I probably don't know the trick, but as far as I can see I get around 5-20 gems for a trading card and a decent game costs 10k+ gems = ~1000 trading cards. Uhm...sounds like a good deal to me.
Apart from that I hate how they basically circumvent gambling regulations to rip off dumb little kids.
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backgrounds and items give way more gems, you'd have to be stupid to convert your cards into gems. I think Valve did this to clear their server load from all the unsold backgrounds and cheap items on the market. lol They make money on every transaction, so it's not like they mind. It's actually quite brilliant, they're making a killing in transaction fees.
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So how is the conversion rate calculated, cant be the price of the items. Is it static or will the rate change?
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Don't bother, while Valve managed to reverse all market transactions involving exploited gems any gems you personally crafted remained meaning all those people that were exploiting the Handsome Jack card which gave TONS of gems got to keep them. Event failed before it even began.
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This event is the worst.
Bring on the cheap games and screw this auction BS...
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I'm trying to figure out how much money worth a "gem" but result is not satisfactory. For example, Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army cards, around $0.08 in Market worth 20 gems. By other side, Skullgirls cards, around $0.14 in Market worth 12 gems. That makes impossible to do any calculation.
So, Steam is playing with values of cards, probably making them worthless for us, and people who use big amount of gems on bids, most likely would be overpaying game retail price just for "winning a bid".
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