How do you like the Steam Grand Prix?

Considering I leveled up from 48 (technically 41 if you count in the fuckup they had with the Chinese new year sale) to 81 for basically free I can't complain at all. But I also don't care about the rest of the event and winning those free games.

Overall i dislike it, but one good thing is that i can get my level higher with the tokens, which are hard to get.

I've read the damn thing 3 times and I'm still not understanding how any of this works. Besides, team corgi is at 4000 points/boosts/whatevers compared to other teams at 130, is there even a point in choosing a different team?

how do I boost my capacity? I have a bunch of points waiting but it says my boost capacity is too low

Personally, I bloody hate this bloody thing. It's stupid, it's confusing and it has no appeal whatsoever. Honestly, I'd rather have nothing at all rather than this mess of an event

Its shit

I don't understand this xD
I read entire page, I joined Turtles, I clicked something that added points from CSGO.
Then I clicked some boost and I think that's all today.
Was expecting another smol game :(

Why did they have to make it so damn confusing? This is definitely one of if not the worst Steam event sale.

I can't access event page.
Cool part is that It's possible to access in private mode.
Am I locked or something?
This is shit

VERY convoluted (the original text managed to get terms muddled up which should tell you everything) but an interesting way to encourage early purchases. Do early purchases to have high max capacity to do more boosts which gives you more tokens to buy vouchers (or powerlevel your steam account; more on that later). It is a shame the implementation is imbalanced and a buggy mess (I've seen people with negative capacity and having less capacity than Steam said they would have).
Edit: I made the assumption capacity resets daily which is spreading misinformation about this mess. It just occurred to me that it may not in which case I'll refund the games I bought for capacity and completely ignore this sale.
Edit2: Since I only have 100 capacity today it looks like once capacity is used it's gone for good so refunds requested and I'll wait for the last race.

The play game parts are poorly balanced. I can get 1000s of points from games with steam achievements but I might have to idle for 30 minutes to get the option (or to even see how much I can cash in) or I try and get 170 points from play say, Wargroove and hoping I win an online match (otherwise, it is 100 points) which in the end might not even register and could take 15-20 minutes of active play. Why do the latter?

Correct me if I'm wrong but in the summer camp weren't you assigned to random teams to avoid a situation of everybody joining the same team like seems to have occurred here with Corgi (non-corgi picks have a much higher chance of winning anything by being a second or third place team but the non-corgi teams are too close for comfort here).

When the news of no trading cards came live I remember somebody who was happy because they spent a lot of money to get to level 200 in 2015 (or something like that) and they saw these previous sales as making it too cheap and easy to reach such levels (i.e. powercreep; they were being overtaken by people who spent a fraction of what they did). Wonder what they think of this where I can spend $10 and at the end of the sale have enough tokens to gain over 30 levels (provided I fill/use my boost meter every day). But given the bottleneck here is boost capacity which can only be increased via Steam purchases in Valves mind that gets the bots and the black market out of the equation (which I think is what Valve really disliked about the Winter sale).

I also speculate about how the vouchers are being handled. It is suspicious that a number of games have missed this sale despite never missing sales before (e.g. NieR:Automata, DG2).

Pretty meh.

Seems like it's totally buggy on all ends to me.

• I started off having -4400 Token (yup, negative... just like for many others)
• Completing tasks for Stardew Valley doesn't count toward the event although I finished several ingame days, harvested hundreds of crops, fished like 200 fish and killed loads of monsters by playing it for several hours
• I can't claim achievement points although my box stop tells me I had a capacity of 5000 and the steam help center tells me I spent way more than 1500$ total directly on Steam (not gonna say the real number, but yeah, it's much more)
• today's purchases also didn't upgrade the capacity but provided an additional Nitro boost instead
• you could basically claim points for a game that you completed already by letting it run idle for 30 minutes. I own Rocket League with 71/88 achievements done. After "idling" it for 30 minutes it would grant me 28866 points without actually doing something. (which I can't redeem due to previously mentioned bug tho)

In total quite a bummer. But hey, atleast I joined Team Corgi at the start of the event which seems to be the winning one by now. Actually I just joined it at that time 'cause I was like "Okay, there's no cat. Guess it's the corgi then." <.<

I think there's some interesting ideas in the event, but they obviously totally screwed the implementation because people managed to exploit it so insanely, and that aside - I have never seen such a profoundly incoherent "explanation" for any such event on any website in the past... Really, staggeringly poor.

On the bright side, lots of very reasonable prices for indies I was keeping an eye on 👍

i like it and find it fun and innovative , so which choice shoukd i pick from the poll ? i don't understand your poll xD

Complicated game is too complicated. And pretty useless so it seems.

I don't really get it, but it seems boring anyway and the amount of tokens needed to get an extra discount is quite steep.
I'm still salty at how there's no cards this time, I was hoping to get some wallet funds for free like always.

Kinguin gives away ten thousand keys every weekend, Steam can only manage six hundred every day for two weeks? It's me or they are super cheap?

I don't see the need to criticize the event too much, it's not like you're losing anything by participating or are required to participate.

What I don't like is the fact that the Pit Stop page says "Your account received 2,000 Boost Meter capacity based on your previous spend on Steam", but I only got 387, and keep hearing about people starting off with like 50000.

I joined team, clicked boost since why not, got 157 tokens and seemingly incapable to spend more till tomorrow as achievement refuse to fill. 4000 initial tokens? Nope. Pit stop claims I can get 57 more tokens racing but I don't see how.

This has got to be the most confusing buggy thing Valve released yet.

So steam wanted me to play Stardew Valley and do certain tasks to give me some points, I did them nothing changed though, any thoughts?

Big wall of text. Went through it twice. I still don't get what I'm supposed to do. I don't want to play their "F2P" wargames so I opted for the "play any game you have and earn points for your achievements" option.... and I got zero points for my achievements.
I applaud their effort to try and make the "event" a more involving and social game event but they fumbled it.

I don't understand. I mean, I understand in theory, but... I picked the Corgi team because I like corgis. As I type this, we're so far in the lead that it isn't even funny. I wanted it to be a fair competition, give me a reason to log on. :/ I was looking forward to this sale for the past, I don't know, 3 months?

They don't even have cute emojis, but then again, NOTHING will beat pig in a blanket

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It's buggy and confusing, but can work in your favour. I've received $15 of free discounted games so far with another $10 in the bag when the boost button unlocks again.

This event rewards people who use Steam Achievement Manager to hack in-game statistics. Then it makes all those 100+ steam level holders look stupid because Steam XP is basically free now. Then we have this bug that allowed people to get level 25000+ (and then Valve bans them MANUALLY, what a joke). *Not to mention how overly complicated this event is, could be MUCH simplier.