Increase steam level?

[Honey Badger]

I'm going to ask a rather simple question (which I admit, is rather embarassing given my length of time on this platform) But... How do you actually increase your steam level, is it just via collecting cards?

[Jerry]

Anything that earns profile "xp". From what I see, you should already be very familiar with the opportunity to get points from the community task badge, the voting event in autumn and the cleaning event in spring, and the 50 per year of account existence...
So yes, all that remains beside that are badges created from cards.

[Yasahi]

Collect/buy cards, craft badges. Then there's the events that might have their own badges and you also have some in the Points Shop you can buy using points. Lastly, buying games gives you a little bit of exp as does your years of service badge.

[Honey Badger]

Originally posted by Jerry:

Anything that earns profile "xp". From what I see, you should already be very familiar with the opportunity to get points from the community task badge, the voting event in autumn and the cleaning event in spring, and the 50 per year of account existence...
So yes, all that remains beside that are badges created from cards.

Originally posted by Yasahi:

Collect/buy cards, craft badges. Then there's the events that might have their own badges and you also have some in the Points Shop you can buy using points. Lastly, buying games gives you a little bit of exp as does your years of service badge.

Cheers gents, appreciate the assistance.

[crunchyfrog]

Collect cards, and when a set is complete, craft badges. Up goes your level.

There's efficient ways to do this though. Here's my advice.

Some users love to say buy the dirt cheap "non" games as you get cards for cheap. This is a poor economy as the problem there is those cards are wrothless. NObody wants them and nobody plays these games so you get stuck with useless cards and no badge.

So how to do this efficiently? YOu need to get games cheap, but games that still get played to a fair degree and others craft badges (as whenever you've earned all your card drops for a game, and are logged in, any other person crafting a badge generates a booster pack which you may be in the pool for).

So, games during sales, and charity bundles like Humble BUndle are a the best way to do this.

I'm a cheap arse and only buy digital games when they're cheap, because I ALWAYS prefer physical games.

For this reason, you will get games dirt cheap, you play them, earn your card dropsm, and because bundle games are popular, others are playing them too. This means you'll get a nice pool of other people able to trade with and complete your sets with (or buy them off the market).

And better still, the higher your level, the slight the increase in getting a booster pack should one be made.

[FoxSeby]

Anything that earns profile "xp". From what I see, you should already be very familiar with the opportunity to get points from the community task badge, the voting event in autumn and the cleaning event in spring, and the 50 per year of account existence...
So yes, all that remains beside that are badges created from cards.

[Tsubame ⭐]

Pretty much by colleting cards and leveling badges only.

Steam Points Shop has seasonal badges you can buy using Steam Points, this can help a little too, assuming you have a couple dozen thousand points laying around to buy the fully leveled badges - if you are serious about collecting cards chances are you will have more than enough to buy the seasonal badges as well.