Did Steam patch the trading card farming method?

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I can no longer change the steam_appid.txt to farm cards for games I don't have downloaded. Can someone else confirm this?

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pentaerythritol

Wait, that was a method to farm cards? What the

Why didn't I hear about this lol

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stealthysumo

idk, want to know too

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PrinceDrew

Before you could go into a games folder, and if it had a "steam_appid.txt" file you could open it and edit it to any game that you haves ID and save it. Then when you'd run the game, Steam would think you were playing the game with the ID you changed it to. It would only work on games you owned and it'd allow you to farm for the cards of the games you don't have downloaded yet. This came in handy for me since I have limited bandwidth (150GBs/month).

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huntercopper

is your picture moving every few weeks?

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Goofysoccer

Yes

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TheRealKotA

Why not use SAM instead? I've confirmed that it still works.

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Breakfast

Same here. If I'd have known about steam_appid.txt, I'd have used that instead.

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PrinceDrew

How do you use SAM to farm for cards? I never used it at all, but I thought it was only for achievements.

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K3W3L

You open the game you want to supposedly hack the achievements, and Steam will think you're in the game
That's it...don't do anything else, minimise the window and farm cards ;)

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PrinceDrew

Oh wow, that is extremely easy and a lot less CPU intensive then keeping L4D2 open in the background :P thank you.

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Jokin

Not sure, you might need to contact steam support and ask them.

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Angrenbor

It works well for Anodyne. I use it all the time.

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madnessnewb

Why did you use L4D2 instead of something small, with a launcher, like SPAZ? (so you can just leave the launcher running, without starting game)

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PrinceDrew

How do you open a game in text mode? More importantly, what is text mode?

EDIT: Found it. Problem is you need to have the game to use text mode. If you read my post, and I don't mean that disrespectfully, you'd know I can't download all my games because of bandwidth restrictions.

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K3W3L

It's more convenient, lol, because I have utterly no idea how to open any game in textmode XD

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