If you receive a booster, you will get a '1 new item in your inventory' alert.
These packs contain three additional cards for the game, and may contain foils. Anyone who has collected all the trading card drops they can for a game and have used Steam in the last week may receive one of these booster packs. However, there now is an additional way of gaining cards:īooster packs: Booster packs are additional cards for games that will drop periodically. The drop limit is permanent and it will not reset. This means that you can get three out of the five cards. In the instance that a game has an odd number of cards, for example Counter Strike: Global Offensive - which has a total of five cards - the number of cards that you can collect is rounded up. You can check how many drops you have remaining on your badges page.
Try the beta group discussions, community market, barter with friends, and trade discussions.
You'll need to collect the other half of the set from other community members. For example, Half-Life 2 has 8 cards in its set, you can receive 4 card drops by playing it. Most games will drop a number of cards equal to about half of the number of cards in that game's set of cards. As per the FAQ page: Is there a limit to how many trading cards can drop?
