Steam Winter Sale 2016: Get all trading cards and badges
As every year, you can get trading cards again in the Steam Winter Sale 2016 and convert them into badges. This practical tip shows you how many trading cards there are this year, how you can get them and whether collecting fever is really worth it.
Steam Winter Sale 2016: How to get trading cards
The Steam Winter Sale 2016 runs from December 22, 2016 from 7 p.m. to January 2, 2017 at 7 p.m. During this time you will receive trading cards for various campaigns:
- Discovery list: Click through your discovery list with game recommendations every day and you will receive up to two cards each. To do this, open the "Shop" tab in the Steam client and scroll down a bit. There you will find a section on your personal "discovery list". Click on "Next entry" until you have called up all recommendations.
- Shopping: If you buy games or hardware at the Steam Winter Sale, you will also receive a trading card for each purchase.
- Community market: Of course, the trading cards can also be sold and bought again via the community market. To do this, click on the "Community" tab in Steam and then on the "Market" option. Enter "Steam Awards" in the search box on the right. All trading cards that will then be shown to you are part of this year's winter sales. The price of the cards is between 5 and 15 cents.
Steam Winter Sale 2016: Received the "Steam Awards" badge
There are a total of nine different trading cards from the Steam Sale this year. If you have all nine cards in your possession, you can use them to make a badge. Among other things, this increases your account level and can be placed in your profile in a clearly visible manner. But first you should check how many trading cards you already have.
- To do this, open Steam and click on your account name in the top right corner.
- Then select the "Badge" entry.
- In the new list, choose the "Steam Awards Badge" option.
- Now you can see all nine available trading cards. All the cards that are greyed out are still missing. You can get it in the above ways.
- When you have collected all nine cards, click on "Create Badge" in the top right corner. The cards will then disappear from your inventory and will be transformed into the Steam badge.
- You can repeat these steps five times in total and continue to improve the badge.
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