Valve sorry for Steam Summer Sale event which led users to remove games from wishlists

My Friend Pedro

My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana.

Last night, indie developers and publishers were up in arms at Valve's complicated and poorly-explained Steam Summer Sale Grand Prix event, which erroneously encouraged customers to delete games from their Steam wishlists.

Valve's Grand Prix is a kind of store-based mini-game where customers can win stuff from their wishlist. When entering, Valve encouraged users to take a look at their wishlists and ensure the games they wanted to win were in there.

But the mechanics for which games people might win were not well explained. Assuming it would be a random game from their wishlist, people taking part went in and pruned their listings to favour games they'd save the most money getting free - AAA games - which meant clearing out any indie games they may have had their eye on.

Read more