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[Thexor]

Well yes, it is free monies, I have 5 cents. But it is steam wallet 5 cents, so its not exactly that great.

I've made about 20$ on steam cards. All you have to do is leave eligible games on and let the free monies roll in.

Yup. Cards are awarded based on time spent playing, because any other stat could be manipulated and might encourage awkward playstyles. The cards themselves sell pretty easily on the Steam marketplace - you can only earn half the cards needed for a single badge by playing the game, so if you want a complete collection (or want more than one level), you pretty much have to buy them.


Honestly, I'd prefer a different implementation. I think it'd be more interesting if people could earn an unlimited (or at least large) number of cards, but only specific types - instead of being limited to 4 TF2 cards, I could earn unlimited copies of 4 types of TF2 cards. So I might have lots of Heavy, Medic, Scout, and Pyro cards, but I'd have to find someone to trade those with for the rest of the set (and I'd have lots of duplicates available to trade). As it stands, the only way to get a complete collection is to buy cards, trade non-card items for cards (same as buying them, really), or pray for multiple booster packs (and I haven't seen one yet). But sadly, I don't work for Valve. 

[TripJack]

poor steam sales get worse and worse every time

[Maldevious]

Picked up Don't Starve, been waiting for it to go on sale for quite some time now. Otherwise, not much for me.

[Levi]

poor steam sales get worse and worse every time

I dunno, I just picked up like 10 games.    Two others I'm still considering.

[Metalax]

Well I would be buying stuff if my cart didn't keep randomly emptying itself. Hopefully the servers will sort themselves out in the next few hours.

[Dutchling]

There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction. Please wait a minute and try again or contact support for assistance.

:/

[LoSboccacc]

happens to me with paypal. try from the website

[PanH]

happens to me with paypal. try from the website

Happened to me with visa and steam wallet, it's just steam overloading. Nothing you can do about it.

[Knight of Fools]

Sweet, all the released games on my wishlist are on sale until the 22nd for at least half off.

Now to patiently wait for them to go on a flash or daily sale...

_{...so they can sit on my hard drive doing nothing for a year or so while I play all the free games I'm still enjoying.}

[PanH]

It seems like Steam is completely dead right now.

[Aklyon]

It seems like Steam is completely dead right now.

They haven't really ever been quite prepared enough for these sales, yeah.

[Lectorog]

Don't Starve is 40% off for the daily sale, which isn't much compared to everything else. Is it likely to get a bigger discount at any point?

[Levi]

Don't Starve is 40% off for the daily sale, which isn't much compared to everything else. Is it likely to get a bigger discount at any point?

Probably not.  Usually if you see it on a daily sale then its as high as it'll go.

[Kydrasz]

Huh, the Dawn of War franchise is 50% off, I really hope it gets lower than 69.99 during the sale.

[Neonivek]

My current goal is to wait for Magicka to go on a super sale (more then its 50%) and to buy it for friends who would like to play it with me.

Since every item has two sales
1) The passive sale: The discount an item has without going on direct or flash sale.
and
2) The active sale: The discount an item gets when put on direct or flash sale.

50% items can go as high as 90% but I am hoping for 75%