Gems and game booster packs and cards oh my.

[iNVERTEDpLAZMA]

ok, that was supposed to be descriptive wizard of oz joke.
the point is, i don't get it.
i noticed these trading cards things.
I googled, what is a gem. i got the answer, "you use them to get game boosters"
..
uh.
ok.
google: 'what is a steam game booster pack'
answer: 'you use them to get trading cards'
google: 'ok this is getting silly what is a steam trading card for'
google: 'did you mean what is a steam trading card for?'
me ...
ok, found a reddit discusion forum.
"you use them to trade and if you're lucky you'll get a foil"
...
google: "what is a steam foil trading card for?"
me: actually. no. i'm done with this.

every time i try googling about the information of this, i'm led down weird reddit rabbit holes.

I've been using steam since...
well since before steam was steam. I've never noticed this

can someone give me the TLDR? what is all this?
edit:
Also, I really think that whatever this is should be pinned message in: "New to steam" forums.
I searched there, briefly, and didn't find anything about it

[Three English Letters شازام]

Trading Cards.
A Steam Guide On Trading Cards.
I'm Not Quite Sure What Or How Effective Your Googling Was, But I Found These Almost Instantly.

[iNVERTEDpLAZMA]

Three English Letters شازام님이 먼저 게시:

Trading Cards.
A Steam Guide On Trading Cards.
I'm Not Quite Sure What Or How Effective Your Googling Was, But I Found These Almost Instantly. :roahroah:

lol maybe it's cookies?
idk?
i googled as i wrote in the post.
"what is a steam booster pack"
the first page of results is reddit.com and quora.com results about people talking about it

[Three English Letters شازام]

iNVERTEDpLAZMA님이 먼저 게시:

Three English Letters شازام님이 먼저 게시:

Trading Cards.
A Steam Guide On Trading Cards.
I'm Not Quite Sure What Or How Effective Your Googling Was, But I Found These Almost Instantly.

lol maybe it's cookies?
idk?
i googled as i wrote in the post.
"what is a steam booster pack"
the first page of results is reddit.com and quora.com results about people talking about it

Interesting. Well I Hope Those Help You Find Out About The Mystical World That Is Steam Trading Cards!

[iNVERTEDpLAZMA]

Three English Letters شازام님이 먼저 게시:

Trading Cards.
A Steam Guide On Trading Cards.
I'm Not Quite Sure What Or How Effective Your Googling Was, But I Found These Almost Instantly.
:roahroah:

here's a copy/paste lmao.

What is a Booster Pack? : Steam - Reddit
www.reddit.com › Steam › comments › what_is_a_boo...

How to make money from Steam Trading Cards | PC Gamer
www.pcgamer.com › how-to-make-money-from-steam...

How Steam Gems, Booster Packs and Trading Cards works ...
www.gamepur.com › Guides › How to › PC

'gems', and 'booster packs' on Steam and what ... - Quora
www.quora.com › What-are-trading-cards-badges-gem

How to Buy, Sell, and Use Steam Trading Cards - Lifewire
www.lifewire.com › Gaming › Consoles & PCs

Steam Booster Packs Explained! (How to Get, Drop Rate ...
www.youtube.com › watch

Booster Pricelist :: Steam Card Exchange
www.steamcardexchange.net › boosterprices
Steam Trading Cards related website featuring trading cards, badges, ... Game, Cards in Set,


Booster Pack Calculator | Steam Navigator
www.steamnavigator.com › calculator › booster

[iNVERTEDpLAZMA]

Three English Letters شازام님이 먼저 게시:

iNVERTEDpLAZMA님이 먼저 게시:

lol maybe it's cookies?
idk?
i googled as i wrote in the post.
"what is a steam booster pack"
the first page of results is reddit.com and quora.com results about people talking about it

Interesting. Well I Hope Those Help You Find Out About The Mystical World That Is Steam Trading Cards!

it kinda does. but i still don't get it.
this elaborate system to showcase bling on your profile?
can i use it for anything in game or is it all for steam profile stuff?

[Hodman]

Just for your profile, unless you need to add a lot of people, each level increases your friend capacity by 5.

[Three English Letters شازام]

iNVERTEDpLAZMA님이 먼저 게시:

Three English Letters شازام님이 먼저 게시:

Interesting. Well I Hope Those Help You Find Out About The Mystical World That Is Steam Trading Cards!

it kinda does. but i still don't get it.
this elaborate system to showcase bling on your profile?
can i use it for anything in game or is it all for steam profile stuff?

Profile Related Things. But They're Fun!

[iNVERTEDpLAZMA]

Hodman님이 먼저 게시:

Just for your profile, unless you need to add a lot of people, each level increases your friend capacity by 5.

well that's kind of interesting.
thanks for the info.

[𝕙.𝕓𝕒𝕣𝕜𝕒𝕤]

Or - sell off the crap at the Steam market and buy yourself a decent game or two.

[iNVERTEDpLAZMA]

That’s the part that I don’t understand. People actually spend money on this?
I don’t see the appeal at all, but hey, I’m not really the target audience for video gaming anymore lol

[thetickspoon]

way too much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to read... i agree with the first post... what the hell are they? 20 pages of garbage to read is worthless... had steam forever... just saw these... what the hell are they?

[crunchyfrog]

Simples.

Trading cards are earned on applicable games. On the game's store page you will see listed amongst things like achievements, controller support and so on, that it supports CARDS. You earn EXACTLY HALF of the number for the total collection (so if you can get 10 cards in a set, you will earn 5) just through playing the game. They can be duplicates as it's all to encourage you to trade, or buy the cards on the market. If you really don't want the cards, you can just convert them into gems, which when you get a large amount of them you can convert to a booster pack.

Booster Packs - when you've earned the HALF of the cards collection (in other words, every card has dropped for you), you will now be elegible for Booster Packs. These are generated whenever someone else crafts all their cards in a set into a Badge. It will generate ONE Booster Pack which will be randomly awarded to anyone who is also elegible to receive a Booster Pack for that game.
Booster Packs contain another three random cards for the set. And yes, you can earn more than one Booster Pack.

Badges are what you do when you have a full set of cards. You can "craft" them into a Badge which displays on your account, gives you a load of XP (which increases your levels). There used to be a few other littele extras like backgrounds and emotes, but I beleive these are now what is in the Sticker Shop. The benefit of increasing your Steam level is both just aesthetic and it offers you slight benefits increases - like an increase in friend's list size.

The Sticker Shop is a new feature that is kind of like a loyalty reward shop. You buy games, you earn a pro rata number of points depending on how much you spend. Those points can be spent in the sticker shop to buy backgrounds for your profile and other aesthetic tweaks, stickers and emotes to use in chat and forums here.


That's it.

[crunchyfrog]

thetickspoon님이 먼저 게시:

way too much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to read... i agree with the first post... what the hell are they? 20 pages of garbage to read is worthless... had steam forever... just saw these... what the hell are they?

It's simple.

Valve have a couple of pages of NON-garbage to read which explains it.

But Reddit and so on are just users with variable English communication skills, so what do you expect?

[crunchyfrog]

iNVERTEDpLAZMA님이 먼저 게시:

That’s the part that I don’t understand. People actually spend money on this?
I don’t see the appeal at all, but hey, I’m not really the target audience for video gaming anymore lol

Nope, they spend money on the GAMES. They get points pro rata as a reward for buying the games.

[Z]

I got tons of cool items and games, if you don't need your Trading Cards add me & I'll give you something else you can use instead of that unwanted trading cards.