Steam deck keyboard skins for 5000 steam points... for real?

[[?]legit]

What a rip off. :D

Clever though that valve is disguising their sellout strategy behind a manipulative 'points shop' instead of offering the skins in the store for real money.

Imagine if they didn't hide it behind a virtual currency and offered such a keyboard skin for $1.49 in the steam store... would be funny to read the reviews.

I like the points shop, but this goes too far.

[Zaskar]

cinedine původně napsal:

Lazy Dog původně napsal:

That's like saying a gift given to you it's not free because someone had to buy it first. It's free for you.

Difference is, that I didn't have to buy something to receive this gift.

Seriously ... the logic of "it is free when you buy something" is mind boggeling.

Yes, that is called a "bonus". You don't buy the points, you buy a product that comes with some points as bonus. If one is buying anything just for the sake of getting Steam Points, there's only their poor buying habits to blame.

[Elstar]

Strange to have the keyboard themes available tide to the Steam account instead to the steam deck. It feels like a feature that should be tide to the Steam deck and not the account. The deck will probably become obsolete before the Steam account. I'm not sure it is well though out.

[cinedine]

Zaskar původně napsal:

cinedine původně napsal:

Difference is, that I didn't have to buy something to receive this gift.

Seriously ... the logic of "it is free when you buy something" is mind boggeling.

Yes, that is called a "bonus". You don't buy the points, you buy a product that comes with some points as bonus. If one is buying anything just for the sake of getting Steam Points, there's only their poor buying habits to blame.

Yeah, sure, if you want to see it as free. But as I said, you better never again complain about microtransactions you can also get via playing the game. Same principle.

I don't have a Steam Deck, but I hope they have a high-contrast option for the keyboard to ease use for vision impaired people (you know, people who actually benefit from having a device they can hold close to their eyes). In the end it's likely just a CSS file hidden in a proprietary format.
IMO stuff like this should be free. You wouldn't buy a skin for Steam, would you?

Ever since the introduction of Trading Cards the community have become increasingly freemium. Every other company would have long been called out on this. And when people bring it up, they get laughed it.
#OnlyOnSteam

[my new friend]

cinedine původně napsal:

You wouldn't buy a skin for Steam, would you?

More and more people have been suggesting Steam skins for the points store the last year.

[[?]legit]

I don't recall having to spend $50 in the Play Store in order to change my smartphone's keyboard "as a bonus".

[my new friend]

Legit původně napsal:

I don't recall having to spend $50 in the Play Store in order to change my smartphone's keyboard "as a bonus".

No one told you to spend money.

[cinedine]

my new friend původně napsal:

cinedine původně napsal:

You wouldn't buy a skin for Steam, would you?

More and more people have been suggesting Steam skins for the points store the last year.

And people are asking for profile music in the point shop.
Why? Because putting things in there seems to be the only way to get Valve to care about something. People won't be happy to having to pay for skins. They'd bite the lemon if this is the only way to get some of consistent quality that hopefully don't break every other update.
Or because they don't want to download something related to a library and inventory valued at hundres or thousands of moneyz from a random third party site. Not like Valve offers any on their own. Like the often requested light theme.

And good luck skinning BPM.

[my new friend]

cinedine původně napsal:

my new friend původně napsal:

More and more people have been suggesting Steam skins for the points store the last year.

And people are asking for profile music in the point shop.
Why? Because putting things in there seems to be the only way to get Valve to care about something. People won't be happy to having to pay for skins. They'd bite the lemon if this is the only way to get some of consistent quality that hopefully don't break every other update.
Or because they don't want to download something related to a library and inventory valued at hundres or thousands of moneyz from a random third party site. Not like Valve offers any on their own. Like the often requested light theme.

I mentioned the issues about updates breaking them too.
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/5706632550004081129/

cinedine původně napsal:

And good luck skinning BPM.

Don't really care about BPM. Got a Steam Deck instead to use SteamOS. Quite customizable all around.