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[Enzo]

Not sure how I feel about this. I, wait...

You might earn DLC or game coupons.

Free shit? I'm in. I also think the new profile pages look pretty sharp.

[Meta]

Alright, I got my first 2 cards. Now to find how to exchange them...

[KillerFrogs]

Cards are being listed on the market place for money...seems like a useful thing for me to work on now.

[kilakan]

I'll take an invite I guess, seems cool to em

[werty892]

I'll take one. If anyone has one, that is.

[Neonivek]

I'd only like this if ALL my games could end up as cards.

[umiman]

Right.

I tried to trade my invite to Kilakan but forgot I put it up on the market. So when I went to get it back from the market I found out it was sold already. Why the hell would anyone buy it?! I'm out of invites now.

[Darkmere]

Hmm. I don't play any of those. Problem solved!

[BigD145]

Not sure how I feel about this. I, wait...

You might earn DLC or game coupons.

Free shit? I'm in. I also think the new profile pages look pretty sharp.

You've been getting game coupons before this. Now you have to jump through extra hoops.

[Enzo]

I've been getting game coupons? I'm pretty sure I haven't been, except for those seasonal events where I had to, you know, jump through a bunch of hoops to get them. And now Valve has the audacity to demand I play games that I already play anyway before they'll give me free coupons and dlc? brb uninstalling.

[nenjin]

I guess the limit is 300 friends in your steam list. I doubt I'll ever hit that many, so this is more or less a non-issue to me. I've tended not to pay attention to most Steam gimmicks and I'll likely continue to do so. As long as the feature set I currently enjoy doesn't get mucked with, I'm cool.

[WealthyRadish]

If a company lets there be a coupon for their game, I'd imagine that they'd be less inclined to put it on sale as frequently or for as much of a discount. So yeah, it's just extra hoops. It's stuff that could've been just added to Steam for anyone, but instead got tossed in as more of an attempt to make Steam a social networking platform.

Granted, it's all petty crap and not worth getting upset or frustrated about, but it's still a negative and worrisome change. Valve has long worked to keep people on Steam exclusively and off their competitors' services, and a dumb meta cow-clicker is just going to make more people feel invested in their accounts. Steam isn't a terrible service, and it's done good things for the PC market, but these aggressive tactics at keeping people more or less addicted to it is alarming. In the future, when the PC market is more developed and less dependent on Steam, it'd suck to have Valve and Steam be a drain on developer income just because people wanted to horde virtual cards.

[Tilla]

If a company lets there be a coupon for their game, I'd imagine that they'd be less inclined to put it on sale as frequently or for as much of a discount. So yeah, it's just extra hoops. It's stuff that could've been just added to Steam for anyone, but instead got tossed in as more of an attempt to make Steam a social networking platform.

Valve have had the coupons for over a year, it's not a change.

[Neonivek]

I signed up to see if I can get into the beta.

[WealthyRadish]

If a company lets there be a coupon for their game, I'd imagine that they'd be less inclined to put it on sale as frequently or for as much of a discount. So yeah, it's just extra hoops. It's stuff that could've been just added to Steam for anyone, but instead got tossed in as more of an attempt to make Steam a social networking platform.

Valve have had the coupons for over a year, it's not a change.

From events and promotions, yeah, but not available continuously from what I would guess are achievements or random drops. Still, who knows how many publishers will actually participate... I'd imagine more would than do in Steam trading, but that aspect heavily depends on the game in question.