• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 month ago

    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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      1 month 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.