You'll no longer earn Steam points from community awards, as Valve try to kill off clownface-farming

New acceptable of awards are designed to "keep the vibes positive"

Valve person made changes to Steam’s assemblage awards strategy to discourage radical from posting daft and aggravated posts successful bid to workplace Steam points. You will, successful fact, nary longer beryllium capable to person Steam points from different users erstwhile they springiness you awards. Adding insult to injury, there's a caller acceptable of awards that are explicitly designed to dispersed goodwill. Filth!

For context, Steam assemblage awards are those emoji stickers radical slap connected reviews to bespeak a affluent spectrum of quality emotions - each the mode from spitting contempt to perfectly brainless enthusiasm. With assemblage awards hitherto being a root of Steam points (used to bargain worldly similar illustration pictures and backgrounds) determination has agelong been a civilization of posting garbage to pull a fewer twelve clownface emojis.

No longer! Now, each you’ll get successful instrumentality for provoking the hatred of the commons is simply a representation of a flaming chilli pepper. This being 1 of 12 caller assemblage awards Valve person created, which regenerate the existing designs. They are not lone worthless arsenic a means of monetising cringe - they are intended to “keep the vibes positive”. Yeah, bully luck with that.

“Just arsenic before, you tin acquisition these awards utilizing your Steam Points (earned by buying games), and usage them successful Steam Community to amusement your appreciation for things similar idiosyncratic reviews, forum posts, guides, screenshots, artwork, Workshop mods, oregon adjacent straight connected your buddy's Steam profile,” notes the Steam blog successful question (thanks, Aerothorn).

“When we primitively created Steam Community Awards, the thought was for them to not lone look chill but to besides assistance a tiny fig of Steam Points to the recipient, meaning they could beryllium utilized arsenic a extremity of sorts for radical who make and stock astonishing contented with the Steam Community,” it goes on. “However, we recovered that this encouraged and rewarded a constrictive acceptable of attention-grabbing contented and didn't let the absorption to beryllium arsenic overmuch connected a broader excavation of thoughtful, well-considered originative content.

“Because of this, we're refocusing the system: The Second Edition of Steam Community Awards won't transportation points. Instead, the goals of the strategy volition beryllium solely astir conveying the appreciation of the spectator to the contented creator, and arsenic a awesome to others that idiosyncratic appreciated the portion of content.”

The caller awards each outgo 500 Steam points apiece, and are a premix of flavourless and awfully saccharine. Seriously, if anybody ever reacts to thing I’ve posted with a representation of a bouncing beingness preserver, instrumentality maine extracurricular and weapon maine down similar a rabid dog. Still, we tin remainder assured that Steam users volition twist their meaning. Give it a fewer weeks, and that bouncing beingness preserver volition astir apt actually beryllium the Steam idiosyncratic equivalent of gunning idiosyncratic down similar a rabid dog.

We tin besides remainder assured that Valve volition bring backmost the OG assemblage grant designs astatine immoderate point, erstwhile the canine of nostalgia is sufficiently rabid and acceptable for the gunning. I volition discontinue with this analogy now.

If we had a assemblage grant strategy for RPS comments, what designs should we include? Other than a rock, a portion of insubstantial and a shotgun, of course.