[PSA] Rumors say, Valve edits their "2 hours before card drops" policy

Well haven't tried it yet but some people have confirmed it, so that's good news!

that explain a lot .... :D
hope it stay like that, never needed a refund
maybe it is when you buy game out of steam, so refund policy is not for you, because you cant refund games which was not bought on steam

This explains why am i getting cards so fast... i guess

I think you have to have the account eligible to place things in the marketplace to get the fast drops, i.e you had to spend money in steam on the account (like the new $5 requirement to unlock functions like trade that before you only had to gift the account a game to do so). EDIT: someone confirmed this is not the case so back to the drawing board :)

I can confirm it :> even better - seems like they edited "cannot idle multiple games at the same time" rule - I ran idle master today - and since beggining all 3 games I have left to idle dropped cards. 2 of them even pretty fast, slow drop was Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition - but it seems that the game itself has low speed of dropping - as with 2 games finished it still dropped onl 2nd card after 3h ;p

I'm not experiencing this. I redeemed a key for Vintage Year today and played it for a little over an hour with no drops.

nvm

Did not change for me. Was still taking over 2 hours for first card.

I'm idling Eleusis right this moment, and I've already dropped 2 cards after ~15 minutes. Yay!

Have had one refund on this account and mine are still taking the usual two hours to start dropping.

Or maybe Steam realized it's more profitable to have card drops regardless if the user refunds the game? They get a cut from every transaction at the community market so it's in their best interest to have as many items in their "economy" as possible.

I noticed Insurgency dropped all it cards in the first two hours I played. Might the quick dropping have to do with Retail Keys redeemed on steam, since you cannot refund them?

So yeah I got all drops from Hyperspace Pinball in under 50 minutes. But from what I see in that Reddit thread not every user can do that (get fast drops). So I'm guessing it depends on your account (how many refunds did you have, how long you've been on Steam and so on). Interesting and I'm glad I don't have to wait for 2 hours anymore to get cards to drop. Seems like not getting refunds finally paid off lol.