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PsyKo

So, rumors say in a bit over a week Summer Sale starts. Which probably means Event Cards. Does anyone knows how long before Sales those cards appeared previously - was that always like "10 days earlier", or was that totally random and with every sale it was different number of days?

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Danielsg

Expect it to be a week before the sale starts. Given steam's history, expect updates, changes, sale starts, etc. at thursday 10am PST. If sale starts june 11th, cards/badge will probably be appearing at that time on june 4th

Disclaimer: I speculate.

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PsyKo

Are you totally speculating, or was that a trend in previous sales?

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Danielsg

Speculating because valve's gonna valve, but my speculation is based on past experiences.

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PsyKo

As long as it's not info out of the bottom :)

Thanks for sharing.

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Jastrzap

Is he speculating or is he telling the truth hidde under the skin of speculation ?

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PsyKo

Well, you never know what valve will do. He doesn't have Steam-Employee badge, so I'm guessing he doesn't have inside info, so he can only speculate :P

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shuda89

don think summer sale will have card

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TheBigKahunas

How DARE you???? :)) 80 % of steam users will be so pissed, another 19 would be really angry

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djsupcz

And that 1%?

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KaintukeeBob

Don't you know? The 1% give no fucks about anything.

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MrFuturehope

Would crumble into a little ball and cry in the corner?

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YourCat

and pee on their self because they lost all life motivation

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belognom

1% is Illuminati, you would never know

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AzureFang

Looks like the start date, June 11, was leaked by a Russian dev... just like last year. And if it's anything like last year, and the year before, there will be cards. It really makes Steam/Valve too much extra money in market fees; I'd bet on cards being part of it this year, again, but my grandfather always taught me that betting on a sure thing was rude.

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PsyKo

Last year it was 19th (unless you mean last year Russian leak, then I don't know when they spilled the beans). Yeah, I really hope for those cards.

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GoCanes

I was assuming the 11th because all my coupons that can stack with sales prices expire on the 10th

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C4nn1b4l

If they start to drop earlier, i think better wait for the sale. if Valve makes some event like last year, you need to complete sets daily. so making all the sets you have before the event start a huge missed opportunity

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PsyKo

Unless there won't be an event, just like there wasn't during winter sale...

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Fnord

If they start to drop early, that would probably be the best time to sell them. Wait until the sale has been going for a few days, and the market gets over-saturated, and buy back any cards that you should and that you need. The chance of winning anything from these events have been so small that it might as well be considered 0. Yes, even lower than winning GTA V in a public level 0 giveaway here.

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Hageshisa

Steam Summer Getaway
Cards added: 2013.07.03 | Sale started: 2013.07.11

Holiday Sale 2013
Cards added: 2013.12.10 | Sale started: 2013.12.19

Steam Summer Adventure 2014
Cards added: 2014.06.10 | Sale started: 2014.06.19

Holiday Sale 2014
Cards added: 2014.12.11 | Sale started: 2014.12.18

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DominusFerrus

good info, thanks - btw. so as soon the Event-Cards drop you'll get an extra card for each badge?

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Hageshisa

Yes, that's how it worked in the last 2 years.

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YourCat

well i hope, i managed to collect 96 full card set for that event :P

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DominusFerrus

good to know, now i only need to figure when the price for event cards is the highest :-D guessing 21- 30 cent (€) will do

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Hageshisa

It mostly depends on the item rewards. Last time there weren't any, which made the event cards very cheap.

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JoaoWho

Awesome input, thanks for the info!

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Hageshisa

Got the info from here :)

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PsyKo

Big thanks.

So, in general there's no fixed date and they can appear at any moment now.

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Hageshisa

I'd say it's either Thursday or tomorrow, but we'll see.

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Unanis

So, probably today can start dropping Mysterious cards.

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DownwardConcept

I'm a newbie, would someone mind telling me how exactly this works? All I know for now is that you can craft badges during sale to get the event cards, but someone said crafting badges could also be for daily quests.

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PsyKo

1) When Sale Cards appear, they are crafted instead of coupons.
2) Before last Winter Sale, there were some events where you got some rewards for crafting Event Badges (mostly F2P-games items) or in one case even standard badge gave you chance for win (not much - even biggest public giveaway here has more chances of being won)
3) During Winter Sale 2014 there were no incentive to craft badges beside e-peen, so nobody knows what will happen during this sale.
3.5) Good indicator if Sale will have event or not will be if you can craft Summer Badge before sale - if you can, that probably means it's just sale, with no quests or rewards

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DownwardConcept

Thanks for the detailed reply! So your advice would be to see if there are any events and if not craft them when sale starts to get the sale cards? I got some sets ready, only need to know when the best timing would be for crafting the badges.

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PsyKo

Well, it's hard to say.
If there's no event, Event Cards value will drop so much, crafting badges won't give much profit and in most cases it would be smarter to just sell normal cards instead of crafting them to get Event Card.

Of course, nobody knows for sure if there will be event. Only tip that might say if there will be something more would be if Event Cards will be able to change into badge before Sale, or will they be called with some secret names until sale. Secret name (like "mysterious card") will mean there's 90% of chances for event. If card names will be known right away, that's 90% chances of no event.

If secret names - you probably can wait. If known right away - either don't craft at all or craft ASAP and sell.

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PandaTacos

I have almost all cads, I currently have 9 out of 10! :p

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belognom

oh dear, I had almost 30 of each :)) I kept 10sets for the bagde and sold the rest while they are pricey. Made around $ 20 :))

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