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You are so considerate LOL. I certainly preferred idling the games that simply opened a launcher with no ramping of the CPU/GPU. But yeah, back when I was crazy about it, I'm sure I burned all of that up. I am paranoid about trying to idle the games with some program that could threaten the status of my account.
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Ok, so I just activated the Humble Bundle free Surviving Mars giveaway and it gave me access to the trading cards.

So my guess now is that if it's part of a STEAM free giveaway, no cards are provided. But if it's coming from an outside source and you're activating a key that was gifted to you (someone else paid for it; it was free on another site), the restrictions don't count.

You may now go back to hoarding cards and not selling them.
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Smoove_B wrote: Fri Jun 11, 2021 2:23 pm Ok, so I just activated the Humble Bundle free Surviving Mars giveaway and it gave me access to the trading cards.

So my guess now is that if it's part of a STEAM free giveaway, no cards are provided. But if it's coming from an outside source and you're activating a key that was gifted to you (someone else paid for it; it was free on another site), the restrictions don't count.

You may now go back to hoarding cards and not selling them.
Well, that kind of makes sense, you don't even get a key for a Steam giveaway so it would be a lot easier for them to keep track of where those games came from.
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In the current summer sale, you can only get 1 card by going through your queue. Other than buying games, does not appear to be any other way to get cards? First time you ever couldn't get extra somehow (either 3 from discovery queue or something else that go you cards).
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Looks that way, but if you do one every day, you'd still finish the set, assuming you trade dups.
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You also get free cards for crafting badges (same as it ever was). What I've been doing the last few years is holding on to my cards until the Winter/Summer sales and then only crafting badges then, to get the free event cards.

The summer event is to do the choose your own adventure stories, each of which will get you a sticker (which I still don't understand). After you do all 14, you get a badge and an avatar frame.
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I do something similar. I sell any duplicates early (and I sell any foils), which usually gives me enough credit to finish several other game sets. And I have yet to not eventually get all of the cards to finish a full set of the even cards by the end.
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I recently crafted my one and only foil badge, for Planescape Torment Enhanced Edition. I just wanted to create my own little tribute to my favorite game of all time.

It took me 6 months and about $10 to get all the cards. I started by bidding just enough to be the top bidder, but still well below what any seller was asking. Each month, I bumped my bid up another few cents, until a seller finally came down to my level.
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Holy crap, I must have rolled double 20s today. I didn't even know this was possible.
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The ability to buy/sell cards at a badge level at the same time is a nice change. Too bad the change is usually $0.01-2/card.
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This is certainly the highest value card I've seen so far. Only problem is that there doesn't seem to be many buyers...
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