Why do so many people buy trading cards?

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Kev 3 Aug @ 4:29pm

From what I can tell, completing card sets just lets you decorate your profile, and has a tiny chance to give you coupons for specific games only that you'll probably never want, or that go on sale often anyway. Why do so many people spend money on these? I know people spend truck loads of money just to decorate their guns and knives in CSGO, but at least there you can enjoy the fruits of your gambling on your screen while you play, and maybe show them off to the other players.

This isn't a criticism, I'm not accusing anyone of wasting money. I'm just genuinely curious. Seems like they're only worth it if you need like 10 cents to finish a set.

Last edited by Kev; 3 Aug @ 4:30pm

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GoKo 3 Aug @ 4:39pm

Steam Level increases your rate of receiving a booster pack drop:
Level 10: +20% increase in your drop rate
Level 20: +40% increase in your drop rate
Level 30: +60% increase in your drop rate
Level 40: +80% increase in your drop rate
Level 50: +100% increase in your drop rate (i.e. the rate has doubled)
Etc.
Maby because of this

Black_Blade 3 Aug @ 4:41pm

For me, its the exstra space in friend space, even that for now I got to how much I feel I need for now
I think for a lot its just braging rights and basiclly like skins in a game, same idea

ShelLuser 3 Aug @ 5:41pm

A better question is: why aren't as many people buying mine? ;)

(sorry, sorry.. don't take this too seriously: I really enjoy our community market but I'm also not that much invested).

matt 4 Aug @ 7:20am

Making badges increases your level. It's a smart way to get people to spend extra money on Steam. If you give bored people a low number and a reasonably cheap way to make it bigger, they will spend lots of money doing so. You don't want to have a low level, do you? All the other kids will point and laugh at you. You can get your Steam level up pretty high for free, though. And sometimes you get free Steam wallet codes with hardware purchases.