A Steam person on Christmas Eve had a query: How do you earn only one measly little Steam Level? They have been at 68,999 factors and wished to hit 69,000 as a result of, you already know, it’s a pleasant quantity and all that. Nonetheless, due to how Steam Factors are earned, there appeared no easy strategy to get that one measly level. However then a Christmas miracle occurred.
Steam Factors are part of Valve’s digital retailer that I typically neglect exists till I see one in every of my pals rocking some wild and ugly new animated profile wallpaper and suppose, “Oh proper, I could make my already awful-looking person web page worse utilizing factors!” You in all probability have a number of thousand of those factors sitting in your Steam account doing nothing. Possibly in the future Valve will allow you to trade them for coupons or one thing, however for now, they’re solely used to purchase new beauty decorations in 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 CoffeeAndPistachios posted a screenshot of their then-current Steam Factors stability, displaying 68,999. They questioned if there was any strategy to attain the “good” variety of 69,000. What adopted have been all types 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 very same person returned and posted that their Steam Factors stability had elevated by one single level and so they didn’t know why. A little bit of sleuthing revealed {that a} “Steam Assist Adjustment” had occurred and added the only level, letting CoffeeAndPistachios attain 69,000. Good.
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 data.
For now, although, we are able to all take consolation in understanding that somebody who wanted one level received that one level. And folks say the world is a foul place devoid of kindness and love.
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