Crafting noob

Pretty sure there is no card set with just 6 card that is available on the market for only 18 cents.
CSGO tends to be the cheapest set, and that also costs just under 30 cents. At least it used to, unless something changed.

Unless one enjoys crafting, I think the extra cents are not worth the time and effort.

When it comes to trading, I trust steamtrades.com reviews more than XP level, and I think many others do too. I don't trade very frequently, but still, I've never had a trade proposal turned down before because of my low XP (I never crafted a badge, so I assume it's relatively low).

yeah basically that's what I meant. But I thought there were bots or people who would exchange pretty automatically those cards for some of other chear/crap sets, which is apparently wrong.

Since last year's summer sale, event cards now start at around 10 cents and rarely sell for more than that, ever. Probably due to an increase of supply in cards and more people knowing to wait until the events to start. For reasonable calculations, assume 10 cents of return value per badge. 20 is no longer realistic at all. You might be able to get 12-15 cents if you are incredibly lucky.

When I'm left with cards that I can't Instant Sell (using Steam Inventory Helper) for 6 cent or more, I just bulk sell them all for 5 cent each, regardless of their going rate. My only interest is to unclutter my inventory, so if they never sell, so be it. it's not like it matters in any way, so I'd rather not waste real time on this. If If there's a way to get some value with similar (preferably lower) level of effort I'd be interested, but otherwise it's not worth my time.

I also don't care about backgrounds. in fact, if there was a way to further unclutter my profile (e.g. remove XP, or badges I never asked for), I'd be happy to do it.

I first saw it used in that manner back in the mid-90s, actually. I didn't really see it become a mainstream insult in the manner that it is now, until modern online gaming took off, however. Keep in mind that the first Halo game had already released back in 2001 [with Counter-Strike preceding it by a year (technically two, if you go by its mod release), and Everquest (an originator/propagator of many modern internet slang terms) being released back in '99], and the insult was already being regularly used in online PC games before those games and others gave such behaviors and terms fandom notoriety. Then online multiplayer gaming became more streamlined on consoles, and the scale of multiplayer games on PC started to expanded, and gaming became more widely embraced by the general population..

So, to answer your question: Gamers had certainly already started using it regularly by the turn of the century (as Counter-Strike and Halo communities were well known for its use), but I'd assume it didn't become entirely mainstream until sometime in the mid 2000s. :X

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