Gems?
already 10 years of gems??
yep, feeling old already.. :V
still early for celebrations, you're having a bump for now :)
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Wow, thanks for the reminder! I had completely forgotten when and why they added these gems.
Went back to my 2014 inventory history and found: 16 Dec, 2014 5:32pm - Placed a bid in an auction.
Apparently I never won anything and now i'm hoarding a few hundred gems.
Anyways, thanks for the ride, and happy decade Nox!
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Oh, inventory history! That's something I had completely forgotten about. :D
Went to look at it now for that time period of the auction and let's just say... what a mess. But I did find out that I apparently won Samorost 2 with a bid of 5701 gems. This looks like a clear overbid for that game, because in comparison I appear to have gotten the Penumbra Collection with just 5012 gems, pfffft.
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Happy early double digit year cakeday
I usually just use gems to craft booster packs(fair chance of making profit off a foil card), I might sell some gem sacks though since I got a few from trading some stuff from dollar collection that didn't go to begging thread, not sure which badges I want to craft now(the nekopara ova badges cards can't be bought on market( and I don't want to get there by booster packs alone(sounds painful)) and I have the goods for level 5 of all the games atm(maybe save for upcoming one)...
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Wow, has it really been 10 whole years since the Steam auction? I still remember what a mess that was during the first day when gems were introduced, within hours someone found a duplication bug and you could get a whole sack of gems for like 5 cents in the market. So of course I started to buy them, craft booster packs, and then sell those booster packs at exactly what the highest purchase order was so they would sell immediately leaving me with some profit. I was doing that from my phone because I wasn't at home at that moment yet I managed to make a few bucks in the few hours until Valve pulled the plug and rolled-back the market, they couldn't roll back transactions for those of us who hadn't broken any rule tho so I got to keep the wallet funds. I think a few days later I went ahead and bid high enough in one of the games that not many were interested in and won it because I do have the badge for winning an auction.
Memories...
Congrats on the decade cake! And thanks for sharing your experience with the auction!
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Hah, it wouldn't be Steam without something being broken or weird when a big sale goes live, right? :D Not sure I was aware of that bug, I do just vaguely remember chaos.
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Yay! Congrats on the decade! \o/
I totally missed that event - probably just didn't see it or what ever thinking
And nice origin story. Mine is boring. A friend told me about it. I had keys tho, contrary to them. So yes. Here I am :3
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I made it to a decade for a short time, but I was happy to see it go. I found it kind of annoying because everything on the site will have the same date for a 10 year span and you have to mouse over it to get useful info. When you click on someone's profile and see a decade, you don't know if they have been here for 10 years or maybe 11, 12, or 13 years. That will just get worse over time as more years pass. It also labeled all the old threads as a decade which was annoying.
I don't think I have ever used gems for anything and have no recollection of the holiday auction you mentioned.
I really thought I would enjoy the Samorost games since I like those kind of simple indie point and clicks, but I didn't find them enjoyable. The first was ok, but it was only about 20 minutes long. The 2nd was very frustrating and I didn't enjoy it at all. The 3rd game was the best and I did enjoy it, but it was still nothing special and I felt let down from my high expectations. I guess I was just expecting too much after playing Machinarium from the same dev which was a great game.
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I definitely agree that the change makes sense, considering the age of the site and the older discussions. I just preferred the word "decade" here and hey, always room to complain about anything that changes, right? ;P
but it was only about 20 minutes long.
I looked at some footage from 2 and it appears to be about the same length. Even at that short I still couldn't find an interest to watch it all... Just not my kind of game in the slightest.
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I feel you on the decade word, this is clealy nicer than 10 years.
Still , congrats, both for being here since so long , being so active, and nice on top of that!
And happy cake day in advance!
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Happy (almost) cake day!
Btw, maybe a reason for you wanting to win the auction (if you care about this sort of thing) was that there was actually a badge that was connected to it. Not sure if that was something that you cared about back in 2014 but providing a possible explanation for that demon.
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I believe you were able to earn that badge at any point during the auction period, that it didn't need to be the first round. But who knows, maybe that was it indeed. :D
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That's an origin story worth of Marvel adaptation.
Congrats on the decade milestone, in about 6 days right?
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adam. Play your games, you're doing a dishonor on PAGYWOSG and PoP. :D
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Happy (upcoming) 10th anniversary! I'm not sure if I ever created a booster pack from diamonds, as I don't have a lot of them.
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Steam never repeated the auction event and it's highly unlikely they would
They added gems, that turned into another trading currency, like TF2 keys. And then, instead of using them for us to buy profile stuff and emoticons and showcases, they introduced an entirely new points system π I fully forgot about the whole auction thing, don't think I participated. I only remember that some people realized crafting booster packs and selling cards is profitable. It did not last long, as people made bots that were scooping cheap booster packs, to open them and sell cards from within. So the price of booster packs settled on "how much profit you can make by crafting and selling individual pieces".
Problem was that I had absolutely zero interest in keeping the game.
There is nothing like fiercely fighting for something, to win, defeat it is not an option. Look back and say "but why have I even done it" π
Happy decade factory day! Now waiting for the century egg!
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instead of using them for us to buy profile stuff and emoticons and showcases, they introduced an entirely new points system π
They noticed more and more users using key shops rather than buying directly from Steam, so they had to come up with something. But also had to make sure nobody could "profit" so they couldn't very well make it so that we could earn gems when making Steam Store purchases, now could they. :D I wonder how hard they are sighing at the information that people are now trading/selling profile awards in order to get the full use of points.
There is nothing like fiercely fighting for something, to win, defeat it is not an option. Look back and say "but why have I even done it" π
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Happy early 10th πday, Nox!
Is there a way to see the distribution of user cakedays on the site? I feel like there are disproportionately more in November and December.
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I was thinking this too. Largely because there have been a lot of cakeday posts recently.
I guess it could be a general pattern across all users, or just that those users more active in the Discussions section joined around Nov-Dec.
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Jan: 98372
Feb: 89088
Mar: 88538
Apr: 92269
May: 85378
Jun: 109649
Jul: 119292
Aug: 112046
Sep: 93778
Oct: 93887
Nov: 92357
Dec: 120286
So the most users joined in December (120k), followed by Jul (119k) and Aug (112k). It fits well with Christmas season (either wanting get free games or share free games), and end of the summer holidays (?).
The numbers are on the user community page. I just summarized them.
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Happy Cake/Factory day.
All the best users joined in December :)
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Congrats on your imminent cake day & 10 years of being active on the site! ππ Thanks for the blurb on the auction thing, I've come across alot of references to it but always to lazy busy to look it up. Sounds an interesting concept, I do get the impression that Steam sales used to be more of an "event" than they are now.
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happy 10 years of cake! ππππππππππ
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...because times no longer use decades on the site. Shame, as a βdecadeβ has much nicer ring to it than β10 yearsβ but regardless of the wording, that anniversary is coming up for me in just a few days. :D
More importantly, do you remember what other anniversary it is?
That's right, the anniversary of Steam Gems! These shiny little items that are now a staple currency for many users made their debut in the 2014 Holiday Sale and have been with us ever since. They were made to be used in the holiday auction that took place during the same sale, in which you could place bids with gems on any of the games that were participating in the auction festivities. If your bid was the highest, you would win that game and were allowed to either add it to your account or store it in your inventory. While the gems obviously stayed, Steam never repeated the auction event and it's highly unlikely they would, considering that they've also gotten rid of flash discounts and each sale gets bleaker. I could also start mourning the loss of inventory gifts here, but let's not sidetrack too far.
Why is this relevant to my factory day?
Because the Steam auction is the very reason I'm on Steamgifts in the first place.
When the auction kicked off, I absolutely had to win something in the first round. Don't ask me why as I can no longer remember what demon possessed me with this idea. The auction lasted for several days, with new rounds every 45 minutes, and there was nothing special offered to those being first to win. Realistically there was not a single reason to be in a hurry with it but I had to get something immediately. Knowing it would be impossible to get any of the bigger titles available, I browsed through the participating games for ones with lower bids, stumbling on a game called Samorost 2. There weren't many bids on it and so I joined for that one, ending up paying quite a few gems but succeeded in my goal to get a first round win. In memory of this, here's the thread creation tax with that very same game:
Samorost 2 [Lvl 4]
Problem was that I had absolutely zero interest in keeping the game. I looked at the game again and even now I still have zero interest in having this game for myself, so at least some things never change. I claimed it into my inventory, but since nobody on my friends list wanted it either, I was stuck with it. I didn't want to hang on to it and immediately started figuring out where to get rid of it. This is another thing that I don't really have a memory of as to why I was in such a hurry to get rid of it, when the gift could've just been kept hanging in my inventory indefinitely without issue. I wasn't familiar with trading enough to bother trying that, but after some searching I discovered Steamgifts. Since the site didn't look like a scam, I registered the same day and the day after that created my first giveaway.
Samorost 2 found a new home and I stuck around the site. I went on to continue making bids in the auction, and according to my licenses activations, I seem to have won Claire, Gemini Rue, Papo & Yo, and Penumbra Collectors Pack from the auction. At least these are all gifts that I activated around that time frame, so a pretty decent haul overall in terms of numbers. :D
That's about it for my origin story, thanks for reading! This time of year there is already bunch of events from many people, and I'm not an event creator myself so I have none of that for you. I did briefly consider some type of event inspired by the auction, but it wouldn't have functioned here in Steamgifts, so I stopped that train of thought before it got to any planning stages.
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