So, I found out last night, idling in games no longer works to get trading cards!

I used to lunch a couple of games, minimize them (to lower GPU and CPU load) and go to sleep. 8h later I'd have my cards.

Not any more, I fired up 3 games last night, 10h later I had exactly ZERO cards in my inventory.

EDIT:
I appreciate the number of good tips and info in this topic, but like 75% of the replies are irrelevant. Let me explain:
READ what the topic states, BEFORE saying you need to be in-game for more than 2h for a card to drop!

TL,DR:
I know about the 2 hour thing, enough already.

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Currently trying idle master, it works really well :)

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i never multi-game idled so maybe that's the problem. try single game idling

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Drops don't start until you hit 2 hours of play time in a game now

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well, it works. i am doing it right now. one game at a time, of course. :)

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If you are using the steam idle master, you have to be in game for a minimum of 2 hours. Then it will start to work. Keep in mind that it is 1 game at a time.

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Because of Steam's refund policy, idling for cards only works after 2 hours of game time.

(You cannot request a refund for any game played for over two hours, or owned for more than 2 weeks)

8 years ago
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not exactly, you can request a refund even without these requirements

...but even if you fall outside of the refund rules we’ve described, you can ask for a refund anyway and we’ll take a look.

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I'm pretty sure running more than one game at a time breaks it.

I always just load up super hexagon (it's relatively light on resources) with a modified steam_appid.txt overnight and it always works fine for me.

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all works. my idling script works, have 3 games open for now, cards drop for all three... was surprised by this, but it does actually drop cards for all three open games...

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Idlemaster is great for people like me that don't want to piss off their internet provider downloading a crapton of games in the same day. The card system is in place to influence people that redeem games to play them to see if they like them. For that. I'd be against Idlemaster because people could easily buy cheap bundle games they're never gonna touch and then make the money back on cards, but since I use it I can't really talk, even if I will get to all my games eventually.

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Disagree, idling is working

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