It still does, since SAM is based on this idea.

use TF2 and it will always work, change appid and then start hl.exe in tf2 folder

Millie is the best for card idling imo, only gives you error message, no game launch but still tracked by steam

still working for me

you should try Spacewar (Steamrun appid= steam://run/480/) it's the best game to place a appid.txt in and run it :P

it works in garrys mod too

Use SAM instead ?

I should be able to get a 32-bit compatible version compiled early next week. In the mean time, someone on Github has already done so (although for a bit of an older build) here.

Must be hard to see anything between the corn bits and faecal matter. Also, amazing how they managed to form micro-circuitry out of faeces.

Stop overusing the word "literally".

Nope.

inb4b&

Well if u don't screw up u will never get banned ;)

Yes, There is a chance to be banned.

As long as you don't get into random VAC SECURE server, there is no chance.

Yes. But this program automates the process so you don't have to open SAM, find a game to idle, open that game, come back in a few hours, close SAM, open SAM again, find another game, etc etc.

This program can efficiently idle your trading cards for hours or days at a time without you having to interact with it.

Without the session information, it can't determine if that game has card drops remaining or not, so it wouldn't know how long to idle the game for.

bit you can use SAM then... i alwys give it a list of app ids and it works fine. for example:
(Launcher.bat)

@echo off  
echo Launching steam games...  
start sam.game.exe 265330  
start sam.game.exe 201040  
start sam.game.exe 227560  
start sam.game.exe 223730  
start sam.game.exe 216130  
pause

+1

It's literally free money if you haven't claimed the cards for games you own. It also helps keep the trading card market liquid.

I mean, you're free to let giant corporations keep money they're trying to give you with no strings attached, but it's pretty silly.

Same here.

As if this is cheating, how ridiculous. You don't have any gameplay benefits, you only won't waste disk space.

It's not cheating.

:facepalm:

Node.JS + Node-Steam is pretty useful.

clicky

WINDOWS MASTER RACE!

Wow this is better than I thought. It unlocks cards way faster than SAM. It dropped 4 cards in 1 hour, normally I had to wait more than 2 hours in SAM to get the same results

Somewhat yes, somewhat no. It doesn't interfer with the gameplay, it just starts games without installing them.

Fake launch is in c# part, start.py is the logic/delays/parsing steam data.

SAM does it by not needing it because you're a human being who does the thinking. You process which games still have card drops, and you check when each game is done. Because Idle Master is a computer program that does this automatically, it needs some way to do this that doesn't involve human intelligence. It uses the cookies to simulate being logged in as you to check your badge list and see what card drops are available, and moves from game to game as needed.

The only way to avoid needing this information would be to compromise the accuracy of the idling; for example it could just idle every game for two hours. This would cover it most of the time, but may be too much or too little. There could be better ways to extract the cookies though, yes, and I suspect that he'll get around to them further in development.

Nothing wrong with SAM. I use it myself for this purpose only. Its damn useful for people with datacaps / slow connections. Granted, there are people who go and unlock all their achievements, but they aren't getting anything out of it, other than looking foolish to anyone with enough knowledge to realise what happened.

No it shouldn't. Who cares about people who cheat achievements anyway? It's their problem.

There's nothing inherently wrong with using SAM.

I use it to "idle" for Steam cards all the time.

Where is this "exploiting" that you're talking about, exactly?

+1 for what DeltaBladeX said about people with data caps/bandwidth caps, I have to deal with such nonsense from my ISP all the time... I pay through the nose for internet and I'm barely allowed to use it, does that sound fair??

Also, there are people out there who don't have a lot of extra money to buy games and Steam trading cards are an excellent way to get extra cash for games. Since it was introduced a while back, I've used it to greatly increase my Steam library with games that I probably never would have been able to get because I live on a fixed income (I'm disabled not lazy), so please, think about what you're going to say before you click "Submit Comment"...