Potential events ideas for the upcoming year

[SandmanBg706]

Lately I've noticed it all became too bland and monotonous with the usual Summer/Winter sales and uninspired badges. I think Steam needs to re-introduce old events in some new form to make the activity on this platform bigger and funnier. Something interactive with engaging rules and cool rewards like the Steam Summer Adventure of 2014, the Spring cleaning, or the Great Steam Treasure Hunt. Grand Prix-like event or Saliens are another examples.

Something that is alike, makes the community more cooperative, and last but not least, something that brings incentive to play while leaving no place for cheating or abusing exploits so as not to repeat past instances. In relation to this, I think that since last year's Winter sale, the badges (both special and seasonal) since are very unoriginal or even explicitly unappealing in visual design.

[Duel Sundown]

[Crazy Tiger]

So you want the events back where lots of people did exploits on large scales and lots of people kept complaining that the events were bugged, not fun and such? Yeah, I don't think such things will come back anytime soon as Valve likely has learned that doing all that effort isn't worth the trouble and it's highly questionable it leads to better sales anywa (the main goal).

Personally I don't miss them either, but that's because discounts is what a sale is about for me.

[Start_Running]

Yeah rewards are not gonna be a thing. Waaaaaay too much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I mean do you actually remember that summer 2013 event?

Look the simple truth is we as customers have on a whole, taught Valve to be low effort.

[SandmanBg706]

Първоначално публикувано от Crazy Tiger:

So you want the events back where lots of people did exploits on large scales and lots of people kept complaining that the events were bugged, not fun and such? Yeah, I don't think such things will come back anytime soon as Valve likely has learned that doing all that effort isn't worth the trouble and it's highly questionable it leads to better sales anywa (the main goal).

Personally I don't miss them either, but that's because discounts is what a sale is about for me. :lunar2019grinningpig:

I want them but only in a way that prevents people from abusing the whole thing. If it is going to be the same fiasco as back then - sound no.

[SandmanBg706]

Първоначално публикувано от Start_Running:

Yeah rewards are not gonna be a thing. Waaaaaay too much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I mean do you actually remember that summer 2013 event?

Look the simple truth is we as customers have on a whole, taught Valve to be low effort.

Maybe nostalgia is getting too much in the way, I guess. And yeah, tbh, I don't blame Valve. We as a community really went too far. I remember one of the said events had quite some fixes and even then it was a colossal failure.

[Gwarsbane]

Първоначално публикувано от SandmanBg706:

Lately I've noticed it all became too bland and monotonous with the usual Summer/Winter sales and uninspired badges. I think Steam needs to re-introduce old events in some new form to make the activity on this platform bigger and funnier. Something interactive with engaging rules and cool rewards like the Steam Summer Adventure of 2014, the Spring cleaning, or the Great Steam Treasure Hunt. Grand Prix-like event or Saliens are another examples.

Something that is alike, makes the community more cooperative, and last but not least, something that brings incentive to play while leaving no place for cheating or abusing exploits so as not to repeat past instances. In relation to this, I think that since last year's Winter sale, the badges (both special and seasonal) since are very unoriginal or even explicitly unappealing in visual design.

No thanks, I don't like all the exploits, whining and moaning about it and stuff back.

Първоначално публикувано от SandmanBg706:

I want them but only in a way that prevents people from abusing the whole thing. If it is going to be the same fiasco as back then - sound no.

The only way that prevents people from abusing the whole thing is to not allow people to take part.... because if anyone can take part, there will be abuse. We seen it time and time again with stuff like that.

So now we have what we have and I'm perfectly fine with it. We get some decent discounts and very few people going on about how boring it is, compared to all the people complaining about all the abuse and cheating going on.

[BJWyler]

Първоначално публикувано от SandmanBg706:

Първоначално публикувано от Start_Running:

Yeah rewards are not gonna be a thing. Waaaaaay too much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I mean do you actually remember that summer 2013 event?

Look the simple truth is we as customers have on a whole, taught Valve to be low effort.

Maybe nostalgia is getting too much in the way, I guess. And yeah, tbh, I don't blame Valve. We as a community really went too far. I remember one of the said events had quite some fixes and even then it was a colossal failure.

Exactly. The point of the Sales events are to sell games. Plain and simple. There is nothing that Valve can implement that a significant number of users won't find a way to exploit. There is simply no ROI on tying up resources creating and continually fixing an event that really amounts to having no real value at all.

[Tito Shivan]

Mind the old events were for the most part and engagement mechanic to get people into using the store and buying games. The first events required achievements from the games on sale (Did someone say Pay 2 Win) in order to advance in the sale event.

That's why these events always required tasks like sharing a screenshot, trading something to a friend, writing a review... The Sale Event was the walkthrough of the sale itself.

Of course the 'freebies' were different back then, because of the levels of engagement required.

Nowadays those levels of engagement are simply not needed anymore. Also most of the events had to do with the FOMO nature of sales back then. With flash, community and daily sales out of the window so does the need to hard engage the people constantly through the whole sales period.