Steam Trading Cards discussion

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Sat Jun 20, 2015 12:01 am

Two Digits added. For such a simple idea, I've enjoyed it so far, but I particularly like casual straightforward puzzles.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 8:31 am

Smoove_B wrote:Hey, no one ever said working at the card mines was going to be easy.

AGAIN! Well done.

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 11:42 pm

Monument and Rebuild 3 added. Between the sale and the 2-hour thing, I am already way behind in the card mines.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 8:56 am

Yeah, getting the initial drop for Infested Planet happened at exactly the 2 hour mark. What's more interesting though is that the next two drops happened over the next 60 minutes. Not sure if I was just lucky or if it was a fluke, but that's not something I remember happening before the refund change. I'll definitely try to keep track when I'm working towards the next set of drops...

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 11:36 am

I saw yesterday where one developer said their drop time after the two hour mark was 5-10 minutes.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 1:06 pm

Ok, for Knights of Pen and Paper +1 the first card dropped at 2.1 hours. Second one dropped at 2.6 hours, the third and final card at 3.1 hours. Historically speaking, I'm used to seeing full card drops in the 4-5 hour range, so other than the initial drop taking longer, maybe this new trend will work out better (if it's not a fluke).

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 3:47 pm

Except that I historically was having all cards drop in 1.5-2.5 hours if there were less than 5. But if the 2-hour delay causes some developers to lower their time to drop, we could see little net wait. I think it will continue to vary but in general take a lot longer than before.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Wed Jun 24, 2015 2:39 pm

Same exact pattern for Jazzpunk. 2.1, 2.6 and 3.1 hours for the three drops. I have one left to test and like the other two, it's 3 drops on a 6 card badge.

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Wed Jun 24, 2015 10:23 pm

Anomaly Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign added.

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 4:01 pm

If you like card mining, I think I've found a bearable way to live with the two hour thing. We long ago discovered that you could run multiple games at once, and they might drop a few cards, but for some reason they often would stop dropping or drop too late that way. Don't know why. However, running multiple games at once does appear to run up the play time clock for all of them, so when you are going to leave your computer, launch three or four games, whatever your processor can handle. Then when you come back more than 2 hours later, you can close them and relaunch one at a time. They should each drop cards at the old rate at that point, maybe even dropping the first card almost immediately.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 5:49 am

Sorta related to this......is there a way to list your sellable inventory items by what they are worth? Its takes SO much time to go one by one and check what they are selling for. Id sell stuff that is worth something more than like 0.50

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 9:17 am

I don't believe so, no. The initial wave of sales is going to take some time, but what do you expect? No one said working in the card mines was going to be easy. The trick then (once you sell off that initial haul) is to then stay on top of it as yo are given booster or game drops. I mean, when you click on the object you want to sell, it will tell you what the current offerings are. Put yours up for $.01 less. It really is that easy.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 9:23 am

I go to the inventory page. Clicking on the card will show you a box on the left that will show:

View in Community Market
Starting at: $0.xx
Volume: x sold in the last 24 hours

followed by a Sell button.

I will usually Ctrl-click the View in Community Market to load a page that will tell me if there are a few or hundreds selling for the Starting at: price. Then I'll hit Sell from the inventory page, and post it either at Seller Pays: the Starting at: price or a penny below it.

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:25 pm

Yep to those suggestions.

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 9:44 pm

Steel Storm Burning Retribution added.

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 10:43 am

Bedlam added. One of the more interesting indie FPS early access I've seen.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 1:21 pm

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - GotY Edition added

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 5:37 pm

Fearless Fantasy added.

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:53 pm

Shutter added. And Star Chronicles Delta Quadrant which pretty much just came out anyway.

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 12:45 pm

Haunted added.

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 3:02 pm

You Are Not a Banana added.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 3:17 pm

Back to the old game of making up names, eh? See if everyone's awake?

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 3:23 pm

I'M A BANANA!

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 1:21 am

Today I was trying to send 22 cards from one account to another account, and the trade failed and only kicked 8 cards back to the first account. The rest disappeared. Sometimes I hate Steam community.

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 4:38 am

Okay, to their credit, support did respond within 24 hours and give back the right number of cards, although some were a bit random and not the same cards that were lost.

EDIT: Oops, I was wrong, they are all the right ones. Maybe they magically reappeared on their own like 20 hours later. Weird.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 1:16 pm

In a move that should surprise no one following this thread, Warhammer® 40,000™: Dawn of War® II added.

EDIT: With 13 hours already logged into the game, I picked up three drops in 30 minutes -- one of which was a foil. That's what makes this all worthwhile. Let's see how much someone is willing to pay...

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 3:56 am

One Night added.

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 1:54 am

Super Furball added.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:27 am

The answer for the DoW II foil was $0.85 in case anyone was wondering. Lord do I miss the early days of the trading cards program.

But yes, I think I picked up all six card drops in under an hour, having already logged 13 hours into the game after they added the trading cards.

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 4:00 pm

Vortex Attack added.

Zenn7 · Post by **Zenn7** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:18 am

Is DOW 2 have to be the base game?

I was playing DOW2:Retribution because I had it installed and hadn't completed all the missions, so it was quick to turn on, played a little, let it running. I had over 10 hours in and left it running for hours, actually played a mission and tried to play the Last Stand MP (but I had huge lag, probably need to turn the graphics WAY down or something). Point being though, never got a card.

Haven't made much money from the cards, but I did buy one game for $1.49 during summer sale w/ card money and think I bought 1 game for a buck or less before (maybe it was a couple dollars). Currently have ~$2.50 from it.

Also - do you have to have bought the game on Steam or can you add a non-steam game to your library and play it through Steam and get cards? (I have the CD for DOW 1, not on Steam though).

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:28 am

You have to have bought it through Steam, and the Dawn of War cards are base games only.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 7:40 am

Zenn7 wrote: (I have the CD for DOW 1, not on Steam though).

Good news then -- you can add Dawn of War II to your STEAM account by entering the CD key. See here.

Zenn7 · Post by **Zenn7** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 11:09 pm

Smoove_B wrote:
Zenn7 wrote: (I have the CD for DOW 1, not on Steam though).
Good news then -- you can add Dawn of War II to your STEAM account by entering the CD key. See here.

Thanks! (And thanks JF for confirming it's the base game only).

My base DOW 1 game, got it off Ebay (wife got it for me, got it twice by mistake). It was cheap, but it was some international copy or something, key's not in the right format. Even though it doesn't get cards, wishing the later versions were supported. Might try them anyway if I can find my CD's/keys. I think have all the DOW 1 xpansions - definitely have the last 2 where you picked a faction to battle for a planet (and later, the whole system). Loved that game! DOW2 is cool, but definitely preferred the first 1. Just easier to have them on Steam rather than look for the CD's. Wish Heroes of MM 5 and it's xpacs were on that list too. Nice to have it through Steam and not have to dig out the CD's to install/play which I like to do once in a blue moon.

Zenn7 · Post by **Zenn7** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 12:07 am

Zenn7 wrote:
Smoove_B wrote:
Zenn7 wrote: (I have the CD for DOW 1, not on Steam though).
Good news then -- you can add Dawn of War II to your STEAM account by entering the CD key. See here.
Thanks! (And thanks JF for confirming it's the base game only).

My base DOW 1 game, got it off Ebay (wife got it for me, got it twice by mistake). It was cheap, but it was some international copy or something, key's not in the right format. Even though it doesn't get cards, wishing the later versions were supported. Might try them anyway if I can find my CD's/keys. I think have all the DOW 1 xpansions - definitely have the last 2 where you picked a faction to battle for a planet (and later, the whole system). Loved that game! DOW2 is cool, but definitely preferred the first 1. Just easier to have them on Steam rather than look for the CD's. Wish Heroes of MM 5 and it's xpacs were on that list too. Nice to have it through Steam and not have to dig out the CD's to install/play which I like to do once in a blue moon.

What the heck, thought I'd give my key a shot. It worked. Soulstorm key worked too (only my base game key was foreign, rest were standard US retail purchases). Winter Assault key did not work. Couldn't find the Dark Crusade CDs/manual (key) to try it. Much as I loved playing Dark Crusade (think I complete it w/ all factions at least once), if I play again, I'd play Soulstorm. Though I loved having massive built up bases in DC, so counterattacks were promptly defeated, Soulstorm's approach made more sense (except I though your capital/home should have gotten some base bonus automatically...

). And I have not played through all the factions on this. Think I did Spaces Marines, Chaos, Orks, started Imperial Infantry (GI? the non-space marines human faction), don't recall if I finished that one. And my fav races, the Tau and the Necron. Enjoyed them in Dark Crusade the most. Never a big Eldar fan. Dark Eldar didn't appeal much, nor the Sisters. Might have to play this again...

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 12:37 am

Glad you got some of that stuff added. There are a handful of games from around 2011-ish that I had before realizing you could enter keys into Steam. I've made a few physical purchases since, aware that I'd never need the disk, just the key (Portal 2 and Dishonored come to mind).

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 2:27 pm

The Tiny Bang Story added. Nice little adventure-lite that isn't set up like most hidden object games. Also, No Time to Explain has been added as a Remastered version, while the developer has released a why-the-original-sucked blog.

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 2:48 pm

Clandestinity of Elsie and Immune added.

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 6:37 pm

JetFred wrote:
As of now, he has over 3,000 games in his profile.
Give me two months. But ain't no way I'm wasting all that credit crafting badges.

Make that a month and a half.

And as you can see, Steam has now granted me a title that is much more fitting than "Gaming God" at 2,000. Because, yes, that means this...

JetFred wrote:
Pyperkub wrote:
Smoove_B wrote:10,000,000 added.
I don't think even JetFred has that many steam games. ..

...was only 7.5 months ago. I assure you that if I knew the actual amount I have spent since then, those games came out to less than $0.40 each.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 7:14 pm

You really are in another league.