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SlayeRAIN 1 Oct @ 5:18pm
Steam Items
I would like to suggest some changes to a steam items/gems/points/cards etc.
I assembled few badges and realized how lame system is. But lets take it down step by step.

Points - very nice that we get points for purchase, however there is nothing to spend it ON. I mean, how many backgrounds u need? Frames? Avatars and all other crap that look like from 90s. BORING as hell. So personally I feel like disappointed that I get points but no use of it.
We could use them on purchasing buster packs or minor DLC's. Anything that fun?
And stuff u can get for points cant even be converted into gems...

Gems - none tradeable, u can make a sack for trade or get pack. Funny part there is no much events I've seen to get gems, and if there is u need to spend too much. Meanwhile all u can do with it is just get pack of 3 card. Items that can be traded for gems is also not easy to find. Few drops as reward for badge. I never use them anyway.

Cards - u get half, u gotta find other half on market. Consider to chatGPT once someone assemble badge 1 booster pack plays in lottery. I am 24 lvl and I don't think I ever got any pack, mb once or twice. Much easier to buy it, sure... But where is fun? Why not make some interesting quest to gain it. Not like I feel sorry to pay 0.10 cent for card, it's just not fun!

IN GENERAL I believe the system in the steam we have today old, boring, inefficient and depressing.
We are gamers, steam devs are gamers. Let's create something cool. So everytime u buy a game would be excited to get points or other opportunities to get something special, not like... eh.. whatever... So it would be like our game withing a game. Does it make any sence? :steamthumbsup:
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Мой Хозяин 4 hours ago 
I think Valve themselves understand this. And I'd like to believe they're working on it. They just have other priorities. (Marketplace edits, Steam Store updates, hlX)
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peppermint hollows 4 hours ago 
Points to purchase DLC or anything off the store itself is just not going to happen. Devs want to get paid in real money, not points. And Valve has no incentive to cover the cost on the user behalf either. And of course that's not to mention the fact it would just encourage point farming spam in the forums even more.

As for quests to earn cards, not likely to happen either. The entire level system exists to get you to spend money, letting you earn the full card set would defeat the purpose.
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Ettanin 3 hours ago 
Originally posted by SlayeRAIN:
I would like to suggest some changes to a steam items/gems/points/cards etc.
I assembled few badges and realized how lame system is. But lets take it down step by step.

Points - very nice that we get points for purchase, however there is nothing to spend it ON. I mean, how many backgrounds u need? Frames? Avatars and all other crap that look like from 90s. BORING as hell. So personally I feel like disappointed that I get points but no use of it.
We could use them on purchasing buster packs or minor DLC's. Anything that fun?
And stuff u can get for points cant even be converted into gems...
Do you like to get paid in Steam Points as well? No? The devs neither.

Originally posted by SlayeRAIN:
Gems - none tradeable, u can make a sack for trade or get pack. Funny part there is no much events I've seen to get gems, and if there is u need to spend too much. Meanwhile all u can do with it is just get pack of 3 card. Items that can be traded for gems is also not easy to find. Few drops as reward for badge. I never use them anyway.
Gems became pretty much inefficient and obsolete, and Valve is likely trying to find a method to phase them out than to give them any more use.

Originally posted by SlayeRAIN:
Cards - u get half, u gotta find other half on market. Consider to chatGPT once someone assemble badge 1 booster pack plays in lottery. I am 24 lvl and I don't think I ever got any pack, mb once or twice. Much easier to buy it, sure... But where is fun? Why not make some interesting quest to gain it. Not like I feel sorry to pay 0.10 cent for card, it's just not fun!
It's monetized, it's not meant to make fun. It's meant to make money.

IN GENERAL I believe the system in the steam we have today old, boring, inefficient and depressing.
We are gamers, steam devs are gamers. Let's create something cool. So everytime u buy a game would be excited to get points or other opportunities to get something special, not like... eh.. whatever... So it would be like our game withing a game. Does it make any sence? :steamthumbsup:
No it does not make sense.
Points = loyalty system to keep you to buy from Steam directly.
Marketables (Cards, Items etc.) = optional additional monetization.
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SlayeRAIN 2 hours ago 
Originally posted by Мой Хозяин:
I think Valve themselves understand this. And I'd like to believe they're working on it. They just have other priorities. (Marketplace edits, Steam Store updates, hlX)
Yes. And they just been very succrssfull so far. Chat glitching, my friend got trade request and never seen it in pending and when I try to buy cards on PC, it request confirmation from the phone and after confitmation...nothing happens on PC.
You do realize 1 good coder could fix all that in a week? And updates... u do not rewrite code when u do updates, it has to be built-in in the system, and just regular guy can add content, list of the games for sale or even script without guy buy particular parameters.
They are not busy, seems like no one cares anymore.
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TheForestSpirit 1 hour ago 
I have to agree with this. I have almost 2 million points in my account now and I legit have nothing to spend them on. Everytime I look in the Points Store there isn't really anything new added to it so my points just keep building up. I have enough backgrounds frames and avatars to last me a lifetime.
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