My non-reedemed games were worth 1/2 those points a couple hours ago, and now 1/5th of what I posted. I don’t think it’s worth the time to try understanding it more. ~~ Go team turtle!
People seem to love corgwn on the internet. Needed a cat team for real competition
Buying games increases “gas tank” capacity 1 (everyone gets a base of 100 though).
Using a game’s achievements fills up the “gas tank” - however, each game can only be used once, thus excess achievement points larger than the gas tank capacity are wasted
Gas tank is used to push your team car around, and enters you into the drawing / gives you points to spend on misc junk.
1 Apparently bought capacity is not permanent and also gets used when spent in #3
I bought a game today (well, DLC, technically, Williams Pinball Vol 1 for Pinball FX3), and it didn’t increase my tank capacity, and over half of my tank would have been wasted had I used it, so I didn’t use it.
These are the titles I’m pondering. I will be getting Railroad Empire ($17, normally $50) and want to get one or two more. Yay or nay on any of these? [Unfortunately many are still early access, which I generally avoid but I’m willing to take the plunge on a promising title.]
I think Long Dark is a great game and highly enjoyable if you enjoy survival sims. You should get several hours of enjoyment from it even if you just want to full around on it. It’s a huge map so will take a long time for you to become an expert. It is one of my favorite games, but can become repetitive once you know the maps etc.
As an unintentional side effect of Valve’s latest sales event, the Steam Grand Prix, it seems a lot of users have begun cleaning out their Steam Wishlists.
Why? Well, it gives you the chance to win an item from your Steam Wishlist but only from the top three slots, it’s not random. Valve’s rules are pretty clear on how it all works but it still seems to have caused a lot of wishlist deletions. Removing games doesn’t actually improve your chances, but likely will affect your future purchases of games you’re no longer following as a result of it.
I’ve honestly never ranked my wishlist before now… what is the point? Is it only for the benefit of people who might want to buy you games? I just add new games to my list then forget about it, then if I go look at it, I typically “sort by discount” to see which ones might have a deal on.
That said, I’ve ranked it somewhat now just for this meta event, though I’m not expecting to win anything, since winners are limited and random and I joined the team that EVERYONE ELSE joined, decreasing my odds.
Yeah, the wishlist deletion thing is happening, and a lot of devs are pretty unhappy. We’re talking millions of deletions across all Steam users, and many\most of those games will never see the corresponding re-add. Of course, you get emails whenever a wishlist game is on sale, so that soft promotion is now gone as well.
People are pretty upset at Valve for not thinking this one through.
They’ve done identical “win from your wishlist” promotions before. Perhaps it was even less well explained then, but I don’t recall problems at the time.
As above, this isn’t the first time they’ve given away the top X games, and it’s trivial to reorder your wishlist. I find it hard to believe that’s the only contributor if this is the first time we’re seeing the drop.
Let’s also not forget that these users are likely benefiting from having trimmed their wishlist, as they are not as likely to get useless (to them) emails in the future. If someone is indifferent enough to delete a game from a wishlist after they look through it, I would expect their chances of buying it after a later email from steam would be very low (maybe not 0, but very low).