ET22RULZ Posted January 28, 2018 Posted January 28, 2018 Hello, since we already have DCS Wolrd on Steam maybe it would be a good a idea to add trading cards from which we could create badges and get cool rewards such as profile backgrounds? As an added bonus Eagle Dynamics would get some percentage from players selling them on the Steam marketplace. Any thoughts? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
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Home Fries Posted January 29, 2018 Posted January 29, 2018 Steam Trading Cards But just think of the people we could attract to DCS. The kids trying to fly with Xbox controllers spamming our multiplayer chat would hearken back to the original steam release! [/elitist off] Actually it isn’t a bad idea. The sim genre needs new blood. If the minimal effort required to crank out some trading cards increases the DCS user base, it’s worth the effort. And let’s be honest: cranking out some pictures of aircraft is not going to delay the Hornet. -Home Fries My DCS Files and Skins My DCS TARGET Profile for Cougar or Warthog and MFDs F-14B LANTIRN Guide
probad Posted January 30, 2018 Posted January 30, 2018 you want to attract an audience that cares more about trading cards than learning about aircraft nope
Deano87 Posted January 30, 2018 Posted January 30, 2018 you want to attract an audience that cares more about trading cards than learning about aircraft nope This. Proud owner of: PointCTRL VR : Finger Trackers for VR -- Real Simulator : FSSB R3L Force Sensing Stick. -- Deltasim : Force Sensor WH Slew Upgrade -- Mach3Ti Ring : Real Flown Mach 3 SR-71 Titanium, made into an amazing ring. My Fathers Aviation Memoirs: 50 Years of Flying Fun - From Hunter to Spitfire and back again.
ET22RULZ Posted February 1, 2018 Author Posted February 1, 2018 It really isn't about trading those cards, though some people might want to trade them. Their main purpose however is to sell them on the market - cards from some games go up to even 1$ in price. And the creator of the game gets a share from the market transactions with those cards. It's basically free money for ED without much effort put into. Even most obscure games and games from indie developers have trading cards these days. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Mikkall Posted February 2, 2018 Posted February 2, 2018 Hello, since we already have DCS Wolrd on Steam maybe it would be a good a idea to add trading cards from which we could create badges and get cool rewards such as profile backgrounds? As an added bonus Eagle Dynamics would get some percentage from players selling them on the Steam marketplace. Any thoughts? So, in a round about sorta way.... you're saying there's actually a purpose to those cards? Like, people do stuff with them and everything? :pilotfly:
ET22RULZ Posted February 3, 2018 Author Posted February 3, 2018 So, in a round about sorta way.... you're saying there's actually a purpose to those cards? Like, people do stuff with them and everything? :pilotfly: Their main purpose is to generate money. For those who sell them, the game developers and of course Valve. It basically works like this: when playing a game there's a chance that after certain ammount of time a card will drop. There's a limit of how many you can get total - most games have 6 or 10. When you reach that limit you can't get anymore of them. And now there's basically two things you can do with them: you can either collect all 6 or 10 of them by trading or through buying them on the market. When you have all of them you can create a badge which gives you some items by random change: profile backgrounds, icons, discounts for other games etc and raises your Steam profile level - a higher profile rank gives a higher chance that a special pack of cards will drop on it's own. Or you can sell them on the market. And there's a lot of proifiteering on that market. Prices of cards (and other items: like those dropped backgrounds, icons, etc.) change over time through natural market mechanics. That's how it works in a nutshell. Actually I bought both MiG-21 and MiG-15 on Steam just by selling cards from other games. It was basically free money for me and the developers of games from which those cards were sold. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
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