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I voted for Farming Sim due to lulz, and I live in a giant corn field....

I voted Farming Simulator

Also just watched that video...and am happy with my choice.

Edited, Jul 15th 2013 9:57pm by rdmcandie

Opps already voted for it

Edit Woo Organ Trail cards going for 5 cents a piece, so not worth farming them

Edited, Jul 15th 2013 10:33pm by BeanX

what are cards?

And we have return of the repeats for the next sale: Bioschock Infinite, Skyrim Legendary, and Tomb Raider.

Hoping Tomb Raider wins, because it's probably the best deal out of the three.

I've snagged Bioshock Infinite (from Amazon with the code, many thanks to Joph) and Fallout: New Vegas so far. Spent about $30, and haven't seen much else I would want to buy. Gotta say, going from Skyrim mods to FNV mods is terrible. Skyrim made modding simple, but FNV is just like throwing stuff at the wall and hoping it sticks.

Edit: Humorously, when the Flash sale options came up this time Skyrim was up with a 40% discount, but a total price of $0.00. Unfortunately it was quickly fixed

Edited, Jul 16th 2013 6:54am by LockeColeMA

Certain games drop virtual "cards" into your Steam inventory when played. If you collect all the cards from that game's set, you can combine them to get a badge and some xp towards your "Steam Level" A higher Steam level just provides some extra profile customization and things like a larger friend list (although the default is 250 people anyway). It's all really just an e-peen things.

Only half the cards for a given game will potentially drop for you. More accurately, you get half as many chances as there are cards. So a game with 8 cards will drop four and some may be duplicates. You are expected to trade for the remaining cards or buy them from other people on the market. When the whole card thing was newer, people wanted to collect all the badges and stuff so cards were worth more money. Now there's so many games with cards that a combination of supply and buyer fatigue (no one is reasonably going to collect them all) means the market has pretty much crashed out. Cards used to be worth 75¢ or more each and are now selling for 5¢ in some cases.

It's all one big metagame Steam cooked up to keep people interested in being on Steam. You can safely ignore it unless you really want badges or want to work for nickels.

booooo I wanted to play farm sim this morning...

Call your children and have them go to your house to buy it!

Or have them buy it themselves and gift it to you.

I could buy it as a gift for you, and you can send me a game of equal value later. I'm sure something will come up for $5 that I'm interested in.

Maybe I should play one of the Portal games finally.

Sell them. Use the money for more games. Get more cards from new games. Sell them. Use the money for more games. Get more cards from new games. Sell them ...

I bet they'd be worth a couple batcoins.