Steam Cards

[Munkeh111]

BasilZero said:

Munkeh111 said:

I actually found that just after I posted!

But basically, for most games, I just play them, like FTL where there are "4 card drops remaining" so if I went and played that game, then I would eventually get the card drops?

The game I have been playing is Football Manager 2013. It says card drops earner by purchasing the game 3, card drops recieved 3. So this means that I have receieved all the 3 card drops from just playing the game? I can now get a booster pack randomly given to me which contains 3 cards, but may contain a duplicate? (in fact, one of my 3 card drops was a duplicate)

For the rest, I can buy them on the community market if someone is selling them, or I can trade for them?

I kind of want the badges, but not enough to pay for them... I guess I will be patient

Paid games will let you have a chance of obtaining at least half of the number of the maximum number of cards.

Free games such as DOTA2/Team Fortress 2 and MMOs - you need to pay a certain amount of real money from ingame purchasing in order to even start getting cards.

For an example - Left 4 Dead 2 has 8 cards but only 4 will drop to you since you own it/bought it.

The other 4 you have to get through buying off the market/trading, from the community/friend or getting it through a booster pack (which is a low percentage I think but increases the chance as your levels go up).

Yeah...I'm just trying to get to lv 10 ;x. I need like 150 XP to get to lv 10. I'll get 100 XP from the L4D2 collection since I need 3 more. Hopefully we get a badge from the summer sale like last year which gives like 100 XP by itself.

You also get points by the number of years you've been a member of Steam. 50 points a year and it goes up to 450 points.

You also get points based on what games you bought depending on the price of the game. If you get a game for free , you get one XP from what I've seen. Like for me I have 118 games according to steam but I have made about 338 XP from purchasing/owning games.

Okay, thanks for explaining this

Most of my XP comes from my 102 games and 4 years of service