Points shop items missing

[MrL0G1C]

Many emoticons and wallpapers available on the steam market place are not available via the points shop. This has been an issue since January 2021 AFAIK.

Is this a glitch or are items deliberately limited?
Does Valve have any plans to fix this?
Is there any estimate for when the points shop will be fixed?
Does this glitch affect everyone or only some countries?

[Sen 👑]

Points shop and community market are two separate things.

Some items are only available on the points shop and vice versa.

[MrL0G1C]

Originally posted by Karot:

Points shop and community market are two separate things.

Some items are only available on the points shop and vice versa.

Doesn't answer the question. When points shop started all game emoticons and wallpapers where available but after some period of time some of those items became unavailable without explanation. I am asking for explanation / clarification.

[☆ id/SweetRin ☆ [JP]]

Originally posted by MrL0G1C:

Originally posted by Karot:

Points shop and community market are two separate things.

Some items are only available on the points shop and vice versa.

Doesn't answer the question. When points shop started all game emoticons and wallpapers where available but after some period of time some of those items became unavailable without explanation. I am asking for explanation / clarification.

I also have questions about this

But as far as I've seen on the game store pages they will have there point shop section listed with only their point shop stuff. If there items aren't listed there anymore maybe it's actually limited time.

[Sen 👑]

Originally posted by MrL0G1C:

Originally posted by Karot:

Points shop and community market are two separate things.

Some items are only available on the points shop and vice versa.

Doesn't answer the question. When points shop started all game emoticons and wallpapers where available but after some period of time some of those items became unavailable without explanation. I am asking for explanation / clarification.

My speculation is that being able to buy anything straight from the points shop where points are given for virtually any purchase impacted the use of the community market. When there is more of a particular item, its value decreases. And quite a bit of Valve's income comes from market transactions.

Without knowing whether all game items were purchasable at that time, it's likely the reason above or it was in fact time limited.

[MrL0G1C]

I think the whole point of the points shop was to encourage people to spend more on games in order for them to get profile and chat stuff, if that works I'm sure it'd more than make up for the small amount they get from the steam marketplace.

It's more likely that some game publishers would want to remove some popular items that do sell a lot, but those are rare.

The removal of items from the points shop seems to be random and not related to item value or rarity. Based upon this observation I'd say this is a glitch rather than deliberate.

[Red Eagle LXIX]

I would also like to see an answer to this since the description in the Points Shop specifically states that you can purchase the emoticons and backgrounds for the games you own or earn them by crafting badges.
Any current expenditures to increase the number of points only to find an item unavailable due to this misrepresentation would be a waste.

Originally posted by Points Shop:

Items from games you play
Want an emoticon from your favorite game? You can redeem your points to get a background or emoticon for games you already own.
Emoticons and Backgrounds that were previously associated with trading cards can now be directly acquired by using Steam Points. Don’t worry, you can still use the Steam card crafting to get those items if you wish.

Originally posted by Points Shop:

How is this different from Steam Trading Cards?
Now you can redeem your Steam Points for emoticons and profile backgrounds associated with the games you own. The Steam Points program builds upon the existing Steam Trading Cards features and makes them accessible to more players. In addition to collecting and crafting cards, the Points program now offers another, more direct, way to acquire these emoticons and backgrounds.

As to the Points Shop items devaluing the Marketplace items this is limited by the idea you cannot Trade or Market items purchased via Point Shop.

Originally posted by Point Shop:

Items from the Points Shop are not marketable or tradeable.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Ask the game devs of said games to add them.

Valve already gave the game devs the tools last year...

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/2924488121712219462

[Red Eagle LXIX]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Ask the game devs of said games to add them.

Valve already gave the game devs the tools last year...

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/2924488121712219462

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That is for uploading new Point shop specific items (Stickers, Animated Profile Backgrounds, Mini Profile Backgrounds, Avatar Frames, Animated Avatars).
The question pertains to the items that can also be earned via Trading Card badge crafting (Static Profile Backgrounds, Emoticons).
As an example I was previously able to purchase this icon via Points Shop. Now If I go to that game and select Point Shop it shows nothing not even the owned items. This happens for some titles that are still available on Steam as well such as ARK: Survival Evolved https://store.steampowered.com/points/shop/app/346110

[MrL0G1C]

Agree, question still open.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Yes, they can remove them as well. Ask the game devs why.

[RED PYRO STANDO USER]

sad

[PR Seazerr]

cool