Steam Trading Cards

[Nate75]

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?

 

[Nate75]

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?