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General discussion (archive)Steam's great gift pile - what prizes?(616 posts)(616 posts)
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Posted December 20, 2011
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Pheace: (...) chance to win something (....) rather than just give you sales.
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Fujek: There's one thing I'm not getting though.
The developer seem to be allowed to include the achivement in their demo (it's been reported to have happened on purpose at least once), but a lot of developers look like they don't want to take this chance ( http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=27070197&postcount=9 ). Why on earth is that? It'd seem MUCH more useful for a developer if people play their DEMO the day the game is on discount, because they MIGHT get one or three people from that to purchase the game that had no intention otherwise. I can't see what they'd lose, but only what they could win.
I think that most people doing the treasure hunt don't care about the games featured in the ARG as much as they care for the achievements. If the achievement was available in the demo they's see it as "cool! free gift" and move on. As it is now way more people will buy the game in hope of getting an even better gift. So in short, they'd lose more sales by letting people earn gifts just playing the demos.
Posted December 20, 2011
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OmegaX: As it is now way more people will buy the game in hope of getting an even better gift.
True, I forgot about that point. Stupid egocentric subjective human vision ;)
Thanks for hinting me there!

I wonder how many people are going to purchase a game they don't really want for the (considerably bad!) odds of getting another random game for free.
I really wish there'd be a statistic for that!
Posted December 20, 2011
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adambiser: I still can't see my Steam inventory.... :(
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Kabuto: High Five!

Seriously steam. I'm not downloading TF2 to hopefully fix it. Get it working already.
At least I'm not the only one. :)

But before it disappeared, I did see "Half-Life 2/Half-Life 2 Lost Coast" (which I already have) and "50% off GTA: San Andreas after Jan 2nd" (which currently seems to be 50% off, so basically pointless, and doesn't interest me either). Just weird that it disappeared. At least I could have traded them or something (I think... not very used to Steam).
Posted December 20, 2011
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AFnord: Nothing for me either :( I can't access my inventory.
Install Spiral Knights, play the game, quit then restart steam. It sucks but a 300MB download game is better than downlaoding TF2 which is multiple GB's. Also, make sure the steam overlay is enabled.

Got 33% off coupon and 50% Storm: Frontline Nation. What's the point of these coupons? The games are already 50% off but I can't use the coupons until after the sale.

I bet they'll be more free to do achievements like the summer sale.
Post edited December 20, 2011 by Kabuto
Posted December 20, 2011
all i got was a 33% of valve
Posted December 20, 2011
I really like these contests, I enjoy unlocking achievements and getting prizes. I always felt that achievements were kinda pointless but having a incentive i actually liked some of the different challenges of the achievements.

I just wish Steam could get the server thing under control, so far I won a lump of coal, half life 2 and a 25% off valve coupon.
Posted December 20, 2011
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Kabuto: Install Spiral Knights, play the game, quit then restart steam. It sucks but a 300MB download game is better than downlaoding TF2 which is multiple GB's.
Is this supposed to fix a broken inventory? I tried that, even plated the first level to unlock an achievement and still no Steam inventory.

EDIT: Got it to work, but I had to go to the Steam overlay in the game.
Post edited December 20, 2011 by adambiser
Posted December 20, 2011
Not really interested with all this stuff. There are plenty of users creating alts for this "coal" purpose. Some of them were banned. I don't think Steam is that stupid to let something like this slide.
Posted December 20, 2011
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Kabuto: I bet they'll be more free to do achievements like the summer sale.
According to the steam treasure hunt wiki (*grins*), there's going to be Champions Online, Spiral Knights and Team Fortress 2 (if I forgot any other freebie ones, let me know).
And of the Steam related ones, there's 'Check inventory', 'Join group', 'Trade Item' (if you can trade the 'rather useless vouchers' I'd consider it somewhat free), 'Wishlist', 'Recommendation', 'Facebook' and 'SteamGuard', which means 9-10 free achievements.
Posted December 20, 2011
people are creating alternate accounts for this? Really?

That's just...sad...
Posted December 20, 2011
checked my inv and did the OMD achievement so far and only seem to have a -33% Valve coupon at this point, here's to hoping for better luck xD
Posted December 20, 2011
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Kabuto: Install Spiral Knights, play the game, quit then restart steam. It sucks but a 300MB download game is better than downlaoding TF2 which is multiple GB's.
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adambiser: Is this supposed to fix a broken inventory? I tried that, even plated the first level to unlock an achievement and still no Steam inventory.

EDIT: Got it to work, but I had to go to the Steam overlay in the game.
The overlay is turned on by default for me. Didn't realize it could actually make a difference. I'll ad it to my older post.
Posted December 20, 2011
so far:

1 lump of coal
1 coupon - 25% off valve games
1 coupon - 10% off WB games
Posted December 20, 2011
I have recieved Gratuitous Space Battles, and a 25% discount in Valve games.

But i can't open the gift. I will wait and see if it solves
Posted December 20, 2011
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Kabuto: The overlay is turned on by default for me. Didn't realize it could actually make a difference. I'll ad it to my older post.
Thanks for the tip. It was very helpful.

I can confirm that they gifted me games I already have and gave me a coupon for January to get the current sale price on a game I don't want. Sweet! :D
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