Add a button to claim cards without playing for games owned for more than 1 year

[and that's that]

There are many different ways people get steam games, from bulk buying during steam events to bundles and giveaways from 3rd party sites. bundles often include other games that people don’t exactly want, that’s why people use idling programs, to emulate games being played without actually installing it, this is a norm that has existed for years.

To get the cards honestly you have to waste time, internet bandwidth, and storage to install each one of those games then run them for at least 2 hours to get the cards. now do this for a few hundred games and you can see why people use idlers.

Cards are a big part of how steam works. the entire crafting and level system on steam depends on cards. there needs to be more reasonable ways of getting cards from the bulk of games in your library without having to use third party automation software.

Here's my suggestion:

If you have earned card drops that are a year or more old, a button appears in the badges page corresponding to the game, when clicked it adds the cards for that game to your inventory without having to play the game.

[Tito Shivan]

引用自 sandvich make me strong：

to get the cards for games you don’t really want to play you have to waste time, internet bandwidth, and storage to install each one of those games then run them for 2 hours to get the cards

Thing is cards are designed as a way to entice people to actually play the games they buy.

[Brian9824]

引用自 Tito Shivan：

引用自 sandvich make me strong：

to get the cards for games you don’t really want to play you have to waste time, internet bandwidth, and storage to install each one of those games then run them for 2 hours to get the cards

Thing is cards are designed as a way to entice people to actually play the games they buy.

Yeah this, I mean you can already use an idler program to mimic it without having to waste time, bandwidth, etc because there is no way steam can tell if your spoofing it or not

[Reaper]

引用自 sandvich make me strong：

to get the cards for games you don’t really want to play you have to waste time, internet bandwidth, and storage to install each one of those games then run them for 2 hours to get the cards

So just use SAM or any idle program of your choice.

[and that's that]

any progress on this issue? it's dishonest to have to use a third party program to automate the process of cards being added to inventory

[Crazy Tiger]

If you're really expecting a change in this, you'll very likely be waiting a very, very long time. As said in the first post, the system is meant for you to actually play the games to get the cards, not to just let the freebies drop.

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

引用自 sandvich make me strong：

any progress on this issue? it's dishonest to have to use a third party program to automate the process of cards being added to inventory

You're still trying to look at it from the wrong way. As stated by Tito, trading cards are a way to entice people to play the games more often.

[and that's that]

that's nonsense. people have limited internet and limited space. bundles can include many games that a person has played before or does not want to install at all. some old indie games that have cards cannot be installed anymore, they show an error message if you try to download them. all what you're doing is allowing people to cheat the system by making programs that emulate steam and get the card drops.

[Brian9824]

引用自 sandvich make me strong：

that's nonsense. people have limited internet and limited space. bundles can include many games that a person has played before or does not want to install at all. some old indie games that have cards cannot be installed anymore, they show an error message if you try to download them. all what you're doing is allowing people to cheat the system by making programs that emulate steam and get the card drops.

And? Versus your suggestion of having a way to cheat the system automatically be done?

It doesn;t change the fact that it IS an incentive to play the games you bought. Whether you have limited internet doesn't change that and if anything is MORE of an incentive. After all someone who was indecisive might pick the game with cards left to d/l instead of another game WITHOUT cards.

[Crazy Tiger]

引用自 sandvich make me strong：

that's nonsense. people have limited internet and limited space. bundles can include many games that a person has played before or does not want to install at all. some old indie games that have cards cannot be installed anymore, they show an error message if you try to download them. all what you're doing is allowing people to cheat the system by making programs that emulate steam and get the card drops.

None of that has any actual meaning when it comes to bonus items.

[and that's that]

also my suggestion has nothing to do with enticing people to play their games, you can still play the game after u get it if you you want the cards now, my suggestion is 1 year for it to become automatically available. by that point a game having cards or not does not matter, it's silly to assume that it's going to be a binary decision by just playing the old games that have cards over the ones that don't. even if you were right about cards enticing a person to play a game after 1 year, you can't apply this to an entire library, you'll run into the same problem of cards being too hard to get and you'll have to cheat with third party software

[and that's that]

引用自 Crazy Tiger：

引用自 sandvich make me strong：

that's nonsense. people have limited internet and limited space. bundles can include many games that a person has played before or does not want to install at all. some old indie games that have cards cannot be installed anymore, they show an error message if you try to download them. all what you're doing is allowing people to cheat the system by making programs that emulate steam and get the card drops.

None of that has any actual meaning when it comes to bonus items.

you're under estimating the impact of steam cards, all levels, gems, and crafting system on steam come from steam cards,there's huge spending on cards, many users have thousands of levels, steam makes a lot from fees

it's laughable to say they are for enticing people to play games, big bulks of cards come from automated accounts that farm cards using third party software

[Crazy Tiger]

引用自 sandvich make me strong：

引用自 Crazy Tiger：

None of that has any actual meaning when it comes to bonus items.

you're under estimating the impact of steam cards, all levels, gems, and crafting system on steam come from steam cards,there's huge spending on cards, many users have thousands of levels, steam makes a lot from fees

it's laughable to say they are for enticing people to play games, big bulks of cards come from automated accounts that farm cards using third party software

I'm not. I know all that stuff is a moneymaker for Valve. But it also doesn't change that you want the free bonus stuff (the drops) without any doing any effort.

You can create all the fluff you want around your suggestion, but that's in the end the core.

Edit: corrected some thick finger on mobile errors.

[and that's that]

having an extremely outdated and difficult system that forces people to use third party cheat software is not fluff. but okay whatever man

[Brian9824]

引用自 sandvich make me strong：

having an extremely outdated and difficult system that forces people to use third party cheat software is not fluff. but okay whatever man

Except its not difficult at all. Play the game, get cards. Its about as easy as possible.

[and that's that]

easy if you play the game the same day you buy it and have a very fast internet and enough time in your day. i prefer to have it in a more general way that suits more than a small group of users