The points shop and its effects

only from free game cards and from the games i really like.
and craft on the sale so you get a card and not a coupon.

i don't spend "real money" on steam anymore, so it makes no diference, you cant get points from wallet and market money.

I have about 7000 points after summer sale and still have not used it. I quite like the existing profile background.
I think the point system does affect the steam market. I bought an uncommon Rick and Morty emoticon relatively cheap, and the price has dropped quite a lot.

I find that it's great for picking up the rarer emoticons, which would otherwise cost a pretty penny in the market.

On a side-note, I don't know my Valve makes you clock 2 hours on your owned games before you can actually point purchase items for said game...seems entirely stupid & pointless.

It sadly killed off 2 particular items that i regularly sold, and made a nice profit on, so gems i use to craft with, now just gets sold

They really should start pumping out animated anime stickers so I could put them on my profile

Never really cared for it, never really used it, actually.

There weren't too many crafted items (as in emoticons and profile backgrounds) worth much from the beginning, so I think it's fine and healthy that everything is moving down to a common baseline. It seems that cards with popular artwork/unlockables still hover at values above the rest, possibly because points aren't an unlimited resource.

The main reason for crafting badges has always been the levels/profile flair anyway, since the prices have not been reasonable for any sustainable profit, especially not considering how much effort is involved. So other than having some way overpriced rare items knocked down to being accessible to everyone, I don't see much of a problem there.

The real problem with the new points system is honestly that people are just free-farming awards/points by trolling shitposts/memes while content with actual effort is overlooked (much like Reddit from which they borrowed the concept), and therefore it's not giving the correct incentive to content creators.

I hope they open it up to more developers, if developers could get the ability to animate backgrounds, it could be a big game changer in the pimping out your profile market.

the only new thing i've seen is lame people begging and spamming to get points for their reviews or artwork.

how can I convert points to wallet?
As an aside, idled for the first time in over a year, and I've already sold $5 of cards

What makes me wonder:

Do you have to pay points to give other peoples reviews awards (since the review writer receives points) or is there some sort of limitation on how many awards you can give out in a certain timeframe?

Because if there isn't the system is inheritedly flawed.

Well, I was holding onto rare items that usually increase their price and now they aren't worth anything so that's what I get for being greedy (?. Also if every item cost the same in the shop there's no point in rarity still existing.

As for badges, I still enjoy crafting them. I never crafted them for items but for levels so it is still the same for me. I turn most emotes/backgrounds into gems anyway.

I still make badges and collect cards. I started pretty late so honestly, I can't be arsed stopping now. Also I'm at level 69 so its "funny".
Most of the games I buy have cards and if I have the stuff to sell on the market like skins from free games to then buy cards to make a set I will. It's a function of Steam that I've always been quite into.
Also, all games which I have had trouble getting cards for from the market (because I wont buy cards above a certain price as I could just switch to completing another set instead if it gets too pricey) I'm still "having trouble" purchasing them from the market.

The points are great to grab some otherwise costly( more than a few cents) background/emoticons but I would like to see more animated stuff. Crafting is a habit I guess, still making a few during events

Hasn't personally effected me to be honest since I don't really buy emoticons or anything like that. In regards to creating badges, i never really felt they were good for getting emoticons either, I usually just make them if there's a game I really liked and thought it would be cool just to have a badge for it. level increase is also nice to. The other stuff was always a bonus to me.

Not sure you're going to get the audience for this post you're looking for, because most market power users don't engage on sg.
That said, a few of my personal observations:

1. You can only buy said emotes / bgs for games you own. Thus, it's not really accessible for everyone
2. Even with a weakened demand, unless people start undercutting, prices generally have not shifted much on market
3. I might be going off topic, but I find a tremendous number of steam users happier to throw their points at frivolous reviews on steam than buy things in the shop. Anything internet meme worthy or controversial gets hundreds of awards, and those aren't cheap (300/ea cost). When the recently removed black lives matter "game" was up, the blatantly troll reviews were a magnet for awards. Pretty sure this is not what valve intended, but it's hardly surprising.

I realized no changes

I don't go out and buy extra cards, but selling most of them aren't worth the effort. So when I get full set I do craft.

While I'm taking a break from creating badges I definitely won't stop just because of the point shop. All that will change now is that I won't buy items anymore with my own money but with points instead

Most item prices on the market will remain at their actual level. Why would you buy something worth cents for 500 points (~$5 spent on the store)? But expensive items will see a decline in price.

As it stands there is no way to get rid of items bought with points.There should be an option to destroy them in exchange for points same as turning unwanted market items into gems.

The reward system sends a wrong signal. Low effort content gets points while well written guides and reviews are mostly ignored. And why do you get only 100 points from the original 300? This doesn't encourage rewards either.

remember that time valve introduced the auction store? use gems from destroying craftables to bid on games? was a really cool idea but then valve as is always the case, got bored and said fuck it, and it never went anywhere. I kinda see this new store as the same thing. Valve'll get bored of it, and eventually it'll fade into irrelevance or just flat out close. Valve only ever gives a fuck about cool new user experiences for a hot minute, usually around a sale, but then thanks to the extreme ADD of its management, something else more shiny (probably around their marketplace which probably makes them more money now then selling games) catches their eye, and they go wondering off after it.