What exactly is your steam level and how do you increase it?

[Knight Siegfried]

I generally have no idea what it does or is so I truly appreciate any help. Thank you

[Start_Running]

It's more or less a gag number. Higher levels give you more things and displays to put on your profile and increase your friends list limit.

You gain xp buy purchasing stuff on steam and by collecting trading cards and crafting badges from them. Genberally speaking. you can ignore levels.

[kaMMakaZZi9]

It lets you add profile showcases, such as Achievement Showcase, Screenshot Showcase, Game Collector, Favorite Game, etc.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

It's basically a measure of how much time/effort/money you've spent using Steam's community features.

https://steamcommunity.com/tradingcards/faq/

Generally speaking, you get 100 XP per time you craft a set of cards together. This also gives you a new badge, an emoticon, and a profile background, in most cases.

Leveling up from 1 to 10 takes 100 XP per level. From 10 to 20 it's 200 XP per level. and so on.

You also get XP from owning games on Steam, and a limited amount from doing certain tasks while playing with Steam's community features.

Leveling up gives you a bigger number on your profile, literally. It also gives you +5 friends list capacity. Also every 10 levels you get a boost in your probability for getting booster packs as a random drop.

[Knight Siegfried]

Originally posted by Quint the Pondering Ghost:

It's basically a measure of how much time/effort/money you've spent using Steam's community features.

https://steamcommunity.com/tradingcards/faq/

Generally speaking, you get 100 XP per time you craft a set of cards together. This also gives you a new badge, an emoticon, and a profile background, in most cases.

Leveling up from 1 to 10 takes 100 XP per level. From 10 to 20 it's 200 XP per level. and so on.

You also get XP from owning games on Steam, and a limited amount from doing certain tasks while playing with Steam's community features.

Leveling up gives you a bigger number on your profile, literally. It also gives you +5 friends list capacity. Also every 10 levels you get a boost in your probability for getting booster packs as a random drop.

So if I have 155 games, should I be at a higher level than 9 or is that normal

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by Bjorn Ironside:

Originally posted by Quint the Pondering Ghost:

It's basically a measure of how much time/effort/money you've spent using Steam's community features.

https://steamcommunity.com/tradingcards/faq/

Generally speaking, you get 100 XP per time you craft a set of cards together. This also gives you a new badge, an emoticon, and a profile background, in most cases.

Leveling up from 1 to 10 takes 100 XP per level. From 10 to 20 it's 200 XP per level. and so on.

You also get XP from owning games on Steam, and a limited amount from doing certain tasks while playing with Steam's community features.

Leveling up gives you a bigger number on your profile, literally. It also gives you +5 friends list capacity. Also every 10 levels you get a boost in your probability for getting booster packs as a random drop.

So if I have 155 games, should I be at a higher level than 9 or is that normal

Your game ownership XP is automatically calculated. It's based on the games you have, minus f2p games I think, or something like that. You get less XP per game, the more games you own, though it's always at least 1 XP per game. I haven't ever ironed it out how it chooses which games to count, yet.

There is no "normal" user level.

If you play lots of games but don't care about the Steam level thing, you can be pretty low level (under 10) and still have lots of gaming experience on your belt. If you care a lot more about the profile, you can similarly go and buy trading cards from the community market, crafting set after set until you get to any desired high level. 100, 500, 1000, etc.

[Knight Siegfried]

Originally posted by Quint the Pondering Ghost:

Originally posted by Bjorn Ironside:

So if I have 155 games, should I be at a higher level than 9 or is that normal

Your game ownership XP is automatically calculated. It's based on the games you have, minus f2p games I think, or something like that. I haven't ever ironed it out.

There is no "normal" user level.

If you play lots of games but don't care about the Steam level thing, you can be pretty low level (under 10) and still have lots of gaming experience on your belt. If you care a lot more about the profile, you can similarly go and buy trading cards from the community market, crafting set after set until you get to any desired high level. 100, 500, 1000, etc.

I see, thanks. I only care about the level because I see so many people with messeges on their profiles saying I'll ignore you unless you are this certain level. That's about it really.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by Bjorn Ironside:

Originally posted by Quint the Pondering Ghost:

Your game ownership XP is automatically calculated. It's based on the games you have, minus f2p games I think, or something like that. I haven't ever ironed it out.

There is no "normal" user level.

If you play lots of games but don't care about the Steam level thing, you can be pretty low level (under 10) and still have lots of gaming experience on your belt. If you care a lot more about the profile, you can similarly go and buy trading cards from the community market, crafting set after set until you get to any desired high level. 100, 500, 1000, etc.

I see, thanks. I only care about the level because I see so many people with messeges on their profiles saying I'll ignore you unless you are this certain level. That's about it really.

It's generally a bad idea to friend people out of the blue anyway, no matter what level.

You get the same perks no matter what level you are, aside from level 0 which means you're still a Steam user with a non-premium account, because you haven't spent $5 on it.

Well, also, semi-annual Steam sales events tend to have trading cards that you can get for doing certain things, and generally you're only eligible for these trading cards if you're level 5 and above.

[Start_Running]

THe Game count is not factored into level. Merely the amount you actually spent on the game.. I think yyou gain a level for every $10 spent in the store.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by Start_Running:

THe Game count is not factored into level. Merely the amount you actually spent on the game.. I think yyou gain a level for every $10 spent in the store.

This was not the case in the past. Can you please link to a source indicating that this was changed?

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by Quint the Pondering Ghost:

Originally posted by Start_Running:

THe Game count is not factored into level. Merely the amount you actually spent on the game.. I think yyou gain a level for every $10 spent in the store.

This was not the case in the past. Can you please link to a source indicating that this was changed?

I just tried it. I activated two games from Humble Bundle and saw no change in xp. If your game count mattered I'd be muh higher than 27

[Knight Siegfried]

Originally posted by Start_Running:

Originally posted by Quint the Pondering Ghost:

This was not the case in the past. Can you please link to a source indicating that this was changed?

I just tried it. I activated two games from Humble Bundle and saw no change in xp. If your game count mattered I'd be muh higher than 27

Same here

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Ah, I see, they changed the calculation.

Can't say I'm surprised they did this. This more directly ties it with how much money you've spent on Steam.

[wuddih]

Originally posted by Quint the Pondering Ghost:

Ah, I see, they changed the calculation.

Can't say I'm surprised they did this. This more directly ties it with how much money you've spent on Steam.

they didn't change anything

it ends up being
1 xp per game + max 250xp for badge tier level (reached at 250 game collector badge)

as you can see on your own collector badge.

Originally posted by Bjorn Ironside:

Originally posted by Start_Running:

I just tried it. I activated two games from Humble Bundle and saw no change in xp. If your game count mattered I'd be muh higher than 27

Same here

Power Player
389 XP
155 games owned

155xp + 234xp (mix of badge level and bogus rounding)
until you have 250 games the formular is a bit obfuscated since you dont get straight 1 xp per game but as explained above ... it basicly is 1 xp per game in the end.

you do not get any level for spending money on Steam. money is not a factor.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by wuddih:

Originally posted by Quint the Pondering Ghost:

Ah, I see, they changed the calculation.

Can't say I'm surprised they did this. This more directly ties it with how much money you've spent on Steam.

they didn't change anything

it ends up being
1 xp per game + max 250xp for badge tier level (reached at 250 game collector badge)

as you can see on your own collector badge.

Originally posted by Bjorn Ironside:

Same here

Power Player
389 XP
155 games owned

155xp + 234xp (mix of badge level and bogus rounding)
until you have 250 games the formular is a bit obfuscated since you dont get straight 1 xp per game but as explained above ... it basicly is 1 xp per game in the end.

you do not get any level for spending money on Steam. money is not a factor.

You do get xp during the sales events. I went up 2 levels last sale

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by wuddih:

Originally posted by Quint the Pondering Ghost:

Ah, I see, they changed the calculation.

Can't say I'm surprised they did this. This more directly ties it with how much money you've spent on Steam.

they didn't change anything

it ends up being
1 xp per game + max 250xp for badge tier level (reached at 250 game collector badge)

as you can see on your own collector badge.

Originally posted by Bjorn Ironside:

Same here

Power Player
389 XP
155 games owned

155xp + 234xp (mix of badge level and bogus rounding)
until you have 250 games the formular is a bit obfuscated since you dont get straight 1 xp per game but as explained above ... it basicly is 1 xp per game in the end.

you do not get any level for spending money on Steam. money is not a factor.

What about this formula?
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/tradingcards/discussions/1/864971660995835491/