Steam advent calendar

[Poro]

I was wondering if my idea was worth even consideration.
What if steam published advent calendars. You could buy different levels of calendars, for example 10, 20 or 50 euro calendar. Then you would be gifted a game every day until christmas.
Do you think this idea could be something interesting to people or is it just me?

[Gwarsbane]

And then the people who buy the calendar will be ticked off when the one game that they wanted and got, goes on sale for cheaper then the whole calendar.

I don't think there are many who would pay 10, 20 or 50 euros for unknown quality of games. basically you buying a blind bundle without knowing whats actually in it.

I know I for sure wouldn't. I like knowing what I am getting for my money before I spend my money. I won't even do the 12 dollar USD monthly bundle from humble bundle cause most of the stuff in the bundle I don't want, in most cases there is nothing in the bundle but at least in that case I can actually just sell off what I don't want.

I doubt it would be the same way for a Valve bundle, so you will more then likely end up with stuff you don't want on your steam account, and not sitting in your inventory.

Also what happens when you already own the game, do they put the game in your inventory? Do you just lose it? If they put it in your inventory, people are going to be really ticked off cause they are going to start wanting other bundles on steam to do the same which the developers don't want. If people just lose it, well that will tick off those people.


So no this is just a bad idea, too many issues for steam.

[cinedine]

What games do yoyu expect getting with this? 50 bucks means a two-dollar game each day. Probably les to get a "big" one on 24th. Not really worth it unless you're just interested in upping your games count. And if so, you probably have most of them through bundles already.

[Poro]

My thought was purely the excitement of getting a surprise every day. I have personally always loved mystery boxes (advent calendars being one ultimate example). I wouldn't mind duplicates, I would be more than happy to gift them for my friends since I have friends I know are not able to afford games themselves. I can also imagine myself gifting one of these advent calendars to friends.
Maybe I am just an odd one since I don't really mind which games I get. I love games and would love to try a new surprising title every day. Titles I probably wouldn't purchase individually.

[Gwarsbane]

If you want mystery, then go subscribe the monthly bundle from humble bundle. You only know one game in it but you only get it at the end of the month.