Steam should look at giving promotional gifts for birthdays.

[Omega (Red)]

I am also on origin, and yesterday was my birthday, origin gave me a $10 coupon off any game, I was wondering why don't steam offer incentives on people's birthday's like that, maybe let them have one of the games on their wishlist for free, or give them 50% off or like origin give $10 or or something better just since steam is better then origin. I just thought it might be an idea might get people to really download steam more and stick with them. I know incentives/ nice gestures like that makes me happy to have them. Steam does a lot but maybe try something new like that might be a positive outcome.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Yes! I can now make 20 accounts to get free games through out the year!
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Easy to abuse. With 15m users at $10 each, $150m dollars loss a year. All from Steam since the Publisher/Developer won't agree to the finds being taken form their part of the sales.

[The Rainmaker]

uh origin sucks... I refuse to use it except the ONLY reason I am going to use it is because I got a free voucher for crysis 3 with my amd 7970 GHZ and it requires origin. I really just want to use it to benchmark my system.

[Satoru]

Step 1 : Create 365 accounts
Setp 2 : get games
Step 3: .....
Step 4: PROFIT!

Ok not a perfect plan but you get the idea

[Omega (Red)]

i was told to start a topic on this and they might look more into it, when one company does something another doesn't usually that starts something better to happen. Origin isn't that bad it's gotten better but not by much, I use it to play bf3 and crysis 2. I am sure they could figure out ip's of people with multiple accounts,so might not work like that. it's a good idea none the less it's nice to get a coupon on occasions like that.

[Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel]

EA doesn't know what they are doing with Origin, probably a poor idea to follow their examples.

[dirrtymartini]

Let's keep our eye on the ball here. Birthday handouts will cost Valve money. Do you want to pay more for your games during the other 364 days of the year?

[Omega (Red)]

Considering how many people buy games, I think $10 or $15 off a game isn't going to hurt a company like Valve.

[Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel]

Originally posted by Omega:

Considering how many people buy games, I think $10 or $15 off a game isn't going to hurt a company like Valve.

You forget that if a system is has a flaw, the entire internet will descend on it to abuse. How about this, you have to spend at least 250 dollars on your steam account to qualify for a yearly 10 dollar discount?

Items that count up to 250 dollars doesn't include any keys of any kind, gifts, and 2-4 packs.

[dirrtymartini]

Originally posted by Omega:

Considering how many people buy games, I think $10 or $15 off a game isn't going to hurt a company like Valve.

You know this how? Even if 1/6 of the total Steam users got the lower of the two discounts, that's still $10 million dollars. For a 300 person company, $10 million is still a lot of money that Valve is practically giving away.

[ChrisW]

EA can do this because they are the people selling their games. On Steam, the game publisher is selling you their own games. Valve can't just give out coupons to use on games they don't own without a contract/permission from the game publisher.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Omega:

Considering how many people buy games, I think $10 or $15 off a game isn't going to hurt a company like Valve.

I bought about $150 of games off of Origin for NOTHING, when they gave out at $10 multi-use coupon by accident. Multipy that by the probably 10-20 thousand users that did it and you get the idea how expensive that promo was.

The other problem of course is that Steam accounts are free, tehrefore it's trivial to simply create hundreds of them.

[Omega (Red)]

Negative comments not needed, for those who see the bright side to this feel free to comment.

[dirrtymartini]

Originally posted by Omega:

Negative comments not needed, for those who see the bright side to this feel free to comment.

If you bothered to quote a post, we might know to whom you are referring...?

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by Omega:

Negative comments not needed, for those who see the bright side to this feel free to comment.

You can't limit what people say to only those who support your idea. It doesn't work like that. If the idea can not hold up under criticism, them it is a bad idea and needs to be re-thought.

Valve would give the idea the same treatment in a brainstorming session. They would look at it from all angles, the gains, the losses, the cost, who, what, where, when, why and how.

By demanding only what agrees with you, you destroy the purpose of the process.

[Quick!SaveTheChildren]

I think some good ideas were mentioned in an earlier birthday sale suggestion, in the form of 'anniversary coupons': https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/864959088175177517/