Why is there no more event on Steam?

[RANGER]

We used to have great sale events like Grand Prix, Monster Summer, Salien, Winter Sale 2019 event (Steamville Holiday) so on and so forth.

Now all we get is stationary store page, dull and disappointing.

So the question has to be asked. Why is there no more such events on Steam?

[rawWwRrr]

Users found ways to exploit them.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Those events were meant to engage people. You know, like back in 2012 of December when they gave away every single game on Steam?

There is 125 million Steam accounts, a whole lot more people know about Steam now. So they don't need to do things like that anymore.

People also complained about them which is another reason why they stopped doing them.

[sumolagann]

They stopped caring

[Zefar]

When Valve removed them one after the other people just kept buying more games and spending more time looking through deals.

Some where notorious for causing bad stuff like the flash deals. Because it meant people waited to the last day before buying and that caused the store to crash.

The coal event was bad for those who where mass collecting coal but only getting one of 2 games.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Originally posted by Zefar:

When Valve removed them one after the other people just kept buying more games and spending more time looking through deals.

Some where notorious for causing bad stuff like the flash deals. Because it meant people waited to the last day before buying and that caused the store to crash.

The coal event was bad for those who where mass collecting coal but only getting one of 2 games.

That was still my favorite event though, I think I had 15 pieces of coal?

[RANGER]

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Users found ways to exploit them.

Exploits always has been reversed, we have seen people with over 40,000 Steam levels with the exploit. I don't think Valve is incompetent to issue these things.

Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

Those events were meant to engage people. You know, like back in 2012 of December when they gave away every single game on Steam?

There is 125 million Steam accounts, a whole lot more people know about Steam now. So they don't need to do things like that anymore.

People also complained about them which is another reason why they stopped doing them.

We don't have to go back that far, we had events 3-4 years ago where Steam was already the king of digital game store. And I don't remember anyone complaining about these events

[RANGER]

Originally posted by Zefar:

When Valve removed them one after the other people just kept buying more games and spending more time looking through deals.

Some where notorious for causing bad stuff like the flash deals. Because it meant people waited to the last day before buying and that caused the store to crash.

The coal event was bad for those who where mass collecting coal but only getting one of 2 games.

I mean this could be true, if you remove all the stuff and people will see deals first but I still think it wouldn't effect that much since sale stays 14 days.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

If you don't remember them complaining, then you really weren't paying attention.

I'll give you a very recent example. Remember the NextFest badge that glitched? Quite a few users could not level the badge up completely. And guess what? There was huge uproar and also fun fact: Steam Support can't alter or fix badges.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Originally posted by RANGER:

Originally posted by Zefar:

When Valve removed them one after the other people just kept buying more games and spending more time looking through deals.

Some where notorious for causing bad stuff like the flash deals. Because it meant people waited to the last day before buying and that caused the store to crash.

The coal event was bad for those who where mass collecting coal but only getting one of 2 games.

I mean this could be true, if you remove all the stuff and people will see deals first but I still think it wouldn't effect that much since sale stays 14 days.

There's no could be true about it, it is true, do you remember the flash sales on Steam? They weren't fun. Sure, I paid attention and got the ones that I wanted but it was anything but ideal.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Also those flash sales didn't last 14 days, far from it. What was it? 8 hours?

[RANGER]

I am not talking about flash sales and I am glad that they are gone. I was talking about events might be slightly reducing sales due to engagement and even if that's the case it should not affect that much.

Regarding Next Fest, I had no issues and got my badge. But I believe it wasn't Steam's fault rather the game developers on next fest. And yes, Steam can alter badges as we have seen people were exploiting badges and going above 20,000+ Steam level and Steam has reversed all of the badges of those people who exploited it. Unless it is Steam's fault/omission they will never add badge to your profile manually or try to fix it.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

Also those flash sales didn't last 14 days, far from it. What was it? 8 hours?

Yup, pretty much. Those were cool!

[Kargor]

Originally posted by RANGER:

We used to have great sale events like Grand Prix, Monster Summer, Salien, Winter Sale 2019 event (Steamville Holiday) so on and so forth.
...
So the question has to be asked. Why is there no more such events on Steam?

It's actual work to develop these things, and if it doesn't cause more sales...

Just think about it: how many games did you buy BECAUSE of the "Grand Prix"?

[RANGER]

Originally posted by Kargor:

Originally posted by RANGER:

We used to have great sale events like Grand Prix, Monster Summer, Salien, Winter Sale 2019 event (Steamville Holiday) so on and so forth.
...
So the question has to be asked. Why is there no more such events on Steam?

It's actual work to develop these things, and if it doesn't cause more sales...

Just think about it: how many games did you buy BECAUSE of the "Grand Prix"?

It doesn't have to "cause more sales" if community loves it. I didn't buy games based on events/because of grand prix, I bought games because I love Steam, that's it. If something is liked and loved it doesn't have to cause more sales. And you don't need a budget for that, only little bit of time and effort.

[Neo]

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Users found ways to exploit them.

:winterpenguin2023:

Actually it was poor coding on steams part. Some of the events were bugged which caused people to accidentally gain way more steam profile levels than was intended. It wasn't really users exploiting anything. They allowed us to keep our levels though.

I just wish they had kept the events and just made sure they were not buggy, instead of stopping them all together.