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.

[Ganger]

The idea is a good idea but forget about users birthdays as this would be abused. A better idea would to reward on account age instead. The longer you own a account, the better the reward.

1 year = discount coupon
2 year = bigger discount coupon etc you get the picture...

But only reward thoses accounts who have purchased something on steam every 12 months or so.

[ChrisW]

There is nothing good about this idea. Asking other people to give you something for free is not an idea at all. Why don't you guys just ask them for a million dollars? Such suggestions without any concern about reality or any business sense should immediately result in a locked thread.

[Ruka イオ]

With half off coupons you're still technically paying them but I don't know.

[dirrtymartini]

Escrito originalmente por ChrisW:

There is nothing good about this idea. Asking other people to give you something for free is not an idea at all. Why don't you guys just ask them for a million dollars? Such suggestions without any concern about reality or any business sense should immediately result in a locked thread.

Agree on the base idea. Handouts aren't an idea at all. Just people trying to get something for nothing.

Now, there might be a business case for some kind of loyality or spending reward. Especially if Valve can pickup some tax benefits from it. Though I'm not a tax person so the technical names might be different.

[BloodXlust38]

orign is bad i dont like it and EA has been around for a while like staem but EA makes a lot of money off their sports franchises as well as sell game on the pc and gameing systems so in terms EA make about 2x the money that steam makes because kids will buy a football game and it happens to break so they happen to buy another coppie of the same game so in terms one person just spent $60 for one game and another $60 on the same game becaus it happend to break so EA made $120 off that kid not including the money they will make by add DLC and for the people to get the games used they have to Buy the online pass to prevent EA from loosing money so in terms off one kid they made about $150 that EA just made off one kid selling a football game plus EA is muli platform they have the same games on thier Orign as well as ps3,wiiU,xbox360 so if you look at how much money thier bringing in where compaired to steam where it is one secivice with pc games they really cant afford to give away birthday codes or free games becaus as some one else stated befor people will find a way to abuse the nice jesture to where steam cant do nothing about it except loose more money trying to stop it EA is too big for steam to compeat with the discount and free give aways if you want free stuff they hey go steal it off the internet if you really want if and screw over both companys

[dirrtymartini]

Escrito originalmente por BloodXlust38:

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If you want people to read your posts, kindly learn to use capital letters, punctuation, and line breaks.

[Tito Shivan]

Escrito originalmente por Ganger:

But only reward thoses accounts who have purchased something on steam every 12 months or so.

Funny that, right now, that's a requisite on Steam in order to use the Community Marketplace.

[Omega (Red)]

yes but they need people's input to know if it's something they should do our not, I was told from their support to post this subject and if enough comments are on this more then likely they will look at it. As I said they can give a percentage off even and still that's good for business.