How do you like the Steam Grand Prix?

Broken greedy mess. And the discounts are pretty lame.

For me this is the worst summer sale I've seen, my first one was the monster mini game.

By far the worst event since I started using steam. I don't even understand anything.

First, my capacity started at 100, and I see some people got higher numbers cause of money they spent on steam, I spent a lot on steam before and got nothing. Also it says capacity can't go above 1000, but people here say they got "Your account received 2,000 Boost Meter capacity based on your previous spend on Steam."

Then, I used the boost yesterday so now my capacity is at 0. What on earth am I supposed to do now to progress? Is the only way to buy new games? I thought you get 100 extra ones per day? If it stays at 0 then what's the point, I'm not gonna spend any money just for the sake of this event that gives me a one in a million chance to win a game.

Other than that I have no idea what any of the numbers mean and how the calculation works, the numbers seem random and it's hard to undersrand how far are you from the team behind you or in front of you. Sometimes it looks like turle is second on the image, but then the places say cockatiel is second, but then the turle has an higher number listed on him, so what is even going on? All you can say is that corgi is always million miles ahead.

The quests are boring and I literally have zero interest in any of the games required for these quests (not to mention some of them cost money), the only interesting thing is the one thing that lets me pick a game from my library and play it for half an hour, but that fills the whole 100 capacity anyway so what is even the reason the quests exist?

And finally, the whole race system is absolutely pointless. Team corgi had an headstart on the first hour, which resulted in everyone joining it for an higher chance to win, and then with every hour the gap got way bigger to a point that it's completely pointless to even join any other team. If you are on team corgi, the team is so big that you don't have to do anything in order to win. If you are on any other team, there is no point in doing anything cause you have no chance to ever get first place. You also can't switch teams, so the huge gap numbers will never reset, and every race of every day will probably be exactly the same. Not that there was anything to do to begin with, as the capacity level is 0 so you can't progress at all either way.
And with the random prizes being given to second and third place as well, my guess is that you actually have an higher change to win a game if you are on second or third places (or first place that somehow isn't corgi), since there is probably a specific amount of games given to each place, and the less people on your team the higher chance for you to win said games. Even if 1st place gets 100 games and 3rd place only gets 20, team corgi probably has x20 more people than any other team so you still have a better chance to win a raffle while on third place.

This is the worst event so far, they would make way more money by doing trading cards and making profit from the selling fees, so even for them I don't see the logic behind it.

Also, didn't they promise last year to bring back the saliens? The description said the saliens will wake up again after a rest, so I was expecting them to come back this year.

On the good side: I get a free cute cockatiel badge just by joining the team, and I love cockatiels to infiniy so this is the only thing I'm gonna take from this event.

EDIT: Okay, they at least fixed the capacity bug to give the extra 100 per day. But I thought it would also reset from yesterday and give 200 total, instead it didn't reset the last 100 but just gave 100 more so it's still just 100 per day.

OK, so I think I understand how you obtain boost capacity and how you fuel it. However, I have no idea why I was getting 900 tokens per boost yesterday but only 100 tokens with my single boost today... Does the number of tokens awarded scale with your maximum boost capacity for the day, meaning you're better off to save your capacity until you've got 1000 and then use all your boosts at once?

No daily Quests for free XP or any replacement for the trading cards? :(
NOTHING TO DO? :(((

Well, atleast got my 100 points. At this rate I have... 0 extra levels at the end of the event. Still waiting for my 4000 initial points too.
Guess now the RNG pointgeneration stage is done, screwing over most of us and boosting 40 levels on others it's gone pure Pay2Play.

I have no idea what is going on with this event. Boost and Attack are both greyed out, I cannot click them. I have 0 on odometer and speedometer. If I go to pit stop I have negative coins, so can't do anything there either.

Is there any way to do anything w/ this event if you are not spending money or playing the specific games they want you to play for the daily missions/quests?

Valve be like

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12913 points earned
12 completed
Claim 100/12913 Points Now
You only have capacity to claim 100 points
Upgrade your Boost Meter's capacity or throw away the extra 12813

So, if I use this to refill my meager 100 boost capacity, the rest are trashed? :(

Worst Event ever is just a big money grab for boost capacity that resets each day of the sale;/

I still don't get it, I started with 10 boosts and now I have 2 boosts remaining. Will I not receive any more boosts? How do I get more boosts in that case?

I'm genuinely too dumb to understand it. :)

I just do not understand how many tokens I can earn for free... I thought that there is some to earn just for playing games, but looks like no.

Can I claim achievement points for the same game each day/race, or just once per sale?

Here's how I understand how it works:

Each day you get 100 "uncharged points" (worth $1). Spending $$$ in the store gives more "uncharged points"
Then in the grand prix menu you'll go to tasks, and ignore that waste of time. Instead go to achievements.
There pick any game and redeem. It'll turn "uncharged points" into "charged points". If no achievements show up idle a 100% game for 30m.
In grand prix scroll up and use BOOST to turn "charged points" into "tokens" at max. 1000 at a time (1:1 conversion)
Now, finally, in the pit stop you can spend "tokens" to buy $5 discount ($150), badge levels ($1 per level) or trash ($1 emoticon, $10 backgrounds)

Was a little confused at first. Regardless, tried to join Team Hare yesterday. Of course, being so close to the beginning of the sale there were multiple errors and I couldn't join anything. By the time Corgi was speeding ahead, I was able to finally pick a team. Didn't see much sense in joining hare anymore so joined the one that was pretty much guaranteed to have gifts given out the following morning. Tortoise seemed to be doing well last I checked.

There is literally no motivation to actually "play", though, and it's disappointing. You get points by playing select games and doing certain actions, or getting achievements in those games. Spend points to help your team, get free stuff (which you can't sell or trade). You can upgrade the badge though, so...yay more friend space? Buy games to increase your "capacity". Wait for the race to reset and see if you've won anything. Rinse, repeat if desired. There is a degree of interaction here, certainly, but not as much as in some past events, and if you're on corgi there's no real reason to do anything more than click "boost" once a day.

Unsure why Stardew Valley was chosen among everything else, though. I mean, it's a great game. Good for kicking back and unwinding. but as stated by someone else, it's ridiculously easy to rack up points in that game and that's without mods.

Return of the Saliens would've been nice, or literally anything more balanced. Like say...a minigame to repair any damage to the car, refuel it, or find things to help out the pit team. Or maybe even making it into an actual little racing game where one person from every team enters a race, and depending on where you place, you get points for your team. (If not other human players then maybe CPUs?) Uses skill, encourages interaction, and rewards you for your efforts. Perhaps even the more points you earn, the more you fill a gauge to get a badge. The game wouldn't have to be anything fancy. Something 2D with 8 or 16 bits, something you would play over at a friend's house during summer vacation in the 90s.

I've rambled on too long and have some things to do. In any case, I hope the winter sale event is better.

Right now my account is bugged and I have -16000 tokens. So, pretty shit for me, huh?

don't like having to install games and play them. would rather it be an actual minigame or something

resetting the 'capacity' to force buying...
such genious, SO MUCH FUN!!!!!

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The summer spring cleaning event was simpler.
And it also worked... except when it cached my day 2 games from my alt and told me that my main account also done it. Then new day came and suddenly I lost the previous day's progress :D
I genuinely don't get how can a corporation of this size be so incredibly incompetent. It's on another level.

I suppose we should be grateful of Valve not making games anymore if this is Valve's current impression of fun minigame...
Or then these are implemented by summer interns in a week or two...

Like watching a paint dry... It might be more interesting if there was set number of distance and team corgi boosting ahead would waste their boost and then later the other teams could focus their effort...

"Hey, this event might actually be worthwhile, I have 68,000 boost points I can collect from all the achievements I got in Orion Prelude."

....."Wait, what the $#@^? I can only actually get 6,500 of them unless I spent a crapload of money to increase my "boost tank"? F-that."

My cat could have made an event that was more fun than this.

I thought we would be able to choose a different team for the new race each day and get all the different team badges, but I guess I'm stuck with Corgis for the whole sale. Plus team corgi is obviously going to win every single day of the event. What's the fun in that?

Worst event/sale ever.

Boost capacity resets every day, and only add 100. If works as I think, It'll give 100 more every day, added to the prior 100. So 100 today, 200 tomorrow, etc. Money from buys doesn't add.

If you spend zero, and use the boost every day, you'll add (for the next 13 days) only 9100 tokens.

As {[13(13+1)]/2}*100 = 9100

So you can't reach the discount even if you never miss a day.