Steam Points Disparity

[Sony]

When someone went to give me a "Take My Points," it said it would cost them 4800 points. But on my end I would only "receive" 1600 of them. I wrote receive in quotations, because for whatever reason Steam only lets you have them two weeks after awarded. Don't get into arguments with trolls on here. They will get the thread locked off so that no one can benefit from it.

[Spawn of Totoro]

And... what is it you have a question about or wish to discuss about it?

[Sony]

The fact that there is a clear disparity between the two.

[( ( < < <🤖> > > ) )]

thats the way its always been....
what every you send cost you 3 times what the recipient receives

cost your 300 points... they get 100 point

if thread is deleted no points exchanged...

[Yzal]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von ragefifty50:

thats the way its always been....
what every you send cost you 3 times what the recipient receives

cost your 300 points... they get 100 point

Right

if thread is deleted no points exchanged...

Wrong. You still get the points.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Sony:

The fact that there is a clear disparity between the two.

You get 1/3 the cost of the award. What disparity? They buy an award, you get a bonus for
receiving the award.

They could have chosen not to give anything as well.

Otherwise people would try to sell points for real money or for trading.

[ElvisDeadly]

Working as intended.

1/3 goes to recipient, nothing else was ever promised.

14 day wait, to prevent refund abuse.

What is your point?

[Sony]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von ElvisDeadly:

Working as intended.

1/3 goes to recipient, nothing else was ever promised.

14 day wait, to prevent refund abuse.

What is your point?

Maybe as intended. But nowhere does it warn or notify you that the recipient will only get 1/3 the points. Unless I missed something. I've looked at what pops up when I go to award. I've read the steam points explanation page.

Also, points (or awards gained by points use) are deducted once a game is refunded.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Sony:

What does giving recipients one third the value of points do to prevent selling points for money? I don't understand how that relates.

Greatly lowers the value of the points. Instead of 100 points = $1 it becomes 100 points = $3, so a 500 point background now costs $15 instead of $5.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Sony:

Maybe as intended. But nowhere does it warn or notify you that the recipient will only get 1/3 the points. Unless I missed something. I've looked at what pops up when I go to award. I've read the steam points explanation page.

It does.

Click to award, select the award and click next. You get the warning then, on the confirmation page.

[Sony]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Spawn of Totoro:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Sony:

What does giving recipients one third the value of points do to prevent selling points for money? I don't understand how that relates.

Greatly lowers the value of the points. Instead of 100 points = $1 it becomes 100 points = $3, so a 500 point background now costs $15 instead of $5.

Maybe I'm not getting the full picture here. When you buy 10 dollars worth of games, you get 1000 points, right? Why would people ever pay someone more than that to buy their points?

[Sony]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Spawn of Totoro:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Sony:

What does giving recipients one third the value of points do to prevent selling points for money? I don't understand how that relates.

Greatly lowers the value of the points. Instead of 100 points = $1 it becomes 100 points = $3, so a 500 point background now costs $15 instead of $5.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Sony:

Maybe as intended. But nowhere does it warn or notify you that the recipient will only get 1/3 the points. Unless I missed something. I've looked at what pops up when I go to award. I've read the steam points explanation page.

It does.

Click to award, select the award and click next. You get the warning then, on the confirmation page.

Okay, sorry on that point. I was wrong about not being notified. They should also post that to the main Steam Points page as well. Don't know why they haven't.

[Brian9824]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Sony:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Spawn of Totoro:

Greatly lowers the value of the points. Instead of 100 points = $1 it becomes 100 points = $3, so a 500 point background now costs $15 instead of $5.



It does.

Click to award, select the award and click next. You get the warning then, on the confirmation page.

Okay, sorry on that point. I was wrong about not being notified. They should also post that to the main Steam Points page as well. Don't know why they haven't.

Why would they? More accurate and useful to display it where you actually give the points away. Also points have no value, and people aren't supposed to be selling them.

The difference is a pointsink so you don't have trillions and trillions of points floating around.

[Sony]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von brian9824:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Sony:

Okay, sorry on that point. I was wrong about not being notified. They should also post that to the main Steam Points page as well. Don't know why they haven't.

Why would they? More accurate and useful to display it where you actually give the points away. Also points have no value, and people aren't supposed to be selling them.

The difference is a pointsink so you don't have trillions and trillions of points floating around.

If it's part of the official guidelines of Steam Points, it should be listed on the official page as well.

[( ( < < <🤖> > > ) )]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Lazy Dog:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von ragefifty50:

thats the way its always been....
what every you send cost you 3 times what the recipient receives

cost your 300 points... they get 100 point

Right

if thread is deleted no points exchanged...

Wrong. You still get the points.

thanks... now i know...

i thought thats what the 2 week wait was for...
but just read the 2 weeks is for game refunders...

[Sony]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von brian9824:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Sony:

Okay, sorry on that point. I was wrong about not being notified. They should also post that to the main Steam Points page as well. Don't know why they haven't.

Why would they? More accurate and useful to display it where you actually give the points away. Also points have no value, and people aren't supposed to be selling them.

The difference is a pointsink so you don't have trillions and trillions of points floating around.

The argument about "pointsink" is invalid in my opinion. Why would points floating around be a concern for Steam? If people have some extra points, it shouldn't bother Steam. Unless they are afraid that people will sell extra points at a greatly reduced cost, rather than customers only being able to get them from buying games. Ahhh, very clever Steam.

[ElvisDeadly]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Sony:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von brian9824:

Why would they? More accurate and useful to display it where you actually give the points away. Also points have no value, and people aren't supposed to be selling them.

The difference is a pointsink so you don't have trillions and trillions of points floating around.

The argument about "pointsink" is invalid in my opinion. Why would points floating around be a concern for Steam? If people have some extra points, it shouldn't bother Steam. Unless they are afraid that people will sell extra points, rather than giving them the money for buying games. Ahhh, very clever Steam.

If a 300 point award gave you 300 points we could just award each other over and over again an infinite amount of times.