Steam trading cards

[NineNinety_]

I'm pretty new to this whole trading card thing I get the craft to badges to get XP but how to I get the ones I need? Do I just have to buy them or the booster pack things?

[bozz5674]

if you have a friend playing the same game then they might have the card you need.

[bozz5674]

That said, in a billion hours, no one has traded me a card.

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[NineNinety_]

ahh ok thanks

Originally posted by bozz5674:

if you have a friend playing the same game then they might have the card you need.

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[Romanreaders]

Some cards you can get them in games, the other one you trade it or buy it. (When you buy it its something around 6 to 12 cents) not for all but a lot.

Personaly when i buy a games there 2 things i look for. Achivements and cards.

[ShelLuser]

Originally posted by NineNinety_:

I'm pretty new to this whole trading card thing I get the craft to badges to get XP but how to I get the ones I need? Do I just have to buy them or the booster pack things?

Multiple options... First you can buy them on the market, costs you a few cents per card and then you can craft your badge (keep in mind: you could also consider buying multiple cards at once and then you can craft multiple badges at once, that can sometimes help save time).

Then there's trading. If you have double cards you could try and trade those for a card you don't have. This is usually done on the trading forum of whatever game you're playing (check out the discussions section on their community hub). Of course you could try even more. For example: if you crafted one badge then you usually get a background and some emoticons. You could consider trading those for cards as well (keep in mind: new stuff is locked from trading for a few days). But more common is to trade cards for cards.

And then of course there's trading in general (for example: maybe trading emoticons from different games?). A very good place for that is this group:

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/tradingcards


Also noteworthy: you can convert (almost) everything to gems. So if you got stuff you don't want and you don't think you're going to get very far with a trade then you could consider changing those to gems. The fun part is that 1,000 gems (give or take; it differs per game) can buy you a booster pack. In other words: 3 cards for whatever game you're playing. Of course there are no guarantees if those will be new cards.... Also: gems can be used for trading as well, but then you'll have to convert them into a sack. Which means: 1,000 gems per trade. Finally: also gems can be tradelocked for a while, so keep their description in mind.

Hope this can give you some good ideas.

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Also good to know: your trade URL. Go to your inventory, then click on trade offers, find the option "who can send me trade offers" in the menu below. There you'll find your trade URL; you could share that on some trading sites: it will make it easier for others to set up a trade with you: just one single click is needed.

There... I think that's pretty much it ;)

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[crunchyfrog]

A bit of best practice here:

As you probably are already aware, the system was setup to encourage you to talk to your friends on Steam, so you can trade with them for cards (it's why, when you look at your collection under inventory, you'll see your friends listed who have the cards you need).

There is also the market where you can usually pick up the cards instead very cheaply.


But the real meat and potatoes is down to HOW you play this.
My whole schitck with gaming is I'm a cheap arse. I never buy games anywhere near release and haven't done since the 1980s. I wait for sales on here, and elsewhere, and so on. So if you want to get involved in trading cards and not spend much if at all, I can absolutely help here by telling you what I do.

There's several sites out there like Humble Bundle, Fanatical, Indie Gales and more who are charity sites that sell LEGITIMATE Steam keys for games (unlike certain dodgy sites that are out there, and I can't mention). They have deals on all the time.

So you can pick up triple A games for very cheap indeed a lot of the time. But here's the thing about why this is good for trading cards - because EVERYONE else will also be buying these games in these bundles too. They're very popular.

So when you get these bundles being bought, those games will get played now or soon. And that will mean people will be earning cards, trading and crafting badges. And each time a badge is crafted, it creates a booster pack randomly for anyone who has the game and has exhausted all their card drops (and have logged into Steam that week).

SO these games are cheap, AND offer an increased chance of cards being available and boosters becoming available. Even if you don't get boosters (as they are obviously rare and only generated when a badge is crafted), this will still mean there will be a pool of cards that get chucked on the market.

So it's a win win in many respects.

I'd recommend this approach versus what other people do - they go for really cheap games directly on Steam (that are trash) and get cards like that. The problem with this is that's all they're good for, as you're going to get very little to no activity, so no chance of booster packs, and no pool much to buy or trade from.

So if you're into doing this and doing this easily and cheaply, I find this to be your best bet.

[ShelLuser]

Logging onto remote sites using your Steam account is a bad idea though because of the always looming risk that your account could be taken over. When that happens all bets are off.

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

The key issue is that for game badges you get roughly half the cards you need for the badge. In a perfect universe trading would occur such that everyone would trade to get the badges, everyone would then get a booster pack, and trading would continue until every body got the badge.

It don't work like that:-

1) Frequently it takes more cards than are in a single booster pack to finish a badge.
2) Booster packs are strongly weighted to towards higher Steam levels.
3) Most people sit on their cards and don't do squat with them.

I think some cards are released into the market as a float pool to enable trading.

The best way to trade is with friends because that costs you squat. I find it particularly useful during Winter and Summer sales.

However many times your friends won't have the cards you want which means buying them.

Then we get into bling. Why stick with a level 1 badge when you could buy a few more cards and have a level 2 badge ? What about level 3 ? Higher ?

Steam doesn't make a huge amount on each transaction - just cents. But with millions of customers that money adds up. Plus there will be a small but to Steam extremely valuable number of people who will spend more on cards and crafting badges than they do on buying games.

Steam effectively has created a licence to print its own money.

But of course your profile page is your face to the community and it feels good to display your achievements, your skins, your badges, your best game reviews ...

S.x.

[NS Plover]

Another way to get cards is to change stuff you don't want into gems and then create a booster pack for the game you need cards for.

Stuff resulting from crafting steam sale badges are generally worth more gems than many other things...

The best games to pick to create a booster pack for are ones that (a) the cards are expensive or (b) the cards you need are not available from friends or steam market (but you'd like to have the badge for it).

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