cant buy a emoticon from a game i own.

[Tjack Morris]

Just bought papers please and a few more games, and i have 2099 summer sale points.
i want to buy a few of the emotes from papers please, but when i try it only sais "You cannot redeem points for this item, because you do not own the associated game or do not have two hours of playtime in it."
i just launched the game to see if it fixed it but nothing. The emotes cost 100 each, is it possible to have too many emotes?

[Snapjak]

Originally posted by J'Zargo:

"You cannot redeem points for this item, because you do not own the associated game or do not have two hours of playtime in it."

Hmmmmm

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by J'Zargo:

"You cannot redeem points for this item, because you do not own the associated game or do not have two hours of playtime in it."

This is quite self-explanatory really. You have 0.1 hours on record.

[Tjack Morris]

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

Originally posted by J'Zargo:

"You cannot redeem points for this item, because you do not own the associated game or do not have two hours of playtime in it."

This is quite self-explanatory really. You have 0.1 hours on record.

it sais that i EITHER need to own the game OR have 2 hours of it.

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by J'Zargo:

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

This is quite self-explanatory really. You have 0.1 hours on record.

it sais that i EITHER need to own the game OR have 2 hours of it.

No. You're misunderstanding the use of the word 'or'.

So let's say you don't own the game but you have 2 hours in it LOL

[Tjack Morris]

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

Originally posted by J'Zargo:

it sais that i EITHER need to own the game OR have 2 hours of it.

No. You're misunderstanding the use of the word 'or'.

So let's say you don't own the game but you have 2 hours in it LOL:lunar2019laughingpig:

"You cannot redeem points for this item, because you do not own the associated game or do not have two hours of playtime in it."

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ you are retarded to write something like that when you clearly have no idea what im talking about.

[Snapjak]

The wording is poor I will admit. That's a Valve specialty.

It's basically, you either don't own it or you do own it but don't have two hours in it yet.

[Rabid]

They do this because people would milk games for trading cards and other sell-able items, then refund the game before their refund time limit is up.
This way it makes you go over the normal 2 hour refund limit and you cannot milk Valve and devs for free items and money.

I'd think this is why as I'm just guessing.

Love that logic they use though. Want that 7 cent emote? Better buy the $50+ game it's associated with first.
Capitalism at it's finest/worst.

[ElvisDeadly]

Originally posted by Rabid:

Love that logic they use though. Want that 7 cent emote? Better buy the $50+ game it's associated with first.
Capitalism at it's finest/worst.

Or, you know, just buy it off the marketplace for 7 cents....

The points/ownership thing is ANOTHER way to acquire the emotes, not the ONLY way

[ralphrm]

this might be late but...

just play the game and make sure u took 2hrs by playing on it lol

[karcyon]

This is also for games that aren't even 2h long, like "Seen" for example. It's a really stupid rule!

[Tjack Morris]

Originally posted by karcyon:

This is also for games that aren't even 2h long, like "Seen" for example. It's a really stupid rule!

how did you find this thread 2 months late?
stop responding to dead threads.

[Pri]

Well, something is wrong because I bought a game, had it idling for over 4 hours, tried to buy an emoticon in the shop and still get the message that I don't own it or don't have 2h on it, but I do own the game and I do have over 2h on it. Restarted Steam, tried on client and browser, nothing seems to work.

[the__elf]

This is stupid. Why are they making it so GD hard to just have a couple of GD emoticons. *angry emoticon here*

[Mike]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.