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Steam Points: how can Valve make it interesting?

https://lemmy.world/post/1053741

Steam Points: how can Valve make it interesting? - Lemmy.world

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?

Jul 5, 2023 at 7:54amWeb
Show threadQuintenJul 5, 2023
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.
Show threadcomic_zalgo_sansJul 5, 2023
Right now it’s a fairly low-cost way to try and get some people more engaged/invested in steam, which is pretty much expected now for anything with a vague “social” side to it. I really don’t see them adding a financial side to it mainly because they don’t need to, but it’d also mean spending a chunk of money and they’d immediately run into people trying to weigh up how mean/generous it is or trying to game the system for freebies. It stops being a little curiosity and gets serious.
Show threadVleeskuilJul 5, 2023
Is this still a thing? I’m looking around the points shop but cannot find it.
Show threadQuintenJul 5, 2023

No I wish. OP asked:

What do you like to see?

Show threadBlxterJul 5, 2023
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.
Show threadKaldoJul 5, 2023
I actually think they shouldn't, it already made steam reviews even worse because people are farming points with low effort memes and copypastas.
Show threadBlxterJul 5, 2023
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.
Show threadnotunJul 7, 2023
My Steam account is 17 years old and this is the first I’ve ever heard of Steam points.