Remember the Steam Gems?

Why don't you use keys?

Sometimes makeing Booster Packs but ....In the soon 4 years (the first two year not counting - low lvl) and at 67 lvl I have got only one or two booster packs and every day I'm on Steam. Maybe I need to press exit of Steam in the upper left corner and not press X in the upper right corner every day??!

Had a bug about those gems that make some guys make a nice profit kek :>

I only deal in gems as Steam currency since I don't care about keys at all. Gems are clean, have actual use, and are as stable as a currency.

I haven't done this yet tbh :p

The number depends of your elegible games too i think?
cause i am level 40 and have a drop every week too.

also you get gems by destroying cards and icons, so why would you do that?
destroying cards to get boosters?

only thing you may be right is trading games.
there you got a pretty solid currency with gems.

I've only used gems to make some booster packs i've wanted cards from for myself (was cheaper than buying the cards themselves since i had lots of really cheap cards with good gems value), don't really have another use for them since i've never got into trading.

Sometimes i use gems to making booster pack. Creating Undertale booster pack is 100% profit.

I buy gems to make expensive booster packs.

Last X-mas was absolutely amazing. Adventure Time: Secret of the Nameless Kingdom booster packs were around $3, and the common cards were ~$0.6 with foils ranging at $5-10 each. With a pack of a set with only 5 cards, crafting the pack only costied 1200 gems, I should have been profiting around $1-2 once every 24 hours. However, my luck was absolutely abnormal with the pack openings. I opened about 8-10 foil cards out of at least 20 packs (opened enough to craft the level 5 badge on two accounts).

Hopefully this system stays forever, as I have been crafting the expensive Undertale boosters.

Yes I trade for Gems all the time. My favorite currency since it got introduced.
I then either sell them or trade them again for games I want.
Like someone mentioned, not everyone has keys, while Gems are easy to come by, either by purchasing them or crafting them (converting items into Gems)
Plus, most of the bundle games are not worth keys (unless higher tier) so trading for Gems is more reasonable and undestandable. And on the plus side Sacks can be broken so you can specify the exact price, for example 1.5 Sacks.
Instead of dealing with refs or Tods for additional payment, that again not everyone has.

Edit: Also cards are a pain in the ***. I hate when people offer them to me. They either have those 0.04 - 0.05 cards that are not worth selling on nit pick on the number of cards if they have 0.10 - 0.08 cards. Also, the value fluctuates all the time. I once took a card that later dropped from 0.10 to 0.05. Don't accept them for trading any more.

I don't make boostee packs because they aren't coat effective, if I ever get enough gems I will. I hate that they don't combine though, It's so annoying.

I feel they could be used for getting exact change like when a game is worth $7 and you want to trade with exact change when you have 2 keys and X amount of gems

Personally, I trade only for gems and don't accept any trading cards for a long time. It's a way to easy to me.

depends

I always have a sack of gems in my inventory, as every other common trade item. you have to be prepared these days.