The company takes a 5% cut of every transaction, and a 10% cut goes back to the game publisher (encouraging widespread adoption of the trading card system). Valve isn’t operating this Marketplace out of the goodness of its heart. Yesterday, July 22, 115 Borderlands 2 trading card booster packs were sold at prices ranging from $1.57 to $2.01. The Steam Community Market includes historical price data for all the items up for sale. But if you’re a curmudgeon that doesn’t care about “digital goods,” you can still check your inventory every six months, sell whatever cards you’ve earned, and nab FTL or Terraria for free with the profit. Through normal Borderlands 2 play I was awarded a booster pack of Borderlands 2 cards. When you earn one of the random card drops you can sell those cards for real money. If you have zero interest in Steam trading cards, you can keep playing PC games as you always have. But you almost certainly care about your bank account balance, right? Just sell it.įair enough if you don’t go in for digital card collecting shenanigans, don’t know how many platinums you’ve earned, and have no idea what your gamerscore is. Gross.Īt least Valve has turned these digital goods into a collecting meta-game that’s free to participate in.And if you truly don’t care about any of this digital miscellany? That’s fine, too. The Xbox Avatar Marketplace will let you advertise Turbo Racing League on a T-Shirt for the low price of $1.00. Want that sweet Bikini Woman Waving an American Flag theme? Sure thing - just pay $2.99. Emoticons? Wallpaper? Really? But then I remembered that Microsoft and Sony have been selling gamers UI skins and other virtual trinkets for years. My snap judgement was that these rewards were pretty lame. Things like silly Steam chat emoticons, profile wallpapers, and, potentially, coupons for other Steam games. Steam trading cards score one over on your Xbox or PlayStation account because collecting and redeeming them actually earns you exclusive digital rewards. Let’s take a look at what makes this so brilliant, and why it puts Microsoft and Sony’s marketplaces to shame.
The more Steam users turning in cards to create badges increases that game’s booster pack drop rate, smartly regulating the card supply. Once you complete a set of cards you can redeem them for a nifty profile badge and a variety of other digital rewards.
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