[ATTENTION DEVELOPERS] Gift items from the Point Shop to your friends

[Serhat]

I'm not talking about Steam community rewards. Please do not distract the topic by commenting on this issue.

What I'm talking about here is; To gift the items in the points shop to people on our friends list, "just like we gift Steam games".

Example: https://ibb.co/Hhqwft1

With community rewards, you send your friend a reward worth 4800 points. But he only gets 1600 points from you. The remaining 3200 points evaporate like garbage. And he can't even buy a background with the 1600 points he got from you. What a pathetic and stupid business, isn't it?

I hope VALVE developers will be a little more sensitive about this. And I hope they rework the points system or add a gift system for the points shop.


EDIT: In order to send Point Shop items to someone on your friends list, you must have been friends with that person for at least 3 months (or more). Otherwise, you cannot send the gift to someone you have recently become friends with. This blocks the vast majority of people who might abuse the system. Because no one wants to pay someone and wait 3 months. If they wanted to do it, they would find a way to do it. But Steam's policy in this system, as in everything else, is clear: to quickly destroy the points you earn with your money and make you buy products again to earn points. ;)

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Originally posted by Guazy:

[ATTENTION DEVELOPERS] Gift items from the Point Shop to your friends

:PointRight: I'm not talking about Steam community rewards. Please do not distract the topic by commenting on this issue.

What I'm talking about here is; To gift the items in the points shop to people on our friends list, "just like we gift Steam games".

Example: https://ibb.co/Hhqwft1

With community rewards, you send your friend a reward worth 4800 points. But he only gets 1600 points from you. The remaining 3200 points evaporate like garbage. And he can't even buy a background with the 1600 points he got from you. What a pathetic and stupid business, isn't it?

I hope VALVE developers will be a little more sensitive about this. And I hope they rework the points system or add a gift system for the points shop.

Because the system requires diminishing returns.

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Steam requires points to be drastically reduced when gifting them to avoid scammers and people trying to sell points for real money.

And if someone's going to gift a point shop item worth 100 points that costs 300 points, better to send that by award so that the recipient can personally choose what they want to purchase.

[BJWyler]

Originally posted by Guazy:

With community rewards, you send your friend a reward worth 4800 points. But he only gets 1600 points from you. The remaining 3200 points evaporate like garbage. And he can't even buy a background with the 1600 points he got from you. What a pathetic and stupid business, isn't it?

That's by design. It's colloquially called a Gold Sink. And there's a very good reason it's designed that way.

Originally posted by Guazy:

I hope VALVE developers will be a little more sensitive about this. And I hope they rework the points system or add a gift system for the points shop.

They are sensitive - to the many ways that the system can be exploited and abused, which it will at every opportunity.