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at very least i pray skyrim DLC will get 75%

Ah so Valve FORCES people not to ever play classics, I see, makes sense.

If those games didn't drop cards, those people wouldn't even buy/install the games in the first place, so it's the same.

wasnt that happening without cards too? most people that bough bad rats never touch it, people buy games because they are ridiciously cheap, not because of cards. its not even profitable for them when they sell cards for less than for what they bought the game

But surely if a person bought the game it is more likely that he/she will try it sometime in the future. Even if the portion of people that has the classics and never play them increases, so does the number of people exposed to the classics which may actually play them.

I used $$ from selling cards from games that got them to buy Castle Crashers and SS2 (also Deadlight and Trine 2 DLC). And extra copies of Killing Floor, Deadlight, and SS2 to give away. :)

I can say for sure that I've bought games with cards because I plan to play them eventually. I idle them right now for the cards but they go in my backlog withe everything else to be played at some point in the future. I don't really see how people idling in games they bought makes things any worse. As others have mentioned, the people that do this specifically for cards weren't going to play those games anyway. There's no scarcity so somebody buying and not playing the game isn't depriving somebody else from the opportunity of buying the game and playing it.

maybe someone buys the game just for the cards, actually plays the game instead of idles in it for the cards and then it ends of being their new favorite game