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[lefantome]

This guy is more hardcore than any American I've ever seen.

Over 2,000 games owned too.

I thought PC gaming wasn't big in Japan, guys? What happened?

he is single handedly sustaining half of the japanese pc market (probably lol)

 

[Keyser Soze]

He should be able to offset 0.04c every time he crafts if he can sell the items he gets. He might get a few rarer items too - he'll have to hit some rares based on percentages. He might get back a small chunk of money back out of all this - would soften blow slightly?

 

[Timeaisis]

http://steamcommunity.com/id/palmdesert/badges/
(keep refreshing)

Foil badge (up to level 100) costs approximately $15.90 each

Foil level 100 = ($15.90 x 100) $1,590.

Regular badge (up to level 1000) costs approximately $1.57 each.

Regular level 874 = ($1.57 x 874) $1,372

 

[Mihael Mello Keehl]

Hopefully his socks are clean.. jesus christ

 

[Lautaro]

Ha! and I was feeling guilty (and stupid) for buying around 10 cards (with cards money).

 

[StopMakingSense]

Doesn't your drop rate increase with your steam level? At level 250 how many booster packs would he get a day? Must make some decent money selling cards. Not $3,000, but surely more than I do

Nah, thats like just a 540ish percent increase in drop rate over base. Would be like a pack every 2-7 days or so.

 

[Avallon]

Only 2 exist.. so thousands of dollars probably.

he only has the "precious" one. There's 212 crafted.

 

[BumblebeeCody]

Oh well, his/her money.

 

[Grinchy]

If someone can spend like $40,000 for a single DOTA2 item, this doesn't surprise me.

 

[syko de4d]

I would really love to know how much money Valve gets just from their Cards, Emoticons and cosmetic Items from Dota2/TF2 xD

 

[Glorious PC Gamer]

2,195 games owned yet the one game he does not seem to own is "You Need a Budget 4"

 

[Daedardus]

Yet he hardly plays any games. I wonder what his GAF username is.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

I feel like I should be able to tap into this mental idiocy and just get rich.

I'm probably OVER thinking it. what if I make the site called 'shittybadges.com' and just demand cash for badges. allow payment in bitcoins only.

 

[Trojita]

he only has the "precious" one. There's 212 crafted.

You can craft the Rudolph one outside the Winter Sale? Or are you talking about the normal reindeer hat?

 

[alr1ght]

He's got 76 sets @ level 924. He's going for it all, until Valve surprises him that there is no cap!

Viewing his inventory crashes my pc. lol.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/palmdesert/inventory/

 

[demosthenes]

2,195 games owned yet the one game he does not seem to own is "You Need a Budget 4"

Someone should gift it to him!

 

[opticalmace]

he only has the "precious" one. There's 212 crafted.

Oops, thought he meant the bright one.

2,195 games owned yet the one game he does not seem to own is "You Need a Budget 4"

I'm guessing he has a lot of disposable income and doesn't GAF (pun unintended).

 

[Avallon]

You can craft the Rudolph one outside the Winter Sale? Or are you talking about the normal reindeer hat?

I don't know. I was looking at this page: http://store.steampowered.com/promotion/snowglobefaq

 

[Celegus]

That is bananas. I'll stick to my plan of selling them all and getting all my games for free.

 

[Deaf Spacker]

Damn, that guy has more money than sense.

 

[EvilKatarn]

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/catroom

This guy is amazing.

 

[Mr. Poolman]

Steam isn't a gaming service; its a fricking social experiment D:

 

[UncleSporky]

I spent $5 doing this earlier today. I was bored.

I'd never gotten a booster drop ever in years, so I went ahead and finished a few sets where I had no card drops remaining.

Then out of the blue I suddenly got a Euro Truck Simulator 2 booster.

 

[D4Danger]

my "Years of Service" badge is better.

You'll never be able to beat that, chump.

 

[DJ_Lae]

Wow.

I've spent a dollar or two on a handful of cards, but only a fraction of what I've made from selling other cards.

My crafted rewards have all been shit, of course.

 

[Forsythia]

Madness. Couldn't he just send GabeN a check worth $5.000 to simply unlock a level 1000 badge?

 

[Trojita]

I don't know. I was looking at this page: http://store.steampowered.com/promotion/snowglobefaq

Yeah the Rudolph one is unique. It has the red nose.

 

[opticalmace]

Madness. Couldn't he just send GabeN a check worth $5.000 to simply unlock a level 1000 badge?

Gabe makes you work for it.

Bueno.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

2,195 games owned yet the one game he does not seem to own is "You Need a Budget 4"

There can't be that many PC titles worth owning.

 

[AHA-Lambda]

He should buy You Need A Budget.

 

[Hellsing321]

Bless this man for buying up all my cards and letting me get free games.

 

[tokkun]

Valve transitioned from a gaming company to a gambling company so gradually I barely even noticed.

 

[Family Fry]

He's got enough cards to get him to lvl 1000 on that badge.

 

[BPoole]

It blows my mind how much money Valve makes off of trading cards and they literally don't have to do anything.

 

[JackEtc]

Why....

 

[ThatStupidLion]

can someone explain steam badges??

is this person essentially just buying his way to the top of a trophy leaderboard?

 

[Marvel]

Why....

 

[Jamie OD]

This is the sort of micro-transaction stuff that truly scares me.

 

[Family Fry]

It blows my mind how much money Valve makes off of trading cards and they literally don't have to do anything.

It's a fantastic idea.
I bought 20 of the card before the event around 13-15p each and sold them on day of sale for about 60-80p a card. First time I have ever done something like that.
Bought a few games with that money, it all funnels back into Valve whatever way it goes.

 

[firehawk12]

There is a level 1000 snow globe that just feels like it's looking for a whale to spend money on it. I don't know if this is evil or not.

 

[Tunesmith]

That's a bit crazy, but then again I know a guy who's spent 9 grand on SWTOR to date.

Whales, not really that uncommon.

 

[RalliArtEvo]

Thats crazy! Wonder what he does in "real" life?

 

[RibbedHero]

There can't be that many PC titles worth owning.

On PC? There's more than 2000 games worth owning. Easily.

On Steam? Nope.

 

[def sim]

Well, as long as he can comfortably afford it, it's cool. Crazy stuff, though!

 

[firehawk12]

On PC? There's more than 2000 games worth owning. Easily.

Can you play them all though?

I think one of the bigger questions is whether or not you can will out digital libraries. If those games all disappear when the inevitable happens, then that's all pure profit for Valve.

 

[Velcro Fly]

I don't know how people rip on devs that cram games with microtransactions and yet find humor in stuff like this.

 

[Hellsing321]

I wonder what these whales would spend their money on if F2P and stuff like Steam cards didn't exist.

 

[Pain]

Dat OCD is a gold mine for publishers.

 

[PandaPedinte]

Thats crazy! Wonder what he does in "real" life?

Yakuza.

 

[opticalmace]

Thats crazy! Wonder what he does in "real" life?

card collector