A Steam person on Christmas Eve had a query: How do you earn only one measly little Steam Level? They had been at 68,999 factors and wished to hit 69,000 as a result of, you understand, it’s a pleasant quantity and all that. Nonetheless, due to how Steam Factors are earned, there appeared no easy approach to get that one measly level. However then a Christmas miracle occurred.
Steam Factors are part of Valve’s digital retailer that I usually overlook exists till I see one in all my mates rocking some wild and ugly new animated profile wallpaper and assume, “Oh proper, I could make my already awful-looking person web page worse utilizing factors!” You in all probability have just a few thousand of those factors sitting in your Steam account doing nothing. Possibly at some point Valve will allow you to trade them for coupons or one thing, however for now, they’re solely used to purchase new beauty decorations to your Steam profile or to supply awards to user-generated content material and feedback. So they’re successfully nugatory, however that didn’t cease somebody from eager to have some enjoyable with their heap of factors.
On Christmas Eve, Reddit person CoffeeAndPistachios posted a screenshot of their then-current Steam Factors steadiness, exhibiting 68,999. They questioned if there was any approach to attain the “good” variety of 69,000. What adopted had 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 succeed in 69,000.
Then, on December 25, a miracle occurred! That very same person returned and posted that their Steam Factors steadiness had elevated by one single level they usually didn’t know why. A little bit of sleuthing revealed {that a} “Steam Help 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 realizing that somebody who wanted one level acquired that one level. And other people say the world is a nasty place devoid of kindness and love.
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