lol
If you were smart about it you could pay a lot less for winning auctions than for those games during discounts.
But yeah, show us how above us you are, oh why we're just simple peasants not worthy of such king like you basking in respect all days long.
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1020 gems for 10$ game, I'm #8. might increase more, but even then I can use these gems for booster or make a sack if I'm not winning. Sacks are increasing in price.
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I totally misunderstood how the auctions worked so I gem'ed all my stuff to try and win Dark Souls 2 xD
I was in the #76th spot out of 100 so I thought I was going to win a copy...
Ready the FAQ... didn't understand it... chronic headaches make understand things difficult sometimes.
Good luck to everyone else though :D
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I have 1 gem bid in about 40 games, to make it easier to watch their prices, but I'm not really expecting to win anything until at least the 20th round. By then, the gems should be thinned out a bit and maybe I'll have a shot to turn my 8k gems into a game (or hopefully two). I'm not shooting for anything flashy, but there are a number of bundle games I missed, or just games that aren't that expensive.
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I'm not bothering with the auction. I don't have enough gems to even come close to a first place bid and I'm certainly not buying packs of 1000 for 90+ cents each. At that price I might as well either just buy the games or wait for the sale prices and get them at 1/4 of the price or cheaper or just wait for them to be in bundles and get them even cheaper than that.
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Made loads of money by using my gems to create boosters for the most rare games / cards and sold those cards. Much better than spending them on some game you won't even win anyways.
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The thing is people have (or had) no idea yet how much those gems would be worth in the Steam economy. You don't need to have an IQ of 150 to realize that the way this "auction" works makes it near impossible to win. If it was something like the 100 best bets win the game (which is actually how it at first seemed to me until I read the rules) this would make a whole lot more sense to vote. But like this, with only the guy who bets the most winning one of 100 copies, there is no sense. Just like on ebay and the like it's stupid to vote before the auction is even close to ending. It just brings up the price.
So if I take a short look at the market it won't take long to realize your gems are spent best in creating boosters for rare gems. Even by selling those 3-cent items nobody ever bought before I made a good 1-2 Euro. By buying cheap cards, creating the badges and selling items that came out (or turning into gems if worth it), especially the winter cards that are still like 20 cents I easily made something like 20+ Euro. People are just stupid and don't think. I will easily get my holiday badge when the sale comes to and end as the prices will tumble, as well as I will get those cards again I sold now for a very high price once the game gets bundled or whatnot and the price goes down to something like 5 cents again instead of 6-times as much.
TLDR: I made enough money from turning gems into boosters to afford games from the auctions by simply buying from my earnings on the market.
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i bid on one game that i really want but isn't particularly popular. i slowly raised my bid while checking my # in the list until i got far enough i have a decent chance of winning while still not putting a large number of gems in. if i don't win, i'm that much closer to my next booster pack and might buy it during the sale.
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yeah but if i can win the 50th copy for 1/4 the bid of the first copy, i'd rather do that. it tells you which number you are, and 1-100 all get a copy, so providing for others to outbid me later i just upped a little at a time until my number was small enough i'd probably get it. if i just said i was willing to bid 10,000 gems, it would have made me #1 right away and it would have cost me a lot more gems. i don't think i'm going to increase my bid any further even though my number has actually gone UP by 1 now that 6 of the 100 copies have been awarded.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpTm3D5Dq74
Post scriptum : It's a phishing link...
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Nothing. I sold (or turn into gem and sold) 1500 backgrounds and emoticons (that I got for $0.3 TOTAL few months ago) for $60. And that's with me selling them 3 hours ago when the first auction's over. If I sell them now I'd get like $75, and the price is still rising too :|. Was planning on using the money for winter sale but probably should have saved some gems, some games have really low bids, and keep on dropping. But hell, whatever. $60 for stuff that I got for $0.3 is still absurd. Thank you volvo :D
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Yes, I also just realized that. The games that I wanted aren't in the auction but should be in the winter sale, so there's that too. (Now watch the games don't go on sale at winter)
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I won Towerfall and most likely winning Moto GP this round.
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If guys want to get the auction badge for the sake of only getting the auction badge, try competing for Fish Fillet 2 (1800 Gems) or Hacker Evolution (2003 Gems) currently at the time of this post.
Oh, according to my intuition, Auctioneers will be somewhat more relaxed and off-guard at 40 - 60 bidding than at 1 - 30 or 70 - 100. the 90 - 100 would be especially brutal. Idiots will buy over priced gems ~2-5 USD a piece and bid ridiculous amount just to win the fucking auction when they can easily buy the game more cheaper...
Lastly, time your bids properly. If you feel the bidding is getting higher than the previous completed bidding, that's not a good sign. The next auction sets would probably start to cost more.
P.S. Impatience is your worse enemy.
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totally agree on the impatience thing. the need to win is also your enemy. i'm sure the more popular games are going to require spending money rather than just recycling your existing stuff in order to win, and it wouldn't surprise me if people spent more money on stuff they could turn into gems than the game's price during the sale.
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What did you win, if anything?
What's your tactics to make sure you win?
I'm in line to maybe, potentially, if all goes well, win something in round 10 or so... let's see how that goes :-)
Update: pulled my gems out and sold 1k yesterday, and just put another 1k on the market, I'm left with 122 gems now... meaning I didn't win, and will not win, but would've won if I had left my 2k on the game I was originally bidding on (Prophour23, wishlisted).
I see lots of you were luckier, or just simply better at it. It's amazing what you guys are winning! :-)
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