I want more free stuff.

[FOXDUDE69]

Steam doesn't give it's users enough free stuff. In fact, we don't get any free stuff at all from them.

Epic gives you 2 games a week (thanks daddy Sweeney).
GOG gives you a free game almost every sale, mostly old games but more than Valve gives us.
Nintendo lets you trade in Nintendo Coins for games.
I've even gotten multiple free games from Sony over the years! Good games, too! Like the Uncharted trilogy.

Steam on the other hand can't even give us an exclusive skin for playing CSGO for 10 years.
Valve needs to start showing they care about their customers and kick back some of that cheese to the Steam community.

Step up your game Valve!
Give us some Xmas presents in december, free games, coupons, skins.
Send a Steam Deck per month to a random user with more than 1500 games on his/hers account. There's so much you can do to give back to this community that supported you for decades now.

[Pierce Dalton]

Escrito originalmente por 8bitbeard:

I just read the whole thread, but I still have no idea where it's going...

Mr. Pierce Dalton, you seem to have taken the reigns of the conversation. Do you mind explaining where you're steering it?

Certainly, dear Mr. Beard. In order to benefit both Steam and their customers, I believe the following system should be adopted:

Spend $50 = get a $5 game of your choice for free (Valve pays the dev/pub)

$100 = get a $10 game

$200 = get a $20 game

And so on. Naturally, there should be a reset at some point, maybe at $500.

[FOXDUDE69]

Escrito originalmente por Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏:

What people have been trying to point out to you is that companies don't give away free stuff without reason.

And the other people already gave reasons why Steam should give stuff away. So here we are.

[Pierce Dalton]

Escrito originalmente por Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏:

Escrito originalmente por FOXDUDE69:

What's going on is that some people don't want free stuff and some do.

That's not true but if that's all that your position in this entire four hundred and four message conversation amounts to, then you stand no chance of this suggestion actually being accepted and acted upon by Valve.

What people have been trying to point out to you is that companies don't give away free stuff without reason.

Why did PayPal give me free money?

[FOXDUDE69]

Escrito originalmente por Pierce Dalton:

Escrito originalmente por Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏:

That's not true but if that's all that your position in this entire four hundred and four message conversation amounts to, then you stand no chance of this suggestion actually being accepted and acted upon by Valve.

What people have been trying to point out to you is that companies don't give away free stuff without reason.

Why did PayPal give me free money?

There could be multiple reasons. As an incentive to use their service is the most likely one. As a way of saying "thank you" for years of using the service is another big reason why companies give stuff away.

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Escrito originalmente por Pierce Dalton:

Escrito originalmente por Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏:

That's not true but if that's all that your position in this entire four hundred and four message conversation amounts to, then you stand no chance of this suggestion actually being accepted and acted upon by Valve.

What people have been trying to point out to you is that companies don't give away free stuff without reason.

Why did PayPal give me free money?

Its Paypal, a site known for being so backwards on both good and bad things that they billed a someone who was already dead 3k dollars for failure on paying back a credit charge that they were neither apart of or even iovolved with, so them paying people random money is not shocking.

[FOXDUDE69]

Escrito originalmente por Lustrous Spirit:

Escrito originalmente por Pierce Dalton:

Why did PayPal give me free money?

Its Paypal, a site known for being so backwards on both good and bad things that they billed a someone who was already dead 3k dollars for failure on paying back a credit charge that they were neither apart of or even iovolved with, so them paying people random money is not shocking.

Steam tried to double charge me once. And I'm not even dead yet.

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Escrito originalmente por FOXDUDE69:

Escrito originalmente por Lustrous Spirit:

Its Paypal, a site known for being so backwards on both good and bad things that they billed a someone who was already dead 3k dollars for failure on paying back a credit charge that they were neither apart of or even iovolved with, so them paying people random money is not shocking.

Steam tried to double charge me once. And I'm not even dead yet.

Mm ya, but did they close your account and simply use an auto re-planned email to say it was a POSSBILE error or ACCIDENTLY sent but not giving any information on what it actually ways?
https://gizmodo.com/paypal-dying-while-owing-us-money-is-unacceptable-to-u-1827499095

If not then Paypal is still one of the most backwards sites that exists. (You know, excluding Reddit, 4chan or anything of those other off-brand sites)

[Pierce Dalton]

Escrito originalmente por Lustrous Spirit:

Escrito originalmente por Pierce Dalton:

Why did PayPal give me free money?

Its Paypal, a site known for being so backwards on both good and bad things that they billed a someone who was already dead 3k dollars for failure on paying back a credit charge that they were neither apart of or even iovolved with, so them paying people random money is not shocking.

Dear Lustrous Spirit,

Thank you for the valuable contribution to this discussion. I must inform you that this doesn't answer my question, though.

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Escrito originalmente por Pierce Dalton:

Escrito originalmente por Lustrous Spirit:

Its Paypal, a site known for being so backwards on both good and bad things that they billed a someone who was already dead 3k dollars for failure on paying back a credit charge that they were neither apart of or even iovolved with, so them paying people random money is not shocking.

Dear Lustrous Spirit,

Thank you for the valuable contribution to this discussion. I must inform you that this doesn't answer my question, though.

You know I'm slightly off put by the use of greetings in your messages for once Pierce but cant say its a bad thing, I was just saying how paypal has screwed up, I really cant awnser as you aske kit the paypal question and given I dont use Paypal I cant give my own view point actually on this question.

[Pierce Dalton]

Escrito originalmente por FOXDUDE69:

Escrito originalmente por Pierce Dalton:

Why did PayPal give me free money?

There could be multiple reasons. As an incentive to use their service is the most likely one. As a way of saying "thank you" for years of using the service is another big reason why companies give stuff away.

What I find interesting about this is that just like Steam, PayPal already has many users around the world. So that old argument used by the naysayers is invalid:

"Steam is at the top of the world they don't need to encourage more people to use their service by giving free stuff."

[FOXDUDE69]

Escrito originalmente por Lustrous Spirit:

If not then Paypal is still one of the most backwards sites that exists. (You know, excluding Reddit, 4chan or anything of those other off-brand sites)

So in order to make Steam look good, you have to compare it to paypal? Geez, not a good look.
And 4chan has better moderation than the Steam forums, as their rules are enforced evenly. Maybe Steam should hire some 4chan mods.

[HistoricKombat]

Escrito originalmente por Pierce Dalton:

Escrito originalmente por HistoricKombat:

I want free stuff too. Send me a check of one million dollars in the mail, thanks.

Dear HistoricKombat,

I'd suggest you to use PayPal, every now and then they give free money to their users. It might take a while for you to reach one million, though.

I got Halo MCC for free thanks to it.

You took my dumb joke seriously when it is suppose to be sort of a mock on people looking for handouts. Valve does not need to hand out freebies though I would certainly welcome it but I won't complain if they never do.

[Pierce Dalton]

Escrito originalmente por HistoricKombat:

Escrito originalmente por Pierce Dalton:

Dear HistoricKombat,

I'd suggest you to use PayPal, every now and then they give free money to their users. It might take a while for you to reach one million, though.

I got Halo MCC for free thanks to it.

You took my dumb joke seriously when it is suppose to be sort of a mock on people looking for handouts. Valve does not need to hand out freebies though I would certainly welcome it but I won't complain if they never do.

No, I did not. In case you didn't notice, my reply was a joke too =D

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Escrito originalmente por FOXDUDE69:

Escrito originalmente por Lustrous Spirit:

If not then Paypal is still one of the most backwards sites that exists. (You know, excluding Reddit, 4chan or anything of those other off-brand sites)

So in order to make Steam look good, you have to compare it to paypal? Geez, not a good look.
And 4chan has better moderation than the Steam forums, as their rules are enforced evenly. Maybe Steam should hire some 4chan mods.

You know the fact that literally I am replying to this just to say that ya, 4Chan has good moderation, the hands off approach of non-existing rulesets or even set standards is so good that anonymous dont need to watch over it anymore.

Anyways back on topic here so we can get away from the joke of 4Chan being a good website in any form...

Escrito originalmente por Pierce Dalton:

Escrito originalmente por FOXDUDE69:

There could be multiple reasons. As an incentive to use their service is the most likely one. As a way of saying "thank you" for years of using the service is another big reason why companies give stuff away.

What I find interesting about this is that just like Steam, PayPal already has many users around the world. So that old argument used by the naysayers is invalid:

"Steam is at the top of the world they don't need to encourage more people to use their service by giving free stuff."

In fairness Steam is a disturbition platform, they dont really do much here when you think about it, in a rather strange way when I though it over, the fact that all the store pages and those games are ran by other companies and and they got so few games there's not much Steam have to do here, if anything their top of video game disturbition but even then for me to say that is like comparing them to walmart, walmart sells goods from other companies but somehow that does not feel like a good example but I think thats due to GOG literally being the only other existing place in 3rd party form that mostly sells games they didnt make...idk man.

[Tito Shivan]

Escrito originalmente por Black Blade:

Well if they give you a random free game you more likely will not like it then will

So like... Coupons?
People sure love the kind of coupons you usually get in Steam...

Escrito originalmente por FOXDUDE69:

What's going on is that some people don't want free stuff and some do.

I like free stuff... But I also know beggars can't be choosers. This whole thread is all about the latter.