mrhands

Sexy game(s) maker

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I do UI programming for AAA games and I have opinions about adult games


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Campster
@Campster

I'm fascinated with Steam's Points Shop

I don't know how a leaderless company can make something so useless and soulless and marketing driven. What team volunteered to enshittify their golden goose?

Where Nintendo lets you turn cash spent into a discount on future titles, Steam lets you redeem a fraction of money spent on their platform on... avatars? Animated gifs? Emojis? Backgrounds for your profiles? It's all fluff.

Anyways as a Steam user since like 2008 I have 629,209 points and almost everything is at most 10k what do I even spend it on


mrhands
@mrhands

I'm in the same boat with 240,564 unspent Steam Points™. But once you spend 10,000 on the best background possible, what else is there to throw Points™ at?


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in reply to @Campster's post:

shot in the dark, but it might be a really hands-off attempt to discourage refunds? some of the game-specific items (i know the emoticons for sure, probably others) can only be purchased after two hours of playtime, which matches the refund cutoff. but if that was the goal, they'd be better off just doing the nintendo thing and letting you apply points to future purchases like you said

whole thing is weird

lol I'm at 805,670 cause I've bought two steam decks and an index on my account

when I hear about valve's internal structure and how it's mostly engineers who want to look like they're doing something, I'm not surprised they crank out pointless commerce features like trading cards or the point shop. this one is especially baffling since discord entirely supplanted steam as a means of gaming-focused communication (you'd have to play dumb really hard to believe otherwise) so stuff feeding into their community systems has zero worth

It's even better when you notice that most if not all of these were the rewards from completing the card sets, so really this is just a way to get those without buying cards in the marketplace (which sure, it's nice for me, but I'm sure Valve wants their trading card money).