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Steam Badges Are A Depressing Way To Find Out Your Game Didn't Sell

GG3 takes a look at some badges yielded from Steam Trading Cards. Even in attainable numbers of low badge levels, some titles are much rarer than others, which goes equally for their common items. Deadfall Adventures is one of those lowly games.

Linko644164d ago

i made enough in 20 mins on cards to buy Brothers so...YEAH FOR CARDS!

RoseSapphire4164d ago

This is a terrible correlation since you can only gain a finite number of cards from each game and that number is less than what is required to create a badge.

Maxor4164d ago

People buy these things? I thought they're just for fun! I love how innovative Steam is with their achievements and collections to encourage people buy more games.

How come Sony isn't doing this?

Lionsguard4164d ago

What are the point of these badges and cards? Why are people buying them?

RenegadeRocks4164d ago

I have the same question. I don't get why people buy these useless cards. What do they do?I have so many of them.

tanookisuit4164d ago

I believe the badges are for "ranking-up" your account/profile, and the cards are used to make the badges.

In the case of Winter 2013, the badges also give you a random item (for keeps) from a list of free-to-play games.

Rifkens4163d ago

Crafting the badges level your Steam Profile. Every level you get an extra 5 friend slots. Every 10 levels gives you an extra segment on your profile to show off items/games/achievements/works hop publishes etc etc.

Once you have gathered all the free cards from that game, you are eligible to get booster pack drops every week. More games eligible the better chance of drops.

Alternatively you can sell the cards for around 10p (regular) upto £1 (foils). Money can be used to buy games or in game items.

I like it. Thanks for free games :)

Daavpuke4163d ago

As an additional awesomeness: Sold trading items on the Steam Marketplace yield a percentage to that game's developer, so you're additionally supporting games.

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89 million Steam account details allegedly leaked, but no one seems to know how

A LinkedIn post from Underdark AI made the discovery, stating that datasets are being sold for over $5,000 on a known black market forum.

Cockney11d ago

Biggest hack in gaming history if true

Christopher11d ago

No personal details, mostly account names, no passwords. Likely would need other account leaks to hope that someone reuses a password with a similar account name on another already leaked service. While a lot of users, the data is useless. Kind of notably by the $5k request for the data.

FinalFantasyFanatic9d ago

Plus, if you have 2FA enabled, then you were at zero risk anyway, from what I've read, Steam isn't even recommending password changes as it's apparently unnecessary.

VariantAEC5d ago

@Christopher
Where are you getting that from?
The linked article above says, "The seller claims this is a “fresh” leak and says it includes usernames, passwords, two-factor SMS logs, message contents, metadata, delivery status, and other sensitive details." Which sure sounds like they might have a lot of other information. If this leak is legitimate I better stop hearing people falsely say PSN is the worst secured digital storefront (even though that hasn't been true for a very long time with far larger data breaches since 2011 all over the world including the Equifax breach which was several times larger).

VariantAEC5d ago

@FinalFantasyFanatic
That seems true only if you use Steam Guard. If you opted for T2A via SMS the article suggests it's time to make the switch to Steam Guard and of course change your password.

Christopher5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

From the credit URL: https://x.com/MellowOnline1...

The article doesn't do a good job of going into the updated detail, they just mention part of it.

Just because the seller claims something, doesn't make it true. If it truly contained that data, it would be worth way more than just $5k. SMS systems don't rely on getting passwords for accounts they're sending an SMS to, just the username, phone number, and timestamp info.

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Profchaos9d ago (Edited 9d ago )

You don't remember the psn hack I take it

Cockney9d ago

I do remember it being 77 million, thats why I made my comment

BlueDaBaDee10d ago

Update:
"Valve has now confirmed that “this was NOT a breach of Steam systems” and users do not need to change their passwords as a result. However, it continues to recommend that you set up the Steam Mobile authenticator for extra security."

https://store.steampowered....

Fishy Fingers10d ago

Shame. I liked the idea someone paid 5 grand just for my silly steam name.

DivineHand12510d ago

The government needs a taskforce with serious fundung that can opporate across borders to go after cyber criminals.

It is getting out of hand and it is the regular citizens of the world that suffer the consequences of these hacks and breaches.

My fear is that if left unchecked, state sponsored hackers from corrupt or governents under sections may use this as a method of raising revenue at the expense of everyone else.

Fishy Fingers10d ago

Bro teeing up a Mission Impossible movie.

ZeekQuattro10d ago

Not in this administration. If anything hes been dissolving existing task forces meant to protect consumers.

Amplitude10d ago (Edited 10d ago )

Why? They’d just use the funding to funnel hundred of millions of dollars into fake NGOs that then funnel it into democrat pockets while doing zero cyber criminal defence work.

Then if anybody tried to defund them it’d be a whole thing with the mainstream media claiming that there will be endless cyber attacks. NGOs would then fund protest groups to attack anybody that supports defunding the government’s cyber attack defence branch and then it would turn out it was also being used to stabilize or destabilize governments in other countries and overthrow elections to benefit America. Which is fine until they start using it on us again.

Let’s just not. Private companies who know what they’re doing (Valve) can deal with it

RIP USAID. God bless

Profchaos9d ago (Edited 9d ago )

It's not a may use this not we know state sponsored attacks do this already.

It's a global problem you couldn't have one government playing world police it would require joint collaboration with foreign governments and the problem is many laws have not kept pace with advancement of technology.

even then it's hard to say with certainty if an attack was a state sponsored attacks or a cybercriminal group operating outside of governments

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pwnmaster300010d ago

remember when certain groups were saying PC gamers don’t want other subscriptions because it was not safe and steam was the spot lol.

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badz14910d ago

it's time to riot, right, pc gamers??

pwnmaster300010d ago

Be careful, PC gamers are the most touchy out of the gamers lol

staticall9d ago

@badz149
@pwnmaster3000
Have you guys actually read what was «leaked»? It was SMS messages from 3rd party provider (not from Steam itself) with one-time 2FA codes (that are active for 15 minutes). No Steam account details, access to an account or any of that jazz.

Let me quote official Steam response:
«The leak consisted of older text messages that included one-time codes that were only valid for 15-minute time frames and the phone numbers they were sent to. The leaked data did not associate the phone numbers with a Steam account, password information, payment information or other personal data. Old text messages cannot be used to breach the security of your Steam account, and whenever a code is used to change your Steam email or password using SMS, you will receive a confirmation via email and/or Steam secure messages.»
Source: https://store.steampowered....

The only bad thing about this is the phone numbers. But while that sucks, attacker doesn't know which Steam account this phone number belongs to. IMO, the only thing people should be rioting about is how unprotected the SMS are and the 3rd party service that was used by Steam. I'm all for punishing people who screwed up and/or lacked the security. But this is not it.

FinalFantasyFanatic9d ago

Why riot? They have nothing of value, can't even steal an account with the details they have, they would have to attempt a brute force attack, you can already do that with a Steam user's account name (or any account on any site) if you really wanted to spend the time and processing power to do it.

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