To those that care about the trading card beta...

Hmm, not into the trading of cards myself, so sorry. But no feedback here...

Posted a wall of text in your discussion :3

But by tomorrow your thread will be buried by begging threads.

I'd suspect the current system is set into place to bypass abusers / idlers / people with multiple accounts. In the faq, they pretty much say that they were going to tie the badges with achievements, but they stopped themselves in part because of how much the system has been abused in the past. Maybe they'll tweak the formula, but if I had things my way, the whole damned thing would be achievement based and not "let's see how much time / money / trading you'll put forth for your e-peen".

I dislike this idea, but less than I dislike the current beta, so...

is the multiplayer campaign ever going to release?

Current system is so bad, I would expect it happen on Origin. It's one big money grab from Valve. They allow you to get 10% of cards required to craft level 5 badge, forcing you to either abandon rest of badges to trade cards and you still must buy cards on market because there isn't much chance you'll find enough people to trade for only thing you can get on Steam for "free" - metal (err, don't know if DOTA2 has some kind of metal for item crafting, which would make it two).

Either Valve will change everything about cards, or everyone will forget about it in a month or two.

I like it. I hate the current system, and if it's unchanged I just won't use the trading cards. If a system like yours were implemented, I would start collecting cards again and probably have a good deal of fun with them.

As long as the cards are rare enough, this system would be an improvement. People spend a lot of time on their Steam games, so if the cards were made too common, they would become worthless rather quickly. Dopefish is right about the issues with idling. But I would rather have those to deal with than the current system's issues.

uh,to much to read,i'll pass!

If you own the game, you should automatically unlock all of the emoticons associated with it.

Or be rewarded with emoticons through individual achievements or events in the game.

My idea.

the no more drops wall makes trading cards not last very long at all. i had done all i could within 24 hours of getting into the beta, and now with a shortage of cards and no card badges at all, i'm left waiting for people who don't care about the cards at all (versus me who barely cares because i want extra profile features) to want to trade cards i don't have yet for my extra bundle games. that's not fun at all -- it's boring and frustrating.

before the trading cards, i'd legitimately played over 40 hours of portal 2, 80 of tf2, and 25 of half-life 2. i also have 47/51 portal 2 achievements, 33/33 half-life 2 achievements, and 217/448 tf2 achievements. it's disappointing that none of that mattered, especially in the case of half-life 2 which i had no reason to actually play again.

so overall, the new profile design is better (hooray for less all-caps!) but the cards themselves are far too limited yet also too easy to get by leaving the game up overnight or while you go out to dinner. since i don't have any card-created badges i don't know what a level 5 badge is, but it sort of sounds like collecting a complete set 5 times, which makes the amount of cards even less adequate.

Personally, I only blame the abusers for the current system.

I'd rather see either:

1. Cards dropping at an exponential rate per game, e.g. first drop within an hour, second withing two hours additional, then four, eight, etc. Combined with idle-detection this way it will reward players who actually play the game.
2. That the first drops are always unique and afterwards you only drop those cards. This would encourage trading but would probably make market prices drop drastically.
3. Just reset the damned limit every now and then!

Of course both of these ideas would reduce the income for Valve so I guess it is unlikely.