- Joined
- Jul 29, 2016
Steam badges are mostly an e-peen thing, but crafting them gives your steam account XP and when you reach certain milestones you get extra slots on your Steam profile for widgets that can contain all sorts, from a counter of how many games you own to a display of your favourite games or achievements to a showcase of your wares that are currently on sale if you’re a tradefag. I got into it for a while a few years ago because I wanted an extra profile slot but as soon as I’d crafted enough badges to get that I just stopped caring entirely because there’s no point to them besides that and I didn’t need any more profile widgets.I can't really say much about the whole badges deal. That crap just looked like achievements on steroids. Collect all the trading cards to get a badge, and that badge... makes your pee pee look bigger to other badgefags? I dunno. I know there's a whole thing with farming trading cards using bots to get said badges, but also there are "games" out there that give you a billion achievements for doing nothing, like they're intended for achievement fetishists or something. Hell, I've thought about starting a thread in Games where we laugh at achievement hunters, but that's a whole lotta cancer I'd rather not dig into myself.