No more cards through discovery queue

the last nail in the coffin :)

oh damn...

Could have kept my cards at a higher price then, as the prices won't be dropping. :P

I forgot to deal with the cards last few sales, but the discovery queue brought uo some nice games at least. I don't really check it outside sales, so I may just forget about its existence

Are you telling me i have to spend around 10 dollars or craft other badge to get 1 card? D:

yet again steam hurt itself in confusion

Well got a set from crafting. So I am fine.

And now I don't need to never touch my alt accounts ever more.

epic=free games every week
steam= 1 dollar in cards is too much
come on gaben xd

kinda surprised it lasted as long as it did with all the bot farms every single sale tbh

Now I'll wonder (for 10 seconds) if that means there's some actual event incoming.

Great well this is dead to me then

oh no. Where we are supposed to get money for 2025 games?

Bad decision from them, but not surprised by it. They should've at least lowered the purchase threshold per card drop to "compensate" but... yeah, not surprised they didn't. :D

I don't really mind. But I'd prefer them to spend time bringing something new and joyful to the events, rather than only stripping classic elements away.

well, less server stress + more accurate data from discovery queues, but less (very small) profit from card/backgrounds/emoticons/ sales

Honestly not sure what they stand to gain by doing this.

Unfortunate, I used to get at least 1 full set of cards by simply using the ones I get for free, sell the dupes, buy the ones missing in the set. No more free profile XP from sales I guess.

was clear they gonna close it soon wonder why they even did it in first place

Ok, that's sad, but now I'm wondering how exactly this is beneficial to valve itself.
They must have always known that a lot of users simply took the free cards and either used them to craft badges or sell them to get some funds, but to steam this was no real expenditure at all, all of those funds came from other users wallets, not a cent came from valve's profits but rather it encouraged people to spend more money. What I'm trying to say is that this only ever benefited valve's bottom line, and that was why they implemented it in the first place, so why take it away now after so many years?

And about the alt accounts and farming bots, those also generated profits one way or another since in order to gain access to those cards drops an account needed to first spend some money to lift restrictions. This was a well thought out system that always benefited steam by draining the wallets of big spenders willing to drop lots of money to gain levels aka e-peen, it was just some classic whale hunting.

Good choice imo.

Oh, noes!

ok then. I spent my event dollars elsewhere after their bed decision to not allow adding gifts to my library and now I am kind of done with this added nail. FU Gaben

Sigh. Yet another case of "this is why we can't have nice things"...

So they're expecting to us to spend thousands of dollars in the sale to get cards for a badge? lol

this'll last for one sale before they realise that cheap abundance makes more money than overpriced relative scarcity...

people only want a cheap way to boost levels.. they arent completing the sets because of prestige, or because the badges or items 'look good'...

good decision