Steam Gems Auction - what did you win?

I won "The flying dutchman" I had no idea what it was, apparently it's one the worst games on steam. I paid 1300 gems for that and that's around 1,20€ for a game worth nothing. I bought 600 0,03€ backgrounds when the event started so I could afford it, I had a lot of fun with this auction thing.

I won 8 booster packs

I won nothing as I see it as a waste. Some of the games that were auctioned off went for more than their non-sale value in gems. So ... just selling my stuff to those desperate enough to get gems for the auctions. That's my strategy. :D

Nancy Drew: Tomb of the Lost Queen. Waiting on this round to get closer to decide what to bid on next. I have a decent chunk of gems from selling emoticons and backgrounds I didn't want anyway, plus what I picked up off the market for cheap earlier.

I'm still only going for things I actually want that'd be "cheaper" to score via an auction, even if I haven't spent a penny. :p

edit: Just got Tales From The Dragon Mountain: The Strix too. ^^
edit 2: The Egyptian Prophecy: The Fate of Ramses
edit 3: Planet Stronghold
edit 4: Cheesecake Cool Conrad
edit 5: Leona's Tricky Adventures - I think I'm out. Nothing left to sell/convert without idling, and I won't have time (not around tomorrow :< ).

Max Payne 3 :D

• Disney Princess: My Fairytale Adventure
• Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey
• Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey
• Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek
• Disney Fairies: Tinker Bell's Adventure
• Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink

And moaar games:

• Midnight Mysteries: Witches of Abraham - Collector's Edition
• Disney The Princess and the Frog
• Brink of Consciousness: Dorian Gray Syndrome Collector's Edition
• Dark Arcana: The Carnival

Just got Magnetic By Nature (new indie platformer, never on sale) for 2100 gems :D.. Can't wait to play it tomorrow ^^.

Astebreed and Jack Keane 2 - The Fire Within :D

Rage Runner with 1500 gems (from backgrounds and emoticons) and I'm happy with this much.

:D

Since I had only 1630 gems, I checked che lower bids and tried to outbid just at the last second... but everyone did the same and I was easily outbid everytime and I immediately (after 10 seconds Steam let you do so) canceled the bid...

So I decided to put the whole bunch of gems I had on one of those cheap games which I actually would play and keep the bid there: I think that if one of the cheap games goes up early enough, there are fewer chances that in the last seconds someone else, who is targeting lower bids, will found that game at the beginning of the list... and that would be a problem because all those games seems to skyrocket to 1600 and over!

This is just a theory though...

EDIT: I have just seen someone winning the same game for 1200 gems, maybe bids are just dropping.

Ok, I was wrong. I did win a copy of Sacred 3. I'll make my own judgements on if it's good or not. But I now own the entire Sacred series.

I won a badge for participating in an auction. I think I should quit while I'm ahead

Just won Nancy Drew: Tomb of the Lost Queen xD

Shadowrun Online - 6k gem

it giv deluxe pack gift worh 49.9$ in steam store

Hangeki, but that's a lower bid thing (around 1400-2300), and what I did was put all the gems from junk (about 1400) I had and when that did't work I got a sack for that extra boost. Wound up winning with 510 left over.

Then I aimed for Waves, which cost me about 1100 gems

Raiden III for about 3,100 (I won't be likely to get another sack), then Phoenix force for a similar amount and last is The Waste Land.

Planning on going around 1000k stuff (only cost me a buck each)
Other niche things are at a similar tier, so this might work there, but as far as more popular/AAA stuff.... I wouldn't advise trying. That and I try not to exceed a certain % in real money.

Gunhound Ex and Shatter: Soundtrack edition.

Mostly I just wanted the badge but since I could get those at pretty cheap price so why not. Shatter has pretty good soundtrack.

Defense Technica for 1600 gems, bad reviews but I'll try any TD game.

Lol, that auction is useless and just for showing off that you won a game and maybe (mostly) for the badge you get for winning. If the person REALLY wanted the game they bid on in that auction, they're just buy it outright with money or TF2 Keys.

Hmmm, not sure if "win" is the correct word, somehow. :)

Don't have any tactics, sorry. :) Had a mountain of duplicate emoticons + backgrounds to grind for gems, and bought another mountain of 0.03 stuff that was worth 80 or 100 gems each. I was lucky to have a lot of unpopular games, because if you don't already have a background/emoticon for a game, you can't see what they will give in gems. :) Guess I could turn all my leftover stuff into gems also, but for some reason I want to keep 1 of everything...

Oh, don't forget - being in place #10 doesn't mean you can expect to win the auction by round 10. When I left this morning I was in place 5-10 for about 20 games, and when I got back about 12 hours later I hadn't won anything. :) If you aren't actively monitoring the auction(s) you want to win, someone's going to bid 1 gem more than you did, and get the game. :)

If all you want is the badge, find something cheap and/or terrible and see how much it's going for right now. Decide if you're willing to pay that much for it. :) If you are, bid 1 more than the current highest bid, and repeat as needed until you're the highest bidder. Eventually someone else will outbid you, so keep watching it and bid more as necessary. If the auction is almost over, and you're still the highest bidder, remember you can still bid more yourself - just in case someone tries to snipe it when you won't have time to do anything about it. :) Good luck! :)

I won a lot of expensive booster packs

Holy hell the price for sack of gems is really stupid, wouldn't be surprised if it gets to $2 near the end of the auction. Now I regret even more that I sold my gems early :|

is the gold name permanent?

I've made a few observations of this event which have enticed me, but the effort required is simply not worthwhile.

There are many with less than 150 total bids on them meaning 2/3 of the people will win by the end. Depending on the game, some of these are as low as 1500 which means it'll continue to drop as more people win.

I had the thought of going through and finding all these games with low entries and simply watching them to see if I could snag a game for a couple 100 gems towards the end. The issue with this, is there are going to be many left over gems and people will be desperate to get anything so I've convinced myself it won't be possible. The thing that discouraged me the most has having to sift through 145 pages worth of games in order to do this, they really should have added a filter for games you own as well as a sort by bid.

In the end, neat event although it was not for me. People are overpaying for games and Steam is getting a huge cut from all the sales on the market so it's good for them! I would have enjoyed it more had I not been working when it started as I would have had a chance to make lots of money at the start with the increasing emoticon prices, but oh well!

Tryst - 1110 gems
Woah Dave - 930 gems

Aiming for one more game, then I'll give away/sell whatever gems I have left.