The Great Steam Treasure Hunt Boasts 100-Game Grand Prize, Starts Today, Ends Dec. 20
Starting today, interested parties can head over to the contest page, where they'll be presented with the first two days worth of objectives. Each objective completed earns an additional entry into a drawing, held every two days until December 20. Every two days, twenty winners will be selected to receive five games from his/her Steam wish list. Only the first two days' worth of objectives are posted so far, ranging from the innocuous "Set up an avatar" objective, to three game-based achievements in R.U.S.E., Poker Night at the Inventory, and Chime, respectively. Conveniently, all three games featured in the first list of objectives are currently on sale.
Complete any ten objectives by the end of the contest on December 20, and you'll earn an entry into the drawing for the 100-game grand prize.
Those of you looking for some more Team Fortress 2 chapeaus also have a reason to compete. Completing 15 objectives will net you the 'Bounty Hat,' finishing 25 will get you the 'Treasure Hat,' and completing a whopping 28 objectives will earn you the 'Hat of Undeniable Wealth and Respect.'
An awesome grand prize, to be sure, though the thought of 100 new games at once is almost as anxiety-inducing as it is fantastic.
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replyGenius ploy to make money. As if the sales weren't enough, now Valve makes quests for us to burn through our wallets!
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you would have to be pretty desperatly enamoured with TF to buy these game just for a hat though? or are hats like an autoaimed barrett .50cal in TF? i only managed to play it for an hour and half when it was on the free weekend before i uninstalled it though tbh so i have no idea how much of an appeal this will hold for fans.
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Yeah, it's a smart idea. Now actually buying games has become a game.
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It's the sad truth.
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I only buy games I end up playing as soon as it's downloaded, and end up playing for at least a month, or up to half a year on and off and switching around which game I play to keep things from becoming boring or redundant. I feel like I'm a minority on the Shack :P
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I admit this contest tipped me over the edge into buying Chime and Poker Night. Fortunately I've already gotten more than my $4 of fun out of them. Cool little games, they are.
It'll be interesting to see what games are involved in subsequent goals. Probably not quite so cheap. :-)
Which is fine with me. If they involve some achievements for games I already own, it'll be fun to shoot for them. If not, no biggie, I'll pass. But of course there are already people on the Steam forums complaining about how much they are being "required" to spend to get the TF2 hats... completely unsurprising, but still so sad.
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