Steam cards were a mistake.

no problem, next step will be that only games bought on steam will drop cards. Its about time as that will kill almost all bundle site too and clean up steam store long time. It wont affect regular steam users tho, but a lot of bot will be gone.

We became too greedy anyway as we, the community now rage if we get good AAA games for like 1-2usd shared prices, we now want even lower. There will be a point when even bundling will totally die and hello 10eur/usd sale prices as lowest ever instead of getting nice bundles.

Even if that will happen, iam still fine with good games from my backlog until 2022:-)

giveaways? what kind of giveaways it is? like this steamgifts? or..?

I got it! They want us to play their card game Artifact and pay 50€ for one card instead of 0,03 cents. This would have not happened with Half Life 3 I'm telling you!

I like how you took one example when there is two steam GAs yesterday that stopped giving cards. You also posted over a year old policy and make your own assumption as a rule for every future giveaways.

Cool, so now people have to pay for the games with real money. Good.

I still see a lot of people that say 'No cards, I no buy'. People like that are missing out on a LOT of great games that way.

I can, personally, live without cards if steam can introduce another was to level up.

I wonder why? /s

Definitely bots, when the game was at 180k players online there was only 50 players on the servers in-game

https://steamdb.info/app/308600/graphs/#chart-week

Valve is dumb then. Cutting out asset flips made sense. Cutting out real games doesn't. Now they'll lose out on a shitload of money they would have made from card sales.

The policy has been in action for over a year. It stops bot accounts, farmers and abusers from gaming the marketplace. Free to play games are automatically disabled from dispensing cards unless there is a record of an actual purchase/transaction relating to the game, if I'm not mistaken.

In this case, being a temporary giveaway, those who already purchased the game previously should still be able to get their cards, however for some reason there seems to be a mistake that is lumping those who bought it before the giveaway in with the free joiners. I really don't get why you feel this is a matter of alarm-bells rather than a meager "valve made a mistake, lets see if they correct it".

All I'm really getting from this is the impression that people sensed another opportunity to jump on the "FUCK VALVE!" bandwagon and didn't actually check or consider the matter at hand.