I bought the game with steam wallet
I bought the game with steam wallet
I bought the game with steam wallet
I bought the game with steam wallet
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You would think that, wouldn't you?
You will be granted Tokens when you fund your Steam Wallet (during the sale) or make a purchase using non-Steam Wallet funds. If you funded your Steam Wallet during the week prior to the sale (1/16/2020 @ 10am PST - 1/23/2020 @ 10am PST), you’ll be credited Lunar New Year Tokens for those transactions as well.
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Thank you for the chuckle, sir.
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"You will be granted Tokens when you fund your Steam Wallet (during the sale) or make a purchase using non-Steam Wallet funds. If you funded your Steam Wallet during the week prior to the sale (1/16/2020 @ 10am PST - 1/23/2020 @ 10am PST), you’ll be credited Lunar New Year Tokens for those transactions as well." So I guess funding it with TF2 keys doesn't count.
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You're absolutely right, this is something new.
You will be granted Tokens when you fund your Steam Wallet (during the sale) or make a purchase using non-Steam Wallet funds. If you funded your Steam Wallet during the week prior to the sale (1/16/2020 @ 10am PST - 1/23/2020 @ 10am PST), you’ll be credited Lunar New Year Tokens for those transactions as well.
So now you have to make direct payments or charge up your steam wallet, to earn these pathetic tokens. Amazing -_-
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They did this last winter sale too. I agree. Pretty lame.
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I didn't realize since i am not buying games until i finish my backlog (which looks like i won't buy any games forever...)
But yeah, lame.
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We're on the same boat. You can still buy games. Just make sure that you only buy ones that you will play immediately.
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Not new. This was the Winter Sale as well, though Valve retroactively extended the Steam wallet funding time (the time prior to the same) to give tokens to people who had funded their Wallets, in advance of the sale.And you did not get tokens for purchasing games with Steam Wallet funds, only outside payment sources.
I had a refund a few days ago, that completed, and added money to my Wallet. No tokens for that, since it wasn;t an addition fro an outside payment source.
The new rules are a repeat of the ones from the Winter Sale. And I would expect them to remain this way for the Spring Sale, and Summer Sale as well.
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That's sad. And another reason not buy stuff directly from steam.
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You would think Valve with the recent increase in competition they would come up with more attractive ideas/offers .. but oh no.
A 5$ coupon that require you to spend 50$ to get, and Epic was handling out 10$ coupons.
Valve keeps increasing the restrictions on trading and gifting, I even read recently that some Steam members were required to fill in some personal info for just buying with their steam wallet balance
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I even read recently that some Steam members were required to fill in some personal info for just buying with their steam wallet balance.
Source?
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was it steam credit you gained from trading or was it steam credit via a gift card or actual credit top-up?
I mean, I would expect most, if not all of these situations to be due to trading, but I'm happy to be proven wrong.
I've done a few purchases lately and have no issues myself. It seems odd.
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Can confirm also. Bought Temtem on release day via Steam wallet (ALL gift card).
I've never done trading for $, so yeah.
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Yep, it seems to me that in every instance it is because the credit was acquired through means other than real money that you have added to account (i.e. buying steam credit, or paying using credit card, for example)
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Isn't Steam Wallet cards (gift cards) count as real money ?
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/Pgyld/just-bought-a-game-from-the-steam-sale#Pd1CbMt
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Steam only counts New Money. Money in your wallet is considered Old Money. Money they already have. So purchases with your steam wallet count as if they had already been bought.
That is why they count when you add money to your account, even if you do not buy any games. Cause your giving them New Money.
I an a bit miffed at this. I purchased TemTem yesterday. I have not done a refund, yet. If I do a refund to buy the game it would not do what I want. Since the refund (if I get it in time) would still be counted as Old Money on my wallet. So I submitted a request to gain tokens for this purchased via my PayPal. Since it was just the day before.
I believe that any games purchases or money added to your steam account as early as the begging of the week. Should be given tokens for. Most stores and shops (in America) will honor a price adjustment within a short time period of purchase. Take Target for example. You have 14 days. If an item you buy goes on sale or drops lower in price. You are get compensated for that. As long as you can show them your proof.
So here is to hoping they agree with my argument. After all it goes a long way to gaining more purchase and costs them nothing.
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I'm not even sure what you're trying to say, care to explain?
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Tl:dr: Valve greedy for new money in their intra-economy.
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Like Hassat said. Steam considers any money in your wallet as a purchase. So if you already had money in your wallet. Then they think of it as an existing purchase. Even if you have not used it for anything. That is why you have to actually by more wallet money or pay for games and such from an outside source, like Paypal.
It kinda sucks but look at it his way. If you put $100 on your steam wallet during the Winter Sales Event to get the tokens and use them. Then you already got tokens for that money. It would not be fair to get double tokens by spending it during the lunar sale. I mean it would be great but steam would gain nothing from that. ;P
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Sorry I was not able to explain it well enough. I did my best. Oh well, that is why I never became a teacher. Happy Gaming to you.
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In addition to what you've said, I feel there's another reason they don't offer tokens for Steam wallet purchases.
You can sell trading cards and other items (including games) to earn Steam wallet. I can't see why Valve would feel obligated to give someone more money (via tokens) for already using their platform to make money. The idea is to reward those spending "real money", as opposed to "funny money" they've earned on Steam.
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I may be mistaken, but doesn't steam refund to the same payment method you bought with, i.e., purchases with wallet get refunded to wallet, purchases with paypal get refunded with paypal etc.? If so, refunding the game and buying it anew should get you tokens, if you did not buy it with wallet funds.
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Depends: If you use wallet funds you can only get the refund in wallet but if you used outside method then you have a choice to refund to the outside method OR steam wallet with the former taking longer(but not that much in my experience).
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Thanks for clearing that up. Buying with outside money and refunding to wallet is indeed a scenario in which it is not clear whether you would get tokens.
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Ya, I have to concur with them on that. I have paid with PayPal and gotten refunded to my wallet before. I just got my refund for TemTem. They told me they could not just add tokens to my account. So they just refunded my PayPal right then and there. Said it would take up to 7 days but it was with in the hour. So, repurchased TemTem and bam. Got my tokens. It was perfect. Steam Customer Service can be very good at times. :D
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That's some real A class horse dung right there.
I couldnt give less about tokens but it really shouldnt matter how you purchase the games.
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it was the same thing during the xmas sale. the idea is that valve wants to entice you to give them money. steam wallet is money they already 'have' in the system, so they get nothing additional from you using it to buy games since its just credit not actual 'new' income for them.
people need to start realizing that valve is a business (a rather ruthless one - think EA, but with a better marketing department), not a friendly customer focused organisation that only exists to make our lives enjoyable :)
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Buying games is an actual loss of money for them. If you buy a game the devs get 70% of it and Steam can only keep 30%. But if it just keeps circulating in the market they are slowly taking it all with the taxes.
What is funny are all the people, who have traded crap on Steam for ages to fill their wallets and get tons of free games with it, are now complaining about not getting worthless tokens or having to enter some random fake address. And even funnier they see these things as a reason to switch to Epic or wherever that doesn't even offer any other kind of payment than real money.
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Woah, useful thread! If I was on his place, I would start asking myself the same question. (didn't read it anywhere)
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...but didn't receive a singe lunar token? I bought the game with steam wallet, but still..strange. Does this happened to someone else?
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