a customer service position. Level 30 earned me a hefty pay raise and a spot among the salesmen and women who called their cubicles home. By level 100, I had taken my spot among the board of directors, rich white men who had never seen the world from inside a cardboard box.

And atop the board was the CEO, a man who I recognized as the giver of the 20$ bill I had received all those months ago. For once I had a life. My girlfriend and I had recently been engaged, and I was living in the largest penthouse in Manhattan. Badges brought me everything I value today."

Badges have value.

[pgann]

Vesmé -- thanks for confirmation.

Hallo -- Let us never forget that the only hope for the American dream now lies in Steam badges. You have enlightened the masses. :)

[Sam Barlow]

Hi. There should be badges.... my dashboard is telling me everything is OK with the cards. I'll check with Valve.

[Gaydorado]

I can't view badge progress, either. There's defo something wrong.

[Sam Barlow]

Try again now? I just refreshed all the stuff on the trading cards setup.

[Vesmé]

After earning the four cards and having the "view badge progress" problem, I went to my badge page. (Hover over your user name along the top; where you would select Activity or to go to your profile. Badges is also one of the choices) You can then scroll through all your possible badges. I selected the Her Story one which took me to the same page that "view badge progress" would have.

I bought the cards I was missing and was able to craft the bage from there.

[pgann]

OK, I see the same thing Vesme sees.

Sam -- you might have to talk to Valve directly. Most Steam cards, when you click on the card itself from Inventory, will have a link "view badge progress." I just restarted Steam and checked, it's still not there.

Vesme's work-around is solid. The badge is def there. But it's just really weird that the badge progress link isn't showing ... it's easily the most convenient way for players to see which cards they're missing from the set.

PS - Sam thanks for responding to the query so fast. Loved your game. I have a pending article about the game going up on gamechurch.com sometime soon. :)

[pgann]

(dubble post)

extra-weird ... I bought a missing card, one I didn't pick up from my drops. And on THAT missing card the "view badge progress" link exists. But for those I got in my natural drops, they don't.

Maybe in resetting things, Sam, all transactions will NOW have the link fixed, but any past cards dropped won't show the link. Good news is the badge is def. craft-able from this point forward.

EDIT -- one last thing!

Interview 5 card desc reads:

"Interview took place 02/07/94"

Should be 01/07/94. 02 is Interview 6.

[Vesmé]

I'll add that the cards I bought did have the ""view badge progress" when I bought them last night, and I was able to craft the badge.

Hopefully, resetting the cards will stop the ""view badge progress" problem, though. :)

[Sam Barlow]

Cool, thanks for the heads up on this!

[lead]

does this have backgrounds?

[lead]

I crafted a level 5 and got 2 backgrounds im not sure if theres more but there not full art ones