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Hope0665

Does anyone have some idea how Valve calculate "confidence metric" before they allow card drop for certain game?

If you don't know what I'm talking about

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tsupertsundere

If I remember right, it had something to do with the number of units sold, the number of positive reviews.... and.... something else?

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PhilBlank
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Nobody knows, it's another one of Valve's hidden algorithms. My bet is it's a mixture of incoming traffic, follows/whitelists, and sales revenue.

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nhahtdh

Probably hours play on the game. I guess that's why games published by the SakuraGame gets trading card in a short time frame.

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PsyKo

Pretty sure it's more about Sakura games being published by "Valve-trusted publisher" (aka someone who made Valve tons of money even without cards).

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nhahtdh

Just to make sure we are on the same page - this is the publisher I'm referring to: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=SakuraGame

Games in Sakura series is published by Winged Cloud: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=Winged%20Cloud

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