Originally posted by Shrek:

Why don't we have events and minigames ?

Lots of work for, apparently, no benefit.

Valve decided that making the sale fun was not worth their time. Sorry Valve, no money for you.

Why do people make these threads as if it just changed, when we haven't had sale games in years?

Also, the sale games went away because 1) they were dumb, and 2) people botted/automated/cheated like hell at them, making them awful for everyone else.

Originally posted by Kiryn:

Why do people make these threads as if it just changed, when we haven't had sale games in years?

Also, the sale games went away because 1) they were dumb, and 2) people botted/automated/cheated like hell at them, making them awful for everyone else.

Because we are still sad about it, also I don't think anyone complained about "cheaters", could be wrong though but I never did personnally and never saw someone complaining about it, mostly because either the events were "solo" or because every team was cheating so it was cancelling out.

I don't need games to play games, that's why I buy games so I can play games.

Originally posted by Knee:

I don't need games to play games, that's why I buy games so I can play games.

But we need free cards coming back

Originally posted by Shrek:

Why don't we have events and minigames ? Every year it was filled with bugs but it was still fun, now summer sales are just a long week end sale .

Where have you been? Those have not been a thing in years.

Pro Tip:

Those were engagement tools meant to draw people in. Valve doesn't need to do that anymore. 133 million active accounts. EVERYONE knows about Steam now.

Originally posted by Shrek:

Originally posted by Kiryn:

Why do people make these threads as if it just changed, when we haven't had sale games in years?

Also, the sale games went away because 1) they were dumb, and 2) people botted/automated/cheated like hell at them, making them awful for everyone else.

Because we are still sad about it, also I don't think anyone complained about "cheaters", could be wrong though but I never did personnally and never saw someone complaining about it, mostly because either the events were "solo" or because every team was cheating so it was cancelling out.

Pffft....you weren't even here for the big one. Where they gave away every game on Steam (at the time) to one user. Holiday 2011

THAT was a sale.

Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

Originally posted by Shrek:

Because we are still sad about it, also I don't think anyone complained about "cheaters", could be wrong though but I never did personnally and never saw someone complaining about it, mostly because either the events were "solo" or because every team was cheating so it was cancelling out.

Pffft....you weren't even here for the big one. Where they gave away every game on Steam (at the time) to one user. Holiday 2011

THAT was a sale.

I didn't know about this one, I don't expect them to do that now that the steam shop is filled with many games but I must have been cool.

Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

Originally posted by Shrek:

Why don't we have events and minigames ? Every year it was filled with bugs but it was still fun, now summer sales are just a long week end sale .

Where have you been? Those have not been a thing in years.

Pro Tip:

Those were engagement tools meant to draw people in. Valve doesn't need to do that anymore. 133 million active accounts. EVERYONE knows about Steam now.

Pretty sure the last event was the choose your own adventure thing in 2022. That's hardly a long time ago really, and Steam has had plenty of users for years. It did in 2022. It did in 2021 with the riddle thing. It did in 2020 with the F1 thing. There hadn't been a need to run these seasonal events for simply for drawing new members in for years even before they ended.

Originally posted by Kargor:

Originally posted by Shrek:

Why don't we have events and minigames ?

Lots of work for, apparently, no benefit.

Valve are lazy and have no pride in their work.

Originally posted by Shrek:

Why don't we have events and minigames ? Every year it was filled with bugs but it was still fun, now summer sales are just a long week end sale .

Simple, more and more people visited the store to buy stuff when those things where removed.
Valve didn't see a need of them being there because it hurt the sales.

Probably, because they didn't help sales, and if anything actively harmed them. Shoppers suffer when servers suffer.

Originally posted by Shrek:

Why don't we have events and minigames ? Every year it was filled with bugs but it was still fun, now summer sales are just a long week end sale .

Becauswe every time Valve did people ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ moaned and complained.
A decade plus of that and the devs decided not to bother.

Originally posted by Shrek:

Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

Pffft....you weren't even here for the big one. Where they gave away every game on Steam (at the time) to one user. Holiday 2011

THAT was a sale.

I didn't know about this one, I don't expect them to do that now that the steam shop is filled with many games but I must have been cool.

https://imgur.com/a/DZONxWG

Originally posted by Samantha ::

Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

Where have you been? Those have not been a thing in years.

Pro Tip:

Those were engagement tools meant to draw people in. Valve doesn't need to do that anymore. 133 million active accounts. EVERYONE knows about Steam now.

Pretty sure the last event was the choose your own adventure thing in 2022. That's hardly a long time ago really, and Steam has had plenty of users for years. It did in 2022. It did in 2021 with the riddle thing. It did in 2020 with the F1 thing. There hadn't been a need to run these seasonal events for simply for drawing new members in for years even before they ended.

Originally posted by Kargor:

Lots of work for, apparently, no benefit.

Valve are lazy and have no pride in their work.

No one has ever said that Valve made sense. They've never even said it.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time

Originally posted by Dodece:

Probably, because they didn't help sales, and if anything actively harmed them. Shoppers suffer when servers suffer.

You bring up a good point there about server stress. In addition to not drawing in more sales, the events caused massive amount of stress for the servers as people were coming for the event, not for the games which meant poorer store performance for everyone.