Yakoob on 20/7/2013 at 17:17
Quote Posted by Fafhrd
The whole thing with tying cards to purchases is pretty evil, and knowingly so. Valve is well aware of the kind of crazy compulsion loops that gamification creates, and they've literally gamified
buying games in this sale. I imagine some small piece of Gabe's soul withers and flakes away every time someone spends real money on a Summer Getaway card.
There's actually a big thread on the RPS forums about that and the whole "morality" of it. That and the gamificaiton of steam itself and how steam itself should go through the greenlight process :joke:
june gloom on 20/7/2013 at 18:12
Got a link?
Yakoob on 20/7/2013 at 18:34
Not on me but its one of the first threads in their main gaming forum
reizak on 20/7/2013 at 18:37
(
http://imgur.com/GSRUVjV) There's a secret hidden in the trading cards! Of course people often like to read too much into every little thing Valve does, but this one seems plausible.
Al_B on 20/7/2013 at 20:41
Fantastic. I've been waiting for Secret of the magic crystals 2 for as long as I didn't play the first one.
gunsmoke on 21/7/2013 at 05:50
Oh God, Matthew gifted me that first game years ago and I actually played it for hours....
ZylonBane on 22/7/2013 at 02:04
So Valve finally figured out how to get Steam to collect an OCD tax.
Lovely.
EvaUnit02 on 22/7/2013 at 02:47
^
They did it years ago, in the form of TF2 hats.
june gloom on 22/7/2013 at 03:40
Yeah. I refuse to participate in this tomfoolery. I won't encourage this kind of behavior.
faetal on 22/7/2013 at 11:57
Well, I have the sum total of 1 trading card, which I can apparently sell for just under 20 pence.
Looks like those marathons of insomnia-fuelled gaming weren't for naught.
