Valve, what have you done..

That's good idea in my opinion

Oh, shit. Now I will spend more of my moneyz so I can get two useless ships!

YAY for VALVE!

Fuckin' a-holes.

2 ships, that's a beatiful story my dear friend.

Let me sum up most of the qqing in here...

"OMG, people are getting something I can't afford or refuse to trade for. Why can't I have ALL the things for free? Why can't everyone have exactly the same stuff? I just CAN'T handle anyone having something I don't have!"

This will only make cards more expensive.

thats bullshit

Well I'll just skip/abandon every multiplayer game/game mode where the developers give a pay2win/gameplay changing DLC for it, just like I did with Killing Floor

I'm ok with cosmetic DLCs as rewards.

I hate it. All the rich boys and the people who get a good payment are like "That's epic and awesome!". YEAH, OF COURSE IT IS WHEN YOU HAVE 500+ GAMES AND SPENDING A FEW DOLLARS WON'T BE ANY DEAL FOR YOU... I don't like it at all. It's way worse than Free 2 Play games and even worse than Assassin's Creed's many and different versions... Come on... It would be awesome as cosmetic, but this? First it was the replacement of expansions to DLCs, then free to play/pay to win games and now this? Seriously? I refuge it... Why do I have to do that??? And ESPECIALLY with foil cards. The only ones who will not care are the richboys and the people who have too much money. I mean, I have around to 500 Euros and I only spent 20 Euros this year on Steam which I got from my godmother... I don't want to spend money for NOTHING. A ship is epic, but NOT when I need to spend THAT much money for foil cards AND a lot of normal cards. Seriously, this is an abuse.

people whine because cards don't do anything, people whine because cards are now useful for in game content
make up your mind people!

If this makes cards to go up in price, as a seller (person that sells almost all the cards he gets), I'm OK with it.

what about dota 2.? any rewards for it.?

Eh, I hope this doesn't become a thing.

Are you telling me that people actually play these games? I had thought that people just sat in the menu idling for cards. My world is shattered... o.O

Before:
Pay for main game - ok
Pay for DLC - ok
Now:
Pay for main game - ok
Pay for DLC - ok
Pay for cards - ok?
Get an a dlc which is unavailable by any other way.

I'm ok with this developers adding new content on the game from badges since they get extra income on card sales.

This has gone too far and become shitty.

And I found out Fortix has cards!

Any other games except Beat Hazard and possibly TL2?

Anything that causes cards to sell for more $$$ is fine by me. Most minor DLC stuff, including this, I would never consider paying for anyway, whether via cash or trading cards.

I don't mind DLC which significantly enhances the game (ie the Fallout 3 series DLC) but stuff like this? Meh. If it was any good, they'd be charging real money for it.

just another way to get money off market... rather annoying. Should be a trading section.

I crafted 12 coupons and they all sucked.

What would've been a bit cooler: devs post a meter on their site that shows "our revenue from your Beat Hazard card transactions"
When the meter hits certain goals, everyone gets the new ships!

And also, that way, when other devs jump on board with the same sort of thing, it's a better popularity contest -- popularity of the actual games and the bonuses the devs offer instead of celebrating individual badge hunters and alienating anyone else.

Or even just make a community "number of badges crafted" goal, instead of a monetary goal.

Laaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

im tired of cards being shoved in my face, I dont like steam telling me im not important to the community because I dont farm cards for crappy badges to prove how "steam" I am, Im not buying games I dont want to play for cards and Im sure as hell not going to spend all this extra time trying to trade cards for these badges.

In short:
Fuck Gamification