Duplicates In Booster Packs

[Jak's Legacy]

Please stop packing dupes in Booster Packs. I bought one the other day that cost 1000 Gems for 3 cards and one was a dupe. I only had one card left to fill so the dupe was leftover. If I turn that duplicate back into gems, you'd give me a whopping 13 gems for it. Extrapolating that out, I pay 1000 gems for 3 (333 gems each) and you'd give us back 39 gems (13 each) for the same 3 cards or about 4% for something I didn't want to start with.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Drops are random for a reason.

Dupes will happen.

Valve is not going to change this.

Let me ask you, "what is your definition of the word random?"

[Brujeira]

Dupes are unavoidable as random cards are, by their very nature, random. The pack's contents are only generated when it's opened anyway, so there's no packing involved.

[Jak's Legacy]

If I don't say anything, they for sure won't hear me. They could fix it in the programming if they wanted to. Besides, it was suggested I post it here by Steam Support.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

If they decrease the duplicate rates (which sounds silly) then the market for them would start to crash.

The whole point of the entire system was to provide a healthy market for the cards.

[Wolf Knight]

Originally posted by Jaks:

If I don't say anything, they for sure won't hear me. They could fix it in the programming if they wanted to. Besides, it was suggested I post it here by Steam Support.

you can only fix something that is broken. if the drops are random, then every card in the set has the exact same chance of appearing in each of the 3 card spots. since nothing is broken, you are just whining about not getting the one card you need.

[Brujeira]

Originally posted by Jaks:

If I don't say anything, they for sure won't hear me. They could fix it in the programming if they wanted to. Besides, it was suggested I post it here by Steam Support.

They'll hear you but they won't do anything. Why not? Because programming an algorithm that gives actual random results is a lot easier than one that gives the kind of results you're looking for. There's also no business reason for putting that much effort into changing something that most people don't seem to care about and won't generate any extra revenue for Valve.

Also, that suggestion that you got from Support that you should post it here? I'm afraid they say that to everyone so that you don't feel like you've just been fobbed off.

[Jak's Legacy]

If the return when I sell it back was a fairer value, I wouldn't care as much. 1000 (333 each) for the pack that left me with an unused card they offered me 13 gems for or about 4% is a gouge, There's other options, I'm aware. I've been doing them for years and have gotten dozens and dozens of dupes. Just my opinion.

[ElvisDeadly]

Sell the card in the marketplace and use the money to buy a card you want. Cards in a set are usually equal price so its pretty much a 1 for 1 trade doin that

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by ElvisDeadly:

Sell the card in the marketplace and use the money to buy a card you want. Cards in a set are usually equal price so its pretty much a 1 for 1 trade doin that

You are forgetting the game dev and Valve cut of Market sales/purchases.

[ElvisDeadly]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

You are forgetting the game dev and Valve cut of Market sales/purchases.

:qr:

Thats true.

It's still a better deal to sell unwanted cards and buy others to complete sets than to turn them into gems in order to create booster packs which may not even contain what you need

[Mikasa Ackerman]

duplicates can always happen , i lost count how often i got some pokemon in those big physical booster packs , but they can always contain a shiny card too

[м]

just sell the dups on market, where is the problem?
if the cards are not worth selling, then making boosters for that specific game probably isn't smart either.

[Reaper]

Originally posted by Jaks:

If I don't say anything, they for sure won't hear me. They could fix it in the programming if they wanted to. Besides, it was suggested I post it here by Steam Support.

you can't fix what isn't broken. Do you take your losing lottery tickets back to the gas station and demand your money back when you lose too?