Because they've got normal card drops! Because they always eat whatever bugs them!

It seems that some users both here, on Steamgifts, and on Steam as well are reporting (me too, me too!) not getting drop cards while running their games. To clarify the issue and enlighten all of you, I've got not a single idea what might be the reason behind it.

However, it is said that there can be a connection between recently discovered Winter Sale "Secret Red Herring Badge" and availability to be dropping cards. Perhaps, it could be something else about Steam Idle Master (we all know what it is, right?) or shady evil plots of a certain Steam Lord.

If you have any details about that, or just want to complain about how bad is Valve (Steam in particular) nowadays, feel free to share with us.

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Do you have any problems with card drops?

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Yes, there is definitely something strange ...
Yes, no cards, and I am using Idle Master for that. Could be a ... COINCIDENCE?
Yes, that happened after I got Red Herring Badge! Wait a second ... what is Red Herring Badge?
No, everything is fine on my end.
All good, I don't have any problems. Because I'm not farming any cards. And I don't exists even, just being an ephemerial creature.
No idea, just wanted to fill another poll, that's why I'm here.
Everything above is too complicated. i choose this as the easisest answer.
Glorgh!

I got the red herring badge yesterday and used SAM to get cards for resident evil 4 today
So working fine for me, maybe an idlemaster problem
EDIT: as Sooth said the Steam update may be the problem I just got the "restart Steam to update" message and Im trying to get cards now. Ill post back with the results.
edit 2: took 30 minutes to get a card drop after Steam update

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Didn't happen remotely close to me getting a badge.
My guess is it's an issue with the most recent steam client update, since that popped right around the right time.

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I'm still getting card drops using Idle Master, but it takes longer than usual.

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Well, I restarted the client (no update was shown though), but still no drops after 4 hours of idling.

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I just got a client update a few hours ago. And yeah, it takes really long to get card drops these days. I got 6 new games a few days ago and have to idle for more than 24hrs straight to get all the cards.

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Probably because each game needs to be launched for more than 2 hours too start dropping cards. But that's an old story.

8 years ago
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Got an update too now, but cards are still not dropping. Will check reddit forums.

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I just finished idling another game, took almost 4hrs to get 3 cards. Try again, make sure you don't run anything else at the same time.

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I am definitely sure about that.

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Well, I have no idea what's wrong, maybe leave your pc on when you go to sleep and let Idle Master run through the night to see if anything happens.

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One game was idling for like 10 hours, so I don't think it'll be helpful. Will try reinstalling later.

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I requested for 1 refund and got the same as well. Since then I am playing Book for unwritten tales spent almost 10hrs in it. No card so far

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So they could pull some trick at the end of the sale for those who asked for refund before. Sounds legit. "Let's add a system so people could return money for the products which are broken/not exciting! Yeah, but we will later treat whoever used it as puerto banditos, crack! Awesome, that's what we do!"

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LOL

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