Idea : Double steam points earned if purchase is a gift

[Irene ❤]

Benefits

• Teamwork : smart users will call friends to gift each other a copy. That means asking for friends to buy on steam together and defeating competitor store.
  
  
• Visual Improvement : Developers no longer sell 1 copy to 1 user forever as people will gift those games to multiple others. It gives them a reason to design better backgrounds / avatars to maximize usage of steam points store.
  
  
• Reason to gift : People with extra credits left in account now have good reason to send a gift.
  
  
• Double opportunity : Every game in steam store had an increased chance for a double purchase, every steam forum member had a chance to get more awards.
  
  
• Countering beggars : More people will spend $5, make alt accounts to beg for gifts, able to report them and close these accounts to profit $5.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

I can't wait for more people to complain about the gifting flag for using wallet funds to purchase the game gifts to skyrocket.

Not necessarily a bad idea but things are already getting more restrictive due to people abusing gifts as a commercial service.

I already earn thousands of points per dollar flipping capsules purchased in game.

[Nx Machina]

Whenever you make a purchase on Steam, you'll be given Steam Points based on how much you spend. First, we convert this amount to USD, which then converts directly to the number of points you receive.

[[N]ebsun]

Irene ❤ eredeti hozzászólása:

Benefits

• Teamwork : smart users will call friends to gift each other a copy. That means asking for friends to buy on steam together and defeating competitor store.

Excellent idea, now "gift me a game first, then I will gift you one back after"..
Sounds more like it would increase the amount of scamming / begging

[UrbanMech]

Sounds like a new way for people to get scammed.

[The Presence]

No.

[[?]legit]

Yes, that would be great.

[Max]

Imagine caring about steam points.

[Brian9824]

All it would do is make people create a 2nd account so they can gift themselves games for double points....

[[?]legit]

brian9824 eredeti hozzászólása:

All it would do is make people create a 2nd account so they can gift themselves games for double points....

Is that a bad thing?

[Max]

?legit eredeti hozzászólása:

brian9824 eredeti hozzászólása:

All it would do is make people create a 2nd account so they can gift themselves games for double points....

Is that a bad thing?

yes

[Start_Running]

If buying stuff was the only way to get points I'd agree...but if you need points that badly, well. there's lots of ways to earn them

[ChickenTacos]

Irene ❤ eredeti hozzászólása:

Benefits

• Teamwork : smart users will call friends to gift each other a copy. That means asking for friends to buy on steam together and defeating competitor store.
  
  
• Visual Improvement : Developers no longer sell 1 copy to 1 user forever as people will gift those games to multiple others. It gives them a reason to design better backgrounds / avatars to maximize usage of steam points store.
  
  
• Reason to gift : People with extra credits left in account now have good reason to send a gift.
  
  
• Double opportunity : Every game in steam store had an increased chance for a double purchase, every steam forum member had a chance to get more awards.
  
  
• Countering beggars : More people will spend $5, make alt accounts to beg for gifts, able to report them and close these accounts to profit $5.

Nah.

[76561198407601200]

?legit eredeti hozzászólása:

brian9824 eredeti hozzászólása:

All it would do is make people create a 2nd account so they can gift themselves games for double points....

Is that a bad thing?

It completely destroys op's suggestion. Currently you don't receive more points for gifting games, at least that's what assume from what op is asking and i've never paid attention to my points so I can't say for certain how it works now. Assuming you get the same points regardless if its a gift or not seems fine. What good would it do to double the points for gifting if gifting can be done to an alt account. Op would have been better off asking to simply double the amount of points we receive for purchases, gift or otherwise.

[[?]legit]

The Living Tribunal eredeti hozzászólása:

?legit eredeti hozzászólása:

Is that a bad thing?

It completely destroys op's suggestion. Currently you don't receive more points for gifting games, at least that's what assume from what op is asking and i've never paid attention to my points so I can't say for certain how it works now. Assuming you get the same points regardless if its a gift or not seems fine. What good would it do to double the points for gifting if gifting can be done to an alt account. Op would have been better off asking to simply double the amount of points we receive for purchases, gift or otherwise.

You can already get points for free by purchasing ingame items and then selling them on the steam market. Spending (relatively much) money, that you will not get back, to get a few points is abuse however?

[Brian9824]

?legit eredeti hozzászólása:

The Living Tribunal eredeti hozzászólása:

It completely destroys op's suggestion. Currently you don't receive more points for gifting games, at least that's what assume from what op is asking and i've never paid attention to my points so I can't say for certain how it works now. Assuming you get the same points regardless if its a gift or not seems fine. What good would it do to double the points for gifting if gifting can be done to an alt account. Op would have been better off asking to simply double the amount of points we receive for purchases, gift or otherwise.

You can already get points for free by purchasing ingame items and then selling them on the steam market. Spending (relatively much) money, that you will not get back, to get a few points is abuse however? :anlpsmile:

Not really free, your losing a chunk of money to valve's commission that way, so there is a trade off.

Doubling how much you get with no tradeoff would defeat the whole purpose of the OP's idea and lead ot far more support tickets as "friends" don't follow thru with their gifting and people getting ripped off with you gift me a game for double points and then i'll gift you a game scams....