Best games to farm items for Steam funds/money?

[Advokaiser]

Long story short, I've been playing CS:GO/CS2 to sell cases and skins (among other things) on the Steam Market for more than 1 year now, and I was averaging ~$5.00 a month just on Prime drops alone until CS2 came out and devaluated a lot of things.

I heard that you could do that with TF2, and since I considered it a Valve must-play game, I already started playing since 3 weeks ago, but the system is way more different and a lot of drops can't really be sold.

What other games give you sellable drops for the Steam Market? Is there anything I need to know regarding such drop systems/markets? Thanks in advance.

[El Mythical 23 k.s.c.]

Tf2 gives you pennies a year. Only play for fun.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

The Kilowatt Case in CS2 netted me nearly $9.50 last week alone. This is not accounting for the many other cases, capsules and Marketable case keys i hoarded years ago. I still have over 1k in my wallet after buying an Index 2x over the past 3 years, using wallet funds.

[Thermal Lance]

The best game to get $$$ is a job you like.

[Heraclius Caesar]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Thermal Pineapple:

The best game to get $$$ is a job you like.

True indeed

[Heraclius Caesar]

Opprinnelig skrevet av cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

The Kilowatt Case in CS2 netted me nearly $9.50 last week alone. This is not accounting for the many other cases, capsules and Marketable case keys i hoarded years ago. I still have over 1k in my wallet after buying an Index 2x over the past 3 years, using wallet funds.

That's what's up, would you say that's typical if you know what you're doing? Could you be making much more if you really put your time & effort into it?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

You could do more if you know what you are doing and also things go in your favor.

Me, I was winging it for a while, not paying that close attention, selling some before sales events to get games until I noticed a few had spiked in price over the years.

The sticker capsules from some Majors were great but most turned put to be duds.

[Heraclius Caesar]

Opprinnelig skrevet av cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

You could do more if you know what you are doing and also things go in your favor.

Me, I was winging it for a while, not paying that close attention, selling some before sales events to get games until I noticed a few had spiked in price over the years.

The sticker capsules from some Majors were great but most turned put to be duds.

I see, that's really neat that you're able to do it in such a way that it basically funds your purchases on here

[Advokaiser]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Thermal Pineapple:

The best game to get $$$ is a job you like.

If something like that existed, nobody would play videogames.

[Brian9824]

I mean you'd make more money using freebie sites that pay you to watch videos, answer surveys, etc then you would reliably from playing CS go and the like.

[Advokaiser]

Opprinnelig skrevet av brian9824:

I mean you'd make more money using freebie sites that pay you to watch videos, answer surveys, etc then you would reliably from playing CS go and the like.

I mean, yes, but I'm only asking for titles. I got into CS:GO firstly for the drops, but stayed for the addictive gameplay.

If anything, I'm more looking for the motivation to play diverse games than just having free funds. After all, CS2 is no longer worth it for me without achievements, ranks, or new content.

[nullable]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Advokaiser:

Long story short, I've been playing CS:GO/CS2 to sell cases and skins (among other things) on the Steam Market for more than 1 year now, and I was averaging ~$5.00 a month just on Prime drops alone until CS2 came out and devaluated a lot of things.

I heard that you could do that with TF2, and since I considered it a Valve must-play game, I already started playing since 3 weeks ago, but the system is way more different and a lot of drops can't really be sold.

What other games give you sellable drops for the Steam Market? Is there anything I need to know regarding such drop systems/markets? Thanks in advance.

Anything worth selling for more than a few cents or a few dollars is going to be relatively rare. Mostly with TF2/CS2 rare items only come from opening cases, which require keys which cost money. And it's not as if you're guaranteed super valuable items after you use X amount of keys. And anyone who claims to be making money is either spending quite a bit on keys, or they got super lucky one time and have been coasting on that windfall for ages.

You might get lucky opening a case. You might get lucky and snag an undervalued item on the market. You might get lucky and get a case/item that's just released and the prices haven't normalized yet. But neither of those are going to be daily occurrences for any particular user.

So ultimately you're talking about an endless grind for enough pennies to purchase something you might be able to make a few more cents on. In theory over time it could add up into significant volume, but you could also be one bad purchases away from square one. Desperately trying to game the system is bound to lead to greed induced mistakes.

For the amount of time and effort we're talking it's hardly worth it, and you can't really get much for nothing. The best score I ever had was getting a silver botkiller wrench the first few days Mann vs Machine was released. And even then it still cost like $6 in tickets. I think I sold it for about $24.

Frankly it's much more efficient to get a job and just buy the things you want with your wages.

[DJ Cooter]

in my experience, CS2 is a good and semi-reliable way to at least get a little bit of money from free drops :))

[76561198407601200]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Advokaiser:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Thermal Pineapple:

The best game to get $$$ is a job you like.

If something like that existed, nobody would play videogames.

That is what game development involves, getting paid money for a job which happens to require playing games.

[Pierce Dalton]

Opprinnelig skrevet av brian9824:

I mean you'd make more money using freebie sites that pay you to watch videos, answer surveys, etc then you would reliably from playing CS go and the like.

1. It's not as half as fun as playing a game.

2. There are several scams in this area, people that do the "job" and never get paid.

@OP Keep in mind that you can purchase Prime how many times you want, on countless Steam accounts. As long as you're not evading bans, it's all good.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Pierce Dalton:

Opprinnelig skrevet av brian9824:

I mean you'd make more money using freebie sites that pay you to watch videos, answer surveys, etc then you would reliably from playing CS go and the like.

1. It's not as half as fun as playing a game.

2. There are several scams in this area, people that do the "job" and never get paid.

@OP Keep in mind that you can purchase Prime how many times you want, on countless Steam accounts. As long as you're not evading bans, it's all good.

There are no repercussions for using alts in CS2 at this time.

In Dota 2 however, that is a whole other can of worms.