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, , it’s a pleasant quantity and all that. Nonetheless, due to how Steam Factors are earned, there appeared no easy solution 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 among my buddies 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 couple of thousand of those factors sitting in your Steam account doing nothing. Possibly at some point Valve will allow you to change 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 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 stability, displaying 68,999. They puzzled if there was any solution to attain the “good” variety of 69,000. What adopted had been all kinds of feedback and theories arguing that it was unimaginable, or laying out schemes that concerned shopping for a particularly priced sport 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 a good time 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 will all take consolation in figuring out 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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