Remove the pointless "ownership required" for buying backgrounds.

[アエリ (Aeri)]

it's BS like this that makes me not actually give a crap about the "minigame" part of steam, if I wanna use my steam points on a Nekopara background then just let me, jfc.

[Crazy Tiger]

It's actually understandable that they limit it to games you own. The point store is not a replacement for the community market, but an addition.

[JPMcMillen]

You can always buy cards/boosters and craft badges and hope you get lucky. Remember, you also can't make boosters from gems for games you don't own either.

[cinedine]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

It's actually understandable that they limit it to games you own. The point store is not a replacement for the community market, but an addition.

Not really. At least not if the front page of the store is full of games you do not own.

[Tito Shivan]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

It's actually understandable that they limit it to games you own. The point store is not a replacement for the community market, but an addition.

The points are a bonus for buying games. It makes sense to tie them to to the games you own.

[Hanomaly]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

It's actually understandable that they limit it to games you own. The point store is not a replacement for the community market, but an addition.

Agree, i like it this way. Any other way and it would kinda devalue the community market a lot. It already does a little.

That said, i admit i was at first really excited because there's an "expensive-ish" Grow Up emoticon i really want, and haven't wanted to pay for... and thought i could get it off the Point Store. But... since i do not own Grow Up, i cannot. So... i gotta decide if i want to buy Grow Up to get the emoticon for "free" from the Point Store... or, if i want to just pay another player on the Community Market for the emoticon so i don't have to buy the game.

i think this is a fair choice to have people make!

[Hanomaly]

Originally posted by cinedine:

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

It's actually understandable that they limit it to games you own. The point store is not a replacement for the community market, but an addition.

Not really. At least not if the front page of the store is full of games you do not own.

You don't have to shop from the main Point Store page tho? You can use the Search function to single out games you own and stuff like that.

The main Point Store page is probably to show off cool things from games to encourage people to buy the game ^.^ Which makes sense. It helps Devs/Pubs. As Devs/Pubs are also customers of Steam/Valve, so it makes sense to cater to their needs or promoting their stuff too.

But i do understand it can be sad to see a cool thing from a game you don't own, and want it! Heheh... and then wonder if you should buy the game just to get the neat Point Store item!

[JPMcMillen]

So far, only backgrounds and emoticons seem to be restricted to games you own. Items unrelated to badge crafting aren't as I can buy any animated stickers from any game, whether I own it or not.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by JPMcMillen:

So far, only backgrounds and emoticons seem to be restricted to games you own. Items unrelated to badge crafting aren't as I can buy any animated stickers from any game, whether I own it or not.

It is, indeed. It's also those items, the animated stickers, that are shown on the front page of the points store for me.

Even though it's all games I don't own on the frontpage of the points store, nothing that is directly showcased is actually stuff I cannot buy, so I don't see the issue with that.

[cinedine]

Originally posted by Hanomaly:

Originally posted by cinedine:

Not really. At least not if the front page of the store is full of games you do not own.

You don't have to shop from the main Point Store page tho? You can use the Search function to single out games you own and stuff like that.

The main Point Store page is probably to show off cool things from games to encourage people to buy the game ^.^ Which makes sense. It helps Devs/Pubs. As Devs/Pubs are also customers of Steam/Valve, so it makes sense to cater to their needs or promoting their stuff too.

But i do understand it can be sad to see a cool thing from a game you don't own, and want it! Heheh... and then wonder if you should buy the game just to get the neat Point Store item!

I don't think any of this stuff is cool. Or needed. It might be seen as an incentive for some, but frankly "buy this 60 bucks game to be able to get this penny products" is not a marketing lesson I received. There are exactly two games on the main pages that I "own". DOTA 2 and CS:GO. Because they are free. Never played any of them nor want to. The page is not even remotely personalized based on what I see on the actual store.

So instead of showing me stuff I can actually purchase the main page is completly useless for me and I need to use the abyssmal navigation to find something I might be interested in.
Oh well, not like Valve has any shining example of good user experience anywhere.

Originally posted by JPMcMillen:

So far, only backgrounds and emoticons seem to be restricted to games you own. Items unrelated to badge crafting aren't as I can buy any animated stickers from any game, whether I own it or not.

Now that's some useful information after all that reading of "you need to own the game".

[JPMcMillen]

Originally posted by cinedine:

Originally posted by JPMcMillen:

So far, only backgrounds and emoticons seem to be restricted to games you own. Items unrelated to badge crafting aren't as I can buy any animated stickers from any game, whether I own it or not.

Now that's some useful information after all that reading of "you need to own the game".

I had gotten into some store pages for games I didn't own and when I tried to buy something I couldn't get the point cost button to appear. But with the animated stickers, every one has a button that says '1,000 points'.

[アエリ (Aeri)]

it'd be fine if it was like, less points if you don't own the game but as is the points system is basically worthless to me.

[agentlouisiana1]

I have dead space 2 on origin. For some reason, dead space 2, nearly 10 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ years old just got $10 bumped up. I am not paying thrice for this game, as much as i love it.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by Kazuhira Miller:

I have dead space 2 on origin. For some reason, dead space 2, nearly 10 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ years old just got $10 bumped up. I am not paying thrice for this game, as much as i love it.

Does this have ANY bearing on this thread?

If you have a game on Origin, play it from Origin. That's your perk. If you want something from Steam, you have to own it on Steam. That's ... really remarkably simple, innit?

[[Cyberiad] Phoenix]

So basically I'm forced to download a game I don't want nor like and play it for TWO HOURS just to get a background I think looks cool?
I don't want to play 2 hours of Smite just to get a Yggdrasill background!!!!

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Cyberiad Phoenix:

I don't want to play 2 hours of Smite just to get a Yggdrasill background!!!!

You don't have to, you can buy it on the community market.