Changes to Trading Cards

I dunno, how does one, as a buyer, find out if the "confidence metric" for a game has been built up? I do fear, that some poor folks might end up buying what they call "a fake game" in that article and they'll be punished double because it won't even drop cards. Maybe instead of that obscure mechanism, they should just add some extra quality control that developers don't get cards for their game as easily. And they should also add some quality standards to cards/emoticons/backgrounds ... because even some of the very expensive AAA titles often have backgrounds that looks like crap.

I like the idea, but I get the feeling crafty shit-tier devs will just start adding achievements such as:

Play the game for 1 second
Play the game for 2 seconds
Play the game for 3 seconds

Wow, people must really love this game to be getting all these achievements!

Sounds like someone has a car that don't start and they don't know why putting orange juice in the tank doesn't fix the problem :)

Interesting.

A change was inevitable; with the greenlight changes, the review algorithm changes, and most recently the gifting changes, I was sure this was coming very soon, so it's no surprise for me.

Have to read it again and let it sink and think about it (Too stressful day in RL to spend too much thinking power on Steam right now ...) before I can answer the poll ;)

dropping cards to everyone at the same time is not a good idea. It will lower the price of the cards.
I hope this will only apply to the new games.

Game curation, Valve. That's literally all you need to do. Curate what can get in the store and weed out the asset flipping developers/obvious key bots.

I hope their "metric" is decent. Sounds similar to something I just suggested here:

hold card funds in escrow until terms are met, such as x units sold in y time directly from the Steam store

Sounds like a good idea to minimize shitty games. But hope this doesnt make it hard to actually get drops on "real" games.

Those changes already live? Like you cant drop cards from shitty games already or what?

The confidence metric? That´s pretty talk for something they should´ve anticipated years ago :D
I´m always baffled how multi million/billion $ companies obviously cannot be arsed doing their job right.

Still waiting for the moment we get a steam sale and the storefront does´nt crash.

I won't cheer until I know how well this confidence metric actually works. At this point, I don't have a whole lot of faith in Valve. But, fingers crossed, they might be able to do something good here.

Depending how they implement it, idling might change entirely from current way of "idle until everything drops" into "idle each game for X hours".

We'll see, but I know Valve better than anybody else, they will make my life harder I feel it.

I have to say it's an uneasy feeling seeing what some people did to get money from cards - begged for games, cheated for games, stole the games, stole the credit cards... and it's a very ugly thing for me, as a sort of developer, to see someone winning a key and then just idling the game and moving on... but as a gamer, I liked that I could buy a nice game or two every year since they introduced the cards. Mind you, I don't have bots nor anything like it, but even like that I could gather 5-10 eur wallet funds or even more.

Not sure if this is the best solution, but I guess it's a step forward. Honestly, I'm not being able to think of anything better. Too bad it wasn't like this from day 1.

I feel like this will be exploitable as fuck ¯\(ツ)/¯

but... it's something, I guess

So now the devs with some money in their pocket are gonna start hiring "PR" Steam groups that will soon rise, which will, in exchange for some pretty penny, buy their games and play them to boost the glorious confidence metric.

This is actually really great. Fuck fake devs.

We could restrict the ability for developers to generate Steam keys for their games, but we hate to degrade tools that legitimate developers are using to make their players happy. We're also not certain it would actually solve the problem

Translation: Gonna try that next month. Bye bye resellers (and all other stores). Gib Gabe allz your moneyz.

Exactly the right excuse they needed. As some predicted, keys are next.

For me, great news. My card-farming alt has enough of a stock to not care about getting new shit games for more cards, and on my main I craft level 5 badges for all games I play, and if a game is shit, I just remove and forget it. So neither of my accounts should feel it, although it may mean that I'll need to wait some more time before cards reach a sensible price to buy them up.

This confidence metric is too vague to determine how card farming will be affected . Seeing the glass half full, I predict idling for cards might take more time only.

Can somebody describe me what that means in one sentence?)

Read through the whole post, read through some of the comments. As is often the case, I have no idea what people are complaining about. Crappy games that you never bought and were never going to buy will no longer drop cards until a certain metric is achieved. Big deal.

Wah wah, fuck Valve, something something monopoly 😭😭😭

im too lazy to read what does it say

I guess I am one of the very few people here who never iddled a game for cards, so in my eyes that interprets as less (motivation for) trash games and shovelware.

So with Steam Direct publishing fee, it will be more money after spending $100 for Greenlight access?