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Jesus christ, backgrounds are actually going up above $0.03. This is hilariously dumb.
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The top bid for the 2014 Holiday Profile, a thing that puts snow on your profile page and ceases to exist in January is 82,100 gems.
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Dec 12, 2014 01:34
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Maybe it's an experiment on how to destroy the supply and giving people an incentive to do so. You'll be able to recycle for gems after all this is over in order to craft boosters. Everything might become more expensive because they will all have a second purpose and more value because of it. Or nothing will change except for backgrounds and emoticons costing a couple cents more. Me gusta.
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Dec 12, 2014 01:34
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There's no way to sort of the list of games up for auction by whether they're in your wishlist, is there?
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Dec 12, 2014 01:36
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Crap, I just sold 50 cards for 2 bucks.  
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Dec 12, 2014 01:41
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Well, this was a good weekend to head out of town with no access to my steam account. Wonder if this is a dry run and they'll do it again over the sale.
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Dec 12, 2014 01:42
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Does crafting badges now create Holiday Sale cards?
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Dec 12, 2014 01:43
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Eh, this seems like the kind of poo poo that you need a bot for in order to actually do anything worthwhile.
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Dec 12, 2014 01:44
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Finished Child of Light today, wrote a review-poem about it that's almost as bad as 99% of the writing in the game. http://store.steampowered.com/recommended/recommendgame/256290 Seriously, how do you make the gimmick of your entire story "it's a rhyming fairytale!" and then suck so, so, bad at writing?
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Dec 12, 2014 01:45
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CS:GO is $15 in the Steam Store when not on sale. The auction for CS:GO is currently up to $13.35 in gem money and still rising, hahaha
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Dec 12, 2014 01:48
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So it's literally free then for someone who is clearing out all their lovely backgrounds/emotes?
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Dec 12, 2014 01:50
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Im_Special posted:So it's literally free then for someone who is clearing out all their lovely backgrounds/emotes? If you win the bid, yeah. The issue though is that the bids are exceeding what the games are worth so you'd be better off just selling your cards instead of making them into gems. Even more so now because cards and emotes are going to be skyrocketing in prices
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Dec 12, 2014 01:52
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Kuros posted:Eh, this seems like the kind of poo poo that you need a bot for in order to actually do anything worthwhile. Are bots even worth bothering with for commodities? Just place your buy order at whatever and leave it.
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Dec 12, 2014 01:53
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Gem prices are dropping like a rock. Wonder if they'll recover as people run out of emotes.
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Dec 12, 2014 01:53
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This is the only 3 day auction though. After that they're 45 minutes long. Depending on number of games that could spur more sensible auction amounts.
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Dec 12, 2014 01:54
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If you wanna play the gem market right now would be a good time. Gem prices are dropping like a rock on the markteplace yet there are still orders from when this first went live so you can fill orders worth twice what they're going for
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Dec 12, 2014 01:54
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Im_Special posted:So it's literally free then for someone who is clearing out all their lovely backgrounds/emotes? That's what I'm doing. I'm only looking to buy one game this year and if I can get it for free instead, why not? EDIT: I should have waited to buy gems though. The prices are crashing! Slimy Hog fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Dec 12, 2014 |
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Dec 12, 2014 01:55
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A bag of 1000 gems is worth about what two backgrounds are now. Two backgrounds are worth 200 gems 
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Dec 12, 2014 02:02
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Kibayasu posted:Though if that's legit that level 3 "Win an auction" badge will forever haunt me because there's no way I'll try to actually win anything but like hell I'm not going to get the badges. I feel the same way. God help me. I just bought 100 :postcardf: for $3. edit: ^^^ poo poo, I guess I've made a mistake. Lister fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Dec 12, 2014 |
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Dec 12, 2014 02:03
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I'm tired so maybe I'm loving up but CS:GO is currently up for 80100 gems. 80100 * 0.03 / 100 = $24.03 right? That's how many gems are offered for CS:GO, a game worth like 15 bucks when its not on sale.
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Dec 12, 2014 02:03
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I can't even place a buy order on the bag of gems.
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Dec 12, 2014 02:03
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Think itll be worth it to horde a bunch of backgrounds then sell them later or will the gems not be gained on the 2nd transaction?
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Dec 12, 2014 02:04
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Did any one of you play the Marvelous Miss Take?
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Dec 12, 2014 02:06
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Kuros posted:I can't even place a buy order on the bag of gems. Same 
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Dec 12, 2014 02:06
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I feel like giving people the option to just make booster packs is silly, since any reasonable person will just do that.
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Dec 12, 2014 02:07
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Dr. VooDoo posted:A bag of 1000 gems is worth about what two backgrounds are now. Two backgrounds are worth 200 gems Steam users managed to completely gently caress up the market in an hour. This is why government regulation is a good thing.
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Dec 12, 2014 02:07
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Eruonen posted:I'm tired so maybe I'm loving up but CS:GO is currently up for 80100 gems. That's just the highest bid, there are 100 copies of each game to bid on.
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Dec 12, 2014 02:08
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Justin_Brett posted:I feel like giving people the option to just make booster packs is silly, since any reasonable person will just do that. Some of the bids for less popular games are quite low. I imagine they'll be even lower towards the end of the event when people run out gems.
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Dec 12, 2014 02:09
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I converted my $2 of Steambuck credit into gems and now they're worthless!  (I have the financial sense of a rock).
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Dec 12, 2014 02:09
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Justin_Brett posted:I feel like giving people the option to just make booster packs is silly, since any reasonable person will just do that. Do we know how many gems to a booster pack?
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Dec 12, 2014 02:09
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Crashbee posted:That's just the highest bid, there are 100 copies of each game to bid on. But will all 100 be won at 10:45 AM on Dec. 15th? I think just 1 will be won at that time, and then another 1 each 45 minutes thereafter, right? That is -- there's only one winner each auction, right?
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Dec 12, 2014 02:10
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Kuros posted:Do we know how many gems to a booster pack? The right booster pack could get you as much as 60 cents (like port royal 3)
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Dec 12, 2014 02:11
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McCoy Pauley posted:But will all 100 be won at 10:45 AM on Dec. 15th? I think just 1 will be won at that time, and then another 1 each 45 minutes thereafter, right? Yes, and if you lose, your bid carries over.
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Dec 12, 2014 02:11
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Anatharon posted:Crap, I just sold 50 cards for 2 bucks. Use that two bucks to buy 3 or 4 cent backgrounds and turn them into gems. Save gems until the last day of the auction. You'll come out ahead.
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Dec 12, 2014 02:12
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Some little voice in my head is telling my I'd be stupid to not buy gems. I'm trying to inform it that it is what is stupid but I don't think I'm winning the argument. Not that it matters since Buy orders on gem sacks don't work at all.
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Dec 12, 2014 02:14
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I was wondering what was up when I checked my e-mail tonight and had about 40 "You sold an item on the Community Market" messages and they were all for a cent each. At least this event is cleaning out the dregs of my steam marketplace listings.
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Dec 12, 2014 02:14
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Forgive me if this is a silly question, but can anyone tell me how/if I can turn gems into booster packs? I keep getting an error page.
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Dec 12, 2014 02:17
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Aristophanes posted:Forgive me if this is a silly question, but can anyone tell me how/if I can turn gems into booster packs? I keep getting an error page. I can only guess we aren't allowed to yet.
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Dec 12, 2014 02:19
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Eh, 10K gems will be plenty to mess around with, and only cost me $3. For those collecting 200K+ gems, you should get some help. That's at least $60 worth! Just buy whatever game you want! Holy moly.
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vmdvr posted:Use that two bucks to buy 3 or 4 cent backgrounds and turn them into gems. Save gems until the last day of the auction. You'll come out ahead. on what. do you really think you're going to end up getting a game for less than (the game's on sale price this christmas or in the near future) - (the time it takes to farm and generate all those lovely gems)
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