Make Steam Award Recipients Receive More Points (not just 50%)
Hi everyone,

I wanted to bring up something that bothers a lot of us: when someone gives you an award using Steam Points, you only receive 50% of the points spent.

For example, if someone sends you the "Take My Points" award (1200 points), you only get 600 points. This feels unfair — the award giver already spent their points (which were earned by spending real money), and the receiver only gets half.

I think Valve should consider reducing their cut to 20–30% instead of 50%, so that creators and community contributors feel more rewarded.

What do you think? Support if you agree.
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Originally posted by Дима Бустер:
Make Steam Award Recipients Receive More Points (not just 50%)

Hi everyone,

I wanted to bring up something that bothers a lot of us: when someone gives you an award using Steam Points, you only receive 50% of the points spent.

For example, if someone sends you the "Take My Points" award (1200 points), you only get 600 points. This feels unfair — the award giver already spent their points (which were earned by spending real money), and the receiver only gets half.

I think Valve should consider reducing their cut to 20–30% instead of 50%, so that creators and community contributors feel more rewarded.

What do you think? Support if you agree.

They receive 1/3 the cost of the award.

Take my points costs 4,800 points and the receiver gets 1,200.

:nkCool:
Last edited by cSg|mc-Hotsauce; 9 hours ago
Nah we don't need to make it so more people would spam topics for awards.
Originally posted by Leonardo Da Pinchi:
Nah we don't need to make it so more people would spam topics for awards.
Yeah, it's already bad out there. No reason to push it to overdrive.
Yeah it’s pretty scummy of steam to remove half the points on a virtual currency, it should really be a point for point transfer.
Originally posted by Thermal Lance:
Originally posted by Leonardo Da Pinchi:
Nah we don't need to make it so more people would spam topics for awards.
Yeah, it's already bad out there. No reason to push it to overdrive.


I propose! Let's all be proactive together and try to call on Valve to at least consider answering why they are taking so much, or we will achieve our goal, because this has gone too far, people are spending much more than we receive, it's not fair!!!
Originally posted by Дима Бустер:
Originally posted by Thermal Lance:
Yeah, it's already bad out there. No reason to push it to overdrive.


I propose! Let's all be proactive together and try to call on Valve to at least consider answering why they are taking so much, or we will achieve our goal, because this has gone too far, people are spending much more than we receive, it's not fair!!!
Yeah no. Still don't want to reward trolling more than it is already rewarded.
It should be 1/10 not 1/3.
Originally posted by Дима Бустер:
Originally posted by Thermal Lance:
Yeah, it's already bad out there. No reason to push it to overdrive.


I propose! Let's all be proactive together and try to call on Valve to at least consider answering why they are taking so much, or we will achieve our goal, because this has gone too far, people are spending much more than we receive, it's not fair!!!

They will never publicly answer that question.

Awards were never meant to be used as a way to transfer points from one account to another. An accounts main source of points should be from purchasing games.
Originally posted by Дима Бустер:
Originally posted by Thermal Lance:
Yeah, it's already bad out there. No reason to push it to overdrive.


I propose! Let's all be proactive together and try to call on Valve to at least consider answering why they are taking so much, or we will achieve our goal, because this has gone too far, people are spending much more than we receive, it's not fair!!!
Who is making you give awards? You could keep them all to yourself and spend every point you receive.
Last edited by rawWwRrr; 6 hours ago
Originally posted by rawWwRrr:
Originally posted by Дима Бустер:


I propose! Let's all be proactive together and try to call on Valve to at least consider answering why they are taking so much, or we will achieve our goal, because this has gone too far, people are spending much more than we receive, it's not fair!!!
Who is making you give awards? You could keep them all to yourself and spend every point you receive.
Pretty sure they are trying to move points to or from this account and want a better transfer rate.
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