What is the new timing for cards to drop?

If your using Idle Master it might be trying to idle The Monster game,i had to black list it,so it would not keep trying to drop the cards for that.

After that i had no prob getting card drops from my games,minus the 2 hour wait period,just now if you have say 5 games you will have to idle each for at least 2 hours which translates to 10 hours wasted.

They could have done this much better but then again since when has Steam been knowing to do the common sense way,they just did it for all games and this way to make it fast and simple

Then you finished the game. Congrats?
Card drops aren't tied to your progress in game. It's randomized. So just leave the game on for the card drops.

I couldn't agree more!

I realize you're upset about this change, but how would this kill trading cards?

Having to run Idle Master from our tray a bit longer is not a huge deal.

It would be a good thing since the barrier to drops get higher and fewer cards will be on the market than usual.

so? it took me mostly bit under an hour to get 3 drops (most games), now it's 2 + time for drops. so for 3 cards it is 3 times more.
there was one game a while ago which took me like 7 hours for 3 drops, that was painful :D

I apologize, but I don't understand.

yes, that. SAM on the first 2 hours, then Idlemaster.