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Gabe Newell says no-one in the industry thought Steam would work as a distribution platform—'I'm not talking about 1 or 2 people, I mean like 99%' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Wait, these are worth something? I have so many of them rotting in my inventory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

People collect things. Especially things you can't "normally" purchase anymore. So yes, they're worth something. Maybe a lot, but definately >0 😁

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah. I don't really know much at all about how or why people are buying the stuff or the digital cards or the whole booster pack things that steam does. There's a ton of little pictures I have, and for whatever reason tons of people buy them if you want to sell them off. Mostly 5 to 25 cents a piece. I've never messed with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I know the cards are worth a few cents each. Selling those is more trouble than it's worth.

I meant the inventory gift games being worth something.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Selling those cards is only worth the trouble if it's a lot and you automate the selling. Once sold a few thousands that accumulated and got >100 bucks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

But why are they being bought? Are people actually collecting and wanting them? Or is it like a pyramid scheme stock market and people are buying and selling thousands for bits of profit?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

2 reasons (pick one):

1: Raise your steam-level. Either to get more stuff to show on your profile or to be allowed to have more friends (yes, there's a limit). Up to a certain level, starting from there it's just to show how much money you got to be a famous rockstar in the steam social media. Some spend millions on that.

2: Get a badge for your profile that you really like. Or some backgrounds or chat-emojis.

It you see a steam-level >200 (i think that was the sweet spot) it's just a poser 😁

Personally i spent some thousands once for just that, but only because nerd-me wanted to absolutely optimize the automatic leveling for the sake of it. I can obsess over things pretty quickly 😂

I have not heard of someone collecting them for collecting-reasons. Only the game-gifts.