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It's a shame Steam changed the card drop rate

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drewmb10

I can understand why Steam had to increase the amount of time for cards to drop, but it's hard for someone like me who relies on buying and selling cards to build my steam wallet. I've been idling Antisquad now for 6 hours and it still hasn't given me all my drops.

I am, however, thrilled that Steam introduced the refund system. I bought Metro: Last Light Redux last week, encountered a bug at the 4 hour playtime mark to where I couldn't progress anymore, and I've already been refunded for it. With that being said, I guess I'm happy to wait a little longer for my cards to drop if I have the ability to get a broken game refunded.

8 years ago

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Do you ever buy games just for the card drops?

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Used to... not anymore though
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dingdongcat

Good they changed it.

8 years ago
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TacDrol

A single hour of work at minimum wage yields more money than selling a hundred cards. Why anyone gives so much shit about cards is beyond me. Just spending the time of placing those cards on the market could've been spent on earning actual money on an actual job, go work for a day and earn enough money to cover a thousand cards. It literally doesn't even matter where you go to work or how well you do or how much you dislike it, you go for one day and you'll get paid for it.

I did get lucky once and sold a foil card for 25$, but that was an exceptionally rare case, it's not worth spending time on this stuff and especially not worth getting angry over any changes made.

8 years ago
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drewmb10

I realize this and I also have a good paying full time job. I do it because it's fun--like a mini stock market game. I spend my own money on things like mortgages, car payments, etc. I spend what I make from cards on video games.

8 years ago
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TacDrol

I know, I enjoy selling cards as well and I admit that I spend a bit more time that I should on it, but when people start complaining about a slight change to prevent refund abuse it starts to get on my nerves that people do that. There are better ways that Valve could've handled this, but this is the safest and simplest way.

8 years ago
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drewmb10

I probably did come off a little bit complain-y, but you also must have missed the part where I said I am glad they made the changes. I agree with you - without them the refund system would be defunct. I'm just a little bummed I can't do things the way I've done in the past.

8 years ago
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imelman

I agree. People just are too greedy. Or poor. People who are poor sell the cards and say no to crafting badges. Those who are rich disagree with them claiming that you will get nothing if you don't spend. Well,i had 1 friend that needed free stuff,so i linked him to tremorgames,and...guess what? Now we are enemies. Because he was too greedy,and needed even the smallest money to buy games with. He didn't even realized that he literally can't buy good games because he thinks tremor is only way. And because he thinks that money is good. He's wrong. I will not say his name because its a name and shame.

8 years ago
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TacDrol

So what exactly happened that made you enemies?

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imelman

He was possesed by the greed,removing me from friendlist,and started begging on his friendlist...even worse,he refused to say thanks and so on...While good people atleast thank you or say feedback about it,he decided just to use the site for just a handful of games and earning money with it,even though having a job gives more than just sitting on that site and trading stuff/playing almost worthless games. The tremor is a good site,but only(and sadly)for those who can spend well like me. Not those who are extremely poor.

8 years ago
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Mully

take it as a hobby, like someone collecting real life cards (magic the gathering) and trading them. even if it doesn't give any profit, it's fun.

8 years ago
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imelman

I buy games for pleasure. Not for cards. People buy cheapest games for cards,thats it. Or anime games for them. But my main priority is pleasure over cards.
Also,the update to card drop was about 1 day ago. Still,even if the game had non store origin(i.e bundle),it takes atleast 2 hours to get drops.

8 years ago
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Mully

i bought crap games for cards, because i like to level up :3

8 years ago
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ExistsInAccount

Refunding such a game because of a bug? After such minor time?
I'd load previous save/look for patch to fix it.

8 years ago
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Closed 8 years ago by drewmb10.