• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Steam Holiday Auction

CPA

CPA

Elite Member
Anyone else look into this yet? Trade in cards, emoticons and other tradeable items for gems. Use gems for games. Event goes through December 18th.

Neat idea, however, the amount of....

Wait a minute, did they pull it? It was there last night?

edit: lol, yep they pulled it as apparently there was a gem exploit. Wondered why some of the game were going for hundreds of thousands of gems when you only got 100 or less gems per card/item. lol
 
I noticed that backgrounds and other crap that I've had on sale for over a year on the Steam market suddenly started selling (I was sell for a whopping 3 cents so I could get a whopping 1 cent).

Sold a bunch of that unwanted crap yesterday. I'm guessing that crap had more gem value than 3 cents.

I'm hoping this auction thing has nothing to do with the annual holiday sale......
 
rivethead said:
I noticed that backgrounds and other crap that I've had on sale for over a year on the Steam market suddenly started selling (I was sell for a whopping 3 cents so I could get a whopping 1 cent).

Sold a bunch of that unwanted crap yesterday. I'm guessing that crap had more gem value than 3 cents.

I'm hoping this auction thing has nothing to do with the annual holiday sale......
Click to expand...

It was only supposed to last through the 18th, so I think we're good. 🙂
 
lol same. Figured something had to be up, but was too lazy to look. I just listed all those bs items to remove them from my visible inventory.
 
People are asking for a rollback over this, and deservedly so. I mean if I sold every one of my background, emoticons, spare cards, etc. I may be able to scrounge up 10k gems, 15k if I get very lucky... but when I checked last night stuff was already in the hundreds of thousands. Then the people who found ways to cheat went and bought every 0.01$ item they could get their hands on. Steam probably had more sales last night than over the last 6 months.

***
Edited: I guess there is a chance no one cheated and simply bought hundreds of 0.01$ items to boost their gem totals. But word online was that some people did find a way to cheat/hack/exploit, etc.

Either way, if they don't change how it is, you guys who lost all your 0.01$ items will help other guys get free games for probably 2-3$ worth of penny items.
 
Last edited:
I wondered how some were up to as many as 250000 gems lol. I mean even if you 'disenchant' one card per second (which is a huge underestimate because how how awful Steam's interface is for this crap lol) and get (optimistically) 30 gems per card you would need to disenchant for two hours straight and thousands of items to get 200k.

I don't think it's the worst idea in the world, but it's just more contrived crap to try to make people care about those pointless cards and such.
 
What a disaster this event is, turns out its a lot worse than the coal fiasco.

If you are wondering, there was an item dupe glitch and some people had billions of gems, meaning everyone who crafted gems got shafted.

Valve is banning those people but it still messed all the bids up, tuey have the whole auction shutdoown.

I crafted my useless items then turned it into a Skyrim booster, made about 30cents.
 
This auction is pretty stupid anyway, it literally gives an advantage to those with deep pockets. Its pretty much the same as buying the game. Nothing at all here for the little man.
 
Artorias said:
I crafted my useless items then turned it into a Skyrim booster, made about 30cents.
Click to expand...

How much are boosters? I couldnt find a place to trade (I think it was still broken as of this morning when I checked).

But You're better of bidding on a game you want anyways. Who knows, you may get something recent for the price of your gems (Going for Dragon Age myself). And since they refund the gems when the auction ends, you can get your boosters at that time.
 
SMOGZINN said:
What part of 'auction' don't you understand?
Click to expand...

What I am trying to get at is, whats the point? The only way to really get enough gems is to buy them. And at that point people are going to bid so close to the cost of the game that the whole auction becomes pointless.
 
Feneant2 said:
How much are boosters? I couldnt find a place to trade (I think it was still broken as of this morning when I checked).

But You're better of bidding on a game you want anyways. Who knows, you may get something recent for the price of your gems (Going for Dragon Age myself). And since they refund the gems when the auction ends, you can get your boosters at that time.
Click to expand...

When you go to your badges page, there is an option to craft boosters from the gems you have, I simply crafted one Skyrim booster and sold it on the Steam market.

But as of now the market is utterly wrecked because of the gem dupe glitch, the auction is shutdown, and the prices of cards/boosters has crashed or is in a slow recovery.
 
God this is pretty much like Quibids and those other stupid pay-for-each-bid auction sites. No thanks.
 
Auction is back up, but it doesn't look like they wiped the previous bids. Still high bids up over 100,000 gems.

Market doesn't have any gems for sale though.
 
I don't really understand the supply of the auction, all the games I see have 100 supply. Does that mean that if there are 100 of a game and 15 bidders, they will end up giving away 100 copies which means bidder #16 can get it with 1 gem?
 
I just started with Steam so I've got like, two gems. Going to have to keep an eye out for the one gem deals but I'm not holding my breath.
 
maniacalpha1-1 said:
I don't really understand the supply of the auction, all the games I see have 100 supply. Does that mean that if there are 100 of a game and 15 bidders, they will end up giving away 100 copies which means bidder #16 can get it with 1 gem?
Click to expand...

Each subsequent auction period lasts 45 minutes once the first auction happens. They have it set up so there will be 100 auctions within the time frame of this event. In theory it could be possible to get something for 1 gem if absolutely no one but a handful are interested, though I doubt it would happen.

This event has already show the lengths people will go to for a leg up, I foresee people intentionally screwing others over just because they can. Hopefully any game won in an auction is tied to one account so people who have already gamed the system can't pick up multiple copies just to sell them off for profit.
 
Sounds like something that will take more time then the game is worth unless you are some kind of steam collector nutjob.

Go back to normal sales and get rid of this steam collection stuff they have thrown at us the past few years. 🙁
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top