引用自 Shadok：

So, what'll happen is that new games which show no actual player presence, just idling bots, will not drop cards. It'll make it harder for shitty or fake games to make it onto the market purely for the sake of obtaining cards.

It will make those card-traders who only go out and use free-keys to get cards a little less viable, but those who have legitimate games will be unaffected.

Honestly, unless you're someone who runs 3+ card bots and is off laughing at Valve's "stupidity" while twirling your mustache you'll probably be affected quite minimally. You'll just be lead more towards buying legitimate games rather than obtaining swarms and swarms of games you'd never wish to play (due to them being unplayable masses of assets) for the sake of cards. Or just to buy games you like and get cards as a bonus, as Valve intended initially.


For the purpose of actual idling, you'd likely still need to play the game for some period of time beyond a few seconds, if only because not doing so will add +1 to the "this game is shite and nobody is actually playing it" pool and thus slowing down card-gain for everybody. What'll likely happen is that anyone who has played "enough time" will gain cards for the period they played. So if you'd normally get 4 cards for 2 hours, you'll gain those 4 cards immediately rather than needing to do ANOTHER 2 hours after card-dropping is enabled.

Disclaimer: This is just from what I understand so I may well be wrong.

My question is, will the game show any trading cards in it but wont drop it? will Idle master idle this game untill it drops a card (which could be in more than 1 month?) or will it just dismiss it?
Will games from providers like G2a, Kinguin, GreenmanGaming, Indiegala and BundleStars be affected by this? will this new "system" accept games that has been activated using a key as a normal game (real) or it has to be purchased off the steam store?

Sorry if most of these questions are in the wrong thread and most probably wrong group, I am just really curious about this.

Update: Should've said questions instead of question..