POINTS FOR GAMES

[Crash]

THIS HAS BEEN PROMISED FOR YEARS, to get games for the points you earn just like they said and not done yet.. SO WHEN IS THAT COMING ?

[Trollhammer]

Can you show us that promise ?

[Komarimaru]

Never. It was never promised, ever. Not sure where you thought it would ever be the case. Developers want to be paid with money, not useless points.

[Nx Machina]

Thread title: POINTS FOR GAMES

Originally posted by Crash:

THIS HAS BEEN PROMISED FOR YEARS, to get games for the points you earn just like they said and not done yet.. SO WHEN IS THAT COMING ?

Can you link the source of your claim?

[76561198407601200]

Originally posted by Crash:

THIS HAS BEEN PROMISED FOR YEARS, to get games for the points you earn just like they said and not done yet.. SO WHEN IS THAT COMING ?

You used to be able to get vouchers using points to use towards games but Valve has since discontinued that feature long ago.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Crash:

THIS HAS BEEN PROMISED FOR YEARS

Has it? Where?

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Originally posted by Komarimaru:

Never. It was never promised, ever. Not sure where you thought it would ever be the case. Developers want to be paid with money, not useless points.

Some developers create games for public exposure and some do it for fun pro-bono but some games are college projects by students in the field so merely a project grade.

[Lithurge]

Originally posted by WinterSolstice:

Originally posted by Komarimaru:

Never. It was never promised, ever. Not sure where you thought it would ever be the case. Developers want to be paid with money, not useless points.

Some developers create games for public exposure and some do it for fun pro-bono but some games are college projects by students in the field so merely a project grade. :csd2smile:

And in those small number of cases you still wouldn't be using points to buy the games, because they still wouldn't cost anything whether it's real money or point credits.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

We already get a certain amount of points when buying a game depends on theprice. No sense to double dip.
We get 100 points for every $1.00 spent.
Buy any game, DLC, hardware, application, soundtrack, or in-game item, and get points.
The Points Shop is where you'll find a variety of items to personalize your Steam presence.

How do I get Steam Points?
Whenever you make a purchase on Steam, you'll be given Steam Points based on how much you spend. First, we convert this amount to USD, which then converts directly to the number of points you receive.
You will not receive any points for funding your Steam Wallet or for any Steam Community Market purchases.
You can also get Steam Points if someone from the community grants an award to one of your user reviews or other uploaded content such as screenshots, videos, guides, or Workshop items.

[peppermint hollows]

Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:

We already get a certain amount of points when buying a game depends on theprice. No sense to double dip.
We get 100 points for every $1.00 spent.
Buy any game, DLC, hardware, application, soundtrack, or in-game item, and get points.
The Points Shop is where you'll find a variety of items to personalize your Steam presence.

How do I get Steam Points?
Whenever you make a purchase on Steam, you'll be given Steam Points based on how much you spend. First, we convert this amount to USD, which then converts directly to the number of points you receive.
You will not receive any points for funding your Steam Wallet or for any Steam Community Market purchases.
You can also get Steam Points if someone from the community grants an award to one of your user reviews or other uploaded content such as screenshots, videos, guides, or Workshop items.

That's not what the OP is asking about.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by The Living Tribunal:

Originally posted by Crash:

THIS HAS BEEN PROMISED FOR YEARS, to get games for the points you earn just like they said and not done yet.. SO WHEN IS THAT COMING ?

You used to be able to get vouchers using points to use towards games but Valve has since discontinued that feature long ago.

This happened once during a sales wvent

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by The Living Tribunal:

You used to be able to get vouchers using points to use towards games but Valve has since discontinued that feature long ago.

This happened once during a sales wvent

A few sales events, actually. Likely also where they noticed exploits and "it not being worth it to further utilise" and such. It's indeed entirely intentional that when the points shop came, vouchers and the like were not part of it. I doubt they'll introduce that again.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Crash:

POINTS FOR GAMES

THIS HAS BEEN PROMISED FOR YEARS, to get games for the points you earn just like they said and not done yet.. SO WHEN IS THAT COMING ?

Valve tried coupons a couple times with the Token system for a $5 coupon off a $30 purchase. Each time people exploited the crap out of it and Valve never brought it back when they switched to the points system. Tokens also expired.

If Valve wants to try this again, they'll definitely have plenty of restrictions in place and will cost tens of thousands of points for a coupon.

Valve covered the cost of the coupons for the purchases. Devs still got paid real $ by Valve.

[Kargor]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Valve covered the cost of the coupons for the purchases. Devs still got paid real $ by Valve.

I don't know much about exploits -- that's the part I always seem to miss.

However, these are marketing tools. If Valve gives you a $5 coupon for a purchase $30 and up, their ultimate hope is that people are actually buying more stuff: they hope that all purchases with the coupon system minus the price for the coupons they have to pay out of their own pockets still exceeds the purchases they would have gotten without the coupon system.

However, Steam is a major game store; people are buying games regardless of whether they get a coupon or not. I wouldn't be surprised if Valve simply decided that the coupon system wasn't worth it -- maybe even counterproductive. There's probably no surefire way to decide this since they can only see the actual sales that happened, not the sales that would have happened.

[RPG Gamer Man]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

This happened once during a sales wvent

A few sales events, actually. Likely also where they noticed exploits and "it not being worth it to further utilise" and such. It's indeed entirely intentional that when the points shop came, vouchers and the like were not part of it. I doubt they'll introduce that again.

Yep, some nasty people always ruin it for everyone. Blame exploiters and hackers messing it up.

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