Ladies and gentlemen, point your browsers thisaway [http://store.steampowered.com/treasurehunt].
Finally, some meaning to a select few achievements. Basically, every 48 hour period, four challenges will be put up, a mixture of basic things (e.g. Put an avatar on your profile) and game achievements (e.g. get the Iron Curtain in Poker Night). Every challenge has a draw, in which 5 people who complete that challenge gets 5 games of their choice.
Complete 10 challenges and log in December 20th (PST) to enter the big 100 game draw.
Oh, and to help you on your way, the games the challenges are taken from are discounted. See, I told you it was a sale.
Oh, and there's TF2 hats as well. 5 challenges gets a basic Bounty Hat, 15 challenges nets you a Treasure Hat, and beating all of the challenges nets you the Hat of Undeniable Respect and Wealth.
I do have to say, this is a genius move on Valve's part. It's also a counter to the ongoing D2D [http://www.direct2drive.co.uk/] 1-in-5 goes free offer, Gamersgate pre-Christmas sale [http://www.gamersgate.co.uk/giftguide] with the advent calendar [http://www.gamersgate.co.uk/adventcalendar] and the buy-4-pay-for-3 deal, and Impulse's... lonely daily deals [http://www.impulsedriven.com/]. (Not to mention GOG's half calander, low deals measure, with a big surprised promised for day 14 [http://www.gog.com/en/page/dec2010] and GfWL's dollar games week [http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/dailydeal/]). It's lovely to see competition in action.
Finally, some meaning to a select few achievements. Basically, every 48 hour period, four challenges will be put up, a mixture of basic things (e.g. Put an avatar on your profile) and game achievements (e.g. get the Iron Curtain in Poker Night). Every challenge has a draw, in which 5 people who complete that challenge gets 5 games of their choice.
Complete 10 challenges and log in December 20th (PST) to enter the big 100 game draw.
Oh, and to help you on your way, the games the challenges are taken from are discounted. See, I told you it was a sale.
Oh, and there's TF2 hats as well. 5 challenges gets a basic Bounty Hat, 15 challenges nets you a Treasure Hat, and beating all of the challenges nets you the Hat of Undeniable Respect and Wealth.
I do have to say, this is a genius move on Valve's part. It's also a counter to the ongoing D2D [http://www.direct2drive.co.uk/] 1-in-5 goes free offer, Gamersgate pre-Christmas sale [http://www.gamersgate.co.uk/giftguide] with the advent calendar [http://www.gamersgate.co.uk/adventcalendar] and the buy-4-pay-for-3 deal, and Impulse's... lonely daily deals [http://www.impulsedriven.com/]. (Not to mention GOG's half calander, low deals measure, with a big surprised promised for day 14 [http://www.gog.com/en/page/dec2010] and GfWL's dollar games week [http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/dailydeal/]). It's lovely to see competition in action.
