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Alternatively, you can now rent a blockbuster film using money you have made while playing games. Trading cards, skin drops, crates/cases etc can all be acquired without putting money into the system but can be sold for credit on the steam marketplace.

Personally, I have used profits from selling trading cards and unwanted tf2 weapons to buy games, why not rent films?

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TeMPOraL|9 years ago

> Alternatively, you can now rent a blockbuster film using money you have made while playing games. Trading cards, skin drops, crates/cases etc can all be acquired without putting money into the system but can be sold for credit on the steam marketplace.

But where you can earn enough money? The total value of all items I've earned on Steam probably doesn't even sum to 1 Euro...

levemi|9 years ago

> The total value of all items I've earned on Steam probably doesn't even sum to 1 Euro...

You aren't idling Bad Rats then, if you just idle the game you'll earn $0.20 cards every so often. There's a really weird underground economy in steam around cards. I don't really understand the market, it seems akin to smokes in the joint. There are farmers (people idling games), scammers (people taking more value than they're getting), there are arbitration scripts always running for the various steam and third party market places.

A lot of the value I think comes from people who want to have a really nice Steam profile. With enough cards and xp you can get a nice background and a high level. I haven't really looked into it but some people take it really serious and are willing to pay for it.

knd775|9 years ago

Well, I guess it depends on how you use steam. If I sold all my CS:GO skins, TF2 items, and trading cards, I'd have several hundred USD.

jon-wood|9 years ago

You might be surprised, when I first discovered you could sell trading cards I listing all the ones I'd collected and made ~£30.

math0ne|9 years ago

Dota and CS go tend to be where the items at.

tronje|9 years ago

Oh yeah, that's a good point I hadn't considered. I supposed it remains to be seen if enough people use it that (or another) way to make it a profitable endeavor.