WARNING: No more 3rd party games and coupons in gift pile.

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Sucks for the people that started crafting today

Crafted 60 coals today and i did not have noticed of this. All what i got are coupons. Shit.

That explains the increased generation of BMOC and the other TF2 hats.

I blame the guys who made a crapton of alternate accounts to squeeze as many products as possible.

Wow... this is bad news. Thanks for the head's up. Guess I'll be saving my coal for the 1:INFINITY (due to the account scamming) chance in winning the grand prize. I just got my 7th coal and was hoping to do a craft at New Years.

and people laughed when i said coal was near worthless at this point

Only Valve games and coupons :/ such a waste coals.

I guess the multi-accounters win again. :(

Ah, crud. :/ Thanks for the heads up. I was about to waste a ton of time doing achievements I didn't really feel like doing.

That's a bit sad. I was planning to do the last couple days of achievements on the last day and craft all of the remaining coupons. The only Valve games I don't own are L4D2 (only because the German version is censored and I don't buy censored games) and the old Goldsrc games, so those coupons are useless to me.

It's best to save one's coal for the real giveaway; better that you have (what is said to be) every game on steam than one great one crafted via the item that leads to the former.

LOLZ? o.O

wow

It makes me a bit mad that it still let users craft coal without some sort of notice indicating the only things they have a chance of getting are coupons or Valve games. I've had every Valve game since it came out, and I have almost every game I've gotten a coupon for anyway.

The great gift pile was something of a disappointment for all the work I put in! Oh well, it was fun anyway...

Please Note!
If you unlock an achievement on or after 12/31 your prize will be a free Valve game, a coupon toward a Valve game, or Holiday Coal.

says it right on the holiday sale page on the right, now.

this is sad

Shit I crafted 21 coals and got worthless coupons. I have 6 coals remaining now fml

Thanks for the heads-up. I at least managed to get a couple decent prizes out of this thing, so it wasn't completely wasted.

It bugs me that Valve:

1. Did not indicate how many units of non-Valve games or coupons would be given out.
2. Did not indicate even what the probability is for getting a game instead of a coupon (from an achievement that doesn't result in coal or from crafting).

I don't know why they even changed the system from this Summer, with the golden tickets and being able to pick and choose your own rewards. Yeah, the overall rewards were FAR less valuable, but at least you weren't screwed based on sheer dumb luck, plus there wasn't really a way to consistently exploit it.

Doh.I just crafted lmao.

I got CSS, Portal 2 and 2 crappy coupons from crafting 4 times. Also got Far Cry 2 from one of the achievements last night. That was probably one of the few games left.

Damnit crap, I had lots of coal yesterday, but wanted to wait to today >_<