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Sure enough just about my entire market list sold off in a couple hours after the sale goes live. Including my 1.50 foil.

The damn sale would start right after I dropped almost two hundred dollars on a new processor. At least I have a few dollars in fun bux if I see anything I want. I really should have tried to sell more cards, but I didn't really expect the sale this soon this year.

Well, I'm not broke, but I really shouldn't be spending anymore money this paycheck on recreational stuff. Bills and all...

No purchases for me yet...

Edit:
Too bad it doesn't look like you get anything for being on the winning team unless you contribute by crafting a game badge or sale badge.

Edited, Jun 19th 2014 9:16pm by TirithRR

Also forked over for DMC. I played the first one ages ago and kinda liked it...

I'm sure I will totally finish it just like I did on MGR: Rev. (You have played 3 hours) Hey that's better than 0 hours!

Grabbed Velvet Assassin for $.49. Otherwise making progress on the wallet.

I still have no idea what those cards are for or how exactly that **** works.

That's because you don't understand the metagame

Certain games drop cards that go into your Steam inventory. You can see which games from your Badges page (drop down under Community I think). When you're playing those games, you randomly get a card every once in a while. The cards can be combined for badges to increase your Steam Level and give some minor perks (more showcase slots in your profile for example) and an emoticon & background. More importantly, you can sell them to other people who care more about that **** than you do.

To get cards faster, you can use a program called Steam Achievement Manager. SAM allows you to edit your Steam Achievements but that's not why you want it. You want it because just by bringing up a game in SAM, you make Steam think you're playing it. Plus, since SAM communicates directly with Steam's achievement database, you don't even have to have the game installed. Instead of downloading some 20gb game and letting it idle for 3 hours, you can just pop it up in SAM. You can also have multiple games "running" in SAM at once which you can't do by actually launching them via Steam.

On their own, the cards aren't worth much (usually 10-15¢) but taken in aggregate you can make a nice nest egg for the cost of a few mouse clicks now and then while you're sitting at your computer anyway. And during events like the sale where cards go up in price because people are dumb enough to buy cards to make badges for a 1/500,000 chance at getting a couple free games it's even better.

It'll automatically apply Steam Credit to the purchase price so the next thing you buy would be 0.78 funny "E"s less.

Just a small correction. You can run multiple games on your computer through steam. I used to run 3 games at a time actually installed before I went the other route. Just alt-tab and start another. Got card drops for all of them.

Obviously your PC will bog down a bit but I would play bioshock infinite while running bl2 in the background.

Edited, Jun 20th 2014 10:15am by TirithRR

Seriously though, what on earth is the point of that?

Was that racist? Because it sounded racist.

Makes Magic discussion so much easier to follow. And you can set it up when it links so it rarely comes up unintended because you can set them to having to be capitalized to work so for titles here it triggers on Conspiracy, Arrest and Evil Twin.