Snow Globes - Steam Winter (sale) Event

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Coal abuse won't come back ever.

But "craft badge, choose one Winter-themed DLC" a'la that-Summer Sale, that sounds doable. But since Valve doesn't need to fight for leader position, I guess they don't care.

Some Cards are much less common due to the game being kind of unpopular and not many cards are offered/sold on the market.

Emoticons and especially backgrounds can be even worse. With such few cards there are even less emoticons and backgrounds. Being offered for a certain price doesn't mean it got sold for that much. That is the main reason why we don't feature backgrounds & emoticons btw, that market liquidity in that segment is just too small.

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Happened to me before the Summer Sale.
Thats why I completely stopped crafting after the sale and only collected cards. Now I could craft away through thirtysomething sets.
I never found the coupons really useful, so I prefer to get a card with a craft :)

yep

Vote during sale?

unlikely.

but maybe you also get a card for every 10USD you spent, just like with the Summer Getaway Cards ;)

That comment along with your current avatar makes it even better.

I'd be more than surprised if they'd change their pattern of 5 regular badges and 1 Foil badge.

Glad to hear that. Let us know if you came up with a suggestion while using it, it might be something we've missed all the time!

Yup. Went from level 50 to level 80 today, aha.

yeah, i finally made a steam account when my brother told me about coal.

You know you're doing something wrong if people would rather have coal for their christmas event ;)

They'll never do a coal event again. People exploited it far too much last time. Although its often overused, the phrase "that's why we can't have nice things" really fits.

A friend of mine used to run a website called Gamer's Haven. It's one of my favourite examples of why URLs should have hyphens.

The other well-known examples:
Experts Exchange
Pen Island
Therapist Network
Mole Station Nursery
Power Gen Italia

It's a bit ironic, someone with nick ViTALiTY waiting for sale.

Since Dungeonland is F2P, cards work differently there. It's like how cards work in other F2P games, like TF2.

Many people got a steam key from a bundle, which gave us the Dungeonland DLC called the All-Access Pass. Spend some more real money to purchase some more ingame items and you'll get more cards.

1) SteamTrades, banhammer!!!111
2) I can always trade them a bit.
3) SteamCardExchange has few, but single cards right now, so you'd need to give more then you'd receive.

This is why I complete badges.

Given the upcoming sale and that coupons usually aren't any cheaper than the sale prices I prefer the cards! :-)

Best guess: it's just another badge with nothing special to show for it otherwise.

Crazy out-there dreamer mode: every badge level is one entry in a raffle with fabulous prizes. Steamboxes, early access copies of HL3, and the ever popular complete Steam pack.

The truth may be somewhere in the middle. If I was Valve and I'd cooked up this scheme, I'd make the Snow Globe crafts yield badges and vouchers that are Decidedly Not Crap (cumulative with sales, of course nothing too crazy, just 10% off or so). Watch the virtual economy explode, smile.

Obviously a bad copy-paste job, but it shows that apparently the Snow Globe cards will work the same as the Summer cards, except that you also get them for crafting badges. So anyone who focused on crafting badges right now (and/or buying the Globe cards): sorry, the gamble didn't pay off -- you might as well have waited for the sales to start and card prices to drop.

The cards are now explicitly listed as expiring January 3. As far as I know, this is the first time cards have been marked with an expiration date. It also means you won't be able to craft the Winter badges after the sales are over, unlike what happened with the Summer cards.