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c/games · by Zwabber@lemmy.world · 3y

Steam Points: how can Valve make it interesting?

I have around 100K Steam Points and at this point, other than community badges to level up my account I see no real use for it. Custom profiles are not that high of a quality, and I use my Steam Deck profile anyways.

Besides that, you can buy custom loading screens for your Steam Deck, but a third-party app has already a lot more and for free.

So it got me wondering, what do you like to see?

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11 Comments

Kaldo@kbin.social · 26 pts · 3y

I actually think they shouldn't, it already made steam reviews even worse because people are farming points with low effort memes and copypastas.

Legalfinding@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I spent most of mine on buying the boot up intros like you mentioned. Other than that, yeah it's pretty much useless to me.

NightOwl@lemmy.one · 2 pts · 3y

I didn't know they had those. My points had just been sitting around, so at least got something I want to buy now with those points.

quinten@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y (5 replies)

I know it's a long shot but at 100K points, as far as I'm concerned, you can at least receive a €5 gift card or something like that.

Blxter@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

As nice as that would be would I believe there would way to many people trying to exploit it. Doing anything for "real world value" could end very badly.

comic_zalgo_sans@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)
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quinten@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

I don't see them doing it either... But a man can dream.

Vleeskuil@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y (1 reply)
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quinten@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

No I wish. OP asked:

What do you like to see?

Blxter@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

One thing they could do is release a game where you can buy that games cosmetics for points aswell as real money. Again people would try to exploit it and "farm" points etc but imo a better solution than coupons or gift cards.

Edit: or add into past games.

Xathonn@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 3y

I have 264k from mostly from purchasing a Index. Would love to have more stuff to get with it.

DrQuint@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Have they not already done so? They're just a binus thing you spend on the steam points store for animated portraits and borders.

notun@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

My Steam account is 17 years old and this is the first I've ever heard of Steam points.