Cards. I seek your opinion!

100-150 games...I wonder if there'll ever be a level cap. xP

Sell. Buy later for cheaper if you change your mind.

How about selling the cards you don't want and use that money to buy the ones you do want? Perhaps on the games you enjoy playing the most.

I'm just crafting badges for the games I like the most.

I sold every card I got.

how do you get cards? You just open the game and leave it in background just like with tf2 and items/hats?

Don't care for backgrounds and badges. Rather have the free money from foils and what not.

If somone is interested in cards i got some L4D2 TF and Faerie

You seek card's opinion?

I crafted badges for Portal 2 and Half-Life 2 and then came to the conclusion I was better off selling/trading the cards for games.

Sell them, and you can rebuy them later when you think you can throw some money for badges or when you want to level to a specific level or a specific badge and they'll even cost less.

I don't have that many games in which you're able to get cards, but I'm currently thinking about keeping them and waiting to see what happens. Logically, when people make all the cards disappear by crafting badges with them etc., they will become more scarce and thus the price should go up. For example, if a game costs £10 and has 4 cards, when there are hardly any cards on market for that game, each card should be around £2? As it would cost £2.50 to get a card by creating an alt account and buying the game yourself.

However, if I turn out to be wrong, I'll probably just craft some badges with them, and sell any spares.

I crafted a few just to get to level 10 so I could get a profile showcase. Been selling all of mine since then.

I think I'll craft my Portal 2 badge because cards from this game seem to be very cheap.

I crafted a Portal 2 badge to get my profile showcase. This crafting thing is pretty cool though.

Sell em. Buy games that have cards. Sell those. Repeat.

I am selling them and donde almost 5 dollars, with that i could buy cards for a game i want or a game. my only doubt in actually crafting cards is if i should get level 10 so i can maybe get foils, but with so few games i don´t know.

Get to level 10 -> sell all cards -> buy more games -> buy the background you want.

sell all cards, buy the backgrounds and emotions you like for 1/10 of the money you made form selling the cards

you should sell them immediately after they are added to steam. Then when it inevitably the price gets down you buy them again and kee the profits.

I sell the cards when they are at their highest value. This is usually right off or within a day or two. The three badges I made, I actually sold the cards, then bought them back at a much lower cost later on. I use the money I make to buy more games, some for cards. I made like $16 when they first hit and since then I have been buying a card game, on average, every time a new group of games is released. I make back the cost of the game or close to it, each time. Selling them is a great way to rack up games.

I have a feeling they are all going to lose value soon, except the few games that virtually no one has. With the changes to be made, it will be easier to get cards and I can't see them having much value. I have already seen some not so popular games have their cards bottom out within 2 hours of being released. Sell now on any cards of decent value. If you have to build badges, pick the cheap ones.

To me it's amazing. Now looks aside, old profile had more features out of the box. Compared to that new profile initially has less features and to get some of them back you need to gain levels. And that pretty much means spending money. So Valve took out features of Steam, makes you pay for them now, and people are still raving how awesome Valve is xD Amazing.

Granted, many of the showcases are completely new stuff and even those that previously were things out of the box usually allow you to have greater control over what they show. You may say you get less stuff but perhaps something you are more interested in, and have to pay for it with cards.

To that extent it's a pity initially you don't even get one showcase to chose from, so striving to get to level 10 seems (sadly) reasonable, in the new reality of feature-poor profile page. But the rest, eh, we'll see what they are going to change but for the most part as I see it as showing off how much money you have.

Craft the badges for the games you like the best if you care about emoticons, backgrounds, and what not (also check the market to see which games put effort into their emoticons and wallpapers, since I know at least one game didn't put a lot of time into it cough Cubemen 2 cough). If you care more about XP (showcases, more friends) then just go for the cheapest sets. Sell all the rest, that way you can do a bit of both (I know the collectionist in me is making it hard for me to sell any cards, but I'm working on it)

When I first heard about this trading card thing, I though would get the cards for a game by doing challenges in the game like what they did during past sales where you could get coupons and free games for completing challenges in certain games. I enjoyed that because it got me to try out some games that I got as part of bundles and hadn't played yet, or go back and play some games I hadn't played in a while. It was a big disappointment when I got into the beta and saw that it's just a shitty cash grab by Valve to get people to sell these things on their market because they take a cut of each sale. You can only get half of the cards for a game by playing that game. Calling them "trading cards" is misleading because I haven't seen anyone actually trading them.

Just craft badges for your favorite games. Just like i do, i got 3 lvl 5 badges, but those are for games i really like playing.