Steam points and trading cards.

[Fumbles]

I'd like to propose the ability to use steam points to purchase steam trading cards for games we own.

I was recently interested in a certain foil badge, only to find out each foil card is selling for 20$+ on the market place with 11 cards in the set, this is obviously asinine and ridiculous pricing.

The steam point bought cards would be untradable and unmarketable, as to not interfere with the marketable variations.

Pricing could be 100 - 500 points for regular and 500 - 1,000 points for foil.

and if not individual cards, how about the ability to purchase trading booster packs with steam points instead?

[IFIYGD]

I can just about guarantee this will never happen. With your idea, sure- you won;t be able to sell the cards later. But you are asking to use points, which have zero monetary value, to purchase something that has monetary value. Not just to the sellers, but to Steam and the game developers/publishers as well. They get a cut of every sale of the Trading Card(s) as well, and I really doubt any developer or publisher, or Valve itself, is going to happily agree to losing any revenue stream, no matter how big or small it is.

Get mad at the Sellers who are artificially inflating the price of the cards, or the people who are actually buying them at that price.
Valve does not care about high prices in the Steam Market- they get a bigger pile of pennies when things sell at high prices.

[Drab]

Valve makes money off of the market. They want the prices to be as ridiculously high as possible.

[Supafly]

Typical supply vs demand.

[Nx Machina]

Foil cards are rare hence the pricing and you are not obligated to purchase at all. Secondly that money goes in to their Steam wallet allowing them to use it to purchase other games or buy off the market.

Steam points have no monetary value as they are merely an award for purchasing games directly on Steam and are not added to Steam wallet nor can be used to purchase games or use the market.