Path: ...!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 20:10:39 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Bioshock Remastered - GoG free Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 15:10:40 -0500 Message-ID: <8rfvij9t7aapl8cd75hv0r6dh4mup6nmbt@4ax.com> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 37 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-V1Y99/jXclfYmFFFOPnkWoqB/gwGgGUlcgCSUy/jrbORSlwfNiIGYAZaoHjkuv4ArKl5umwDpuO4+xD!1WlwyqVs1SaRJe0UnBzXQpNTW6tWpuZf8yohB3/HZ2jUPvx2Oo79qGhXujKSYB8avA1qM0Jx X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2737 On Sat, 9 Nov 2024 19:43:39 +0100, Kyonshi wrote: >On 11/8/2024 7:10 PM, candycanearter07 wrote: >> JAB wrote at 11:15 this Friday (GMT): >>> If anyone wants this I've put the code on the Steam group. >> >> >> People actually use the steam group? > >do people use Steam groups at all? that seems to be one of those parts >of Steam that just is there with no interaction at all. > >Same with these Steam points that allow me to... buy stuff for a profile >nobody ever looks at anyway... I really get the impression that Valve thought up as Steam points as being something with real monetary use (you get 1 point per 1 US dollar of purchases, I think), that could then maybe be redeemed to buy games or something real. Except then the lawyers pointed out that it was a form of currency and would probably cause them all sorts of legal problems, especially given how many jurisdictions Valve operates in, so they quickly backed away from the idea. Except now people have thousands of points and nothing to do with it? Quick, give them useless, untradable digital gimcracks. [I like the profile page. It lets me quickly see how many games I own on Steam, and how many reviews I've posted. Although the difference between those two numbers is disturbingly large... maybe its better if I stop looking.] I've used Steam points to 'buy' rewards (equally useless) for good reviews, but that's pretty much it, and mostly because I've earned so many points I don't know what else to do with them.