How do you like the Steam Grand Prix?

"Your account received 2,000 Boost Meter capacity based on your previous spend on Steam."

My starting capacity was 1096. It said I have two boosts remaining but the button couldn't be clicked at the time.
I idled a 1-achievement game that I previously completed because I didn't wanna waste those several 10k points in other games I recently played.

The 1-achievement game was worth 933 points. So I claimed them. 933/1096 capacity shown.

Used a boost. Down to 0/163 capacity.

Bought the first level badge for 100 tokens, 833 remain.
Pitstop pages tells me "Compete in the races to unlock 996 more."

I don't get it. And aside from them getting their numbers wrong, the capacity reset is ridiculous too. So my left-over Lunar NY tokens/previous non-sale purchases didn't amount to much (not that I had an inkling they'd be considered to begin with).

Add to that that my current internet speed is atrocious. I took a screenie of steam telling me that downloading Stardew Valley will take over a year lol. And that game isn't even big in size. So Task-based quests, assuming they work (if comments are anything to go by) are out, all I can do is rack in points from games I previously earned achievements with, but if even a 1-achievement game is worth almost 1k points and the capacity in general is reset after each boost, a plethora of points are going to waste by default.

Unless of course I buy something, but if those capacities reset too, what's the point. I'm not gonna wait forever for steams bloated pages to load for me to may or may not have a purchase go through (and if the connection dies mid-way I might end up on a suspicious list and get locked out so yeah).

Even just loading the event pages takes forever for me. I didn't even wait for the claim button, I stopped the loading, then used the mouse to highlight the general area to find where the clickable button would eventually pop up and clicked there. Psssh.

Gimme back my event cards, steam. I saved so many badges up for this. Hmph. And it's a lot easier on my current internet. And nerves. If anyone does have any helpful advice I'd be grateful but right now I only see frustration and 500 errors ahea XD

I found it hard to understand at first but managed to find my way with it eventually.
I see many people complaining: worst sale ever, worst event ever, worst discounts ever but personally I think it's ok. Complaints are a part of every sale now and they have been for quite a while now. If the prices are good (and some of them are) then there's nothing to be raging about imo...

Awful - even dont try to participate as with probably this sale ;).

It looked interesting and fun at first.

And then I noticed a bunch of clowns rigged the race by organizing to all join the same team. Which of course lead to newcomers seeing team Corgi far ahead of the others and logically choosing to join it, tipping the balance further.

I thought "fine, I'll just join team Pig and see if we can get in the top 3, it'll be fun getting back to TF2 to earn points, and it's also a nice incentive to play some of the games I haven't touched at all, since the achievements will also give points.

And then I realised the "boost capacity" depletes as you use boosts, and can only replenished but buying things. And a tiny amount by logging in each day. Joy.

So then, I'll just do it like during the Lunar Sale: get as many of those 5€ discounts I can to buy games for myself and others (hint, hint), and then be done with it. In hindsight, it's a good thing I forgot about all the Lunar tokens I had left back then. Gave me a good twenty of so boosts from the get-go.

Can someone explain to me how the quests get solved? Launched Stardew Valley, did a few requirements on an old save - forage an item, harvest a crop, give someone a gift they love, etc - closed the game, refreshed the Grand Prix page and no points updated, nothing changed.

So when do these 'Quests' update?

I think Steam broke the level system with this...

"Your account received 4,500 Boost Meter capacity based on your previous spend on Steam."

• Turns out my boost capacity is 1497 and I got 10 boosts in total to use for the entire summer sale.

This makes zero sense.

Yay, day 2!

We encountered an issue while loading the Grand Prix. Please try again.

Sigh

Having a blast!/s

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Why I have negative tokens is a question.

Anyone can answer it?

Event is strange but -70-90% for many of my wishlist looks tempting and tasty.

Its a little shitty, I did so many of those quests related to TF2 and stardew valley got no points

Glad they didn't do cards this year but this event is hardly any better.

Why do i think that this new error is Valve rethinking this whole grand Prix quest.

Yesterday I bought a game and didn't get boosts for it, today I bouht a game and right after the error message popped up, let's see if I get 0 shit again, yay.

Edit: Oh and the game tasks to earn points didn't work for me either.

Aaaaaaand... I got zero points. Welp.
Works great.

Either I still don't get how this thing works or it broke already.

It appears the first day was the only tokens you're going to get. Capacity remains at zero, rendering this useless for anyone not shopping

Yes it's buggy and broken event but what did you expect from a "small indie company", it's not like it worth $5+ billion dollar.

I'm so confused. I thought it was 100 capacity that you have to refill using quests, but it increases every day. I used my 5 boosts yesterday and then played an eligible game. It even says I earned points, but there's no capacity available. My 'odometer' says 0 points, and the hover-over description says that's the 'Max points you can earn'. Does that mean it's impossible for me to earn more points? Also, where do I see my maximum boost capacity? This event is ridiculous.

I hold out hope. Remember when "Turn into Gems..." had it's disastrous launch? It took some time but Valve shut it down, fixed it, relaunched it, and gave us all CS:GO to apologize. There could be some pretty good make-up swag coming our way for this clusterfreak.

My interest level in this event is coincidentally the same as my boost capacity. 0. What happened to the +100 per day?

Seems to be pretty much busted, as far as I can tell. Does anything work in it?

Boost capacity was at 0 yesterday, it's at 0 now,

So there's actually no chance to earn the amount of tokens needed for the discount without spending money? The achievements points I gathered are not shown and I don't have any boosters available.

This event is really bad. I don't like it.

No fun, but saved 5€ for my purchase.
so finished now with this "event"

I absolutely love it. :3

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