Hunh. So, my library of unplayed games is not unlike my health/magic/stamina/et al potion stock after completing a game.
Intriguing… I’ll say, clearly most people don’t use the platform that way. But to those who do engage with Steam that much, folks like CS2 case addicts, I can certainly see it. Stuff like cosmetically building out a profile, making sure you have an impressive inventory, the freebies they always give out during sales and events… yeah. It’s reminiscent of endgame MMO behaviour, when you’ve beaten all the content and just run around looking for rare stuff to show off to your guild.
even look at tf2 addicts that don’t spend money but instead trade the free stuff the game gives you
No it isn’t.
It is not a game.
A game is a form of art, Steam exists to make Gabe money it is not a work of art and has no artistic relationship with its players and the fact that Gabe doesn’t understand that as CEO of a gaming company is fucking embarassing.
I am tired of this lazy conflation of attaching superficial, lazy carrots on sticks to things and calling it “gamification” it is such an empty, cynical condescending way of looking at the world.
Why is everyone so condescending about games? No Gabe Steam is not an MMO because it isn’t fun, there is no actual core experience other than numbers going up. Therefor it is NOT a game.
Now if you wanted to argue Steam was a shitty multiplayer idle game sure, but it has to be the shittiest idle game in the world then and Gabe even worse your multiplayer idle game is full of Nazis and extremely toxic behavior none of you give any shit about moderating…
Not all games are a work of art actually. Especially Asian grinder MMOs are not, such as Silkroad online.
There are many that treat Steam’s achievement system kind of like a game, so maybe it can be considered a pseudo game, just barely.
Arresting to have been using a thing so clearly designed to have gamelike features and never quite noticing it. I tend to credit myself as being fairly media literate and conscious about games, I guess either I’m wrong about that or they did an amazing job at it. I’ll have to think carefully about that.
10-15 years ago, I knew a guy that bought games and traded cards just to level up his account. I remember asking him why he did it - since the levels are pretty much just cosmetic after the initial levels - and he straight up just said he liked to see the number go up
Ahh jeez, fuck I hate it
Do those trading cards still have any value (a few cents are ok) and are people really buying those? I never noticed that you could sell them. I do nothing with them. And having a very small “discount” on my next game would probably be worth more for me than some NFT like things that collect the digital equivalent of dust in my account.
Yes, they do, a few cents. It’s a pain to sell them, since you seemingly have to do it one at a time. But some of them are even like 1$/€ so those are worth it
Just checked - I got over two hundred trading cards. On one hand, that’s a pita to sell individually, on the other hand that’s probably a free game in the next sale…
But I can do it over time and sell them bit by bit, no hurry…
I haven’t checked in a while, but IIRC, there are scripts that can quickly sell your cards without you having to do it manually.
That’d be cool if so!
This is the one I use: https://steaminventoryhelper.com/
There’s a bevy of “idle” games that are all about that. One if the most popular is literally called Numbers Go Up Idle
That’s pretty much the whole point of the incremental genre.
i mean yeah?
i’ve never really used that part, other than running a script every year to sell cards that accumulate by themselves for a little bit of credit. don’t really seem like a big part of it.
then again i’m not a gambler. i guess people could get stuck in that sort of thing.
Pray tell, what script?
it’s one of those greasemonkey ones, i need to look it up every time because i always remove it after.
