Are Steam Trading Cards disappointing to you?

While Playstation and Xbox have trophies and gamerscore to reflect game status and achievements, Valve invented the card system as a sort of answer to it. Gamerscore and trophys have failed to evolve over the years and have become sort of redundant. Steam had a nice opportunity to invent a new system that could encorage gamers to try new games and reap rewards, but instead the entire thing is a dud.

It's a cool idea to be rewarded emoticons, coupons, banners, level gains, and profile badges for playing games. However, the whole system falls apart when you attach any sort of money value to such a system. Why try anything new or play anything unique when you can simply buy and trade the cards? It ultimately just makes the rewards you recieve pretty pointless. Each badge you create for your proffile isn't a result of hardwork or time dedication, it's simply a knick knack you buy at a giftshop.

I end up selling all of my trading cards as a result. I have no care whatsoever for crafting any more badges. It doesn't feel good to do it. Especially since someone else could simply buy the badge for less then a dollar.

Are Steam Cards disappointing to you? Valve could have re-energized the achievement fad, but they instead just created a no thrills toy market.

I think it's okay, some badges are cool. I think the point was them making money and I'm pretty sure they're making money with the whole market thing.

I don't really care for it. I usually sell most of the badges.

I thought they were lame when they first came out, then I started collecting them and got hooked for a bit, now I am back to thinking they are lame haha. I have a collection of them now, but so what? Not real exciting.

Who knows, maybe I will change my mind again.

They are just whatever anymore... It sounded like a cool idea at the start, but I am not that addicted to them....

This. Its just a money maker. But I like giving them away to friends it makes them happy. I honestly could care less about how many I have or what they say

It's alright. I've never spent any of my own money. I sold a couple foils and use that money for some cards. I agree that the rewards are kinda lame, but I find crafting badges interesting. Maybe I'm just weird.

Don't care for them.

Coming from mostly playing 360 to now mostly PC, I really miss the achievements system on Xbox. It really did get me to try different things and play the same game multiple times. The way Steam has it, it's so much of an afterthought and it isn't in my face enough for me to pay enough attention to.

I like them because I can sell them. I think they could be a cool thing if they were something significant at all. I mean, I've never even looked at what badges any of my friends have. They should send you a printed physical card set for free when you get a complete set.

In order to be disappointed, I would have to care.

Same goes for "gamerscores" and achievements. Could not possibly give a shit less about them. I thought that shit was stupid and pointless from the beginning.

Couldn't have said it any better myself.

You were in a minority then. A lot of people went crazy for gamerscore. People bought new games just to play around with achievements.

I only enjoy the profile backgrounds

To be honest I have zero clue how the whole system works. Don't usually pay attention to those sorts of things tagged on to video games.

Yeah I know. The practice bewildered me, and still does. Why anyone would give even the slightest shit about anything having to do with a video game, beyond the actual playing of the game, is beyond me, and I suppose it always will be.

However, I have made enough money selling the steam trading cards that I've got, plus tons of unwanted weapon skins/crates in CSGO to completely fund the purchase of several games that I probably never would have spent real money on, but turned out to be pretty decent. So there's that, I guess.

What on earth are they i have loads i have no idea what they do or anything. People ask me for them and i just give them away.

you can sell them on the marketplace and make money to go into your steam wallet to use to buy games...i earnt and sold my trading cards over the winter sale and made enough back to get The walking dead season 2 for £5,i had never bothered with them before that.

People that care about their gamer score are certainly have to be in the minority. Anecdotal evidence: I have dozens of gamer friends, yet I don't even think I've met a single person who has ever cared in the slightest about gamer score or intangible achievementst. I've seen little kids talk about renting games with easy achievements to boost their gamer score, but those were 11 year olds. I'd really like to think it's a vocal minority that actually cares about this stuff. I have difficulty imagining the concept of a gamer score appealing to people over a certain age.

It's cool people sold away stuff and earned money. I'd like to do that, but they force you to enable Steam Guard, which means I can't use my Steam account on more than one computer without being inconvenienced it seems. Disappointing, as I have tons of CS:GO crates and weapons I don't want.

?? What inconvenience? Pretty sure it just won't let you have auto-sign-in, or stay logged on on more than one computer at once. Personally, I wouldn't think typing in my password was that much of an inconvenience, to be able to sell digital goods that I got for free and don't even want, for real money that I can spend on games.

This, and a few showcases too but that's it.