I appreciate the hat—I shall wear it well. 
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Does anyone know if all of these sales will return for the Winter Sale? Some of the sales are for games I’ve never seen on sale before, at least so steep. Endless Space 2, Raft, and Dark Souls II/Remastered and 7 Days to Die. I really hope so, Endless Space 2 looks really good.
Meanwhile I’ve collected nearly 12k in those point things. 
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I think they usually return to at least an extent.
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Just quick question about the silly boost/points/capacity business. Is there a way to gain more capacity to use more points without making purchases outside of the whatever amount you are given (refreshes) daily?
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Not guaranteed, but nearly always once it is on sale for a certain low it doubtless will be again.
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Thats the catch, you can play games to complete quests to regain the boost number or claim it from achievementes you have in games but to boost the overall quantity = buy games during the sale. Otherwise it increases 100 per day during the whole sale, up to the 9th I believe.
edit/ even if you buy games once you use those boost numbers, say you buy X games and got 3.000 points, once you boost those 3.000 it goes down to 0 and from then on its 100 per day or buy more games, and to then fill those 100 you do quests from the games.
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nope, “pay to play”, (or at least pay to increase beyond the daily free 100 
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-unless they change it/add something later in the event
also seems you don’t get “attacks” unless you pay. Since you need to wait to boost until you have 1000 to get a chance of getting an attack drop unlocked. But you also need to participate each day/“help your team”, where you only get the free 100, not enough for full boost/attack unlock drop chance… 
dang this event just oozes the poorest thought out money grubbing… 
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Despite the effort that they appear to have put into this one, the obvious ties to pay to win has sapped all my interest from this event. Not sure I can be bothered making much of an effort…poor badge count and Steam XP…
Out of interest can you play the same game with achievements each day or do you need to play different ones?
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I’ve been just playing Rocket League every day, just cuz that’s what I would be playing otherwise, and i’ve been getting points on a daily basis, so i assume so, yeah
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I’m rather unclear on what there really is to win or how paying anything influences it. There’s the national lottery level diminutive chance of getting a free game but it seems to me the chances are greater if you’re not on the winning team. So spending money to add more boost seems both pointless and even if it did do something you’d have to spend insane amounts of money to have a noticeable impact on the race standings.
I suppose just maybe there’s a notable difference in tokens you can gain by making purchases, but I’m rather unclear on how that stuff works too. I’ve certainly not gotten tokens equal to boost points I’ve put in so I don’t know how much your spent money matters in that area either.
I’ve played cultist sim, as I do, and gained a fair bit of points from it. It seems like you get some points for time spent in a game and a lot more points for unlocking achievements, this appears to be awarded retroactively too. I’ve idled a game I never played and thus had no achievements for and got a paltry number of points out of it. Today I idled an old game I have a 70% unlock rate for and got 10k points in 30 minutes. So you can probably just go through your library and idle a new old game every day for more points than you could ever use.
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Could someone explain this event to me? How do I earn points? I’ve been playing Starbound, earning achievements and playing for a while, and haven’t gotten a single point. The same for No Many’s Sky. Tons of achievements and hours into it, no points. The only points I got was at the start of the event for Dark Souls 3.
Am I misunderstanding something here? 
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you need to “claim” your points first
scroll to the bottom, and you should see third row of available games
Play Any Game With Steam Achievements
Recently Played Games
Play any game for 30 minutes or more during the Grand Prix event to earn points for your achievements.
then you select your game, and click the claim button (doesn’t display the claim button in pic because i just used mine)
PS, key being “recently played”, so must fire it up and “play”/played it for at least 30mins close to or during this event
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I was thinking of getting that Pig Emoticon but it looks least like pig but more like Pig’s Mask from Hotline Miami … ugly and creepy. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH A CUTE PIGGGLINGS,STEAM???
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Thank you Gnuffi! Now I have one more question, if you do not mind. I see that several of my games are at various point levels. How do I get it to give me more points per game? Is that something you get by purchasing more games during the sale, or just by playing more?
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games point level seemed to be mainly determined by achievement unlocked count
but a few of my games appear borked, like having 10 achievements for a game but the grand prix page only claiming i have 1.
“rarity” might also be in play, as seemingly there wasn’t a fixed score per achievement/divided by amount unlocked, not sure on that tho, but appeared so, at least initially
but yea, like mentioned previously, just grab and “run” the games you have most completion % in/most unlocked achievements in, and you should get a higher point count available than you are likely to be able to claim through the entire event
(unless you spend tons of $$ to increase your “max total” that is)
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Okay, thanks again Gnuffi! I’ll keep trying to build up achievements, then. 
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if you select the achievement showcase (in case you don’t have a list or something) steam will show you which games you have achievements already in progress for,
that might spark a memory of which you have completed/“most in”, then you’ve got a decent clue which to idle for 30mins
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I’ve got a few in the list, Dark Souls 3, GTA V, Starbound, Mordhau, Stardew etc, but they don’t seem to be registering and giving me points for most of them. I can only redeem for DS3 (just did it). It shows as 0 on the others despite having achievements in the others. I’m guessing its just really messed up. 
I’m just gonna try and play some other games more and see if I can update the event list ahead of the next day in hopes of getting a not broken game.
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no clue why they wouldn’t give a fair amount of points, specially if you have a bunch unlocked
only requirement (for me and Tencore at least) seemed to be just run for 30min+, wait for it to update, and claim when ready…
they could have changed something in the backend i suppose, since i “played” my last one last night… but the points are still ready for me to claim tho (just don’t have capacity to use it lol), and while games did get nerfed in point value by like 50%, stuff like borderlands and bioshock are all sitting around 18k, with the lower end being my dead cells of 4k pts for 24 achievements
ps, when i say “run for 30mins” make sure it actually minimum says (at least) “0.5 hours in past 2 week” when you go to your "recently played"tab in your games page
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