TL;DR version: Following kravan's suggestion below, if you go here and sort by "Set Price", you get a fair estimate of the most valuable Booster Packs for your gems.

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I have no life...

So I averaged the value of the cards (using the best BUY order currently available, so I could sell stuff immediately) and divided by the necessary number of gems per booster pack (I only looked through my Game Inventory). Here is the list I produced, expressed in Brazilian cents per GEM BAG.

(Of course YMMV, depending on time and how long you wait to sell your stuff)

  1. 100% Orange Juice (112)
  2. Deponia: The Complete Journey averages (110)
  3. Dark Fall: The Lost Souls (110)
  4. 99 Spirits (105)
  5. The Dark Eye : Chains of Satinav (101) (Nothing else in my inventory beats the 100 mark, not even those which are NOT listed below)
  6. Edna & Harvey: The Breakout (98)
  7. Half-Life 2 (95)
  8. To The Moon (92)
  9. Faerie Solitaire (91)
  10. Cinders (90)
  11. Titan Attacks (89)
  12. The Path (84)
  13. Loren The Amazon Princess (84)
  14. Super Panda Adventures (80)
  15. The Walking Dead (80)
  16. Ultratron (80)
  17. Day of Defeat: Source (79)
  18. 3 Stars of Destiny (77)
  19. Bastion 77
  20. Deponia 77
  21. Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes 77
  22. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition 75
  23. Fortix 2 75
  24. Droid Assault 74
  25. Endless Legend 71
  26. Brutal Legend 70
  27. Borderlands 2 70
  28. Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition 70
  29. Fortix 70
  30. Batman: Arkham Origins 69
  31. Offspring Fling! 69
  32. Nation Red 69
  33. Portal 2 69
  34. Oknytt 68
  35. Finding Teddy 67
  36. Mini Motor Racing EVO 66
  37. Red Faction: Guerrilla Steam Edition 66
  38. Batman: Arkham City GOTY 66
  39. Deadlight 66
  40. Lili: Child of Geos 65
  41. Pixel Piracy 65
  42. SteamWorld Dig 65
  43. Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten 65
  44. Anomaly 2 65
  45. A Valley Without Wind 64
  46. Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4 63
  47. Dust: An Elysian Tail 63
  48. The Cat Lady 62
  49. Alan Wake 62
  50. Bad Hotel 61
  51. Splatter - Blood Red Edition 61
  52. Organ Trail: Director's Cut 61
  53. Chompy Chomp Chomp 61
  54. McPixel 60
  55. Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians 60
  56. Awesomenauts 59
  57. Borealis 59
  58. Eador. Masters of the Broken World 59
  59. BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien 58
  60. Cthulhu Saves the World 58
  61. Psychonauts 58
  62. Antichamber 58
  63. Dota 2 58
  64. Costume Quest 57
  65. Cortex Command 56
  66. Defense Grid: The Awakening 55
  67. BIT.TRIP RUNNER 55
  68. Demonicon 54
  69. Anodyne 54
  70. Beat Hazard 53
  71. Gotham City Impostors: Free To Play 53
  72. Tropico 4 53
  73. Closure 52
  74. Defy Gravity 52
  75. Dead Island 51
  76. Eets Munchies 51
  77. Anomaly Warzone Earth 51
  78. Afterfall InSanity Extended Edition 51
  79. Risen 50
  80. PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate 50
  81. Rising Storm/Red Orchestra 2 Multiplayer 50
  82. A Virus Named TOM 49
  83. Gratuitous Space Battles 49
  84. Frozen Synapse 49
  85. Ballpoint Universe: Infinite 48
  86. Satazius 48
  87. Dungeons of Dredmor 48
  88. Dino D-Day 46
  89. Blackwell Deception 45
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So the number behind every entry is the cents you would get if you crafted boosters for that set for 1000 gems?
Either i'm completely misunderstanding the way you've calculated all this or the data is too old to be accurate, 99 spirits for instance has a open buy order for 15 cents yet it's 400 gems to craft meaning you'd make 37 cents as opposed to the 105 in your post.

9 years ago
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His steam profile suggests he's from Brazil, maybe he's talking about Brazil cents?

9 years ago
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Yep.

9 years ago
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Sorry, I should have said Brazilian cents (I changed the OP to reflect that).

For example: the BUY orders I saw for 99 spirits had the following values in R$ cents:
(14,16,16,14,12,15,13,14,12,13,15,14,14,14,13)

which averages about R$0.14 per card. So 3000*$0.14/400 = $1.05. I think it is the same calculation you did, but I screwed up and forgot to say it was Brazilian currency. :)

9 years ago
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Ah right, is the minimum price 3 BR cents on the market for you? that would mean that it's way cheaper for you to mass buy items to craft gems then it'd be for Europeans.

9 years ago
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Indeed, minimum price is R$0.03 for anything. I did buy some Gem packs for that price when they were still tradeable.

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http://steam.tools/cards/

This could help as well.

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Oh, dear, I feel kind of dumb now... That is indeed immensely helpful. :)

Since the Gem cost of a booster pack is inversely proportional to the number of cards the game has, it is just a matter of picking the best "Set Price" and you are done! Thread closed...

Or, wait, maybe not! Is there any way to get them to show BUY prices?

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That should be the Booster AVG price, roughly. It divides the price by 3 to give you price per card in the pack, but that's close enough.

9 years ago
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My tiny brains are puzzled ;_;

9 years ago
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There's just one problem. I don't own half those games

9 years ago
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You can still buy and craft badge nevertheless.

9 years ago
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How do you do that? When I look through the list, I only get games I own?

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You can go to http://steam.tools/cards/, sign in with your steam account, filter by "Owned games" and sort by Set Price. I am not sure if it is the same (I imagine those prices are SELL prices), but it should give you an idea of the best values for you.

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good that you guys post this everywhere and dont think about that everyone will just do that.
that lowers there prices in the end for all boosters and makes it less profitable.

sometimes people should just keep infos for themselves.

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Well, I thought I would be nice and share the information...

...and besides, I already traded away all my gems. So, yeah, I am not that nice. :) :) :)

9 years ago
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I have no life jajajajajajaja

9 years ago
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thank you very much for sharing this.

9 years ago
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I'm just happy because I finally completed my Doctor Who:The Adventure Game badge, worked on for a few months.

"It's a bow tie! Bow ties are cool."

9 years ago
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Weird that the mot profitable game/booster isn't on your list... maybe it's blocked in Brazil? :D

9 years ago
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do not panic! i know what u think.
what game is most profitable?

7 years ago
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back then probably Nekopara

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