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I want the get achievements for tickets back. That was awesome and atleast you had something to do.
No offence, but these team things suck and deals are fun for the first 20 minutes.

I was randomly put on red team - no chance of winning. ^^
Van Helsing II is still too expensive.
I miss coal.

They're improving, but it still isn't the same level as the first sale events, without a doubt. However we can always hope they'll nail it down soon.

Not great but not the worse either. At least this time they did something more than card sets and voting.
It's not nearly as good as the summer one in which they had that showcase with items which you could buy with tickets or the X-mas coal one but I guess 30 people / day will find it to be a very good event xD.

Every single summer/winter sale since they introduced badges has been a ploy to get people to "spend more money" to craft badges. I personally don't mind, great deals and the price of random cards on the market rises up slightly, which gives me a good reason to clean my inventory!

For every event there is a "DIS IS SHITTY" topic. Why don't you just enjoy the sale?

Well, I'm enjoying myself. I've never really felt the urge to craft badges but now there's some incentive. Though I'm still only going to craft the ones I'm interested in. If your goal is profile customization, it's a pretty great event. :P

I like the idea of this event, but the implementation is very bad. Most of the items you can get are for games hardly anyone cares about, so it won't motivate the community to craft the badge. Same for the whole "race" thing: it's a good idea, but seeing how little chance we've got to win our 3 wishlist games, I don't think anyone will take it too seriously. The 1-2 extra cards aren't that motivating either.

I've been wanting to lv up my steam profile, so far I made 9 normal game badges during this, doesn't help much when purple is in the lead by 50k points but the start of the event was pretty cool to see how even everyone was for so long :)

I am not very impressed (unless i drop a rare ingame item^^) but I can understand it.
I mean those prices are almost criminal, I have no idea how they can make a margin on that. So they cant give you tons of stuff on top of that...

Btw, do ingame purchases count as well?

there should be points for buying stuff

I don't know what are u talking about, I bought a game and got metal card which I sold for another 3$, this is my main 'fun factor' $_$

well im profiting quite a bit from the cards so im okay about it :)

Very disappointing..Steam decided today that i am logging in from a new device(i'm not/didn't), so no more card profits for 7 days..

Yes, nothing beats the achievement events in the past sales.

I can't believe they added what team you are to the avatar pop-up. I noticed this in the market. Are they trying to divide the community? Oh, he's from purple, can't buy from him or else my team will never get a chance.

Well, people did try to exploit the "fun" ones, so we had it coming.

It's a bit lame. It was a good idea, but something is missing. Maybe more ways to get cards/items that generate points. Like doing some community tasks, or anything that would resemble a real quest. This way it's just "buy cards, craft badges" which boils down to "we were too lazy to inspire you to spend more money".

you don't need to craft badges to get a chance at free games.

Who cares about events? It's about games being on sale.

Yes, absolutely...
Disappointing - just like all the other (money stealing) events since they invented those cards...
Of course I can sell some Summer-Sale-cards and earn some money if I don't want to craft badges and do what valve wants me to do, but there is simply no fun in it (anymore).
And the sales, well, mostly I have seen those games already cheaper on other stores where I'm not focred to pay € - so far; it's just the first day now, maybe sales are getting better later on, but according to the last winter or summer sale they won't...
I personally miss the "Steam Summer Camp" where I had to get achievements for earning tickets in order to redeem them for some small games, dlcs or tf2 items which I choose myself. I know, this achievement thing won't work anymore today and those prizes back then were pretty bad but for me it was a lot of fun.

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