How to increase Steam account inventory

Question

Recently I created a Steam account, purchased a $1 bundle from https://www.humblebundle.com, and activated the games in this new account. However, this new account only consists of 120 slots. If I'm not mistaken, a regular account should have 720 slots. So my question is, how can I increase the inventory slots?

When I try to retrieve my profile info using the API (http://api.steampowered.com/IEconItems_570/GetPlayerItems/v0001/?SteamID=) it shows this:

{
"result": {
    "status": 1,
    "num_backpack_slots": 120,
    "items": [

    ]

}
}

Answer 1

In order to trade any items on Steam or use the Steam Market, you must have activated Steam Guard on your PC more than 15 days ago and own at least one non-free-to-play game.
There is an additional cooldown anytime you change your password or (in the case of the market) add a new payment method.

Once you are able to trade, the size of your Steam inventory is unlimited.

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However, inventories for specific games can have additional restrictions. For example, non-premium TF2 users cannot trade items they drop or craft, and have a 50-slot limit to their TF2 inventory.

You can become a premium TF2 member by buying an item at the TF2 store, or by trading for an upgrade to premium gift. Your TF2 inventory size will then increase to 300, which can be increased up to 2000 using backpack expanders.

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However, this new account only consists of 120 slots. If not mistaken, a regular account should have 720 slots?

The API you're using, IEconItems_570, is for retrieving your Dota 2 inventory. Until you buy a Dota 2 item from the Dota 2 store, your Dota 2 account is considered free-to-play. Once you buy an item, your account will become premium and your backpack size will increase.

To retrieve your Steam backpack instead, use Steam inventory REST call instead.

Answer 2

Steam inventory space is unlimited. I don't know where you heard 120 or 720 slots, but they are not correct. The Trading Card Exchange Bot has almost 8,000 items in its inventory right at the time that this was written.

Games on your account don't take up inventory space. It's possible to obtain gift copies of games, which will be put in your inventory, but if you're just redeeming Humble Bundle links, you don't have to worry about that. Redeemed games will go into your library, which is also unlimited.

Edit:

Based on the API call that you posted, you're looking at your DotA 2 inventory, not your Steam inventory. DotA 2, and several other Valve games, have a "backpack" contains items that can be traded on the Steam marketplace, and therefore show up in your Steam inventory. This information should not concern you if you're just adding games from a Humble Bundle to your account.

Answer 3

From what I know, steam general inventory slot is unlimited.

Keep in mind game inventory is separated from general inventory. For example, inventory of DotA 2 contains things like wearable items, couriers, gems, and chests. By default it can hold 720 items at maximum, and can be expanded up to 2400.

Another example is Team Fortress 2, free account has only 50 inventory slot. Purchasing Orange Box(a Valve bundle), or any goods from Mann Co. Store will upgrade your account to premium. Premium account has 300 inventory slot and can be expanded up to 2000 using expansion tool.

But few months ago, I tried to register an account for Dota 2(during Beta) and without buy any item, my inventory size is 720. Recently i tried to register another account again, and it become 120. Did i miss out anything?

These are few possible reasons I can think of:

1. Steam set newly made account to 120 slots to save their storage, once your inventory is holding * amount of item it will be automatically updated. It seems small about 600 inventory slots, which may take up 10KB spaces. But Steam is getting a lot of new account every day, and some of them are bot, or account that will never be used again. So it might not a good idea to waste 10KB of spaces for every inactive accounts.
2. Steam API is showing wrong information, or we read it wrong. However I can never make that API work for me so I couldn't test for you.

If you believe your account is really into problem and not having reasonable slots, I would suggest you to go to Steam Forum and ask some people who can actually help you. Because we are not helping anything overall...Good luck!

I am sorry for my bad English but hopefully this could answer your question.

Answer 4

TL;DR By combining trading cards to badges.

First of all your games are not stored in your inventory, so this amount will not be touched. Exception: If you add them as presents, every present is one item.

If you still need more place in your inventory (maybe because you collect a huge amount of ingame items from Team Fortress 2, Dota 2, CS:GO and so on), you have to collect Steam Trading Cards.

Nowadays many games do have trading cards available. After an amount of playing time of a game (mostly about 30-60 minutes) you get 1 trading card. In the most cases you can't get more then [Half of all trading cards]+1 for one game, for which you have to trade with others.

Another option would be buying them on the Steam Communiy Market. You can buy from any game, as creating badges and collecting cards is NOT limited to games you own.

If you have a complete set of trading cards, you can then create a so-called badge out of them. You can look at your progress of collecting cards and create badges using the following site:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/YOUR_STEAM_COMMUNITY_ID/badges/

Just replace the ID with your own.

If you create one of those badges, you mostly get:

• Experience points
• One smiley of that game
• One community background of that game
• Sometimes a coupon for another game

With that Experience Points, you can increase in level. In the first levels one badge means one level. And every level your inventory size is increased.