Card farming speed

[sDionys]

Hello. I have some questions.

You say that ASF uses the fastest farming method available, but that’s not really true.

There’s a Chrome browser extension (which I won’t name) that’s five times faster and can farm cards in 30 games simultaneously.

With ASF, farming 300 cards takes around seven days, while with the browser extension, it only takes 24-36 hours. And this actually works—I’ve tested it myself.

Your program is great, but it’s just too slow when dealing with 300+ cards.

[Abrynos]

As stated by our FAQ:

No, ASF doesn't support, neither encourages usage of Steam glitches.

and the linked section of Performance-section of wiki:

Spamming Steam network with constant game opening/closing requests can be considered a DoS attack and directly violates Steam Online Conduct.

Abusing such behaviour can (and WILL depending on severety of your abuse) get you and all your account(s) banned from Steam. We do not condone such behaviour. If you do not like it, feel free to use whatever other tool you want. Nobody forces you to use ASF.

ASF is the fastest program to farm cards WHILE ABIDING BY STEAMS TERMS OF SERVICE AND CODE OF CONDUCT.

[sDionys]

I don’t believe Valve would block all of my accounts—that’s highly unlikely. It’s more believable that they might block a few accounts used for farming, but blocking all accounts just sounds like a scare tactic.

In any case, users should have the right to choose what’s more important to them: 'so-called safety' or speed.

[JustArchi]

Nobody stops you from writing a plugin or forking ASF with any changes you deem appropriate. As a maintainer of my project however, I can fully decide not to support behaviours that I see as malicious or unwanted, and this is precisely my stance on this matter.