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12jn00gb 26 Jun @ 10:30am

Steam Summer Sale Minigames

Do you remember Grand Prix (2019), Saliens (2018), Sticker Book (2017) etc.?
Why did Steam stop making minigames for summer sales? Will they ever come back?

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a random horse 26 Jun @ 10:35am

people used bots and cheated. so they stopped making little sale games.

Raisegain 26 Jun @ 10:38am

Yes they are fun but problem is that whole client will be stuck most of time. Grand Prix made loading times very long. Basically sales are just to make profit and it's hard to buy anything if loading times are long and most of time customers gets random errors while trying to purchase anything.

Also grand prix was well known from bug exploiting for leveling up profile. So go ask urself a twice atleast why wont they do it again..

Mr. No_Effs_Given 26 Jun @ 10:39am

Originally posted by a random horse:
people used bots and cheated. so they stopped making little sale games.

This. They are not coming back.

12jn00gb 26 Jun @ 10:42am

Okay, but they could make something that is not competitive, right?
Or just remove rewards to make cheating less attractive?

12jn00gb 26 Jun @ 10:47am

Anyway, did they ever say directly what happened?
I mean... "People cheated, so they stopped" is an assumption or verified reason?

a random horse 26 Jun @ 10:53am

Originally posted by 12jn00gb:
Anyway, did they ever say directly what happened?
I mean... "People cheated, so they stopped" is an assumption or verified reason?

it wasn't just 'some people cheated'. it was a massive amount of people cheating and botting the games on a huge scale.