It's the reason Valve turned of the group comments in their official holiday group the latest sale. During summer people kept whining about not winning a 'one in a few million chance' for the grandprize and that it was all a hoax. O_- When I tried explaining that it wasn't because I had received something, I was instantly labeled as 'Valve employee' since i only had 13 objectives lol.
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Steam forums are pitiful user wise...some of the worst forums I have been to.
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This is ridiculous....how can you complain about winning? He should be glad his account isn't banned for having that much coal.
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i paid.... ._.
edit : before all morons with alt-accounts ; coals was very good idea crafting/grand prize BUT after i saw a russian with 580 alt account i gave up... i sold %50 that i bought with %25 profit :O
believe me coal was best think i did on steam (until i saw alt-accounts) =)
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Actually I was quite happy, that there were people around that wanted to pay (in games or whatever). ;)
I had a fun time during the event with all those achievements and got me 2 cool (and wanted) games via trading for the coal. I've entered the final giveaway with 1 coal (and no, didn't win anything - but that didn't matter).
The funny thing is, that I already owned a lot of games for those achievements and got somewhat between 20 and 30 coals on the whole. Let's say he got around 100 coals from his own performance and some good willing friends. He still must have traded games or money worth more than 1400$ to get so much coal (unless it was a HIB abuse).
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I've got 2 games from achievements, and traded my coal for 11 new games, incl. Eve Online, Portal 2, and Dawn of War 2. I had 42 achievements at the end, but only 1 coal left. Did not expect or wait for the finale, got everything I wanted during the event :)
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+1, I loled at that too. Considering he's only got what, 3 posts ;P
Probably made a forum account JUST to rage about this!
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I love people who are stupid like this. Don't spend money on stuff you don't want for a chance to get something you do want. Just spend money on what you do want, rather than taking the overcomplicated backwards route.
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Yes, exactly. You don't get the achievement, or technically the coal, but you get the entry. I believe it's a law, at least here in the US. You know how you always hear the phrase, "No purchase necessary," in contests? They would require purchase if they could, but laws were made to prevent that kind of thing. If you checked the specifics of the holiday giveaway (I did), you would have seen the part about being able to send in postcards for entries for every achievement that gave them. That's what I was talking about. That's all. It's still a lot cheaper (and easier) than buying all the games and chasing after the achievements. I didn't bother with it, but if people were desperate enough to buy the games strictly for the achievements, that would've been the way to go.
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hahahahahahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
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Out of curiousity, did the missing ones get added straight to your account or was it put into your inventory as a gift?
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LOL
Some people are just "special" A while back someone was mad because they spent over $100 on games "they didn't want" but bought just so they could get the achievements, so they could potentially win games he wanted.
It's just amazing how the giveaway just turned so ugly. So many people complaining like if they were entitled to something.
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