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Incognoto
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
France10239 Posts
December 10 2014 07:52 GMT
#11121
It's dead space that's free on origin in france q_q

hmm maybe dead space is a gg though
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ahswtini
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Northern Ireland22213 Posts
December 10 2014 13:43 GMT
#11122
so typical paypal email leaks that the steam winter sales start on the 18th
"As I've said, balance isn't about strategies or counters, it's about probability and statistics." - paralleluniverse
LasTLiE
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States428 Posts
December 10 2014 14:41 GMT
#11123
On December 10 2014 16:52 Incognoto wrote:
It's dead space that's free on origin in france q_q

hmm maybe dead space is a gg though


Dead Space is a pretty good game. And it's free, so may as well grab it.
"[21:01] kjwcj: i wanna put an aftermarket heatsink on your northbridge, lastlie" http://twitter.com/ThatGuyLastly
LaNague
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany9118 Posts
December 10 2014 16:37 GMT
#11124
why is valve even telling paypal about their sales
Yurie
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
12175 Posts
December 10 2014 20:56 GMT
#11125
On December 10 2014 15:57 bluegarfield wrote:
humble store has started its winter sale. Haven't found many fun things yet but worth checking back every day for new deals


Divinity II seems like a good deal. Lower than any steam sale ever was for Europeans.
crate
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States2474 Posts
December 11 2014 04:20 GMT
#11126
You should all buy Dustforce from the humble store. $1 for Dustforce is a steal. I would caution that it does take time for the controls to really make sense (it did for me, anyway) but after that happens it's only the best 2d platformer ever.
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Coppermantis
Profile Joined June 2012
United States845 Posts
December 11 2014 05:09 GMT
#11127
Oh, Hell yes to free SC2000. I had a CD for that game a while back but lost it at some point before getting my new computer. Time to play one of my favorite games again, easily one of the best Simcity games, probably tied with 4.
rebuffering
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada2436 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-12 00:53:16
December 12 2014 00:50 GMT
#11128
WTF Steam lol, you never cease to amaze me. http://steamcommunity.com/auction

I feel like unless you had like 500 cards sitting in your inventory you wont win shit lol. Some people have like 20,000 gems bid into some games. While i currently have 100, seems like its not worth it at all.
http://www.twitch.tv/rebufferingg
Blitzkrieg0
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States13132 Posts
December 12 2014 00:58 GMT
#11129
On December 12 2014 09:50 rebuffering wrote:
WTF Steam lol, you never cease to amaze me. http://steamcommunity.com/auction

I feel like unless you had like 500 cards sitting in your inventory you wont win shit lol. Some people have like 20,000 gems bid into some games. While i currently have 100, seems like its not worth it at all.


There is a 183700 bid on the holiday background. I don't even want to know how he got that many.
I'll always be your shadow and veil your eyes from states of ain soph aur.
LasTLiE
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States428 Posts
December 12 2014 00:59 GMT
#11130
On December 12 2014 09:50 rebuffering wrote:
WTF Steam lol, you never cease to amaze me. http://steamcommunity.com/auction

I feel like unless you had like 500 cards sitting in your inventory you wont win shit lol. Some people have like 20,000 gems bid into some games. While i currently have 100, seems like its not worth it at all.


I think that for most people it's going to best to either convert the gems then turn them into boosters and sell the cards from there, or to just sell cards/backgrounds/emoticons directly. For the amount you'd have to spend to get enough gems to win an auction, it'll probably end up being cheaper to just buy the game when it's on sale.

I think it's a pretty interesting thing to do though. Basically it looks like a way for Valve to take the market and force prices back up. Higher demand (to turn things in to gems) and reduced availability (cards etc getting destroyed for gems). Very clever of them, seeing as how they get 10-15% of each market sale.
"[21:01] kjwcj: i wanna put an aftermarket heatsink on your northbridge, lastlie" http://twitter.com/ThatGuyLastly
rebuffering
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada2436 Posts
December 12 2014 01:12 GMT
#11131
On December 12 2014 09:59 LasTLiE wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2014 09:50 rebuffering wrote:
WTF Steam lol, you never cease to amaze me. http://steamcommunity.com/auction

I feel like unless you had like 500 cards sitting in your inventory you wont win shit lol. Some people have like 20,000 gems bid into some games. While i currently have 100, seems like its not worth it at all.


I think that for most people it's going to best to either convert the gems then turn them into boosters and sell the cards from there, or to just sell cards/backgrounds/emoticons directly. For the amount you'd have to spend to get enough gems to win an auction, it'll probably end up being cheaper to just buy the game when it's on sale.

I think it's a pretty interesting thing to do though. Basically it looks like a way for Valve to take the market and force prices back up. Higher demand (to turn things in to gems) and reduced availability (cards etc getting destroyed for gems). Very clever of them, seeing as how they get 10-15% of each market sale.


They are sneaky beavers thats for sure.
http://www.twitch.tv/rebufferingg
Conti
Profile Joined November 2010
Germany2516 Posts
December 12 2014 01:20 GMT
#11132
On December 12 2014 09:59 LasTLiE wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2014 09:50 rebuffering wrote:
WTF Steam lol, you never cease to amaze me. http://steamcommunity.com/auction

I feel like unless you had like 500 cards sitting in your inventory you wont win shit lol. Some people have like 20,000 gems bid into some games. While i currently have 100, seems like its not worth it at all.


I think that for most people it's going to best to either convert the gems then turn them into boosters and sell the cards from there, or to just sell cards/backgrounds/emoticons directly. For the amount you'd have to spend to get enough gems to win an auction, it'll probably end up being cheaper to just buy the game when it's on sale.

I think it's a pretty interesting thing to do though. Basically it looks like a way for Valve to take the market and force prices back up. Higher demand (to turn things in to gems) and reduced availability (cards etc getting destroyed for gems). Very clever of them, seeing as how they get 10-15% of each market sale.

Not to mention that, from the looks of it, one "gem" is about worth one cent (you can convert a card into 5 gems or sell it for 5 cents, basically), so people bidding are paying ridiculous prizes for the games.
Valiver
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Caldeum1977 Posts
December 12 2014 01:27 GMT
#11133
On December 12 2014 10:20 Conti wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2014 09:59 LasTLiE wrote:
On December 12 2014 09:50 rebuffering wrote:
WTF Steam lol, you never cease to amaze me. http://steamcommunity.com/auction

I feel like unless you had like 500 cards sitting in your inventory you wont win shit lol. Some people have like 20,000 gems bid into some games. While i currently have 100, seems like its not worth it at all.


I think that for most people it's going to best to either convert the gems then turn them into boosters and sell the cards from there, or to just sell cards/backgrounds/emoticons directly. For the amount you'd have to spend to get enough gems to win an auction, it'll probably end up being cheaper to just buy the game when it's on sale.

I think it's a pretty interesting thing to do though. Basically it looks like a way for Valve to take the market and force prices back up. Higher demand (to turn things in to gems) and reduced availability (cards etc getting destroyed for gems). Very clever of them, seeing as how they get 10-15% of each market sale.

Not to mention that, from the looks of it, one "gem" is about worth one cent (you can convert a card into 5 gems or sell it for 5 cents, basically), so people bidding are paying ridiculous prizes for the games.

My csgo cards are worth 40 gems and 6 cents each, and my backgrounds are anywhere from 40-100 gems each for 3-5 cents. What cards are you looking at that give so few gems?
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LasTLiE
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States428 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-12 01:33:30
December 12 2014 01:33 GMT
#11134
On December 12 2014 10:20 Conti wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2014 09:59 LasTLiE wrote:
On December 12 2014 09:50 rebuffering wrote:
WTF Steam lol, you never cease to amaze me. http://steamcommunity.com/auction

I feel like unless you had like 500 cards sitting in your inventory you wont win shit lol. Some people have like 20,000 gems bid into some games. While i currently have 100, seems like its not worth it at all.


I think that for most people it's going to best to either convert the gems then turn them into boosters and sell the cards from there, or to just sell cards/backgrounds/emoticons directly. For the amount you'd have to spend to get enough gems to win an auction, it'll probably end up being cheaper to just buy the game when it's on sale.

I think it's a pretty interesting thing to do though. Basically it looks like a way for Valve to take the market and force prices back up. Higher demand (to turn things in to gems) and reduced availability (cards etc getting destroyed for gems). Very clever of them, seeing as how they get 10-15% of each market sale.

Not to mention that, from the looks of it, one "gem" is about worth one cent (you can convert a card into 5 gems or sell it for 5 cents, basically), so people bidding are paying ridiculous prizes for the games.


Cards seem to have a really bad conversion rate. Emoticons and backgrounds vary from 10 to 100 gems each. I have no idea what math they're doing to determine how many gems something is worth though, pretty much all the backgrounds I have are only worth 3 or 4 cents on the market, but the gem values are all over the place.
"[21:01] kjwcj: i wanna put an aftermarket heatsink on your northbridge, lastlie" http://twitter.com/ThatGuyLastly
Conti
Profile Joined November 2010
Germany2516 Posts
December 12 2014 01:35 GMT
#11135
On December 12 2014 10:27 Valiver wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2014 10:20 Conti wrote:
On December 12 2014 09:59 LasTLiE wrote:
On December 12 2014 09:50 rebuffering wrote:
WTF Steam lol, you never cease to amaze me. http://steamcommunity.com/auction

I feel like unless you had like 500 cards sitting in your inventory you wont win shit lol. Some people have like 20,000 gems bid into some games. While i currently have 100, seems like its not worth it at all.


I think that for most people it's going to best to either convert the gems then turn them into boosters and sell the cards from there, or to just sell cards/backgrounds/emoticons directly. For the amount you'd have to spend to get enough gems to win an auction, it'll probably end up being cheaper to just buy the game when it's on sale.

I think it's a pretty interesting thing to do though. Basically it looks like a way for Valve to take the market and force prices back up. Higher demand (to turn things in to gems) and reduced availability (cards etc getting destroyed for gems). Very clever of them, seeing as how they get 10-15% of each market sale.

Not to mention that, from the looks of it, one "gem" is about worth one cent (you can convert a card into 5 gems or sell it for 5 cents, basically), so people bidding are paying ridiculous prizes for the games.

My csgo cards are worth 40 gems and 6 cents each, and my backgrounds are anywhere from 40-100 gems each for 3-5 cents. What cards are you looking at that give so few gems?

I looked at a few. It seems entirely random, most my cards are worth 3-5 gems, but some were worth 10 or 20. Seems to depend on the game, and I would guess cards that are owned by more people are worth more. But even if the cards are worth five times as much, you are still way better off just selling them and buying games for real money than to bid on games with gems.
Mysticesper
Profile Joined January 2011
United States1183 Posts
December 12 2014 01:39 GMT
#11136
On December 12 2014 10:20 Conti wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2014 09:59 LasTLiE wrote:
On December 12 2014 09:50 rebuffering wrote:
WTF Steam lol, you never cease to amaze me. http://steamcommunity.com/auction

I feel like unless you had like 500 cards sitting in your inventory you wont win shit lol. Some people have like 20,000 gems bid into some games. While i currently have 100, seems like its not worth it at all.


I think that for most people it's going to best to either convert the gems then turn them into boosters and sell the cards from there, or to just sell cards/backgrounds/emoticons directly. For the amount you'd have to spend to get enough gems to win an auction, it'll probably end up being cheaper to just buy the game when it's on sale.

I think it's a pretty interesting thing to do though. Basically it looks like a way for Valve to take the market and force prices back up. Higher demand (to turn things in to gems) and reduced availability (cards etc getting destroyed for gems). Very clever of them, seeing as how they get 10-15% of each market sale.

Not to mention that, from the looks of it, one "gem" is about worth one cent (you can convert a card into 5 gems or sell it for 5 cents, basically), so people bidding are paying ridiculous prizes for the games.

Backgrounds from previous sales and whatnot are worth 100 gems for ~3-5 cents from the marketplace. You can see that thousands of them have been sold in the last 24 hours.
Blitzkrieg0
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States13132 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-12 04:05:04
December 12 2014 01:43 GMT
#11137
On December 12 2014 10:20 Conti wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2014 09:59 LasTLiE wrote:
On December 12 2014 09:50 rebuffering wrote:
WTF Steam lol, you never cease to amaze me. http://steamcommunity.com/auction

I feel like unless you had like 500 cards sitting in your inventory you wont win shit lol. Some people have like 20,000 gems bid into some games. While i currently have 100, seems like its not worth it at all.


I think that for most people it's going to best to either convert the gems then turn them into boosters and sell the cards from there, or to just sell cards/backgrounds/emoticons directly. For the amount you'd have to spend to get enough gems to win an auction, it'll probably end up being cheaper to just buy the game when it's on sale.

I think it's a pretty interesting thing to do though. Basically it looks like a way for Valve to take the market and force prices back up. Higher demand (to turn things in to gems) and reduced availability (cards etc getting destroyed for gems). Very clever of them, seeing as how they get 10-15% of each market sale.

Not to mention that, from the looks of it, one "gem" is about worth one cent (you can convert a card into 5 gems or sell it for 5 cents, basically), so people bidding are paying ridiculous prizes for the games.


The sack of gems (1000) price is about 20 cents so that would be a better guesstimate of their value. Getting 50 gems per cent doesn't seem very likely unless you account for market tax on items you already own though.
I'll always be your shadow and veil your eyes from states of ain soph aur.
Valiver
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Caldeum1977 Posts
December 12 2014 02:30 GMT
#11138
Seems to me like steam just really wanted to remove all of the backgrounds/emoticons in people's inventory taking up room on their servers.
Writer
LaNague
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany9118 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-12 03:00:02
December 12 2014 02:56 GMT
#11139
there are 3 cent backgrounds that give like 100+ gems. Well maybe not anymore xD

Anyways for me its just a fun way to clean my inventory, got 3k gems from that and that will buy 1-2 decent oldies.



Im not even gonna try and compete with the crazy trader people, i guess those will clean up that community market quite a bit, Valve is always really clever with this community stuff.
Murdco
Profile Joined June 2011
United States745 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-12 03:27:26
December 12 2014 03:15 GMT
#11140
I had a lucky break got 20 bags of gems for a dollar, sitting on about 6 winning bids.

This is really one of the craziest events that steam has ever done

Disregard that there is much better gem to money ratio out in the wild
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