[SUGESSTION] Level up from gifting

[NoCAKEforu]

As a guy who loves giving away gifts to friends (9 gifts given planning to do more gifting when I see some good sales), I also make ALOT of friends (2 years on Steam almost 3 years and at 300 friends and rising).... I'd find it quite suitable if giving could be another option for leveling up.

[Black Blade]

I can understand the idea
Main problem i see is users that will just gift them self over and over to get some levels
Adding to that a gift you profit from is not much of a gift

[NoCAKEforu]

I dont sell gift, when I gift I send it to the person, when I sell a game i trade them. And I could see an easy resolve for the gifting each other back and forth thingy, just only allow the gift to be gifted once.

[Black Blade]

Originally posted by Satanic Secret Santa:

I dont sell gift, when I gift I send it to the person, when I sell a game i trade them. And I could see an easy resolve for the gifting each other back and forth thingy, just only allow the gift to be gifted once.

At these time users can decide to place a gift in there inventory, something that is fair seeing that user may not want to active the game on there account, yet will like to maybe gift it on, blocking that sounds to me unfair

[NoCAKEforu]

yeaaah..... I was thinking on that one......

[NoCAKEforu]

Anwser to all Steam realated issues: "Valve will find a way"

[Black Blade]

Originally posted by Satanic Secret Santa:

Anwser to all Steam realated issues: "Valve will find a way"

Well then i want Valve to gift all users all the games on Steam, and how? well "Valve will find a way"
But seriously now, if there is really a way to find a way to limit these to make it worth it i think it can be cool

[NoCAKEforu]

maybe have a limit to the number of times it can be gifted? I'd say 5 gifts.

[Fox]

Originally posted by Black Blade:

I can understand the idea
Main problem i see is users that will just gift them self over and over to get some levels
Adding to that a gift you profit from is not much of a gift

A little twist to this suggestion may require the giftee to activate the game in its library for the XP to be awarded.

For people who activate the gift later, you can either record the Original Buyer for knowing who will gain XP, or cut down the XP altogether. Both of these can't really be abused, but have to hurt someone in the chain.

Another solution, but prone to abuse, would be to halve the XP earned for the gifter each time a given gift is gifted again (for those who enjoy calculations, it'd render as XP gained = base XP/(2^number of time gifted), rounded down) and to award the XP only upon activation of said gift.

For a 10 XP base, the XP gain nullifies at the 5th gift, and an abuser would only get barely double XP by doing so. Not worth it for such a small amount, and both the original buyer and its generous friend are rewarded for gifting the game.

[Ludus Aurea]

They need to just bring back the old xp/levelling system. Literally the only way now is trading cards, you used to be able to do stuff to get XP before.

[MythlyInari]

Originally posted by Grenadeh:

They need to just bring back the old xp/levelling system. Literally the only way now is trading cards, you used to be able to do stuff to get XP before.

What was the way before this one?

[Gus the Crocodile]

Originally posted by ✮Alice Windchime✮:

What was the way before this one?

A "Steam Level" between 1 and 10 based on how much game time was on your account in the last few weeks (I think that's how it worked, at least). Didn't affect anything, it was even more meaningless than the current system (which, yes, is about money, but at least it has a reason to exist at all; it has some function).

[NoCAKEforu]

I dont really like the friend list limit tbh, and there needs to be more variations to level up steam rather than just buying games, crafting cards, doing to community badge, how many years you have on steam, and taking part in the "big" sales events. The 5 main ways and probally the only ways to level up steam level, I just wants some more choices in leveing up steam.... :/