Steam Trading Cards discussion

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 5:18 am

I seem to only get half the needed cards from a game...like I lack Maya, Jack, and Zero but have the rest. Someone the other day left me a msg asking how I got so many badges. Mine are mostly from being there so long..think this is my 9th year and from playing a lot of games and participating in sales.

IceBear · Post by **IceBear** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 5:28 am

You only get so many free drops per game (roughly half). If you go to the badges page it will tell you how many card drops you get per game. The rest you need to trade for or buy from the market. Technically, once you have all the free drops for a game you could get a booster pack to drop which contains more cards, but I have about a dozen games that I am eligible for booster pack drops and I have not seen one in three weeks

IceBear · Post by **IceBear** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 10:16 am

I just got a Mystery (Trading Card) (This card is very mysterious. Very, very mysterious. The kind of mysterious card you might want to hold on to.). Too lazy to search for info on it

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 11:46 pm

I might be persuaded to go in on a 4-pack for Sanctum 2 while it would come to $5.62 each for Steam keys from Gamefly. But I can't decide. Any interest? it looks like it would drop about $2.50 in cards.

IceBear · Post by **IceBear** » Sat Jul 06, 2013 4:14 am

I am in. I liked the first one enough

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Sat Jul 06, 2013 11:11 am

Well if it's just the two of us, I'll wait until the real sale and see what happens.

IceBear · Post by **IceBear** » Sat Jul 06, 2013 11:14 am

Yeah, that sounds like a plan

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Sat Jul 06, 2013 5:57 pm

IceBear wrote:I just got a Mystery (Trading Card) (This card is very mysterious. Very, very mysterious. The kind of mysterious card you might want to hold on to.). Too lazy to search for info on it

I got that as well after crafting the Borderlands 2 claptrap badge. It was well worth the 14 cents for the BL2 profile background.

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Sun Jul 07, 2013 2:03 pm

Got a Jagged Alliance booster today, which is cool because that's only a 5-card badge. But they also sell pretty high. One is in the $0.90 range at the moment. But as I am without mystery card, I might hold on to them and try to craft a badge before the sale. Is that the only time mystery cards have appeared, crafting badges?

JetFred wrote:At the moment, all of the games that I have wot drop cards are now listed in my badges page, whereas before the ones I had gotten all drops from were unlisted unless I played them.

And I also realized this isn't actually true, it's only most of the games. Which is weird.

Teggy · Post by **Teggy** » Sun Jul 07, 2013 7:57 pm

Sold some of my higher value cards to get more lower value cards and crafted a couple of badges, giving me two mystery cards so far. Hopefully they have some value in the sale.

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Sun Jul 07, 2013 9:43 pm

Okay, I got me a mystery card.

IceBear · Post by **IceBear** » Sun Jul 07, 2013 9:46 pm

Yeah, I have to think they have something to do with the upcoming sale. I'm a little bummed I crafted so many badges in beta now

Teggy · Post by **Teggy** » Sun Jul 07, 2013 10:04 pm

Word is there are 10 different mystery cards based on some codes people have been able to unearth. Hopefully you don't have to collect all 10 to get something from them.

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Sun Jul 07, 2013 10:51 pm

Hopefully not, and it makes sense that if they are worth something, there would be a limit. Like if it is % off a game already on sale, they surely would want a limit of 10. I wish I knew whether it was worth crafting more badges right now. I've made $30 off of cards that I didn't use for badges, and I'm assuming the credit is worth more than 10 mystery cards, but I could be wrong.

By the way, Left 4 Dead 2 is about the cheapest cool badge you can craft right now. It'll cost you $2. It is possible that these mystery cards are worth more than $2, but I'm reluctant to gamble.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 9:28 am

Thanks for the tip -- you're right, it's definitely cheap. I think TF2 cards are also cheap, but I could be wrong.

Managed to get an FTL booster pack yesterday -- first one since the last week of the beta test for the Trading cards. So they exist, but they don't drop nearly as fast as you might think. Quite honestly, I'd be happy with a booster pack a week.

Right now I'm definitely holding on to everything to wait and see what happens this coming Thursday as I really am hopeful more drops will be handed out...which means there is a good chance at finishing off some of the badges. I probably have another ~$3-5 worth of cards in my inventory, but I'd rather just wait and see what happens.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 12:21 pm

I'm seeing rumors of System Shock 2 getting trading cards? Good lord.

EDIT: And people are already trying to figure out the mystery cards based on the changing artwork and the id numbers.

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 12:41 am

Well I decided to try again and I did indeed get a second mystery card. I did Psychonauts because the badge's worth of cards was only about ~$2. I guess that's all the gambling I'll do on what these are worth. I have two and my son has one.

WPD · Post by **WPD** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 7:02 pm

Dungeons of Dredmor just popped up on my list of trading cards games.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 8:16 pm

WPD wrote:Dungeons of Dredmor just popped up on my list of trading cards games.

The official list for today's additions to the Trading Card program:

Dungeons of Dredmor
DARK
The Night of the Rabbit
McPixel
Drunken Robot Pornography
Ion Assault

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 8:34 pm

Yay, 3 more for me! And McPixel drops 7 cards

They aren't worth crap though.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 10:03 pm

Tell you what -- if I wasn't already working my way through backlog, I'd sure as hell be doing it now.

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:04 am

After 3 unique drops, only had to sell a few to get the other 2 Ion Assault cards, giving me another mystery card. I'm going to feel stupid if they aren't really worth much, but it's fun anticipating.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 7:26 am

Best guesses are they mystery cards can either be crafted into discount coupons --or-- crafted into a Summer Sale 2013 badge that will also drop random coupons. Considering the only way you can earn them right now is by crafting badges for existing games, it supports my theory that we'll all be getting additional drops for the games you own or purchase.

Here's hoping...

EDIT: I'm also seeing now that Orcs Must Die! 2 is getting trading cards - no ETA.

Teggy · Post by **Teggy** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:18 am

Someone made a good point that if the mystery cards are used in the sale, people who crafted their badges during beta are actually punished for doing so.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:20 am

That's true -- unless you're now over level 20 as that (in theory) has increased your chances for random booster pack drops over the last few weeks. Even still, if they just give out more drops for all games, everything will work out.

IceBear · Post by **IceBear** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 12:45 pm

Bioshock Infinite is in my Badges list. Looks like 4 cards to drop

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 12:52 pm

Looks like they stealth-added Defiance, Triple Town and Hotline Miami too.

IceBear · Post by **IceBear** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:03 pm

My mystery badges turned into cards for Steam Summer Getaway badge

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:04 pm

Ok, looks like the mystery cards are for a 2013 Summer Sale badge. Every $10 you spend gives you another drop, 10 cards needed to complete the set.

Teggy · Post by **Teggy** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:13 pm

You also get cards for every 3 flash sales you vote on.

3 of my 4 mystery cards were for Prison Architect, lol.

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:23 pm

All three of mine were Prison Architect, but at least my son's was Dead Island Riptide. We should start trading with each other here. Who wants prison architect card, message me!

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:24 pm

I have a spare BioShock Infinite up for grabs -- just yell for it. I'd love one of the 37 Prison Architect cards available.

EDIT: And that's how trading works.

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:26 pm

Done and done

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:28 pm

I hate that I'm going to need to force myself to play Hotline Miami now. My last attempt was...not encouraging. But those cards look absolutely evil.

JetFred · Post by **JetFred** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:35 pm

Bastion is on the list but hasn't appeared in my badges.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:37 pm

This is the official list of new games now in the trading card program as of today:

Bioshock Infinite
Hotline Miami
Scribblenauts Unlimited
Defiance
Toki Tori 2
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Bastion
Cities XL Platinum

And 30 minutes later, the new official list of games in the trading card program for today:

Bioshock Infinite
Hotline Miami
Scribblenauts Unlimited
Defiance
Toki Tori 2
Mars:War Logs

IceBear · Post by **IceBear** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:16 pm

I have an extra Tomb Raider card for the summer badge. I'm missing cards 2-4, and 7

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 8:36 pm

Skyrim just appeared in my badges page. May god have mercy on your souls.

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 11:04 pm

I've got a Figments Psychonaut card for trade. I'll trade it for just about anything because I'm new to the trading card world and don't have much at the moment.

Teggy · Post by **Teggy** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 11:36 pm

Smoove_B wrote:I hate that I'm going to need to force myself to play Hotline Miami now. My last attempt was...not encouraging. But those cards look absolutely evil.

Or you can just let it sit on the title screen for a few hours.

I will say that I beat Hotline Miami, and with a controller. If I can beat it, anyone can.