I just noticed something strange the last few days and I thought I'd share. After the recent steam update (3 days ago or so?) I noticed that 3 of my previously played games now have card drops, so I reinstalled them ( as you do) to get the card drops. Usually in every game I get a duplicate that I sell but here is the thing: In all three games, I didn't get a single duplicate card. None at all.
I then installed a non-played game from my library and let it drop cards too, to the same result. No duplicates. Yesterday evening I had a magical diary booster pack that dropped on my inventory..with the exact three cards I was missing to craft the badge ( the game had 6 total). No duplicates at all.

Obviously I am only one person so I wanted to ask if anyone else noticed something strange in the behavior of card drops since the update?
If steam did indeed change its algorithm so that duplicates never drop on an account, people will either have to put more actual money into it or be forced to sell cards they already have - either way the prices will probably go up. If that is indeed the case, the plan is actually very sneaky and nefarious... but I would really hope it wasn't.
So, input, my dear SG friends? Clearly, this has to be tested further. For science! Thank you very much.

TL;DR: Suspicions that steam no longer drops duplicate cards. Confirm/debunk? Thanks.

1 decade ago*

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It still happens. A friend yesterday had 4 dupes, in a game with 4 drops for that matter.

1 decade ago
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Wow. Those are some equally freakish odds.

1 decade ago
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yesterday got two same cards for guacameelee !!!

1 decade ago
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Great! Must have been a bug or glitch then.

1 decade ago
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its random..., no bug or glitch

1 decade ago
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I got duplicates yesterday when I ran a new game, so you just got lucky, drops are still random and there's no protection against duplicates.

1 decade ago
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Thank you,that is good to hear. Still, the odds of that happening are creepy.

1 decade ago
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I've gotten two duplicates on the last five games I idled. So maybe they did, maybe they didn't

1 decade ago
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Yeah I am beginning to suspect it might be a glitch/bug that made it happen ( like steam showing all the offline friends as last online X minutes ago when I know a couple of them haven't logged in for months).

1 decade ago
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It's random. Otherwise, how would GabeN make sandvich money off market?

1 decade ago
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Next steam feature: Gaben's virtual turkey sandwich badge?

1 decade ago
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I once had 7 duplicates on game that had 7 drops :D

1 decade ago
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Oo Good grief. Got to love probabilities I guess?

1 decade ago
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yea... if those were expensive, i would be fine with it, but those were some prety cheap, few cent ones :(

1 decade ago
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you just got lucky :3

1 decade ago
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Card drops are still messed up. Once i got 2 foils from a single game, the other time i got 4-5 identical card drops...

1 decade ago
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Lucky. I've never seen a foil drop. Ever.

1 decade ago
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It's one thing getting them, it's another trying to sell them. I get all giddy when I get one then find nobody wants to buy it despite being the cheapest on the market for a week or two and selling for no more than the last one went for. Then you check back in another couple of weeks and see 5 people have all undercut you and they can't sell either. I don't know, maybe it's just me but I seem to have a hard time shifting my foils.

1 decade ago
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I have gotten one foil drop so far ( torchlight II) and it took me ages to sell it. A week or so, maybe more. I know how you feel.

1 decade ago
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Just Yesterday I played Battlepillars for the drop... it had 8 cards . I got doubles of two cards, triples of one, and then one lone card.

1 decade ago
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yesterday I have played a few hours with Always Remember Me, I've dropped 3 cards and are all the same :(

1 decade ago
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a Borderlands 2 card dropped 3 times so no, it's just as usual

1 decade ago
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Valve are always tweaking their algorithms.

I also wouldn't put it past them to switch it up to deliver a load of non-dupe cards, then switch it back, just to test how the market handles it.

1 decade ago
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Ooh, incredibly sneaky. :)

1 decade ago
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You got lucky, thats all, thats a chance that happened.

1 decade ago
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I often farm cards from 10 or so games in a row, and usually get runs of games with (or without) dupes.

1 decade ago
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Hmm, I don't get yet any booster pack :(

1 decade ago
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I myself hv till now got 8 cards from a game that only drops only 4 cards. bt as i m new to steam i thought that maybe card drops increase as your play time increases on a game. but after reading all this i realize maybe it was just some random stuff

1 decade ago
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If it's a game with micro transactions like Dota2 or TF2, you get more cards when you spend more money in the store.

1 decade ago
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i got 3 duplicates yesterday for 3 different games... probably you got lucky :P

1 decade ago
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I got the same card 3 times in a row last night...

1 decade ago
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Ran Battlepillars in the early hours. Got 5 unique cards from the 8 drops, getting 3 of them twice each.

Like others have said I think you just got lucky.

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1 decade ago
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Game with 4 card drops.

Three duplicated.

Bad luck Faragona.

1 decade ago
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Aw, maybe next time. :(

1 decade ago
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Closed 1 decade ago by KashiMorph.