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How to earn in Steam wallet
| Please keep this information around only around community and close people.. and alternatively poor people if you feel sad for them ^^
| Pro tip: don't use steam, save more money than what you'd make with shitty steam wallet (especially considering it's not money).
And do something useful instead, you might even get paid for it.
| >>811505 wait are you trying to say that my library with 3000+ games and level 66 is waste of money or something? ;-;
you are sound as adults what enjoy to destroy every fun ;-;
| >>811523 Considering that you don't own these games, pretty much yeah. I don't see the fun in renting games.
| Buying steam keys on third party sites will always be cheaper. Just watch out for the more sketchy ones.
| >>811705 valve has started if they go under they'll figure out a way for everyone to download copies of all of their games before they do so not exactly like you say, also they're so big they're not going under any time soon so it's not a very realistic worry at the moment
| >>811793 Of course they won't say that if they go down, you'll just be fucked. And it's not about them going down but about what you pay for, steam encourages the worst in the video game industry and supporting them is absurd. Renting games instead of buying them is one of those shitty practices, but not the only one.
| >>811779
Unless regional prices are generous for you, then it's usually cheaper to get stuff directly on Steam, especially with sales.
| >>811822
You don't rent form Steam. That's complete bullshit on your part.
The thing is, you never buy software. It doesn't matter if it's on physical media or a download. You don't own it. You're paying for a license that allows you to use it, that's all. This has been the norm since like the 70s so blaming Valve for it is kinda ignorant.
Dislike Valves DRM practices all you want, but at least know what you're talking about before forcing your stance down other peoples troaths.
| >>811705 it is maybe truth, but honestly, if would valve decided to deactivate all games from accounts, it would destroy them business. Honestly i wouldn't be surprised if was this case solved in Congress and started series of antitrusts conflicts, so technically i own them if Valve don't want start lawsuit
| >>811822 are you really thinking that them platform is having potential to going down? MS, EA and newly Sony are collaborate, they concurrent in VR and soon in handheld industry, they have stable 30% income from every sold game.
Yes it's DRM, but honestly it is comfortable having games and community on one platform, and honestly Epic or GoG aren't having interface what can compete with it
| >>811822 also i like that i don't need physically storage games in home, if my place burned, or i was suddenly left my place and was on second end of world, i can still access to my account if i will find hardware with access to internet
Btw. Are you hosting your e-mail in your nas?
| >>811862 something else of note valve doesn't require you use steamworks DRM for games sold on steam so actually blame the dev because you can do drm free on steam
| Yes that's correct I personally don't have an issue with that, valve provides a service that publishes want, it's much less intrusive and restrictive than many others, and it's easily cracked should the need arise
Valve as a whole is the only platform really supporting Linux properly even gog refuses to release a native steam client when their new client already runs on Mac
For me, what good valve is doing heavily outweighs selling software with drm or their light drm they offer
| >>812202
>They don't require it but they still provide it.
What a terrible take. Steam has done far more good then harm in the realm of indie/small studio development.
Of course some studios are going to use drm. I'm not going to be mad at someone for wanting to be paid for their work.
If you dislike it so much, then crack it.
| >>812378 Allowing hundreds of shitty ripoff games to come out each day is one of the reasons indie games struggle to be known. Early access, popularized by steam, is another one.
And DRMs aren't about being paid or not but about treating users like criminals, while embedding shitty code without knowing what it does.
Quite surprised that some people still believe DRMs are about sales, especially when things like GoG or itch.io exist.
| >>812493
DRM are *undoubtedly* about revenue.
If you think these companies are spending wast amounts of money and recources just to hurt your reputation/make you feel bad then you may be suffering from paranoid delusions.
| >>812572 Considering that piracy has no negative impact on sales, companies that believe it has (and you, apparently) are simply strongly deluded. Now should I consider that companies are intentionally annoying, or utterly stupid, that's a tough choice, but considering the state of the industry, filled with crap and immoral practices, I'll pick the first one.
| Companies use DRMs because they enjoy the idea of having total control over their game, and do not want people to actually own anything. That's also why so many single player games now require internet access. The goal is to create a dependenfy for their services. DRMs are necessary for that.
| Wow this thread derailed hard, man just wanted to share how to earn a few extra bucks on steam.
| Also, since were doing deals: Epic Game Store is still giving away free games. A new one every 2 weeks IIRC. Some of them are quite good.
As for steam. You can sell spme of the trading cards for virtually every game. You get them just for playing, so its basically free.
| For steam cards there's programs you can let idle games for you so you can get them while you sleep or something
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| I can recommend Crab game, if you will be lucky you can get little valuable things and earn something ^^ i get around 4€ from it