SteamCards improvement

...nobody but the most hardcore would want to bother past the first few cards. I mean, just look at these achievements.

They will lose money. I know people who buys every game that gets cards and buys every missing card from the market. Also there are program(s) that can let you get all the achievements.

"Once you reach 33, 66 and 99% of the Steam achievements in that game you get another card."

Ew... that means we would actually have to play games! Disgusting. Get out.

What about the games with no achievements?

no, how about you get extra cards instead if you complete achivements

Do I get Trading Cards for completing achievements in game?

Trading Card drops are currently just tied to playtime within a game, independent of which achievements you are getting. We will definitely look into adding more rules for how cards are dropped in the future, but there are a few problems with in-game achievements that prevented us from using them right now. Many games have achievements that are grindy or un-fun to get, and we want the act of getting game cards to be fun for all users in games. We also don't want to push users to cheat or use achievement-unlockers in games in order to get cards, since that devalues achievements and isn't that fun either. Achievements are still valuable, and having the Achievement Showcase on your community profile is a great way to show off those rare achievements.

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I like the idea, but Valve has to do something to prevent SAM or similar programs first.

They already said that while they are looking at ways other than idling to get you cards they really didn't want to go the achievement route.

EDIT! Damn copypaster beat me to it. :D

And people will just unlock those achievement drops using SAM. So not really a good idea.

They should implement some kind of always online DRM where achievements unlock and you get trading cards. This way it wouldnt get exploited! Of course they would piss off the whole PC gaming world but hey... more trading cards.

They said that they couldn't do this because of cheaters

What is the Stam cars?

steam stated they are not going to relate achievements with trading cards due the programs u can find at the internet that opens your achievements

Too late now and that would cause them to be more expensive.

I think part of their appeal is that you can get a badge for under $5 in most cases.

What if you have already beat the game?

This would promote people to use such devices as the Steam Achievement Manager. Farming cards that way.

It would also be a lot quicker for them since they don't have to wait 20 minutes between each card.