To me, that seems like a better deal than badges and emoticons.īut plenty of other people must feel differently, or else no one would be buying what I’ve been selling. At time of writing, I’ve made $47 profit. As new games (and thus new cards) have been added to the beta, I’ve continued collecting and selling the cards. ![]() Yet here I am, part of the problem, selling the damn things. It’s an abstraction of something that is already abstract, symbolic, and intrinsically meaningless, not to mention manipulative and exploitative. This card is so many orders away from being real. I’m not even sure how comfortable I am with the idea of a real trading card selling for $15, especially when its scarcity, its overvaluation, has been so baldly calculated and so cynically engineered. Don’t think too hard about what it means to sell a simulation of a reproduction of a collectable for real money, I told myself. So I relisted the card at a price that would, after the seller paid Valve their cut, net me $15. Someone will lose this little game of musical chairs. It was more like a gaudily befoiled card with Mewtwo on it, or a glossy 90s comic in which Superman dies, intentionally produced in limited quantities simply to pander to self-styled speculators. So maybe, I told myself, I’d already missed the boat.Īfter all, my shiny card-which wasn’t even shiny! Just kind of gray-was not a Honus Wagner rookie card or an Action Comics #1. It’s a matter of when, not if, as is the way with all such bubbles. Sooner or later, the bottom will fall out of this thing. Then someone undercut me by a few cents, and neither of our cards sold that day, and I started to get panicky. ![]() Sure enough, I flipped over to the Steam Market and saw that the card I’d just acquired had been selling for between $7.50 and $20. For those who’ve never traded or collected physical cards, I’ll explain that anything festooned with foil is rarer, and also shiner, and that those factors conspire to assign such objects much higher prices. Unremarkable.īut then, on my very last allotted drop, I got a Foil Card. No duplicates this time, and of course, no complete set. Last of all, I idled in Portal 2, and slowly my inventory notifications ticked away, and lazily I clicked over to see what I’d gotten. I consulted Google, and learned that only those who’d spent $9 or more in Dota 2’s in-game shop were entitled to its cards. Neat! We were getting into the spirit! (Is that neat?) Next I idled in Dota 2 for a while without getting any cards. I messaged a friend who was similarly afflicted, and we traded. While idling in Team Fortress 2, I got multiples of a few cards, leaving large gaps in my collection. Then I idled in Half-Life 2 with similarly unspectacular results. One of my Steam friends had one of the cards I needed, but I had nothing to trade for it, so oh well. I let Don’t Starve idle for a few hours and I got three of the game’s five cards. (If you get a full set of cards, then you can “craft” them into a badge, an emoticon, and and some experience points, but none of those do much of anything, either).Ĭurious, spurious, and confused, I signed up for the beta of this bizarre new meta-not-a-game. ![]() This means that they are objectively less useful than Team Fortress 2’s objectively useless, much-mocked, obscenely profitable pretend hats. They don’t belong to some card-based game of their own-no Magic: The Gathering analogue here-nor can your avatar in some other game carry them around. The cards don’t really do anything, it must be said. There rest, you’re supposed to trade for, or else buy for real-world cash-money in the Steam Market. Enjoy one of these games for a while (or just idle in its menu), and sooner or later you’ll have about half of that game’s Trading Cards. When you play certain games, digital cards will drop at random into your Steam Inventory. The bot needs you to send the keys first, it is recommended you use another bot.Maybe you’ve heard about Steam Trading Cards. Only accept trade requests that has the correct number of card sets inside it. Note: Never accept a trade request sending your keys with promises that the cards will be sent to you later. It’s broken, notify the bot or bot owner about this.You might have the wrong keys, only CS:GO case keys can be used unless stated otherwise.Make sure your keys are tradeable, buying off the market makes them untradeable for a 7 days.These same rules applys to TF2 and Gem Bots. More cards or until you feel like stopping. Once the trade has been completed, click here to start crafting badges. Accepting the trade might take some time if you traded a lot of keys. ![]() Type the command !buy (number of keys you have, Ex: !buy 20) in chat with the bot and the bot should send you a trade offerĬorresponding to the amount of keys you offered. Once you get all the case keys needed for leveling up, open up a chat with the bot you’ll be trading with.
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