He probably traded normal cards for the holiday cards. its possible to have thousands of regular cards, and since those don't expire poeple would be happy to trade for them.
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people have a lot of money and do whatever they want
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Or have a lot of alt accounts. Three accounts give me lv.5 + $4 from selling cards.
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Badge level 12500 would need all 11 cards 12500 times each; well over 100000 individual cards . You think he sat there and farmed the discovery queues of thousands of accounts? That would take years :P
This is clearly a case of massive buy orders with just pure cash backing them up. There's no other way to obtain that many cards.
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There were scripts that would run through your discovery queue in a couple of seconds.
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Even then, the daily cap of 3 cards would require an astronomical amount of alts to even make a dent in a badge level like in the screenshot above. Even 100 alts farming 3 cards per day would only get you 4200 cards in 2 weeks, this guy would have needed well over 100000 cards for that badge level.
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It was market purchase. PalmDesert got a bit of an uproar at the last sale when he bought up almost the entire market of leftover sale cards. And the other guy is not even making a secret about having tons of money.
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Well you know what they say about fools and money.
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that could apply for someone with a lv30-50 badge, these 2 guys crafted over 10k.
there might be some autocraft script involved because it would be insane to click and wait that much, but i don't doubt they used their own money to get there.
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Check level badge on Palmdesert profile and forgot on any 500 :D
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I just use the left over I have in my wallet, after buying a game, for making badges. Sometimes I sell unwanted emoticons or wallpapers. But spending such a large amount on crafting badge is kinda crazy.
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Believe it or not, they most likely paid for them despite the cost.
Of course they might have earned a lot of the money through trading and stuff since it's easier to obtain Wallet money than real money.
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The thing is those badges have no limit (probably), and there are people who crafted like nearly every single badge possible :D
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I've thought about that possibility too but really doubt it, Steam releases new games with trading cards so frequently that it'll almost always be cheaper to craft any other game badge since holiday sets are extremely expensive. But for lazy and overly rich people it's a good choice since you can just place buy orders in bulk instead of tracking down different games all the time, so you probably have a point :D
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But the highest level account on steam (914) requires 92 badges crafted just to make one level.
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Simple answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULeDlxa3gyc
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so you are saying you saw only about 500 lvl badge??
What about 14141 lvl?
the highest lvl on steam I have ever seen
that's hardcore! XD
or The Cpt Froggy visitor of this site has over 10 000 :P
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He is actually the highest current lvl in all of Steam.
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somehow expected that as people with very high level always add higher level and he doesn't have among his friendlist anyone better :P
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Highest I've seen so far is level 19619 holiday badge
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with that level I bet he receive a booster every 15 seconds...
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Short answer yes.
I don't understand badges myself, but then again, I'm a collector so to criticize them would be 'the kettle calling the pot black' sort of deal :P.
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I don't get it. Why someone will give so much money for badge. ..
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Ok I understand to make some badges for games you like, but this... you say showoff but who cares that you have badge level 500:)
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for the extremly high levels, they can even earn money of this^^ they get much attention so they can for example trade very much or make a product placement,... but for lower levels, i dont understand it as well...
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So it is not only cosmetic. Now have more sense for me:)
About lower level, I am definitely there and my only motivation was to have some background for/from the game I like and afcorse the opportunity which created for my brother to say that I am stupid:)
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I believe that the higher your steam level is, the more chance you have to get a booster drop. I'm not sure if there is a limit, but if there isn't, people with a super high level, probably get multiple boosters per day, which they can sell to make more money (which they can spend to get even higher level). This is ofcourse assuming that those people also have a lot of games for which they can receive boosters.
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Booster drops will never make any levels of Steam profiles profitable though. Most of them cost 20-60 cents and you have to spend hundreds of dollars/Euros to even reach the point where they consistently drop at least one/day.
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Well, if you get a lot of them, you should overtime get out of it what you paid for it (even if it takes a long time).
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True, but that time frame is in several years, if not a full decade. It may have a sweet spot where the return period is the lowest, but since the booster boost is getting relatively smaller as you level up, but levelling is getting linearly more expensive, the higher the level, the less likely to ever make money on booster drops.
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Think about it this way: you make an investment just to show off, and money eventually returns to you anyway. If you have some cash to burn, why would you not do it?
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I have a little cash to burn on the hobby of levelling up on Steam, but since my market stats show a slow but steady increase in the negatives, the hands-on experience of being level 100 and still see about a dozen booster drops per year makes me want to disagree on that hopeful statement.
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I personally don't invest anything into leveling. I sell all duplicate cards and from that money I buy others to get badges. It's not a very quick way to level, but it doesn't cost me anything (except for the games, but I only get games I will play).
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Well, I have few badges and level them up completely. This also contributes to the higher investment rate, true. On the other hand, it is usually cheaper to get 40 cards at 7 cents than buying enough games (even bundle games) that would drop that amount.
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True, but as I said, I only buy games that I'm interested in, so the cards are just a nice little extra :D
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We do not have enough data to be sure, but I'd say your life isn't long enough to make back from investing in steam level.
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Most people think snakes are cold and clammy, but they're really quite warm to the touch.
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You can very easily grab the badges if you're patient, rich, and connected. Trading your cards for event cards, etc. can all alleviate the price.
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Just money lots of money, and probably a script to craft them.
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your badge is three times as high as mine!!! you seems to be one of the rich guys?^^
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i dont know whether he is sponsored or not but he seems to be really a nice guy... i met him on a casual csgo server.. had some funny talks with him... also learnt some trading tips(which i dont remember, since i am not a trader)...
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Oh well..
http://steamcommunity.com/id/strykery
Just wondering what kind of person writes Capitalist as the first thing on his profile and shows off with his multiple expensive gaming laptops/desktops and crazy GTX TITAN X 3-Way SLI setups.
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…which, if it is not used to mine bitcoins all day long, is a waste of electrical power, since there are no games that require more than one of those cards even at 4k, let alone for those 1440p monitors.
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I thought gpu mining is over. Aren't people using ASIC hardware to mine much much more effectively these days?
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Yes, they do. But what else would you use a triple-SLI Titan for? Because certainly not for gaming. There are no games that would even make them turn up their fans a little. And not for rendering, because buying a Quadro would have been cheaper and more effective.
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An equivalent compute card like a Quadro would have costed several thousand dollars each.
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Well, the Titans themselves are way over a thousands dollars too.
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Well, without knowing which EVGA one is in there, it is difficult to determine which one of us is right. One costs little under 1100, the other is 1300.
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Well, it is cheaper than 3×1100 or 3×1300, isn't it? :D
I cannot find any comparison on rendering/workstation performance on that and Titan X though. I mean there are search hits, but no actual comparison data. o.O And now I'm actually intrigued.
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he might need that for rendering.... who knows man might have some hobbies in garphics designing :P
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Heh, with that kind of power. :)
Still, come to think about it, probably the biggest question here is what is the purpose of that kind of pre-built from Alienware. Other than rich kids' dickwagging. I mean what commercial use would a triple-SLI Titan X build have, and who would even buy such a thing?
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dont know never asked him.. Since i dont like to distrb others.. also he is in my friend list... it was surprising to see that i was able to gift him a DLC which he dint had :P that was quite surprising... Since all my friends who owned that game had that DLC but he dint...
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Wouldn't call myself a rich guy =). 3 levels were free (exploring queue) and I made a lot of other badges and got free drops. Had level 12 before winter sale :) ... bought very cheap cards on market
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i only hit 4 this sale, then gemmed my last 2 event cards
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Many people don't bother crafting badges until the big sales, so they slowly accumulate cards from booster pack drops/bundle duplicates added to second accounts/trading/whatever. By crafting the bagdes during the sale, they get a sale card instead of a useless coupon. It's not much compared to the guys chasing each-other to level 1000, but it might be enough to impress random internet strangers. Yay.
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that's what i do -- think i got 3 event cards through crafting the other card sets i'd slowly collected since the summer sale. i thought every 10 steam community levels increased your chances at getting foil cards to drop or come out of boosters, but of all the cards i've dropped or unpacked i've had like 2 or 3 foil.
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Nope, foil card chances are flat. Only booster drop chance is increased ever so slightly by every 10 levels.
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The 1,128 is more impressive, forget silly badges )
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Aha, took a while to figure out what you meant... :) Still didn't get all the Steam achievements, though... :) Most of that time was with the old GFWL version...
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as a random internet stranger myself, i'd be more impressed watching video streams of them making mountains of dollars and then burning them with chanel n.5
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It's funny, even buying badges like a madman is pretty cheap, compared to a lot of other hobbies... :) I have known some people who spend more than that fooling around with their "classic car" that never seem to leave the garage...
At least you can click on the badges and imagine the time Idle Master played that game... :)
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Well, for me, all but a few badges are for games I completed(/reviewed even), so even more "sentimental" value. :) Started this collection hobby more or less as an appreciation for the games I played to the end, good and bad.
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Well you could get cards from purchasing stuff on steam, so it was possible to just buy whatever your friends wanted for them so you could get the cards. You could also get cards from exploring queues and as people mentioned, you could trade holiday cards for regular cards easily.
Edit: Oh and another thing I forgot, there are websites in my country (I think they exist in other countries as well) that people sell steam gifts on them, now these guys probably earn a lot of cards during events like this. And in case you wondering why they exist, it's because we can't use credit cards in our country (actually we can but it would be very expensive) and our currency is not supported on steam (or any other website that sells steam games).
Also thanks for the giveaway, awesome game!
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and i was happy with my lvl 2 badge.................
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i know that isn't the topic but why you blacklisted me? u.u
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Card-related holiday badges typically have no cap. :)
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I'm happy being level 150+, getting near level 500 would take a ton of dedication and money to say the least... no complaints from me as those are the people who buy my cards when they are put up for sale... that works for me...
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i have seen someone with a lvl 500 badge of the last sale (wich had 11 cards!). a card cost probably an average of 7 cent -> you would need probably 385 euro to get this level! dont think, the person has spend so much money just for a badge? i have seen similar badges from other sales as well (on different profiles). so i wonder: do they rly spend so much money for their steam level?
and of course here a little giveaway:
http://www.sgtools.info/giveaways/6e0d1220-b3ec-11e5-83c7-0663045ed9e8
(just need to have activated your won games to enter)
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