284 Card Drops remaining

I don't idle. I used to when there was still only a few games and we were all in that badge hype but I don't give a damn anymore, I'll play the games when I'll play the games... Yeah, I'll be happy about the drops but I'm no longer runny after them.

Make badges for games I play, others I sell.

Sell everything! I don't really care for badges or levels but I do care about 'free' games ;)

I sold a few doubles to buy a couple games to give away, but I generally keep my cards for a chance to get the badges eventually. Not that I'm sweating over those.

Hey, since you obviously spent some time checking your cards, is there a straightforward way to get a list of doubles? I know there must be some jsons that list them, but haven't really searched.

Personally, I'll make the level 1 badge for any game I really like but other than that, nocurr.

Got something like 30 games that still have drops remaining. Don't idle. I sell them.

I'll idle if I don't earn the drops before I finish a game (McPixel) I'm holding cards right now, I crafted a few badges but will craft more during an event since extra cards are less useless than coupons. I won't go beyond level 1 badges though.

I have 97 Card Drops remaining

I make some badges, sell some. It all depends on the cost of the cards. If they're really cheapo cards or I love the game, Ill probably make the badge. Some games I will idle for (i.e. Fortix, but I also got that badge), but if its a game I'm really into, I will get the drops normally.

I have 3 drops remaining and about 40 games that drop. I tend to get my drops ASAP, i.e. I sold a Paranormal Foil for 2 keys earlier today, the market for those is already low b/c people are selling the cards cheaply even if theres only 10 on the entire market, which is dumb, but w/e. Then there's things like MacGuffin's Curse, which were selling VERY high up until yesterday and the new Groupees. I jumped on those and offloaded them as quick as possible.

I also like using bots like scrapbank.me and backpack.tf, as you can get metal/keys for cards, the only problem there is there are limits to the amount of cards a bot will take, which makes it a drag and a lot of trial and error, but if you play it smart, you can really profit using cards. I sold a bundle game last week for 8 random crap cards and traded them with bots to get higher priced cards and then offload them for metal. Made 2 keys from the crap cards by doing that, it just took a LOT of time to do and you gotta find cards that are being bought high by bots (i.e. 2 ref), but sold low on the market or other traders/bots.

284? lucky you...
i have 93 and most are for 10GB+ games which with my internet connection is not worth it :(

I use steamcardexchange.com to see what badges are nice looking and collect those, for games I like, the rest of the cards I'm just selling.

I don't know if this is irregular, but the average price I've encountered is about 13-15 cents, USD. Not a huge difference, but still.

I have "only" 48 cards left. But then I have about 15 more games that support cards unregistered too, so if I want to, I acn collect a bunch more.

I got all my cards. Have 400+ now :>

bought A New Brave World with the cards I sold

btw Steam Enhanced add-on for Chrome also shows the total of your badges left etctera: 28 card drops remaining

I've sold all my cards since the beginning of cards beta and haven't spent a dime on games since, and gotten nearly $100 worth. They are basically free money.

I usually sell all my cards.

Yes, I have idled in games, but since I have not had many weeks where a bunch of my games got cards all at once it hasn't really been much of an issue. I got my level up to 20 to increase my chances of getting boosters and while I do trade for some cards to complete some more badges, generally it seems best to sell the cards as quick as possible once they enter the system so that you can get the maximum profit.

Sell all my cards. Would love to save them, but I don't for several reasons.

• It's too much hassle to get all for each game, I could get 4 of 2 games. Then I can trade 4 of one game to get the remaining for of the other. Which means I can only get half of the games completed, unless I buy cards. This is my biggest problem and caused by point 2.
• Haven't got a single booster pack yet
• They should have their own tab on the inventory

Never sold my cards, I used them to craft badges. I never put real money in my wallet to get where I am now though.
I idle most of the time, unless it's a game I'm already playing or wanted to play. It's not a true motivation to try something new.

0 cards left btw, I refresh my badge page multiple times a day just to see if there's something new for me to turn on while I'm not there.

If I get 2 games with trading cards I choose which one has better emoticons and/or backgrounds and I craft that one. Sometimes I idle sometimes not.

Random note:
With all those Trading Card games in Bundles and having collected all my drops, shouldn't it be raining booster packs now? I think Valve is cheating on us...

I make badges mostly to increase my Steam level. This generally means I will find the cheapest way to get a badge, factoring in the cards I have, their costs, and the costs of other sets to obtain. I only trade cards or occasionally metal (TF2) for cards.

I'm at level 20 currently, and generally it seems how much I care about my level is directly tied to how close I am to the next "tier" (remember for each 10 levels you have increased chances for a booster to drop). Right now I pretty much don't care (if I get more cards, they will sit in my inventory collecting dust for a while), but when I get to maybe level 26 or 27, I will scramble to hit 30.

I have idled games for cards. I prefer to do it that way as I then no longer feel I "have to" play a game for a specific amount of time to get the drops. However, as I am currently level 20 I have 4 games with cards that I don't care enough about to idle because my level is mostly irrelevant to me at this point. :P

EDIT: Also I collect emoticons. Sometimes I trade for cool looking ones.