• @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    06 days ago

    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.

    • Evening Newbs
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      15 days ago

      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.

      • Dyskolos
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        05 days ago

        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.

        • @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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          05 days ago

          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?

          • Dyskolos
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            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.