Steam Trading Cards

Nate75 · 31 Oct 2015 at 19:22

Just wondering really...!

I have seen a number of people buy a shed load of 20p (or thereabouts) games in the Halloween sale. When I have clicked on the game to see if it's any good I noticed that the user seems to be playing all of them at once!

So I figure they must be "mining" trading cards.

Nothing wrong with this. But I am curious on how this is done...

First Google brings up this app

http://www.steamidlemaster.com/ (I did not click on or install this so cannot verify what it is)

has anyone used this or similar, or used bots or tools etc for mining cards?

Glanza · 31 Oct 2015 at 19:58

Idle master just makes steam think your playing the game to get the hours up to drop the cards.

Klunt Bumskrint · 31 Oct 2015 at 21:05

I call shenanigans!

strang3r · 1 Nov 2015 at 07:42

I've been using Idlemaster for a few weeks now. Seems to work fine.

Klunt Bumskrint · 1 Nov 2015 at 08:25

I might give this a go on some of games list that I don't play. I love the steam cards.

Skeeter · 1 Nov 2015 at 13:32

Does this up your stats about play time hours too?

My concern is that Steam are not keen on cheats. Trading cards are not really worth losing my account over

Nate75 · 1 Nov 2015 at 14:06

Skeeter said:
Does this up your stats about play time hours too?

My concern is that Steam are not keen on cheats. Trading cards are not really worth losing my account over

From looking at the user account in my list it looks like the card drops are all received between 3-4hrs. So there is a list of games played 3-4hrs with no achievements.

I don't see how Valve would be upset with playtime stats though?

One of my ex Counterstrike clan members used to leave CS running 24/7 to up his game time to make him look l337 etc (lol). However I can't see anyone getting banned for this?

Glanza · 1 Nov 2015 at 14:27

Steam won't ban you for using idlemaster.

ZeroG · 1 Nov 2015 at 16:43

I used to just run several games at once, worked just as well for getting card drops. Not sure it counted all the "play time" or just the first game launched.

Which reminds me I have loads of cards just sitting in my inventory, really should get around to trading them at some point.

D3K · 1 Nov 2015 at 16:53

I was hoping this was a thread about the point of steam trading cards. Because it confuses the hell out of me why anyone bothers, let alone pays money for.

Klunt Bumskrint · 1 Nov 2015 at 16:58

I enjoy collecting them and getting the badges. It's no different to collecting stamps/little ceramic dogs/baseball cards/bottles/etc

Mark A · 1 Nov 2015 at 17:00

D3K said:
I was hoping this was a thread about the point of steam trading cards. Because it confuses the hell out of me why anyone bothers, let alone pays money for.

There has already been countless threads on peoples confusion over something they don't enjoy so no one else should.

Just used idlemaster recently as I had a load of games build up and it worked great. Still took ages though. It does count the game time as apparently I have played for 75 hours the past 2 weeks :eek:

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All Valve care about is their cut from the sales.

ZeroG · 1 Nov 2015 at 17:39

I have collected a lot of cards and badges and maybe have spent about £1 in total for ones I don't have since the vast majority I get are through trades.

SonniLombardi · 1 Nov 2015 at 17:42

Nate75 said:
One of my ex Counterstrike clan members used to leave CS running 24/7 to up his game time to make him look l337 etc (lol). However I can't see anyone getting banned for this?

lol really?

Skeeter · 1 Nov 2015 at 17:42

D3K said:
I was hoping this was a thread about the point of steam trading cards. Because it confuses the hell out of me why anyone bothers, let alone pays money for.

The point of them is to sell them.