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alessandro ( alessandro@lemmy.ca )  to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 day ago

Former Valve writer says Gabe Newell has been pretty clear about Steam: "It's an MMO"

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Former Valve writer says Gabe Newell has been pretty clear about Steam: "It's an MMO"

www.gamesradar.com

alessandro ( alessandro@lemmy.ca )  to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 day ago
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"Players aren't just consuming, they're also expressing themselves"
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    10-15 years ago, I knew a guy that bought games and traded cards just to level up his account. I remember asking him why he did it - since the levels are pretty much just cosmetic after the initial levels - and he straight up just said he liked to see the number go up

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      Ahh jeez, fuck I hate it

    • epicurean_toast ( epicurean_toast@lemmus.org ) 
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      There’s a bevy of “idle” games that are all about that. One if the most popular is literally called Numbers Go Up Idle

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        That’s pretty much the whole point of the incremental genre.

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      Do those trading cards still have any value (a few cents are ok) and are people really buying those? I never noticed that you could sell them. I do nothing with them. And having a very small “discount” on my next game would probably be worth more for me than some NFT like things that collect the digital equivalent of dust in my account.

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        Yes, they do, a few cents. It’s a pain to sell them, since you seemingly have to do it one at a time. But some of them are even like 1$/€ so those are worth it

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          Just checked - I got over two hundred trading cards. On one hand, that’s a pita to sell individually, on the other hand that’s probably a free game in the next sale…

          But I can do it over time and sell them bit by bit, no hurry…

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            I haven’t checked in a while, but IIRC, there are scripts that can quickly sell your cards without you having to do it manually.

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              That’d be cool if so!

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                9 hours ago

                This is the one I use: https://steaminventoryhelper.com/

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