Steam Preparing for Winter Event

[J.D. Laukkonen]

Last winter Valve held a 'treasure hunt' and rewarded diligent seekers with 'treasure hats'. Those who bought dozens of new games, and spent hours playing them, received 100% more octopus on their hats than those of us who were poorer and Irisher. Then in the spring, they let us earn virtual potatoes to help boot up GLaDOS faster. (The result? Portal 2 was released on steam like an hour early.)

When summer arrived, Valve unveiled their biggest event yet. Their summer camp event rewarded happy campers with DLC from a whole range of different games. We got rad shades for TF2 and a level for Majicka. New characters in Killing Floor and lobster bibs in Monday Night Combat. Actually, one of the rewards was a game.

Now it's winter again, and for the last few days the Internet ha... Read More

[faits]

If anyone is curious, it's actually possible to earn all these new achievements already. I had already satisfied the requirements for the space chem one, so I just booted up space chem and got the achievement.

[mclazyj]

I love and dredd this part of the year. There is so much I want, and so little cash that I have. I have at least $50 to spend, with an extra $50 hopefully after Christmas. Will be watching at 10AM PST this morning to see if it kicks off.

[SteveM]

It has begun.

[faits]

Has anyone actually been able to access their inventory to see what the 'gift' is? Mine keeps 503'ing.

[fuzzay]

I'm having that problem right now, actually.

[SteveM]

Has anyone actually been able to access their inventory to see what the 'gift' is? Mine keeps 503'ing.

I've been able to access it but nothing showed up for that first objective.

[faits]

People have been reporting gifts like '25% off any game' and '50% off any valve game'

also some people have claimed to receive free copies of portal, half life 2, etc

still can't even get my inventory to load properly (it has loaded a few times, but shows only my tf2 and spiral knights items)

[DJ_Lae]

I'm still getting a ton of errors on the site. If I can load the main page, good for me, but clicking on anything just gives me another error page.

Hopefully by the time I get over to Surrey it'll be working again so I don't miss anything (I can't wait until I'm back in the Okanagan on Thursday as I'll have missed a few daily deals by then).

[mclazyj]

Yeah, I cannot get the gift page to load either right now. Something tells me that Steam is getting crushed right now. As for the daily deals - Portal 2 is good if you don't have it yet (not sure who doesn't), and I am a bit torn on Orcs Must Die as a purchase. I have a bunch of $2.00 stuff on my wish list right now that I am probably going to pick up at some point, but I am waiting to see if any of it hit the daily deals.

Curious to see what others are going to do with their cash on Steam. Right now, I am waiting for DiRT 3 to go a bit lower along with Dead Rising 2: Off the Record. Also want to get the DLC for Deus Ex Human Revolution and some of the missing DLC for Fallout New Vegas and Borderlands. MIssing one DLC pack each. ALso want to get some of the DLC for Mafia II. Cold Fear would be nice at a cheaper price point for me. Wanted to get it when it was a daily deal a few weeks back, but Steam would not let me purchase it. Come on Steam, Load already!