

If your friends care more about making a set than making money, you can trade cheap Team Fortress 2 cards for expensive Trine 2 cards and make a reasonable profit. Trading is a better bet, because not all cards are created equal. I tried buying cards cheaply and selling them at a markup, and while you can make money that way I find it simply takes way too much time and effort to be worthwhile. The final way to get cards is the most obvious, you can buy them on the market, or trade them with friends. We will go into further detail about whether booster packs are worth opening or selling as a pack later in the guide. Booster Packs are awarded at random, you don't even need to play the games to get one, you just have to log into Steam once a week which is always a nice suprise. Each pack contains three random cards, including a small chance of finding a 'foil' card, which is worth ten times as much. Once you've earned all your regular drops, you become eligible for a Booster Pack. More information on SIM in the next chapter. But if you've bought stuff before or if you used to own TF2 before it became free then you'll probably have a few drops to spare. Given that the cards typically go for a few pence, it isn't worth buying items specifically for this reason. The only exception is Free to Play games, which award you drops for spending money in the game. On the top right corner of each game should be a little message saying something like "4 card drops remaining." It's possible to 'play' that game until you get all those cards and the message changes to "No card drops remaining." You can see which of your games support trading cards, go to the 'Badges' section on Steam for a list.


Using the program 'Steam Idol Master', Idling is easily the most efficiant and effective way to farm trading cards with the least effort required, If you own games that are opted into steam trading cards, you can get around three to five cards for each game you own just by tricking steam thinking you are 'playing' that game. These programs and extentions are completly legal and highly reputable but I can not take any responsability if anything in this guide causes your account to be suspended or otherwise bad shizzle that shouldn't happen but covering my ass clause because reasons. Originally posted by Yawnstar:Please note this guide primarily relies on the support of 3rd party programs and browser extensions as a 'base' on making a profit with trading cards.
