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Penny Arcade - Comic - The DeepStore
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Penny Arcade - Comic - The DeepStore
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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No, you may NOT know what my points shop balance is.
Twitch: KoopahTroopah - Steam: Koopah
Big same. I would gladly gift them to my nephews who might have the time and energy to care about such things and would rejoice in "skins" and whatnot, but apparently one can't. I do not understand why, when one buys something for someone as a Steam Gift, there isn't also the option to include the points accrued thereby.
Yeah I'd spend some Steam Points on it.
For 50k I can stand next to Gabe and take one (1) picture.
Does not include a scheduled meeting, we just have to be the same room at the same time.
I have purchased a single item - an avatar frame. Not for any one else to look at, I don't do any steam community stuff either. It's just something for me.
I've also bought some avatar, frame, background junk to brighten up my user experience but that's because I keep spending money on games I will never play and thus accrue excess points
Also, the Deck is some legit shit, as I've posted many times in the Steam thread. And it absolutely doubles as a computer. A few months ago, I had to take middle kids computer in to get rebuild because (not really exaggerating, I tell them not to eat at their computers), food debris (think cheeze puff dust) had somehow entered the case, clogged up the fans, and blew the power source, which also fried the motherboard...anyway...
I took mercy on him by hooking up the Steam deck to his monitor, mouse, and keyboard. He was a little bummed when I told him he'd have to play on the Steam Deck for a week, then instantly came back to life when I showed him it was literally the same as playing from Steam on his computer.
Anyway, for those with extensive Steam libraries, or those who aspire to it, I can't say enough good stuff about the Steam Deck. I, too, came very, very close to buying a new OLED version because the upgrades looked amazing. As in, my credit card was out of the wallet...but discretion was the better part of valor that week. Of course, when they debut Steam Deck 3.0, it's an instant buy, I'm sure of it.
I'd also been pondering a way to play PC games on the main monitor. Both for games I'm playing, but also to have a more locked down experience to let my kids have some PC gaming time. Right now, they both share the switch hooked up to the TV, and wind up working together on a lot of games. I'm hoping this will have the same feel.
Also hoping I can get some of the plethora of free Epic Game Store games to work. From googling it sounds like a lot of people have gotten it to so I'm optimistic.
It's too bad it's based solely on money spent in the store. Otherwise I'd think that my 5,500+ hours in the Steam version of Final Fantasy XIV alone would be worth more than that.
-Tycho Brahe
Yeah my only "purchase" that I can ever recall making was for an animated avatar border many years ago. I do most of my actual socializing via other platforms, so the features presented were, "meh" tier for me. And I am not jumping through the points shop hoops to hand an award out to some Rando Calrissian I played one match with out of hundreds.
Wow, I didn't think my 7,132 would beat anyone.
Powers &8^]
I do use the market to sell those cards. I noticed I had a ton, and I got into the habit of putting them on the auction system. I'd guess I've gotten about 100 USD from those?
When people complain about Epic not being very good, I half agree, because the UI isn't great, and it doesn't have user reviews, but then I also think of all the absolutely useless bullshit on Steam like this, and the bad peripheral support, unmodded forums, and just general terrible QA (of the software, e.g. game trailers not playing most times). And so Epic suddenly doesn't seem so bad.
Steam's not terrible, but the software team seems to be 3 guys and a raccoon, and since they're making an insane amount of money, they could maybe spring for a fourth coder, or maybe a red panda.
These are my thoughts exactly. Steam is mom's home cooking for a lot of people, even though mom is a terrible cook. And also a billionaire that could afford cooking lessons or to just hire a decent chef.
On the way to figuring out where the points even were, I found out that I am Level 13. I have 8 badges. I've earned a slot for a Showcase on my profile. I have 320 "Steam items" (which seem to be the trading cards...thing?
...and finally I found out I have 32,000 points. It was like walking through a graveyard of abandoned Engagement schemes.
Oh! And of the 1,340 animated avatars I could choose from....they are not sorted or sortable in any way. Just gotta...tab through all thirteen hundred till you find one you want.
Oh oh! And I found a cool Frostpunk "profile" which includes an animated avatar, frame, and an animated background! Like a skin for Steam!
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...that only shows up when viewing my Profile. So not, like, when I'm browsing my games or anything. Does anyone ever click on anyone's profile? Why would you?
somebody at the company clearly has a hard-on for engagement-driving shit like this because they keep trying to make it happen, but you can also just completely ignore it
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
It's so fetch!
Yeah it's not going to happen. I like having the chat and voip as an option, but it's not something I prioritize since external options are usually better anyways. Just useful to have around if someone has nothing else.
still fun to dunk on them for implementing it so poorly though....
I was once told my opinion on some steam forum thread didn't matter, because I was only a Level 1 scrub.
The "expert" didn't know enough about Steam to know that you can hide your level (if you don't care about that bullshit, and instinctually set privacy settings at maximum), and if you do so it just shows "Level 1".
https://heroicgameslauncher.com/
If anything, "winning at Steam" means having the most games, the least playtime, and the least money spent. That would mean you are a pro at playing the Steam Sale game. That should be what they base levels on.