about cards

[DarKraft]

anyone can explain me about cards , how i get them and how they can help me?
it helps only for lv up on steam or what? and then whats the point of lv up steam acount? just to look fancy?
i see a lot of people seaching for cards so i'm wondering what is about with them

[Serrassi Effect]

pointless virtual trickets to collect and keep idiots busy?

[LedZepphead]

You get cards for playing games that have trading cards (most do, will also say on the game store page or in you badges section). Or you can get them from either buying/trading on the market, which is needed if you want to craft a badges; just playing only drops a set amount and more are needed to complete a single badge.

There are 5 badge levels and 1 foil badge per game, cards needed for games depend on how many the developers set per badge.

All it does it level your Steam profile level, which gives you more showcases and increases your friends list. Personally I've only crafted badges for games I like to level one and for games I love, I craft to level 5 and even do the foil badge. Basically to show my support, is it a waste of money? Sure. But as far as I know, some of the card percentages go to the developers of the games as well.

It can get expensive if you buy the cards (especially foil cards), so I usually just sell my other cards on the market or make gems with them to make booster packs for games that sell for high prices. And I also usually buy a lot of games during the sales which give you event sale cards, which I sell.

[MobiusPizza]

No (⎛⎝ Twinkerbell-Murder Waifu⎠⎞). With cards you can get steam lvls, what will let you personalice your profile more, let you have more friends, you have a bigger chance to win a cards expansion pack and you're easier to trust in trading. Also you can get emoticons, insignias, backgrounds for your profile and discounts for other games.
You can also sell them, but you get so little money.

For the ''how they work'': You can get half the cards you need for a colection by just playing the game. You need to get the others from trades, buying them or winning an expansion pack (3 random cards from a game) but that thing is really rare with low steam lvl. Once you have all that the game has you can make a collection, what will remove the cards from your inventory and give you Exp for the Steam lvls, one background, one emoticon and one coupon for another game. You can make 5 collections for each game.

[LedZepphead]

Originally posted by MobiusPizza:

No (⎛⎝ Twinkerbell-Murder Waifu⎠⎞). With cards you can get steam lvls, what will let you personalice your profile more, let you have more friends, you have a bigger chance to win a cards expansion pack and you're easier to trust in trading. Also you can get emoticons, insignias, backgrounds for your profile and discounts for other games.
You can also sell them, but you get so little money.

For the ''how they work'': You can get half the cards you need for a colection by just playing the game. You need to get the others from trades, buying them or winning an expansion pack (3 random cards from a game) but that thing is really rare with low steam lvl. Once you have all that the game has you can make a collection, what will remove the cards from your inventory and give you Exp for the Steam lvls, one background, one emoticon and one coupon for another game. You can make 5 collections for each game.

Oh right! Forgot about getting all these and the backgrounds. I've gotten quite a few cool looking backgrounds from crafting. You can also sell the emoticons and backgrounds, a lot of times for more than the cards.

And even though the cards mostly sell for around 8 cents on average, if you bank a bunch just from playing, it will add up to buy some cheap games during sales. I actually recently made about $2 from selling some Nier cards on the market.

[Serrassi Effect]

this is the only emote i need

I never really bothered with cards stuff, so I don't know how they work.

[LedZepphead]

Originally posted by ⎛⎝ Twinkerbell-Murder Waifu⎠⎞:

this is the only emote i need

I never really bothered with cards stuff, so I don't know how they work.

All that sodium is bad for you! Here have some sugar instead (sorry that I took a bite)

[Serrassi Effect]

A wise crazy cat lady once said:

"Don't be salty, be spicy!"

[LedZepphead]

Originally posted by ⎛⎝ Twinkerbell-Murder Waifu⎠⎞:

A wise crazy cat lady once said:

"Don't be salty, be spicy!"

I like that! So then you would need this

It was $0.04 cents on the market, the better one was really expensive. Search on the market for "Spicy" to see the pricey one which seemed to have Power Within equipped (edit, well I mean active*).