Steam Trading Cards

Frequently Asked Questions

What are Steam Trading Cards?

Steam Trading Cards are collectible cards you get by playing games on Steam. Collect a set of cards to earn items that help you customize your profile and show off your gameplay.

How can I get trading cards?

You can get trading cards simply by playing one of the . As you play, you"ll occasionally receive trading card drops which will be placed in your Steam Inventory.

Most games will drop a number of cards equal to about half the number of cards in that game's set of cards. For example, Half-Life 2 has 8 cards in its set, you can receive 4 card drops by playing it. You "ll need to collect the other half of the set from other community members. Try the beta group discussions, community market, barter with friends, and trade discussions. You can check how many drops you have remaining on .

What about free to play games like Team Fortress 2 or Dota 2?

Free to play games drop game cards based on your in-game purchasing. For every $9 USD spent (approximate) since the start of the Steam Trading Card Beta, you will earn one card drop. This card will drop at some point as you play. If you have made in-game purchases in Dota 2 or Team Fortress 2 prior to the Steam Trading Card Beta, or if you owned Team Fortress 2 prior to the Free to Play update, you will have 4 or 5 additional card drops available.

How can I get a booster pack?

Once you have received all of your card drops, you become eligible for a booster pack, which is a set of 3 trading cards that may include both basic and foil cards. Booster packs are granted randomly to eligible users as more badges are crafted by members of the community. Make sure you log in to Steam each week to maintain eligibility.

Once eligible, your Steam Level increases your rate of receiving a booster pack drop:

• Level 10: +20% increase in your drop rate
• Level 20: +40% increase in your drop rate
• Level 30: +60% increase in your drop rate
• Level 40: +80% increase in your drop rate
• Level 50: +100% increase in your drop rate (i.e. the rate has doubled)

How do I know if I can get card drops and booster packs?

From your Badges page, the “How do I earn card drops?” window shows you how many card drops you have earned, how to get more, and if you are currently eligible for a booster pack drop.

How do I know which friends I can trade with?

From your Badges page, the "Badges in Progress" tab shows you which Steam Trading Cards you already have, how many more you can get by playing the game, and how many more you need to complete a set. Clicking on a badge in progress will show you a list of all your friends who have the cards you need to complete the set, and has a link to sending them a message to start a trade. For example, Cyl and Tappet both own TF2 and Portal 2. Tappet can see that Cyl has the Portal 2 cards he needs to complete his Portal 2 badge. Tappet starts a trade with Cyl and gives him TF2 cards in exchange for Cyl's Portal 2 cards. Tappet is now able to complete his Portal 2 badge.

Which games drop trading cards?

What is a badge?

A badge is an icon on your profile (and tied to your account) that represents the trading card sets you"ve collected or your participation in an event.

How do I craft a badge?

From your Profile page, click on the "Badges" link near the top of the right column or select "Badges" from your persona name drop down in the Steam menu. From your Badges page, the "Badges in Progress" tab will show which badges are ready to be crafted. Select a ready to craft badge to view its details and click on the blue "Craft a Badge" button.

How can I see which cards I have, or cards I don't have?

From your Badges page, under the"Badges in Progress" tab select a badge to view the card set, including cards you own and cards remaining.

What do I get when I craft a badge from my Trading Cards?

In addition to getting the Game Badge itself, you"ll get:

• a random emoticon item created for this game, that can be used in chat or discussions;
• a random profile background item created for this game, that can be used on your Steam Community profile
• a chance to get a discount coupon for a different game or DLC
• 100XP, which may increase your Steam Level

If your Steam Level increases, the limit on the size of your friends list will be increased by five, and potentially you"ll unlock the ability to customize your profile with showcases.

Can I upgrade my game badge?

If you gather another complete set of trading cards for the same game you can upgrade that game badge. You can craft a set for the same game at most five times. Each time you upgrade the game badge you"ll get an extra 100XP, as well as upgrading the image and title of the badge.

What is my Steam Level?

Your Steam Level is a summary of your badges and shows off your trading card collection and participation in Steam events. Each badge earned increases your XP, and every 100 XP gives you an added Steam Level (at least to start).

How do I feature a badge?

You can select any completed badge from your Badges page. Your featured badge will display at the top of your profile and in the mini profile you see when you hover over your avatar.

Can I buy and sell trading cards on the Community Market?

I have a game on Steam, how can my game participate?

Instructions and tools for trading cards can be found under the Community tab of your App Admin in Steamworks.

How can I contribute new profile backgrounds and emoticons?

We"ll be working first with game developers to get them to contribute, but after release we"ll be looking into adding a Workshop for community items.

When will you be adding more games and more badges?

Adding new games will be slow at first while we work through any issues with the system or content. After we get everything working smoothly we hope to add many more games.

What do I do if I "m unhappy about a trade I made?

All trades are final; make sure you really want to make a trade before confirming.

How many badges do I need to increase my Steam Level?

When you get started, each badge you craft will increase your level. Most badges give 100 XP, and it takes 100 XP to get to the next level. The amount needed to level up increases every 10 levels, meaning after Steam Level 10 you"ll need 200XP per level, after level 20 you"ll need 300XP per level, etc.

What is the point of my Steam Level?

The Steam Level is a quick way for users to see how much someone has invested in their Steam account. We have just a few different ways to get badges right now, but we hope to expand that to include all the different ways users contribute.

What are the direct benefits of my Steam Level?

You get more options to customize your profile, and the maximum number of friends you can have on your friends list increases.

The Steam Community badge, earned by doing some basic tasks on Steam, is the easiest way to get a badge. The Years of Service badge (granted on the anniversary of your account creation) will automatically give you more XP the older your account is. Special events on Steam also frequently have badges. We hope to keep expanding the ways you can get badges.

What is a showcase?

How do I add a showcase to my profile?

Once you reach Steam Level 10 you can pick and customize a showcase from the profile edit page. Each 10 Steam Levels earns you an extra showcase, i.e. two showcases at Level 20, three showcases at Level 30, etc.

What is a Steam Emoticon?

An emoticon is a small image, themed for a particular game, that you get from crafting a Game Badge. You can insert it in Steam chats, discussion board posts, comment threads, etc. You can see the emoticon in your Steam Inventory and you can trade it to other users, or put it up for sale on the .

What is a Profile Background?

A profile background is a large image, themed for a particular game, that you get from crafting a Game Badge. You can select it to show in the background of your Steam Community Profile. You can see the profile background in your Steam Inventory and you can trade it to other users, or put it up for sale on the .

What are Foil Trading Cards?

There is a small chance whenever you get a Trading Card from playing a game that it will have a special foil border. You"ll need to collect a set of foil cards in order to craft them into a foil badge. There is no extra benefit to having foil cards or foil badges aside from their rarity.

Do I get Trading Cards for completing achievements in game?

Trading Card drops are currently just tied to playtime within a game, independent of which achievements you are getting. We will definitely look into adding more rules for how cards are dropped in the future, but there are a few problems with in-game achievements that prevented us from using them right now. Many games have achievements that are grindy or un-fun to get, and we want the act of getting game cards to be fun for all users in games. We also don't want to push users to cheat or use achievement-unlockers in games in order to get cards, since that devalues ​​achievements and isn't that fun either. Achievements are still valuable, and having the Achievement Showcase on your community profile is a great way to show off those rare achievements.

A whole entertaining social network which provides many interesting services. One of them irrevocably turns you from a layman user into a swinging gamer user - getting cards. Before you start collecting them, you should figure out what they are, why and why they are needed.

How to get trading cards on Steam.

Trading cards in Steam are icons depicting characters, locations, or other things from a particular game. They are issued for the time spent by the player in this game. Thus, the service encourages the user to play further and gives some bonuses.

Not all games on Steam give you these pretty icons. However, every year there are more and more of them. In any case, the most popular creations definitely provide players with such an opportunity.

What are they needed for?

If collecting these icons isn't just aesthetically pleasing, here's a practical benefit. They don't give much. Dropping five specific icons from the game allows you to make an icon. What are the benefits of it?

• self-pride;
• the possibility of obtaining a discount on any toy;
• new emoticons using in-game symbols;
• background screensaver from the game for the account on Steam;
• 100 experience points to increase the level in the service. And increasing the level, respectively, allows you to get even more cards and other cool goodies from Steam.

Types of cards

The resulting icons are of two types.

How can I get cards and quickly?

So, we figured out what cards are and what they are for. It remains to understand how you can quickly get them on Steam.

Way for the lazy

Separately, we should talk about a method that will knock out three base cards with little or no action on the part of the player. To do this, you need to download the Idle Master program. Idle Master scans the toys in your Steam library and launches them automatically. This is how cards will be awarded for the time spent in the game, while the user does not need to do anything. Another plus is that Steam does not ban players using this program, so use it to your health if you want to quickly collect everything, but there is no time to play yet.

Now you know how to quickly get cards on Steam, how to get them in general and what they give. Finally, some more useful data about randomness.

Chances of getting a Booster Pack

The higher your level, the more likely it is that the Booster Pack is given to you:

• Level 10 - 20% increase in drop chance;
• 20 - 40%;
• 30 - 60%
• 40 - 80%
• 50 - 100%.

No, from the 50th level, all the cards will not immediately go to you. But the chances of getting the Pack will double, which is already quite a lot.

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Steam Cards: How to farm and sell?

With the widespread development of digital technologies, the concept of “paid” entertainment has become inevitable. And it seems that the content is offered completely free of charge.

It is enough just to download the installation one, and now a satisfied user leads his character into an unknown world.

But that's where the free entertainment most often ends.

Buyers of official software almost always get a few free trading cards. This is a gratitude of the platform for the purchase.

What are these cards? Why are they needed at all? And why are they so valued? Is it possible to earn money on this? We will try to find answers to these questions during our review.

What are Steam cards?

Collectible cards are a kind of unique virtual jewelry.

Most often these are images of characters or objects of a fictional world.

Initially, they are distributed for free through the Steam service. The developers came up with them as a bonus.

That is, for each Steam game, designers create a special set of cards based on a specific story.

The creators of the app are waiting for designers to specifically draw some backgrounds for users' portfolios.

In addition, they develop distinctive graphic emoticons. They can be used when corresponding in a text chat.

Without meeting these requirements, the developer is not allowed to sell through the Steam channel.

That is, on the channel you will not find a single franchise that does not have its own backgrounds, emoticons, and at least a basic set of cards.

But, there are exceptions to any rule. Even if there is an object on the channel without the “required card base”, this means that the digital distributor bought it from another platform.

For example, it was assumed that sales would go to Origin or Uplay. But back to our decorations.

The value of a set of bonuses lies in the fact that the player will never get a full set for free.

The maximum you can get is half. And backgrounds and emoticons are generally absent in free content.

Well, since users are mostly gamblers, the pursuit of these very special privileges turns into a real test for them.

First, let's figure out why we need cards, backgrounds and emoticons in Steam.

The answer is obvious - in order to decorate your gaming profile, in order to stand out from the mass of other inhabitants of the online world.

In order to assert themselves. How is it implemented? Each registered Steam member has his own public profile.

Achievements are added to the main page. The participant can change the background of his own profile (the one that is not available in free access) and chat with other players.

The Steam store, which was previously an inferior and little functional offshoot of Counter-Strike.

For decades, it has grown to a huge market, so productive that its sales cannot be calculated.

It turned out that this is a pretty good investment, if you guess in time which of the lots will skyrocket in value after just a few months ...

Methods of extraction or earnings multiplied like mushrooms after rain.

The financial aspect brought particular popularity to the gaming platform.

In the game you can earn money. Not physical bills, of course, but still.

You cannot withdraw them, but you can spend them on other games, on improving your characters, on buying exclusive backgrounds and unimaginable emoticons. All this can be done only with the help of bonuses.

This is how the movement called “farming” arose. This is in-line production.

Steam card farming

The most important thing to understand is that no game can drop enough cards to collect the badge.

Usually the limit is about half the required amount. Even worse, dropped samples can be repeated!

The rest of the objects can be purchased on the marketplace. It's pretty cheap fun.

A standard unit costs no more than 5-6 cents, and rarely in any game you need more than four additional units. So any student can afford such pleasure.

Moreover, this is a real market. After all, you can not only buy objects of interest, you can also sell repetitions or those that are no longer needed.

The trading platform takes a commission from each transaction. Usually the percentage is 2 cents.

Each user, as a seller or buyer, is formed based on the number of successfully completed transactions.

In order for your lots to sell quickly and profitably, users should not set a price much higher than the market average.

Of course, if you do not take into account that the player accidentally became the owner of a real masterpiece, which, for one reason or another, he does not need.

Many users, realizing that it is not profitable to buy constantly, have switched to farming. This is a kind of "extraction" of valuable samples.

For this process, you need to install software. It is this, in fact, that will knock out bonuses on an industrial scale.

Farming with IdleMaster

One example of a successful mining app is IdleMaster. This is by no means the only program, but this moment is the most stable one.

This is a free and open source program, and for its normal functionality it is only necessary to have installed latest version.

During installation, you will need to disable the firewall and.

The program only works if Steam is running on the computer and the authorization procedure has been completed.

Also, the program does not work if the account is blocked for any violations.

In this regard, it is good that the gaming platform supports the development of IdleMaster.

Farming in Idle Master

Thus, if there is a stable Internet connection, the program automatically makes the gaming platform share with the user.

Moreover, the software creates an emulation of the fact that several games are running simultaneously on one computer.

At the same time, the hardware stuffing of the computer does not suffer at all, since the program is not demanding on resources.

Games won't even install on your computer and won't take up space. After all, it is very unlikely that you will play all the games at the same time.

Real gamers rarely settle down without going through one game to the end. Only after achieving the final victory, they switch to a new project!

Now more. Why is IdleMaster considered the most stable farming option at the moment?

Because of one single phrase - “the program is supported by Steam”. That is, it is practically official.

It is not banned by the marketplace developer and even has its own group.

Users on the official forum openly discuss the advantages and disadvantages of IdleMaster!

From this follows at least the reliability of its use and the durability of the user account! At the same time, the developers have set one limitation.

It cannot be used with VAC anti-cheat - in this case, the user account will most likely be blocked.

How to use IdleMaster

During the operation of the program, sometimes an error occurs.

The software does not see the running Steam stream. In this case, neither rebooting nor reinstalling the program will help the user.

In this case, the solution is simple: you need to run the program with administrator rights. This is a familiar problem for most users.

The operating system is increasingly confident that it is rare for a user to be allowed to run anything at all.

Perhaps, the process of farming is unlikely to seem complicated and confusing to anyone. It does not require knowledge, it does not consume computer power.

And the treasured improvements regularly appear in the player's piggy bank.

Making money from these unique exhibits is as easy as getting them. You get cards by farming, sell them on the market and invest in new games.

The trick is to act quickly, because now, thanks to the Steam sales, the trading card market is crumbling like a house of the same name.

Received quickly, sold quickly, reinvested quickly. Don't wait for the value of your assets to rise. In the near future, this miracle will not happen.

You can receive from three to five cards from each purchased game. Also, a small number of cards will end up in your piggy bank if you play them constantly.

If you don't know which of your games support trading cards, check out the 'badges' section on Steam.

There is a constantly updated list of current games in which you can get the coveted bonuses.

There should be a little message in the top right corner of every game. Something like "you can get 4 more cards".

You can keep playing this game until the text changes. And you will find out that "there will be no more cards in the game."

In fact, you don't even have to play, just enough to keep the app running in the background. Sooner or later, the remaining cards will fall into your gaming wallet,

The only exception is free games, which reward you specifically for progress.

Given that lots tend to sell for a few cents, it's not a good idea to purchase in-game items.

But, if you bought inventory before you decided to earn money, you should try to use it in order to reach the desired acquisitions faster.

Boosters

After you have received all the regular cards, you are entitled to a booster.

Each pack contains three random cards, including a small chance to find a 'premium' card that costs ten times more.

Boosters are awarded randomly, you don't even need to play games to get it, you just have to log into your account at least once a week.

Regularly, your chances of getting a booster increase. Also, the chance increases when you raise game level on Steam.

Every ten levels, your chance to find a unique booster increases by 20%.

Unfortunately, progress suffers from diminishing returns. Every ten levels, the amount of experience required to move to the next step up increases by 100 points.

With each new round of development in your career, moving on will cost you more and more effort.

If you are completely stuck in the Steam system, then these difficulties will only bring you pleasure.

Summer cards

This is a special type of bonus, created specifically for the summer sale.

You can get them in three ways: you can exchange one summer card for 9 regular ones. Given that the main goal is to make money, this is an unequal exchange.

You can buy summer cards for $10 each. But, for sure, then you can sell them much cheaper.

Earlier in this article, we already talked about the fact that it is not worth investing additional funds in obtaining cards if the ultimate goal is to sell them.

You can only buy them if you are an avid collector. And you need the cards for personal use.

Buying and trading

The final way to get new cards is the most obvious, you buy them in the market or trade them with friends.

Trading is the most profitable option. Cards vary greatly in value.

If you can trade with friends for Train cards, then by selling them on the marketplace, you can earn a reasonable profit.

Just be prepared to lose a few friends if they find out you're trading in what you took from them.

Collecting cards is one of the favorite activities of many Steam users. Cards are collectible items associated with a specific game of this service. Most often, they are needed to create badges that increase the account level. They can be sold on the marketplace and receive money for it, which can later be spent on purchasing games and cosmetic items for them and your profile.

You can get these items in several ways, which differ radically from each other. In some situations, you will have to spend your own money, while in others it will be enough just to play your favorite game. All the methods listed below are recommended to be used in combination if you want to get the largest possible number of cards.

Method 1: Game Activity

The simplest and easiest way to get multiple cards is to play games that have their drop built in. First you need to see which of the games linked to your account support cards at all, and how many more will drop in each of them.

This option does not require any additional actions from the user, since the drop occurs automatically during the game. However, as mentioned earlier, to create an icon without applying additional ways you will not succeed due to the limitation of the number of dropped cards. Next, we will analyze the methods of how else to knock them out for a badge or sale.

Method 2: Sign in weekly

When viewing the list with cards that have fallen out and are waiting for a drop, you probably noticed the inscription "How to get more?". Clicking on this link will open a window in which you can read the additional condition.

In short, every active user of this playground has a chance to get an additional set of three cards. To do this, you need to go to your profile from 1 time per week. However, in practice, the chance of receiving a gift is quite low, and owners of a low level in Steam will most likely have to wait a long time until the system randomly selects their profile for bonus accrual.

The minipack drop has a small chance of finding a rare card that costs more than a regular card if sold on the internal marketplace, and also allows you to create an improved badge.

In addition, the level of your profile directly depends on the chance of a drop:

• Level 10: +20% drop chance
• Level 20: +40% Drop Chance
• Level 30: +60% Drop Chance
• Level 40: +80% Drop Chance
• Level 50: +100% Drop Chance (Double Chance)

Method 3: In-app purchases

IN free games following the example of Dota 2 or Team Fortess 2, for every $9 spent on in-game items such as sets, chests, etc., you will receive one card. Of course, this cannot be called a full-fledged way, but such a possibility was also worth mentioning.

Method 4: Exchange with a friend

Here and in the next two methods, we will use the Steam section "Badges", how in Method 1, since in the cases under consideration it is most convenient to manage your cards through it. Immediately pay attention to the number of cards in your inventory: this is indicated by the number in brackets. Since it is not uncommon for the same cards to drop on Steam, multiple copies may accumulate. This knowledge will be needed for sale or other options.

Method 5: Exchange Forum

When the friendly exchange method is not suitable, it is suggested to go to the game-specific exchange forum as an alternative. To do this, simply press the appropriate button while in "Badges" this very game (how to get there, it was said in Method 3).

The forum page will open, where participants will offer their items for exchange. The conditions here are simple: a minimum knowledge of English and patience when moving from topic to topic in search of a suitable sentence. Abbreviations: H - have (have), W - want (I want). Don't forget to use the discussion search field to speed up the process. However, in any case, it is important for you to know the names of the cards that you are looking for and which you can offer in exchange (sometimes users need cards and items from other games in exchange). The easiest way to use this option is from a browser that allows you to open multiple tabs.

If there is no desire to search or you could not find a suitable offer, create your own topic with a proposal, starting from the existing ones as a sample. In this case, it is best to use English language- so the chances of a quick exchange will increase many times over than if you created a topic in your native language.

The trade itself is carried out in almost the same way as in Method 3.

Method 6: Marketplace

A fast and convenient way for all those who have free money or who are ready to transfer it to the Steam wallet to purchase items.

Buy cards some time before the start seasonal sales on Steam. As a rule, some users try to quickly make money on their sale in order to buy games at a discount, so the prices for the goods will be more loyal to the buyer.

Method 7: Buying Inexpensive / Receiving Games as a Gift

Usually, gamers are interested in obtaining collectible cards for further crafting a badge or selling. Those who belong to the first group can resort to buying inexpensive games that support drop cards. If you are ready to invest in their acquisition, follow the further instructions, and Method 7 will help speed up the process of obtaining them - after all, not all cheap (and expensive) games will be interesting, moreover, obtaining cards itself will become quite time-consuming.

1. Open the Steam page and go to "Shop" (store).



2. Find a section "Discounts", usually this tab is located approximately in the middle of the page.



3. Scroll through the list of promotional items, find the button "More: Discounts" and click on it.



4. A list of all the games on sale will appear. Every day it changes - some options will disappear from here, others will appear.



5. On the right you will see a list of filters. First of all, activate the feature "Collectible Cards" to only show games on the left that support dropping.



6. A little higher you can choose a category "Games" to remove DLC (add-ons) and other programs from the list.



7. Now sort by "rising price".

Select from the modified list expensive games, buy them, install them and spend time in them. And if there is no desire to play, go to the next method.

You can also get games as a gift by regularly watching giveaways in various Telegram channels, VKontakte publics, such as Free Steam, and sites like HumbleBundle.

Method 8: Farm cards

If you have a lot of games and want to get cards from them, you will quickly need to use special software. We will consider the most popular program - Steam Idle Master. It's a free and secure open source utility on GitHub (which means it's available for malware checks).

The meaning of Steam Idle Master is that it emulates the launch of games in the background, without formally launching them and without loading the PC. Thanks to this, the system thinks that the user is playing and, after some “played” time, gives him cards. Basically it's a quick replacement. Method 1, which has exactly the same restrictions on the number of drop-down cards from one game.

The program has only one requirement: during its operation, it is strongly not recommended to run games in parallel, especially those working through VAC anti-cheat (such as CS:GO). Otherwise, you may get an error VAC Authentication Error.

All dropped cards will appear in the inventory normally, as if they were dropped during an actual game.

Method 9: Trade cards

There are services on the Internet that allow you to exchange cards profitably, bypassing the Steam Market. One of them is proven Steam for years card exchange. It is a site that not only displays all the useful information about the cost of cards, the benefits when crafting a badge, but also allows you to exchange unnecessary cards for the necessary ones through an internal bot.

We will not describe its work, since this is the topic of a separate article, and the use of the site depends solely on your needs (viewing current prices or exchanging via Trading bot). If you want to exchange, be sure to first read the sections Guide And FAQ so that there are no unnecessary complications in the process. The downside of the site is that it only works in English.

Method 10: Making Gems

Steam has a function to create gems crafted from inventory items. Subsequently, the user should decide what to do with them:

• create from a handful of gems "Bag of Gems" and sell it on the Marketplace for about 15-20 rubles (the price may be different at the time of reading this article). With the proceeds, it remains to go to the Marketplace and buy the missing cards according to Method 5;
• exchange gems for 3 cards for the selected game.

This guide will be relevant only for those users who have unnecessary items such as backgrounds, emoticons in their Steam inventory (namely, Steam, and not a specific game).

1. Open your profile and go to "Inventory".
2. Switch to tab Steam.



3. Here we need to choose an item that we will turn into gems. Immediately, we categorically do not recommend using cards for this, even if there are several identical ones. They are not valued at all - on average, 8 gems are offered per card, while 60 pieces are issued for the emoticon and background. For the same items obtained during the forging of the badge on sale, the user will receive 100 gems.
4. Choose an item that you don't need, see how many gems you get for it. If you are satisfied with the result, click on the button "Turn into Gems".



5. A question will appear asking you to confirm this step, please answer yes.



6. A message will be displayed about the number of gems received. This item will appear on page 1 in the list of inventory items.



7. Now let's figure out how many gems you need to get:
   
8. Let's consider the second option in more detail. To go to the stone exchange menu, click on the link "To learn more" on the right side.



9. From the drop-down list, select the game whose card price you want to know. If there are enough gems, you can make an exchange. Otherwise, first get the required amount and return to the same page.



10. For example, we will take one of the games offered below (the last launched ones are displayed) and exchange gems for 3 cards.



11. Click "Create Set".



12. Confirm your action by clicking on the appropriate button.



13. The resulting set is "Unpack" if you want to use it.



14. Will be asked to see "Icon progress" or "Close" window.

There is also a drop chance here. rare card, but at the same time, 2 identical ones can also be caught. Therefore, this method is recommended to be used with games where the price of 1 card is higher than the average according to general statistics, so that the exchange pays off. A maximum of one set per game is allowed per day.

It is convenient to see the cost of the entire set of cards for a particular game on the site, focusing on the column Set price. It is also necessary to take into account the total number of cards needed to craft the badge (see column "Cards"). With simple mathematical operations, it remains to calculate how much 3 cards from the entire set will cost. Immediately note that all cards for the same game and the same rarity level have different prices, but the difference between prices is minimal - from a few kopecks to a couple of rubles on average.

For quick search of your game, use the search field at the top right.

Method 11: Seasonal Sales

4 times a year, Valve arranges global sales on Steam. On each of them, users can not only buy games with good discounts, but also get several cards to forge a badge or sell. They are issued for viewing a selection with personal recommendations. 1 view - 1 card. Up to 3 pieces are available per day. The time of the promotion depends on the one set by Valve and the period is always written in the header on the page "Shop".

It is worth noting that these cards expire a month after the end of the sale, so until then you should have time to craft and improve the sale badge or sell them on the Marketplace.

Depending on the event, you can get cards in sales in another way, you need to learn more about this already with the start of the promotion.

We've looked at a few options for getting cards, but some of them you can delve into to become a real collector and get more of these inventory items.

What are Steam cards?
Steam Cards are virtual trading cards that drop during gameplay. For some, the card system is an income, for others it is a way to distinguish themselves. valve set ourselves the task of making each user Steam unique. They did it.

If you want a card - play a game ...
Everyone can receive cards. To do this, you just need to just play games. For example, playing , you get 4 cards - half of the cards needed to create a badge. The rest you can get by exchanging with players or with.
But you don't have to play to get cards. There are special sets of 3-4 cards that drop completely randomly. The chance that the set will drop for you depends on the level of your Steam profile - the higher the level, the greater the chance of getting the set.
Also, cards are divided into 2 types: ordinary and metal. Metal cards drop less frequently than regular cards. And therefore they cost more. For example, Virgil's metal card costs about 500 rubles.

Need money - sell some cards...
Collectible cards can not only be exchanged, but also sold on the Marketplace. The prices of cards depend on their newness and type: old cards are cheap, and new ones are more expensive; regular cards are cheap, and metal cards are twice as much. Cards cost little, but you can earn money on them. This is what some people do: they raise their level to the 50th and sell kits for 20-30 rubles. Cards from Dota 2 they can also sell for 10-50 rubles apiece.
Maps from beta test Steam Trading Cards became the internal currency among users Steam. For example, Americans sell gifts for cards. So if you have 50-60 cards lying around in your inventory - find a seller and exchange with him for something worthwhile, or just sell;)

We have collected a complete set of cards - create an icon ...
Having collected a complete set of cards, the same saints row 3 , for example, you can create an icon and get emojis, backgrounds, discount coupons (mostly for indie games and up to 90%), and experience for your Steam profile. In general, a set of self-expression.

Your profile is unique...

As you play, you collect cards. By collecting cards, you create badges. By creating badges, you improve and level up your Steam profile. By improving your profile, you become unique.
And finally, you have raised your profile level to 10th. Now you will be able to put up one showcase and join some closed groups. Every 10 levels will allow you to open up new opportunities in front of you: join the community, open showcases and be in the rankings.

Steam Trading Cards is currently in mass testing mode. valve they promise to add a lot: golden cards, special showcases, profile ratings and more.

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Steam Trading Cards- the best in-platform system according to users. Collecting cards, of course, seems pointless to some - but it is a very exciting activity.

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