Well, I can understand that there are no free games this year, but no achievements? Too bad.
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yeah.. I liked just the achievements.. Trying new games, or replaying older games! It's a shame they took it all away, after last year. :\ Damn abusers, and complainers. sigh oh well. Maybe they'll bring it back another time.. They could do something like summer 2011, and just give silly dlc or hats!
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Thank valve for using an easily exploitable system. You can't do something like that and expect nobody to take advantage of it.
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Nobody said people were forced to exploit it. But you can't have a system like that and hope that people won't take advantage of it. Easy as that.
And what in the world does this have to do with piracy or in which way is it even related?
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Valve came up with a flawed system to give free stuff away and people took advantage of it. If it had been done properly there wouldn't have been as many exploiters and it might still be here.
I'm not saying people who exploited the system don't have the blame, but Valve enabled it to begin with. You can't expect millions of users to be honest and not abuse an easily abusable system to get free stuff. That's just not how the world works.
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Anyone with a brain could have taken a step back and looked at it saying "Yeah this is going to get exploited," but with humblebundle and indiegala selling keys for a penny? That was just something that made everything insanely easily to exploit. Remember indiegala, wait wasn't it a dime?, gave like 10 keys for nothing.
It isn't because "no one forced them" it's because "why didn't we do something beforehand?" Anything and everything is exploited for gain or even not gain. You try and prevent it. It's a bummer that it's not happening againt his year, but it's not a surprise honestly. They threw away a lot of money to people that exploited the promotion and did they bring in a lot of new customers from that big advertisement? Who knows. We don't see the numbers of users gained.
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Their mistake. Lesson learned. Either make a good system or don't make anything at all.
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Even if there weren't exploiters, there was no guarantee they would ever have another event as large as the big Summer and Winter ones. I don't know how concerned Valve were over people taking advantage of them but I doubt it was the only reason for not having another event (if they were smart they only created a set amount of licenses to hand out).
If they were really that worried about exploitation they could've implement similar restrictions found on the Steam Market, although that would probably upset a lot of people to the point where they might "leaf steam 4eva!"
I'm fine without another gift pile (Valve doesn't want people getting comfortable getting something for nothing), the real bummer is that all we get in terms of achievements and festivities is a badge. The sales themselves are OK, if you don't have the games already.
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would it be begging if i asked if someone could take a few of my hands?
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I want it back so badly :(
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