Idle Master is NOT a hack

[dantedmc27]

Hi a few people have been saying that idle master is a hack and thay won't believe me so can someone explain in this discussion how idle master works so I can show them that it isnt. Thanks :)

[MrL0G1C]

Idle Master reads your steam badge page which says on each game how many card drops are remaining.

Then Idle Master tells steam that 1 or more games are playing. It re-reads the badge page occasionally to see if there are still drops remaining.

That's it. Steam drops the cards for games being played. Steam only drops half a badge set per game regardless of whether or not you use Idle Master (or other card farming software).

This Idle Master group discussions board is here on the Valve/Steam servers, it's been here for years. If Valve had anything against Idle Master then I think they would have said something by now, but it wouldn't make sense for them to do anything because 'whales' (like me) buy huge numbers of games so why upset them unnecessarily?

[Sirr John]

ive used it years ago and no ban so far. thinking of using it again but im too paranoid xD but probably will use it soon yeah.

[MrL0G1C]

PS it's extremely unlikely that Valve would take action against anybody just for using Idle Master. Valve know about card farming. They have dealt with a couple of publishers who have abused card farming, but that's because of the other things those publishers did like fake game reviews, threaten customers and release dozens of nearly identical asset flips.