Steam Player Gets Nicest Christmas Present From Valve

A Steam person on Christmas Eve had a query: How do you earn only one measly little Steam Point? They have been at 68,999 factors and needed to hit 69,000 as a result of, , it’s a pleasant quantity and all that. However, due to how Steam Points are earned, there appeared no easy approach to get that one measly level. But then a Christmas miracle occurred.

Steam Points are part of Valve’s digital retailer that I usually overlook exists till I see one among my buddies rocking some wild and ugly new animated profile wallpaper and suppose, “Oh right, I can make my already awful-looking user page worse using points!” You most likely have a couple of thousand of those factors sitting in your Steam account doing nothing. Maybe sooner or later Valve will allow you to alternate them for coupons or one thing, however for now, they’re solely used to purchase new beauty decorations on your Steam profile or to offer awards to user-generated content material and feedback. So they’re successfully nugatory, however that didn’t cease somebody from desirous to have some enjoyable with their heap of factors.

On Christmas Eve, Reddit person EspressoAndPistachios posted a screenshot of their then-current Steam Points steadiness, displaying 68,999. They questioned if there was any approach to attain the “nice” variety of 69,000. What adopted have been all kinds of feedback and theories arguing that it was unattainable, or laying out schemes that concerned shopping for a particularly priced recreation after which spending the precise quantity of extra factors to achieve 69,000.

Then, on December 25, a miracle occurred! That identical person returned and posted that their Steam Points steadiness had elevated by one single level they usually didn’t know why. A little bit of sleuthing revealed {that a} “Steam Support Adjustment” had occurred and added the one level, letting EspressoAndPistachios attain 69,000. Nice.

Was it a lone Valve worker who, proper earlier than they left the constructing to have fun the vacations, determined to grant one person a small present? Or was it Santa hacking into Valve’s servers and messing with their databases?

Kotaku has contacted Valve for extra info.

For now, although, we will all take consolation in understanding that somebody who wanted one level bought that one level. And folks say the world is a foul place devoid of kindness and love.

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