How to Idle $2.80 of Steam Card Drops in 9 Hours, Alongside 1080TI Mining $1.86 of Ethereum

I have a 1080ti, and its not worth it for me to leave my computer on all night mining on Nicehash for $2.50 max a night. I realised many Ozbargainers have giant steam libraries of steam games from the free game bargains. I myself have 350 games with 4 game drops each. This is 1400 cards with a conservative value of $0.15 each this is $200 sitting in my steam library! A plus of this is it is not resource intensive like mining and it doesn't require the game to be downloaded, it just mocks the window being opened and can idle up to 31 games at a time.

Pro-tip, if you have a big steam of free games use https://github.com/JonasNilson/idle_master_extended/issues to idle steam cards. In 9 hours, I received 18 drops, an average of 2 per hour. I made $3.60 of steam cards which yield 2.80 sold at market price in 9 hours, way more than the 1.80 I made from CPU mining Ryzen Threadripper 1920x and GPU mining 1080TI on Nicehash. I got 2 rare foil drops from Dragon Age Origins worth $0.98 and $0.54 which made up half of the value of the 18 cards I got, which were all valued at around 10c. This is just over 30c an hour, a nice bonus to make GPU mining worth it for some.

However, selling the cards manually would take too long, which is why you can use this script(use tampermonkey) to sell all the cards automagically.
https://github.com/Nuklon/Steam-Economy-Enhancer
https://www.tampermonkey.net/

Comments

  • +8

    You may need to elaborate further as I pretty much stopped at:

    I made $2.80 in 9 hours

    How exciting.

    • -4

      Haha I recommend this as a method to increase profitability of mining or running alongside normal computer use, if you don't want free money don't do it. Given it outprofited my mining 1080ti which is resource intensive and is just idling fake windows I thought this was good to share.

      • What was your code in energy and depreciation?

  • I myself have 350 games with 4 game drops each.

    Games have from 3 to 7 (maybe more?) but the more cards the game drops, the less they're typically worth

    This is 1400 cards with a conservative value of $0.20 each this is $280

    $0.20 a card is way too high of an estimate. Most sell for between $0.05 to $0.12
    Mostly closer to $0.05 for the shovelware titles

    • My average has been higher, maybe because I had 2 foils worth a lot. I'll report back once I sell them, but I haven't had any cards less than 10c sell value 8c receive value yet. I'll probably dial back the value to $0.15 as most cards are around 10c with the ocassianal more valuable one pushing up the average.

      • You definitely got lucky with two foils, they generally worth 5-10x as much as standard cards. I believe the drop rate for a foil is 1 in 100

        • Ooh, didn't know that about foils I see how many I get. It's curious I got them both from the same game 1/10000 lol.

  • +1

    I read some of it… but there wasn't early mention of free postage or Cartier watches, so I'll pass…

  • Umm it's nice and all that you've noticed Steam cards have a higher dollar value than Crypto mining. But one is a cash equivalent and one isn't. How do you propose to sell your cards for cash in a riskless environment?

  • Oh boy you've gone cracked it. Time for a lifehacks post on reddit.

  • +1

    From most cards you will get 4 or 5 cents (they sell for 6 or 7 cents with 2 cent fees per card).
    There are cards that sell for more but also some that sell for less (you will get 1 cent).
    Also, some games take longer to drop cards.
    So, I think your estimate is way, way off (totally agree with Firerunner). More realistic is $70, maybe $90, not $200.

    Source: Sold many, many cards myself.

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