Trading Card Boosters!!!

I like these changes. Got myself the 100+ badge now. Finally pushed me over level 10 without having to craft any badge yet. :D I do wonder how the booster pack thing is going to work. Will it be randomly while playing one of the games you are out of drops for or just any time you're playing a game on steam?

My 250+ games have given me an extra 457xp, taking me from level 10 to 12. Still not close enough to 20 for me to bother wasting money to get there but interesting. Will see if I get any foils in booster drops, I've been stiffed so far.

Booster packs : and have used Steam in the last week will randomly receive booster packs - What he mean ?

well, I collected all of the cards for a few games, hopefully I get one :P

do i have to restart steam to get this thing? cause i got my 100xp for having at least one product registered thing gone.. as like i got my 100 XP gone.. :|

I dont get it

Nice, more cards :)

inb4 people start attaching some mythical shit to chances of getting a booster drop :3

So far it just looks like everybody across the board gets a chance at booster pack for a game they already used up all their initial card drops for (does not equal to: collected ALL cards) no matter what they play or not play. What isn't clear to me is if you got all drops from say 5 games, do you get 5 as many chances or something, as if you got only 1 game drops.

Apparently I've just gained 4 levels :-|

Yeah, got a random booster pack for ARES.

Guys, is there a list of things, which give you XP, or only crafting badges?

Got one for Portal 2 while playing Serious Sam 3. Decided to unpack it, there's a neat animation for revealing the cards kinda like unpacking a real-life booster pack. I thought it was a nice touch. This whole system is a pretty brilliant money printing machine for Valve, heh.

Um... I don't see the game badge... why?

I can see other people do have it, but I do not.

Do you think you can get "more" booster packs, or should one only get 1 booster pack after getting all the cards available for you.
I mean: I got all portal cards I could get (which are 4).. Could I get a booster pack and maybe get another one some time later?
Or is that 1 booster pack, the last way for someone to get portal 2 cards?

huh .. I got a new badge.. dated from 2006 though.. Game Mechanic 250+ .. worth 608 XP . .. I went from Level 10 to Level 12 and didnt even know..

Hooray for booster packs!

Do we have to be playing the game for the booster pack to drop? or just completely random?

What, now TF2 idlers can earn double stuff ;_;

Do you earn the booster packs only when playing games or when you are online?

Moor money!!

Used all my card drops. been using steam everyday for months. didnt get any booster :<

Has there been any info on the number of boosters you can get?

Just a small update on the boosters. So far, boosters have been awarded with no regard to actual action on the user's part. People have reported even receiving boosters while offline (seeing them after they log in). They've been awarded to badgeless and badge crafters alike, to users playing non-card games, and just pop from nowhere (similar to developer coupons). Other than this, the only concrete information we have is that they only drop for games the user had received all allotted individual card drops and that the user must have logged into Steam within the past (1) week. More info should be available tomorrow, when an update to the FAQ is supposed to be pushed through.

yeah more money ^_^ now i just want to know if the booster packs you can get are limited

Anybody get second booster?