Winter sale token Scam

[Psycho MantisPD]

The whole "you get tokens only paying with other paying methods, not with money which you currently have in your wallet" is a complete Scam from Valve! I bought games for 20€ and got nothing... When Epic store gives everyday a free game now, on Steam you get scammed... well merry foking xmas.

[Mr. Joseph]

Publicado originalmente por WolfnightBA:

The discounts are crap anyway nowadays... mostly buying through the G site.

Please educate yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twor6RYVtdQ

[mashiro]

Publicado originalmente por Mr. Joseph:

Publicado originalmente por WolfnightBA:

The discounts are crap anyway nowadays... mostly buying through the G site.

Please educate yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twor6RYVtdQ

i agree with that video

[Psycho MantisPD]

Publicado originalmente por Mr. Joseph:

Publicado originalmente por WolfnightBA:

The discounts are crap anyway nowadays... mostly buying through the G site.

Please educate yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twor6RYVtdQ

Using it and don't feel guilty in any way since games are buggy as hell nowadays, so if they start releasing games fully playable and the price would go down generally i would not hesitate and buy it the old fashion way.

[Mr. Joseph]

Publicado originalmente por WolfnightBA:

Using it and don't feel guilty in any way...

So essentially you'd actively support a system worse than piracy that actively takes money away from developers.

Thank you for outing yourself.

/End thread

[PaperzMask]

I just spent 20$ & received no tokens :\ what the heck?

[Levi]

Publicado originalmente por PaperzMask:

I just spent 20$ & received no tokens :\ what the heck?

Don't hijack the thread, but if you used wallet funds, you won't get those tokens.

Publicado originalmente por Wolfnight:

The discounts are crap anyway nowadays... mostly buying through the G site. They could implement some new fees for example...

Don't ever use that site. They're not legitimate (trusted) re-sellers.

You have better options like HumbleBundles, Fanatical or Green Man Gaming.

[Madao Ω]

Publicado originalmente por komi:

Another epic > steam nonsense.
You do realise Steam gives levels for free as well? Thanks to this sale I got from level 71 to 73 which is just been live for 2 days.

how you level uped? with buying games in sale?

[mashiro]

update: steam wallet gift cards does count atleast thats how it worked for me.
i bought portal 2 and some other game to get tokens and it did count.

[Psycho MantisPD]

Publicado originalmente por Robin3sk:

Publicado originalmente por PaperzMask:

I just spent 20$ & received no tokens :\ what the heck?

Don't hijack the thread, but if you used wallet funds, you won't get those tokens.

Publicado originalmente por Wolfnight:

The discounts are crap anyway nowadays... mostly buying through the G site. They could implement some new fees for example...

Don't ever use that site. They're not legitimate (trusted) re-sellers.

You have better options like HumbleBundles, Fanatical or Green Man Gaming.

I use them a long time now and in 99% everything works like a charm, i sell there my Humblebundle games which i don't want, and for the money i earned i buy those games which i want. But they also like to scam like with hidden premium subscribtions or now EU people can't buy items with the wallet (since january 2019...). But still i buy there more, than on Steam, and maybe if Valve would lower their fees for developers we could have better discounts here, but greedy greedy And this is coming from a guy who worked in three game dev studios.

[mashiro]

Publicado originalmente por 𝓐𝓷𝓰𝓻𝔂 𝓖𝓸𝓭:

Publicado originalmente por komi:

Another epic > steam nonsense.
You do realise Steam gives levels for free as well? Thanks to this sale I got from level 71 to 73 which is just been live for 2 days.

how you level uped? with buying games in sale?

no,just grab the cards from the queue when it goes live AND/OR buy games and do tasks. Theres two different events going on at the moment.

[~Edge~]

Publicado originalmente por Mr. Joseph:

Publicado originalmente por WolfnightBA:

Using it and don't feel guilty in any way...

So essentially you'd actively support a system worse than piracy that actively takes money away from developers.

Thank you for outing yourself.

/End thread

Just because some Devs claims this practice is "illegal" doesn't imply It really is. Do they not like these sites? Ban every key that is activated outside authorized channels (and same goes with Steam). Too much troubles? They don't want to do it? Their choice, barking dogs never bitten anyone.
I often use 3rd party resellers, never felt guilty for anything and none should: infact, in the remote case you buy something coming from a fraud, your key is rewoked, you lose your money and move on, considering you accepted the risk.

Now I'm plenty of games bought at low prices that I'm enjoying very much and nothing illegal has been done, just once (over a hundred transactions) I bought a Siberia 2 key already redeemed, lost 0,80€ but whatever.

In conclusion, If you feel that overpaying a game in your region is a good and fair practice just because the devs say so, good for you, I'm not judging the way you spend your money.
But I, for example, am not gonna pay 39,99€ for Shovel Knight: TT when in Argentina is sold (among sales on Steam) for 6.65€ with a recorded low of 2.11€ (Europe only 9.89€). If companies want globalism, fair enough, i'm gonna play their very same game, and keep buying stuff from whoever offers me the lowest price as they do.