• Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    True, that’s a point. Though we don’t know if it would be that way now too with ownable physical stuff. Gaming became waaaaaay more mainstream.

    Also, steam inventory-gift-games are equally priced now. For collectors. At least thrice the original asking price for stuff you even can get for free. Last one i sold was 15 when it came out, was already in bundles a lot and it went for 100 moneyz.

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        2 days ago

        Yeah. I don’t really know much at all about how or why people are buying the stuff or the digital cards or the whole booster pack things that steam does. There’s a ton of little pictures I have, and for whatever reason tons of people buy them if you want to sell them off. Mostly 5 to 25 cents a piece. I’ve never messed with it.

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          I know the cards are worth a few cents each. Selling those is more trouble than it’s worth.

          I meant the inventory gift games being worth something.

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            1 day ago

            Selling those cards is only worth the trouble if it’s a lot and you automate the selling. Once sold a few thousands that accumulated and got >100 bucks.

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              But why are they being bought? Are people actually collecting and wanting them? Or is it like a pyramid scheme stock market and people are buying and selling thousands for bits of profit?

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                6 hours ago

                2 reasons (pick one):

                1: Raise your steam-level. Either to get more stuff to show on your profile or to be allowed to have more friends (yes, there’s a limit). Up to a certain level, starting from there it’s just to show how much money you got to be a famous rockstar in the steam social media. Some spend millions on that.

                2: Get a badge for your profile that you really like. Or some backgrounds or chat-emojis.

                It you see a steam-level >200 (i think that was the sweet spot) it’s just a poser 😁

                Personally i spent some thousands once for just that, but only because nerd-me wanted to absolutely optimize the automatic leveling for the sake of it. I can obsess over things pretty quickly 😂

                I have not heard of someone collecting them for collecting-reasons. Only the game-gifts.