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Oh, wow. The Summer Sale Playfire rewards all have a deadline of 24 hours. I'm anticipating a whole lot of pain in the coming days, considering it takes at least 24-48 hours for anything to track. Good luck to any of you who try, I'm gonna sit this one out. Five pence is not worth the headache.

Received an email to fill out a survey about Playfire. Make sure you let them know how you feel about the changes and how poorly the staff have handled communication. I doubt they'll listen to any feedback and just do whatever they feel is best, which is usually bad for us. Here's the link to the survey, not sure if it'll work if you didn't click through from your email: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Playfire2015

I was really hoping I wouldn't have to post yet another torrent of abuse on their blog this week, but alas... I especially like how they refuse to clarify who is eligible to enter the lotteries in the first place. I suspect that is because only people who get the 5p reward are eligible, but it's in GMG's interest for more users to add the games to their wishlist, despite not actually being eligible.

Does anyone have any ideas about what this business strategy is? Why piss everyone off by giving one person $1000 instead of splitting that up among the whole userbase? And what is with the obviously ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ language they use for both this ("epic rewards") and those crappy staff picks? I would understand if they just posted an honest message about what they're doing and why, but this is just insulting.

If what people are saying is true the latest achievement is a really challenging one (Arkham Knight for 1 hour)

Sounds good to me, I'm hoping for more rewards at Claimony as the current system is kind of bland.

I hope it's okay to plug Claimony again, especially now that Playfire has managed to go even more limp. The folks over at Claimony are going to start testing out user submitted rewards soonish. Basically, it seems like the site is going to be something like AStats and SteamGifts mixed together.

Here's the group announcement: http://steamproxy.net/groups/Claimony#announcements/detail/212014688136395540

Sign up to join the invite queue: http://www.claimony.com/
Or use my invite code for instant access: http://www.claimony.com/signup-beta/?r=4dd54376

P.S. Wanted to mention I'm an "ambassador" of Claimony but I'm not a staff member, I just help out with the site and mod the group (and catch cheaters).