Bring back the ability to get cards from Discovery Queue!!!

[Makeiev]

Valve, are you serious? How could they remove the ability to get cards by viewing recommendations? How are ordinary players who don't have thousands of dollars going to level up their profiles?

You've removed something that everyone loved, and everyone will definitely hate it. In addition, instead of cards that can be used to create a badge, you give useless stickers...

You used to make very interesting events for each season, but now you've become lazy and started taking away the only thing left from those warm times...

That's how it goes: - "Why bother if people will use and pay even without interesting events, like a few years ago with riddles? Even without mini-games, like with aliens or races, also a few years ago. Even without cards for viewing recommendations, as it was literally half a year" ago.”....

[Hurrikhan]

+1

[Nightlight]

I mentioned this in another thread by the same name, so I'll post it again here.

Putting the trading cards to the side for now, I find replacing them with stickers to be a strange move. I'm sure stickers have their fans, but I think for a lot of people stickers are utterly useless. You can't get rid of them either, and I know there are a number of people who dislike having stuff they find useless in their inventory.

With these two things in mind, I think the stickers may be deterring more people from going through the DQ than they are encouraging. I honestly think Valve would've probably been better off offering nothing for going through the DQ, at least then people wouldn't have to worry about being given a sticker they can't get rid of.

Or they could've offered anything else, really. Emoticons, mini profile backgrounds, avatars/avatar borders, etc. You still wouldn't be able to get rid of them, so that would still be a problem for some people, but, I think, there are more people who like those things than there are people who like stickers. Could be wrong, though.

It's just kind of weird to me that Valve picked the one thing that probably works more like an active deterrent than an incentive.

[Vincentevil538]

+1

I loved collecting the trading cards around the sales and crafting memorable badges out of them. I thought something weird was going on when I didn't see any way to get the cards, and I thought 'o well, maybe they don't have a badge this time around. that's fine'. But then I noticed I got some cards after buying some games.

Absolutely outrages that Steam got rid of the method to get cards through discovery queue. It was one thing when it was reduced from 3 to only 1 card per day, but now it's none... I thought Steam was so much better than this.

[StrukiTru]

[Makeiev]

З Новим 2025 роком!
Слава Україні!
Happy New Year!

[1nSmokee]

+1

[Jiska]

Makeiev hat absolut recht! Bzw. stimme ich dir da voll und ganz zu...
die Tendenz in welche Richtung sich Steam entwickelt ist leider bedenklich...
als wäre es nicht schlimm genug, das viele Spieleentwickler sich nicht für ihre Community interessieren (nun auch Publisher) und das wurde oft genug mit sinkenden Verkaufszahlen "belohnt"... Ubisoft ist in diesem Thema das jüngste Beispiel...
Wenn man will, kann man sehen das sich sowas nicht rentiert, wenn man nicht auf die Community hört...

[StrukiTru]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Jiska:

Makeiev hat absolut recht! Bzw. stimme ich dir da voll und ganz zu...
die Tendenz in welche Richtung sich Steam entwickelt ist leider bedenklich...
als wäre es nicht schlimm genug, das viele Spieleentwickler sich nicht für ihre Community interessieren (nun auch Publisher) und das wurde oft genug mit sinkenden Verkaufszahlen "belohnt"... Ubisoft ist in diesem Thema das jüngste Beispiel...
Wenn man will, kann man sehen das sich sowas nicht rentiert, wenn man nicht auf die Community hört...

Mam, this is an English discussion.

[Icedfate]

not sure why Valve wouldn't want to keep giving out those free cards that people can sell the cards on the market. . the market gets flooded. cards have the minimum value of 0.03. Valve takes 0.02, seller keeps 0.01. Valve makes bank.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Icedfate:

not sure why Valve wouldn't want to keep giving out those free cards that people can sell the cards on the market. . the market gets flooded. cards have the minimum value of 0.03. Valve takes 0.02, seller keeps 0.01. Valve makes bank.

And now they're selling for 0.10 - 0.17 each.

[StrukiTru]

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Icedfate:

not sure why Valve wouldn't want to keep giving out those free cards that people can sell the cards on the market. . the market gets flooded. cards have the minimum value of 0.03. Valve takes 0.02, seller keeps 0.01. Valve makes bank.

And now they're selling for 0.10 - 0.17 each.

:nkCool:

You are wrong if thinking that selling higher automatically gets Valve more money. The market cap is important, not the individual price. And it's way lower now, as you can tell here[steamdb.info].

[Icedfate]

at the higher value, Valve actually takes a smaller %.
when all the cards sold for 3 pennies, Valve was taking 2 pennies , which is 66%.

my comment wasn't really about the value or any kind of cimplaint about my own inability to make money selling card.
whenever i get cards, i always sell them just to get rid of them at whatever price causes them to be sold instantly.

my comment was more that i would have expected Valve to want that traffic, so they could dip in and take those little crumbs from the pie. I always thought that was the point, was so they could get their %.
I dunno how much they actually make. I haven't read their financial reports. I don't even know if they disclosed that info

[Angelojd9]

+1