Why you should level up: -"you get all this cosmetic nonsense that means nothing" -"alright let's show you how to level up" im genuinely not sure when was the last time anyone's profile interested me aside from looking at the amount of hours they spent in a game, which is usually hidden
@@onzir The time it takes to put those card to sell will bring you less money than if you worked the same amount of time at like 10% of the minimum wage. It's not very streamlined. The only reason I do it is because I get obsessive about notifications and I would like to receive no cards at all if I could.
I've been on Steam for 12 years and never thought I would care even less about leveling up before watching this video. Good job explaining it, though. Thanks. 🙂
On god, I thought it would add like, small discounts to certain games or something, which would be amazing But yeah, I agree, I don't really care about displaying more than some select shit that I'm really proud of
I can actually see having a larger limit on the friendlist to be helpful for people playing online games like Counter Strike where you add people you have liked playing with@@Laezar1
They should really do it for the achievements we get in the games, like all of them add points to our steam level. I think that'd help people buy and want to play more games.
They also should allow achievements to be reset after an earned amount like "kill 50 enemies" 5 times, do you want to reset? The unlocked medal still is shown on your page, but you can trade multiple for points.
Finally, a video that actually answers the questions we ask instead of having us wait through 5 minutes of random BS! In this day and age of 20 minute tutorial videos that are padded to the max, you have no idea how grateful I am.
Edit: Never mind found it. Didn't realize that some games gives absurd amount of exp from tasks. Oh well. How did you get it so high? I was 100 exp, granted I didn't really participate in the event much.
@@xaf15001 I forget the exact specifics, but basically people who had purchased a lot of games (including those made before the sale) got a lot of free "tokens" and you could *infinitely* grind for more just by playing participating games (or buying stuff). Tokens could be converted directly into Steam XP at a 1:1 ratio (in increments of 100).
Or even remember who they are. I don't know half of people in my friend list, especially when they change their name - makes me think I added someone by accident
There was a event where I was in a Corgi Team if I remember correctly and just played Starbound for a few hours and jumped from level 13 to level 68 there was a mission In starbound that I had to do which give me like 100 or more xp for every cola I drank in starbound and someone made a steam workshop mod for starbound wich made cola craftable by using 1 dirt
you can also buy the seasonal badge with points which gives a TON of xp. you get points for buying games. I recommend sprucing up your profile to your liking with points then spending every other one you get on the seasonal badge if you choose to level up that way.
@@xamtastic if you don't care about other cosmetic stuff (like avatars and frames and profile backgrounds) in the point shop you may as well. no real downside to it tbh.
Buying the seasonal badge in the points shop also gives a MASSIVE amount of xp, and if you spend a lot on games, its the best place to level. I have completed only the warframe trading card badge, and have 6 years of service, but my account is level 66 almost entirely through seasonal badges.
@@doesnotcompute6078 Who cares that your account is 16 years old? Doesn't help to be erratically pedantic towards people giving helpful information to others.
I will be honest, in my opinion leveling up steam account just to be able to have more friends or more showcase slots or being shown higher in other people's friends list is not worth it, I do not see a single point to have more friends or showcases or showing that you have "high level" with your friends, if the leveling system gave something more then it would be somewhat usefull, but at this point it's pointless in my opinion
The best reason to level up is the fact that if you do level up you are being cool and look cool and flex. Trust me, envy exists, and a lot of people get their minds blowed up after seeing your good-leveled up profile. To a lot of people (including me), steam is not just a fancy game store, but a whole social media. Just compare the steam design and functionality to the Epic games or Origin one. Imo people who think steam is only for playing games are boring as fuck
I don't think steam is only for playing games, however I just do not see a single point in level system when all you get is extra friends slots or whatever just for bragging rights, I am sorry but for me but something you call "flex" is just not worth it and I don't see having insanely high level on steam as "cool" thing, and I don't thing that you look cool by getting high level and also I have never seen anyone getting blown by some other pupils steam level. I am again sorry but no matter what you say, if a level is flex only thing i do not care, you can flex or brag to me with anything but if that thing doesn't give anything special then I will not care.
I like how during the badge section you kept showing fo76 cause that game just hands out trading cards like crazy and it real easy to upgrade the badge
I bought a badge when the Summer sale was on called - Summer Collection badge and then spending points to level up that badge which then levelled up my Steam Level to 18. Not sure if this is a regular thing or not but I have water pistol badge on my profile now :)
@@Minibuh ahahah just checked mine and i got 18,700 from steam grind prix 2019. im not sure if they intended to give so many xp's in that event tho, after i made sure i maxed everything i went from 30 to 67 and felt kinda scammed because of how much i had spent to reach 30 in the first place
its a shame they made the system so arbitrary. you can play thousands of hours for years and barely go anywhere with it. Great way to get people to not care
So, 17 yr vet here. I'm level 113. I stop trying around level 106. During when the valve index first came out, there was some exploit to increase your level. Now, I have a very bad memory but I remember it had something to do with the game FTL? Maybe stardew valley? I believe by doing something in that game it would help contribute to leveling up your steam profile because it was a steam event. Now, I also think it really helped because I bought the valve index from the steam store by having steam points and contributing that to my level. But I remember going from level 60 to level 100 within 30 mins. After that, I just stopped because I understood at a certain level, your chances of getting boosters doesn't increase any more. Also, the only dumb reason to level up is for booster so you can sell em. You spend money to eventually make a little money way later. I used to get 3 boosters about 2 or 3 times a week but now it's like once every 2 weeks? You then sell that and make profit. Also, steam idle master helps and is is the best way to farm cards so you can sell them. Especially if you have 2k steam games like I do. I'm at that point where I don't care to invest money in my level. I only spent like 100 bucks over that past 17 years (stopped when index came out) but I made like 50 bucks in selling cards and boosters. I still have over 2000 steam cards to farm and sell lol. Luckily, selling cards for each game is less painful these days but still time consuming.
I have friends that are like lvl 100+, meanwhile I have a 12 year account being just level 19. I don't how I managed to get to that level because I use Steam to play games and nothing more. Also I don't play online games so my inventory is almost empty 👍
@@livinghuman2085Yeah it's kinda like decorating your room. Almost nobody will ever see your framed diplomas/posters/figurines but you put them up anyway because you like them and you think they look nice
In the grand scheme of things the leveling system is honestly just a very convoluted and complecated rng coupon system and *legal penny mint,* the higher the level you are the more reliable the rng becomes depending on what boosters your eligible for. it's why you'll see people ether be level 3 or 3,000-something
Just as a note, each game with cards has 2 different badges. The first is as you described with up to 4 upgrades to a level 5 badge. Then you have a rarer, gold badge for each of them that only has it's base level, but it's about as difficult. With several free to play games, you get a card drop per $5 spent in the game which drop over time just as basic ones do. Several of the games with DLC and similar also gain drops with money spent on it. You also have the seasonal badges that give 100xp per level of them that you can buy using steam points from your purchases (Other things there include profile stuff), they have no max level from what I've seen. Then there's the various special sales events cards that also have no maximum level, but you get them from tasks or purchases.
Also be on the lookout for events. The steam grand prix badge 2019 was able to be level boosted for literally hundreds of thousands of xp, which put me at around level 150 easily.
I love that I scrolled down to comment and found that every single comment was already about how useless levelling up is lol Nothing against your videos though dude, they're great.
M'aiq was wondering if he was making a mistake selling his trading cards for a bit of change, instead of crafting badges with them, this one is happy to see that's not the case. M'aiq now sees it's a choice of getting next to nothing, or absolutely nothing. 😸
Thanks for the video now I understood what is going on with those cards ,steam level etc. But I thing that it is just a complicated waste of money and time. I'd rather just waste money to by games on discounts and time to play them that why I have steam for.
not to mention that the foil badges can only go to level 1! i bought 5 of each just to find out i only needed 1 of each then i had to try and resell all the extra cards i had just bought
That cover of "Take on Me" was incredible!! Have you guys listened to Green Carnation's cover of '"Stay on These Roads"? What a nice treat before a whole video with one of my favourite songs from Opeth. Just good times all around in this one 😌
I always hated the way they handle cards. No matter how many hours in a game you have, you can't get more cards for it. You have to have whatever those "friends" things are that people these days keep talking about... Jokes aside, nobody I know actually cares about Steam trading cards, so I'd have to bug them to give me their cards, which is a hassle with how clunky the trading system feels... Of course, you can always jut buy them off the market, and I just LOVE seeing numbers go up. I've already spent at least $60 on steam trading cards.
I used steam for a long time before I even realized it had the leveling and badge system. When I really learned about it I grabbed a few for the games I liked but that's about all I'll do. I don't got 200+ friends so I'll never need that many slots
I got 1200XP just from the awards on my reviews, so getting awards will also gain you xp (on the community contributor badge, each reward gains you more xp but the badge remains the same) this is one of the best ways and yet you didn't even mention it , probably didn't know it at all tbh...
Thanks for going through the trouble of actually figuring out what all this leveling and card collecting nonsense is all about. You did a good job explaining it and now I am even more certain that leveling that account is a waste of time. Playing literally any trashy clicker game is more rewarding than this, and as someone who knows about nutaku I have seen very very trashy clicker games.
The main draw of levelling your profile is if you want access to more customisation, and even then it requires some effort and knowledge if you want it to look good.
I am totally unbothered by this. I see no upside in having to spend money to have more friends than i can remember and recognise, and appear on top of their list.
I'm not sure if this is confirmed or not, but I was once told your account level influences how fast cards will drop when playing games that have cards (capping out at level 50)
during the tree major steam sales its possible to buy levels with steam points ive only bought 2 lvl40 badges which brought me up 60 odd levels to lvl 74
Very useful. But in all honestly if anyone want steam points or steam level there are people selling those service for cheap. Im level 500 in steam with over 1mil points.
I mean cheap is arguable, it will cost you about 3k to get from level 0 to 500 by using those services. It would of course cost a lot more without them.
Funny to see the amount of people in the comments coping about how much they don't care about the levelling system, to the point of feeling the need to leave a comment to let everyone know that they don't care.
I got my steam level (101) my event participation. I got 100 XP for Steam Grand Prix 2019 - Team Hare and 55,500 XP for Steam Grand Prix 2019 badges. I have not participated in events since then. Level 30 is all I "needed" as only use 3 featured showcase slots. I have never crafted a game badge for 2 reasons: I'm not a trading card person I like being exactly 101.
I leveled up steam because I had steam credits I didn't know what to do with, now im level 78 and it only serves to boost my ego that I'm the highest level out of my friend's friends.
Wow this is extremely useless. So basically this is a watered down type of nft "cards" that you can collect and BUY. Online. These things basically do absolutely nothing unless you're a big fan of certain games. On top of that the cards you get are random which means 99% of the time they will also do nothing. Which means this whole "feature" is to scam people into buying more games. I don't get how this is legal you're basically paying for a picture
There's a lot of comments pointing out the obvious so yes, unless you care for cosmetics, leveling up brings essentially no benefits, but that's not the point. You are not hindered in any way by being lvl 1 on steam, but if you want to have a themed profile with many matching showcases of badges, completion rates, achievements, etc. to show, you can always level up to get them. Granted now you don't even need to level up to have showcases, if you buy games and dlc you get steampoints that you can trade for them. Still my lvl 69 profile is cooler just because it's level 69 and I have a lot of cool badges from games I've poured many hours in that I like to show. I've even gotten some community awards from people who found my profile cool, there's no harm in any of it. The other bonuses are also harmless, more random packs and extra friends when you probably handpick the cards you need to craft badges off the market and have a starting list of 250 friends make no difference. Look at it this way, if it did make a difference, for example a lvl 1 account had a limit of 5 friends, then there would be a problem with the level system but as it stands, it's just a niche thing for some people to enjoy
I feel like I am the only person who cares about how their Steam profile looks...lol I really enjoy making my profile look pretty and aesthetically pleasing, because the profile customization is really in depth and has many layers to it. It gives a sense of individuality and personalization when people go to your profile. And it's not bad having a high level, I get hyped seeing the funny number go up higher, even though it serves no purpose other than to be a digital flex. I mean, who's to say in 20-30 years time, that these profiles become extremely valuable just for their level and their years of service alone. Like how collectables became a thing, this could be the digital equivalent
2:26 side note: since card drops are random, you won't always, if ever, get exactly half the cards you need. Sometimes you'll get double cards, meaning you have one extra card to make up for after all your drops. Keep this in mind.
My tip for leveling up easily is to play games that offer more expensive cards to sell. Then use that money to buy out cheap badges. Like the badge for the game: Mountain.
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Why you should level up:
-"you get all this cosmetic nonsense that means nothing"
-"alright let's show you how to level up"
im genuinely not sure when was the last time anyone's profile interested me aside from looking at the amount of hours they spent in a game, which is usually hidden
more friend slots tho
@@saltyninja5534 Yeah but who is gonna need more than 250 steam friends
@@MechaVersesome people do
doesn't he also said u could get a chance to a discount for some game/dlc? 0:50
@@livinghuman2085 99.99% of the discounts you get are on some ass games. Don't expect to get a 99% off on Elden Ring or smth
Ok.. Now I know leveling up is as useless as I though it was. Thanks
wdym you get more card drops every 10 levels and you can sell them for wallet money and buy more and new games??!!
@@onzir The time it takes to put those card to sell will bring you less money than if you worked the same amount of time at like 10% of the minimum wage. It's not very streamlined. The only reason I do it is because I get obsessive about notifications and I would like to receive no cards at all if I could.
@@Laezar1 Then don't play games that has cards.
@@tovarishchfeixiao this isnt a serious answer is it?
@@tovarishchfeixiao ??? I play games cause I want to play the game
I've been on Steam for 12 years and never thought I would care even less about leveling up before watching this video. Good job explaining it, though. Thanks. 🙂
same felling hahaha
You saved me a couple of minutes of my life thanks
On god, I thought it would add like, small discounts to certain games or something, which would be amazing
But yeah, I agree, I don't really care about displaying more than some select shit that I'm really proud of
wdym you get more card drops every 10 levels and you can sell them for wallet money and buy more and new games??!!
holy shit i panicked when i saw your pfp, thought it was mine
I love how you show the benefit of having more friend slots by having... 27 friends in your friend list.
gamer moment
Literally me (I don't go outside)
@@nxmx6ix I mean I don't even have 27 lol, it's more like, who the fuck needs more than 250 friends slot? clearly not the author of the video.
I can actually see having a larger limit on the friendlist to be helpful for people playing online games like Counter Strike where you add people you have liked playing with@@Laezar1
@@Laezar1 only a streamer needs more than 250 lmao
After hearing all benefits, I can confirm that this is useless for actual gamers who just want to play and dont socialize.
Yes, there are just 1 benefit (75% off games)
@@EnenonTM ehh, i'm level 200 and never gotten a good discount code, they're only given for bad games
and sometimes you can get 90% off some games, but yes most of them are for bad games.
@@Sam-xg2jn and i feel like they barely give them anymore
I'm lvlv 40 now, which isn't that high, but higher than average, and I honestly kinda regret it with how many people interact with me
They should really do it for the achievements we get in the games, like all of them add points to our steam level. I think that'd help people buy and want to play more games.
I'm level 120, 1000+ games I just bought them hoping I'd get some booster packs but I never get any 😂
no they shouldn't
they;re easy to get unfairly
They also should allow achievements to be reset after an earned amount like "kill 50 enemies" 5 times, do you want to reset? The unlocked medal still is shown on your page, but you can trade multiple for points.
i got 1,808 achievements this year.... THAT WOULD BE TOO OP
Finally, a video that actually answers the questions we ask instead of having us wait through 5 minutes of random BS!
In this day and age of 20 minute tutorial videos that are padded to the max, you have no idea how grateful I am.
The real trick was to be active during the 2019 summer sale for Team Corgi. 12,800 points on a single badge, of 18,122 total.
I got 20k exp on my steam grand prix badge.
Edit: Never mind found it. Didn't realize that some games gives absurd amount of exp from tasks. Oh well.
How did you get it so high? I was 100 exp, granted I didn't really participate in the event much.
@@xaf15001 I forget the exact specifics, but basically people who had purchased a lot of games (including those made before the sale) got a lot of free "tokens" and you could *infinitely* grind for more just by playing participating games (or buying stuff). Tokens could be converted directly into Steam XP at a 1:1 ratio (in increments of 100).
Jesus, has it really been nearly 5 years since?
Yeah I jumped on that bandwagon as well and got 3k xp. I forgot that was a thing lol
i just realised i'm at 19 years of service.
You are old like that
I'm at 12 and I feel old, I can't imagine how old you must feel.
im at 18😳
I am 15 lol
My account created after 10 min i was born
ok, but who has more than 250 friends and ACTIVELY PLAYS with each of them?
Or even remember who they are. I don't know half of people in my friend list, especially when they change their name - makes me think I added someone by accident
Crab games on steriods
Maybe not playing frecuently with them, but it's helpful if you trade a lot.
I only have 2 friends on Steam lmao
My girlfriend and the only friend I actually play with
@@1God1Fury same i think i may have unadded some of my real friends
There was a event where I was in a Corgi Team if I remember correctly and just played Starbound for a few hours and jumped from level 13 to level 68
there was a mission In starbound that I had to do which give me like 100 or more xp for every cola I drank in starbound
and someone made a steam workshop mod for starbound wich made cola craftable by using 1 dirt
oh that one, it was patched in 24hr lol
the only time when people actually wanted to play post-release starbound
@@expwnged true, I got all achievements in it and then never touched it ever again
it was a fun game in the end tho.
*Never* tie point systems to moddable games.
@@expwngedEh, tbf, Starbound has pretty good modding scene
So, I didn't hear a single reason why I SHOULD lvl the account.
To get a better chance to get booster packs
whats the point of the booster pack@@bigload6
Lol
So you can get more frien….. 😢
i thought the showcase thing was pretty cool
you can also buy the seasonal badge with points which gives a TON of xp. you get points for buying games. I recommend sprucing up your profile to your liking with points then spending every other one you get on the seasonal badge if you choose to level up that way.
I have 6000 steam points and im on level 30. Is it worth it to buy the seasonal badges?
@@xamtastic if you don't care about other cosmetic stuff (like avatars and frames and profile backgrounds) in the point shop you may as well. no real downside to it tbh.
Buying the seasonal badge in the points shop also gives a MASSIVE amount of xp, and if you spend a lot on games, its the best place to level. I have completed only the warframe trading card badge, and have 6 years of service, but my account is level 66 almost entirely through seasonal badges.
@@doesnotcompute6078 I do. that's why I made the comment.
@@doesnotcompute6078 Who cares that your account is 16 years old? Doesn't help to be erratically pedantic towards people giving helpful information to others.
I will be honest, in my opinion leveling up steam account just to be able to have more friends or more showcase slots or being shown higher in other people's friends list is not worth it, I do not see a single point to have more friends or showcases or showing that you have "high level" with your friends, if the leveling system gave something more then it would be somewhat usefull, but at this point it's pointless in my opinion
I flex my level 1356 steam account.
You are below me on the steam hierarchy.
I do not care
The best reason to level up is the fact that if you do level up you are being cool and look cool and flex. Trust me, envy exists, and a lot of people get their minds blowed up after seeing your good-leveled up profile. To a lot of people (including me), steam is not just a fancy game store, but a whole social media. Just compare the steam design and functionality to the Epic games or Origin one. Imo people who think steam is only for playing games are boring as fuck
I don't think steam is only for playing games, however I just do not see a single point in level system when all you get is extra friends slots or whatever just for bragging rights, I am sorry but for me but something you call "flex" is just not worth it and I don't see having insanely high level on steam as "cool" thing, and I don't thing that you look cool by getting high level and also I have never seen anyone getting blown by some other pupils steam level. I am again sorry but no matter what you say, if a level is flex only thing i do not care, you can flex or brag to me with anything but if that thing doesn't give anything special then I will not care.
@@Markus123_ who the hell thinks someone is cool because they play a lot of videogames
Told myself i'll level up to 100 and thats it. Now here I am at lvl 401.
Damn
That's the most bizarre addiction I've seen.
sad
welp, trading cards work digitally too, not only IRL Pokemon or Yu Gi Oh.
Rip wallet 😂
I never cared for it, now thanks to you i leveled up from level 8 to level 23 with 5€.
Did you get any discounts of value back?
I like how during the badge section you kept showing fo76 cause that game just hands out trading cards like crazy and it real easy to upgrade the badge
I bought a badge when the Summer sale was on called - Summer Collection badge and then spending points to level up that badge which then levelled up my Steam Level to 18. Not sure if this is a regular thing or not but I have water pistol badge on my profile now :)
Yeah I forgot to mention sometimes there is special events on steam to earn badges and xp! It doesn’t happen to often thoe.
@@Get_To_It It happens twice a year with the summer sale and the winter sale.
@@MrOvimik How much does a complete set of Steam winter badges cost?
@@Get_To_Iti got 14.800 xp from the 2019 steam grand prix lol
@@Minibuh ahahah just checked mine and i got 18,700 from steam grind prix 2019. im not sure if they intended to give so many xp's in that event tho, after i made sure i maxed everything i went from 30 to 67 and felt kinda scammed because of how much i had spent to reach 30 in the first place
Imagine a guy checks a friend's profile.
"Hey dude. Why do you have full badge upgrade on a hentai dating game?"
"Why do you check for that"
Thanks, I learned that I absolutely don't need to care about levelling up.
I have never in my +10 years of Steam looked at someone's Steam profile. Let alone their level
You're missing out bud
this video just outlines why I shouldn't try and level up my account
its a shame they made the system so arbitrary. you can play thousands of hours for years and barely go anywhere with it. Great way to get people to not care
Bro showed me all the reasons why I shouldn't care more in 40 seconds
I wasn't spending money on games before, this didn't change my mind at all lol
Cool I never knew any of this thanks!
So, 17 yr vet here. I'm level 113. I stop trying around level 106.
During when the valve index first came out, there was some exploit to increase your level. Now, I have a very bad memory but I remember it had something to do with the game FTL? Maybe stardew valley? I believe by doing something in that game it would help contribute to leveling up your steam profile because it was a steam event. Now, I also think it really helped because I bought the valve index from the steam store by having steam points and contributing that to my level. But I remember going from level 60 to level 100 within 30 mins. After that, I just stopped because I understood at a certain level, your chances of getting boosters doesn't increase any more.
Also, the only dumb reason to level up is for booster so you can sell em. You spend money to eventually make a little money way later. I used to get 3 boosters about 2 or 3 times a week but now it's like once every 2 weeks? You then sell that and make profit.
Also, steam idle master helps and is is the best way to farm cards so you can sell them. Especially if you have 2k steam games like I do. I'm at that point where I don't care to invest money in my level. I only spent like 100 bucks over that past 17 years (stopped when index came out) but I made like 50 bucks in selling cards and boosters. I still have over 2000 steam cards to farm and sell lol. Luckily, selling cards for each game is less painful these days but still time consuming.
I have friends that are like lvl 100+, meanwhile I have a 12 year account being just level 19. I don't how I managed to get to that level because I use Steam to play games and nothing more. Also I don't play online games so my inventory is almost empty 👍
I'm level 30 and I never talk to or play with the 39 out of 450 people on my friends list anymore.
So basically: Don't waste your time leveling your steam account like an npc consumer.
Kekw,but srsly,it s not about consume,it s about enjoying the process,someone 100% will enjoy this type of stuff.
@@livinghuman2085Yeah it's kinda like decorating your room. Almost nobody will ever see your framed diplomas/posters/figurines but you put them up anyway because you like them and you think they look nice
In the grand scheme of things the leveling system is honestly just a very convoluted and complecated rng coupon system and *legal penny mint,* the higher the level you are the more reliable the rng becomes depending on what boosters your eligible for. it's why you'll see people ether be level 3 or 3,000-something
I already knew what leveling up unlocks but now I am more interested.
I've been on Steam for like 15 years and only at level 11. I didn't even know an account level system existed, and I don't think I care either...
I'm here to learn how to level up my level on Steam. Just to flex it to my friends.
Very informational video!
Just as a note, each game with cards has 2 different badges. The first is as you described with up to 4 upgrades to a level 5 badge. Then you have a rarer, gold badge for each of them that only has it's base level, but it's about as difficult. With several free to play games, you get a card drop per $5 spent in the game which drop over time just as basic ones do. Several of the games with DLC and similar also gain drops with money spent on it.
You also have the seasonal badges that give 100xp per level of them that you can buy using steam points from your purchases (Other things there include profile stuff), they have no max level from what I've seen.
Then there's the various special sales events cards that also have no maximum level, but you get them from tasks or purchases.
this vid is like school, info we dont need but is there
Also be on the lookout for events. The steam grand prix badge 2019 was able to be level boosted for literally hundreds of thousands of xp, which put me at around level 150 easily.
I love that I scrolled down to comment and found that every single comment was already about how useless levelling up is lol
Nothing against your videos though dude, they're great.
M'aiq was wondering if he was making a mistake selling his trading cards for a bit of change, instead of crafting badges with them, this one is happy to see that's not the case. M'aiq now sees it's a choice of getting next to nothing, or absolutely nothing. 😸
Thanks for the video now I understood what is going on with those cards ,steam level etc. But I thing that it is just a complicated waste of money and time. I'd rather just waste money to by games on discounts and time to play them that why I have steam for.
i'm watching this after i just sold all my trading cards
thats so complecated for fuckin no reason
I don’t know why they don’t just connect it to in game achievements
biggest waste of fucking money i ever spent
not to mention that the foil badges can only go to level 1! i bought 5 of each just to find out i only needed 1 of each then i had to try and resell all the extra cards i had just bought
That cover of "Take on Me" was incredible!! Have you guys listened to Green Carnation's cover of '"Stay on These Roads"?
What a nice treat before a whole video with one of my favourite songs from Opeth. Just good times all around in this one 😌
it's expensive as hell and a money sink, and i don't think youll ever fill the 1k friend slots.
Let alone 250. Normal gamers who just use Steam for casual gaming have maybe a dozen friends.
So, it's a numbers game. Okay. I knew that already.
Thanks for the video bud!
I always hated the way they handle cards. No matter how many hours in a game you have, you can't get more cards for it. You have to have whatever those "friends" things are that people these days keep talking about... Jokes aside, nobody I know actually cares about Steam trading cards, so I'd have to bug them to give me their cards, which is a hassle with how clunky the trading system feels...
Of course, you can always jut buy them off the market, and I just LOVE seeing numbers go up. I've already spent at least $60 on steam trading cards.
Thanks for the info.
The intial friends cap being 250 is so funny because who the fuck genuinely friends that many people
"You get more friends slots!" bro I have 0 friends and you think I'm EVER gonna need more than 250 friends slots? bro's delusional frfr 💀💀
pick up the Seasonal Badge in the point shop, they give free steam xp as well
You explained it very well. It is as useless as I though it would be. Thanks.
you can also spend steam points in the seasonal badges to lvl up
Ain't no way anyone who cares about their steam profile has more than 250 friends
you'd be very surprised by reality
You can see games with trading cards by just going on community market and selecting steam and normal card and select any game from the list
I used steam for a long time before I even realized it had the leveling and badge system. When I really learned about it I grabbed a few for the games I liked but that's about all I'll do. I don't got 200+ friends so I'll never need that many slots
Reasons to level up: Vapid social media circlejerk exhibitionism
Cost of leveling up: Time and money
I have like 5 steam friends. I don’t need 250 or more slots. But I’ve seen people have hundreds of friends on steam so I guess I won’t judge.
I got 1200XP just from the awards on my reviews, so getting awards will also gain you xp (on the community contributor badge, each reward gains you more xp but the badge remains the same) this is one of the best ways and yet you didn't even mention it , probably didn't know it at all tbh...
Idc about steam levels i care about playing games as a user, this "level system" bullshit is just waste of money + complicated af
That’s fair, I agree mostly just thought I’d make a video about it to educate people that don’t know anything about it
Thanks for going through the trouble of actually figuring out what all this leveling and card collecting nonsense is all about. You did a good job explaining it and now I am even more certain that leveling that account is a waste of time. Playing literally any trashy clicker game is more rewarding than this, and as someone who knows about nutaku I have seen very very trashy clicker games.
"gives more friend slots"
me whit few friends only: dam usefull
I mean you could've mentioned the badge that can be bought for points and gives 4000 XP
Leveling upshould make games and stuff cheaper by a minor amount
wow this video was like really helpful
The main draw of levelling your profile is if you want access to more customisation, and even then it requires some effort and knowledge if you want it to look good.
I got the full set of TF2 cards, had I known they'd do this for me instead of turning the extras into gems, I could've been going at this.
I am totally unbothered by this. I see no upside in having to spend money to have more friends than i can remember and recognise, and appear on top of their list.
So there's no benefit at all leveling up. No nerd has more that 2 friends.
How do you only have 2 Friends 😭🙏
More friends on a friendlist? Nice option. One small issue.
No friends.
max amount of friends beyond 250
Me with 19 friends on my steam account: interesting
Did you know all trade cards are basically wallpapers you can download before selling them?
13 years in steam and never noticed this lol.
Thanks, ill recommend this video to my friend who cant get all his 500 friends on steam
I'm not sure if this is confirmed or not, but I was once told your account level influences how fast cards will drop when playing games that have cards (capping out at level 50)
im gonna love lvling up and getting all this stuff to show my 0 friends :D
during the tree major steam sales its possible to buy levels with steam points ive only bought 2 lvl40 badges which brought me up 60 odd levels to lvl 74
Now that we've shown you the benifits of leveling....
Hold on, I'm still waiting on a good reason for it.
Very useful. But in all honestly if anyone want steam points or steam level there are people selling those service for cheap. Im level 500 in steam with over 1mil points.
What services? Where did you buy them?
@@itszagreuss google kalizan
How? can u teach me
@@aleman9959 ?
I mean cheap is arguable, it will cost you about 3k to get from level 0 to 500 by using those services. It would of course cost a lot more without them.
The good thing: Its all cosmetic
Tha bad thing: This video
Funny to see the amount of people in the comments coping about how much they don't care about the levelling system, to the point of feeling the need to leave a comment to let everyone know that they don't care.
Im lvl 140 and still enjoyed this video
I got my steam level (101) my event participation. I got 100 XP for Steam Grand Prix 2019 - Team Hare and 55,500 XP for Steam Grand Prix 2019 badges. I have not participated in events since then. Level 30 is all I "needed" as only use 3 featured showcase slots.
I have never crafted a game badge for 2 reasons:
I'm not a trading card person
I like being exactly 101.
I leveled up steam because I had steam credits I didn't know what to do with, now im level 78 and it only serves to boost my ego that I'm the highest level out of my friend's friends.
Wow this is extremely useless. So basically this is a watered down type of nft "cards" that you can collect and BUY. Online. These things basically do absolutely nothing unless you're a big fan of certain games. On top of that the cards you get are random which means 99% of the time they will also do nothing. Which means this whole "feature" is to scam people into buying more games. I don't get how this is legal you're basically paying for a picture
I agree with you but to be fair... at least you actually own the card on your account lol, slightly better than an NFT
Nice, now I can add my 3 alt acc in my 250 big friendlist filled with strangers.
There's a lot of comments pointing out the obvious so yes, unless you care for cosmetics, leveling up brings essentially no benefits, but that's not the point.
You are not hindered in any way by being lvl 1 on steam, but if you want to have a themed profile with many matching showcases of badges, completion rates, achievements, etc. to show, you can always level up to get them. Granted now you don't even need to level up to have showcases, if you buy games and dlc you get steampoints that you can trade for them. Still my lvl 69 profile is cooler just because it's level 69 and I have a lot of cool badges from games I've poured many hours in that I like to show. I've even gotten some community awards from people who found my profile cool, there's no harm in any of it. The other bonuses are also harmless, more random packs and extra friends when you probably handpick the cards you need to craft badges off the market and have a starting list of 250 friends make no difference. Look at it this way, if it did make a difference, for example a lvl 1 account had a limit of 5 friends, then there would be a problem with the level system but as it stands, it's just a niche thing for some people to enjoy
Still waiting for the reason why I should do it or care about it...
That's very interesting, but I'd rather sell my cards to the steam community market for up to 34 cents each.
I feel like I am the only person who cares about how their Steam profile looks...lol
I really enjoy making my profile look pretty and aesthetically pleasing, because the profile customization is really in depth and has many layers to it. It gives a sense of individuality and personalization when people go to your profile. And it's not bad having a high level, I get hyped seeing the funny number go up higher, even though it serves no purpose other than to be a digital flex. I mean, who's to say in 20-30 years time, that these profiles become extremely valuable just for their level and their years of service alone. Like how collectables became a thing, this could be the digital equivalent
Alternate title: Why you should not level up your steam account but here is how to do it anyway
You forgot to mention the seasonal badges wich you can buy for points.
2:26 side note: since card drops are random, you won't always, if ever, get exactly half the cards you need. Sometimes you'll get double cards, meaning you have one extra card to make up for after all your drops. Keep this in mind.
Learning that, i decide to do Solo leveling Steam account
My tip for leveling up easily is to play games that offer more expensive cards to sell. Then use that money to buy out cheap badges. Like the badge for the game: Mountain.