How to get cards from games given free on Steam Store as game cannot be bought at store?

[Mary Virgin]

Lately steam gave way some games free to keep on limited days but these games do not drop cards. Now issue is you own the game for keeps and will not get cards. Till game is free, steam changes it's app ID. So if a game that has cards is App ID A1, when it is given free, steam changes APP ID to B2 for example. It shows in license page as Free Package. Now when it returns to normal paid version, you are stuck with B2 version and cannot buy it to get a card dropping A1 version. You get no benefit of booster drops either. You cannot purchase it at store steam will not let you if you think buying it at store will help.

Should there not be something to allow one to redeem trading cards? Like purchase of something at store? I really do not know why Steam wont allow cards on such games given free at store? it should be generating revenue at market and the sad thing is you have no option to change it's status to a fully card dropping version.

Such games are a massive dead end now.Please fix this do something about this!

[Aachen]

As is generally the case, abuse made them change procedure.

You can still craft packs, buy ‘em on the market or trade with other users.

[Crazy Tiger]

Nothing to fix, it's intended this way.

As said, you can buy them on the market or trade with others.

[Mary Virgin]

Originally posted by Aachen:

As is generally the case, abuse made them change procedure.

You can still craft packs, buy ‘em on the market or trade with other users.

What abuse?

[Mary Virgin]

I have asked a specific query. How do I get full right to game including getting booster drops? Buying cards from market is not the answer.

[Aachen]

Originally posted by Mary Virgin:

.... Such games are a massive dead end now.Please fix this do something about this!

They’re only a dead end if the purpose you had in accepting the offer was to flip the free drops.

There’s more to Steam than trying to eke pocket change out of freebies.

Originally posted by Mary Virgin:

What abuse?

IIRC, alt farming the free cards.

Originally posted by Mary Virgin:

I have asked a specific query. How do I get full right to game including getting booster drops?

You buy the game, rather than accept the freebie.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

There were bot accounts, thousands of them, farming cards.

[Hanomaly]

Originally posted by Mary Virgin:

I have asked a specific query. How do I get full right to game including getting booster drops? Buying cards from market is not the answer.

Maybe you can remove the license from your account and then purchase the game properly?
https://store.steampowered.com/account/licenses/
That's the only way i see it working, if you got the game during a 100% off discount, and now want to buy the game fully so you are eligible for booster drops and general card drops.

if you cannot remove the license, i'm not sure what other options you have.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Hanomaly:

Originally posted by Mary Virgin:

I have asked a specific query. How do I get full right to game including getting booster drops? Buying cards from market is not the answer.

Maybe you can remove the license from your account and then purchase the game properly?
https://store.steampowered.com/account/licenses/
That's the only way i see it working, if you got the game during a 100% off discount, and now want to buy the game fully so you are eligible for booster drops and general card drops.

if you cannot remove the license, i'm not sure what other options you have.

It doesn't work like that anymore. It will tell you to restore the removed game.

[Mary Virgin]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

There were bot accounts, thousands of them, farming cards.

:qr:

And most accounts now need 5$ wallet to fully activate which again is bought from steam, which if they aloow commerically means is not an abuse? if people are paying 5$ per account for thousands of bots to farm cards, then they have a right? or valve should not allow any kind of bot account at all?

Its silly one cannot delete old license and cannot buy a new one. How does that help botting?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Not when those accounts were sold off after getting a VAC/Game ban or even hijacked, no. Also think about all the profits one can make selling items, using that to cash out somewhere and unlimit many accounts.

It isn't easy to tell if an account is being used as an idling bot.

Deleting the license never actually removed the license in the first place. They just changed it so, instead of allowing you to purchase another license which restores the original license, you are only restoring it and it would be financially better for the user and cause less headaches for them and support.

[Mary Virgin]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Not when those accounts were sold off after getting a VAC/Game ban or even hijacked, no. Also think about all the profits one can make selling items, using that to cash out somewhere and unlimit many accounts.

It isn't easy to tell if an account is being used as an idling bot.

Deleting the license never actually removed the license in the first place. They just changed it so, instead of allowing you to purchase another license which restores the original license, you are only restoring it and it would be financially better for the user and cause less headaches for them and support.

:qr:

VAC banned accounts cannot trade items of banned game. Valve can simplify things by community banning such accounts totally than penalize those who are fair and using accounts they steam walleted on. I want to fully own some games which when given free I had no idea would be restricted. there is no option for me. Why should there be a freeze on ability to own a game fully like upgrading it to full benefits?