Steam Trading Cards scenario; what will happen when . . .

Prices skyrocket.

Games are cheap, make an alt. Cards will never run out unless they lock all further drops

Gaben will be giving away more cards for random users.

They will probably change the way you get cards.

I think they will be adding more series of trading cards.

You can see on your badges that it says «1 out of 10», Series 1. Eventually , cards would never stop since they could always make another batch of cards. This would make the first ones become rarer and so on

Max stable card cost is the sale price of the game divided by number of card drops for the game. Most expensive cards per worth of game right now is HL2, I think, but prices will plummet next time HL2 goes on sale.

I think it's impossible, since you can always get new cards if you buy stuff in TF2 or Dota2.

As long as new users are joining to Steam/buying games every day, I think this isn't gonna happen (unless they start adding cards to games like Wolfenstein, Prey etc.)

Simple. They release a new series. Right now, Series 1 cards are dropping, and when card drops get too slow, they'll release Series 2, resetting everyone's drops.

Once it goes live for everyone cards for common games (e.g. Team Fortress 2) will skyrocket down because of cards on the market.

While on the subject of cards. Do people actually buy foils?

New games appear every week, so every week will mean new badges to collect.

What can happen is that people will see this whole stuff is BS and stop caring about it.

Is there any way to create free accounts and get free drops? because you have to have bought all of the games, right? i know there's tf2 which is f2p, but you have to have bought it or bought ingame items, no?