Steam winter auction 2014

Based on my quick glance in my own inventory, even if I consumed every card I have, I'm not sure I'd have more than a few thousand gems maybe. Too much work!

Market is fucked. Can pack 1000 gems into a bag and put on market. Endless errors trying to buy the god damn things though. Put in a few hundred gems on various games I think I'll get. Anyone trying to compete for AAA titles is probably going to wind up disappointed though.

Nevermind finally got a buy order through that filled so I have 500,000 gems now. Now to decide if I should bid or wait for market to stop shitting itself and for prices to go back up. 1000 gems should have a bottom price of .30 based on the minimum cost to generate that many b y poofing backgrounds and shit.

So, there's pretty much no reason to craft cards this sale?

Converted all my cards, got 754 gems. Top bids are like 200k, lol.

Lenas_sl said:

Converted all my cards, got 754 gems. Top bids are like 200k, lol.

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Same. How the hell are people getting so many? Buying gems, to bid on games? Why not just buy the damn game?

Because until people start placing genuine bids on the 15th instead of tracking bids it "looks" like you can get any game for less than a dollars worth of gems. When in reality once real bids are placed as actions start ending there are going to be a fuck ton of people with no games and a ton of useless gems.

Why are people turning their cards into gems, when its a far better idea to sell them and then buy gems

Card prices are about to plummet btw. Highest booster pack combine cost I saw was 1200 gems. All my gems/sacks are now non trade/marketable but can still be used to make boosters. Made one of everything myself but it's limited to 1 per day per game (may have been unlimited for a while dunno).

TL/DR 3 cents per 3 cards for any game to make them atm. Steam I am disappoint. Didn't they have this duping problem before? Oh well I'm fine with it since my 750,000 gems should get me a couple games I think. I'll be salty as hell if not though.

Or not haha. All my gems/bags are now gone from inv and shits disabled. Motherfuckers better give me my $15 back.

Yea it looks like they shut it down, the banner is not on the homepage anymore.

Probably the best way to handle it, although I'm sure some bought cards with gems and in turn made some money on resale. It may turn out you get your gems back on top of what you traded the gems for as I can't imagine they are going to overturn every single gem trade.

The whole system is fucky. If you've used the Steam Achievement program to get cards you probably shouldn't be complaining about prices or gems. That so many have used it has done more damage to the system to the people who earned their cards than anything else.

Not that I give a shit, I used it too for the 50 or so games I never planned on playing or got in a bundle for free. Point is, the whole system is fucked. Go GoG.com route and just give everyone a free game. But I guess Valve makes bank off all the transaction fees during these "promotions".

Cool they are resetting it, but did they really think people weren't going to exploit the system? Eh, glad they are trying to fix it.

Just have a goddamn sale. Ffs

Eh. Kinda soured on the whole thing due to all the wasted time since I didn't jump on the make 9000 booster bandwagon before they limited creation. Would have been nice to leave a token bid of 1 gem if you had made enough to cover it though because going through their buggy ass list is a pita. Game positions flip flop for whatever reason leading to amusing shit like placing a bid and going back and the game you bid on not even being on the same page you just left. As well as less amusing things like going through all 134 pages and then having to search for games that never got displayed.

Still don't see how some of these bids can be legit unless someone spent literally hours buying low priced shit to poof on the market. Think 100,000 gems equates to $30 now based on highest conversion rate I saw @ $.03 per item. Probably about 4-5 hours on the market/poofing on top of it so not fucking worth it to save $20.

For those who might care prices are already spiraling but the following tend to be 100 gems/each. Loadout emote/background, Marvel 2015 background, Gunz 2 emote/background, Hawken emote/background, Dead Island Epidemic emote/background, Blacklight : Retribution emote/background. Have yet to see anything that poofs for more than 100 a pop except foil cards which are about 280 per from what I saw. Lots of shit from various games poofs for 80(Legend of Grimrock 2) but I didn't bother to track that stuff although it's already cheaper to buy those for .03 than to buy the 100 gem items.

Spent about $10 while the stuff was still 3/4 cents myself. Gonna wait and see how high it climbs and either resell if people are retarded or see if I can't get my moneys worth by winning a couple games. Something to kill time in the mountains I guess.