Steam treasure hunt

[Coppanuva]

Also:

"No later than January 10, 2011, Sponsor will hold a random drawing for alternative entries received for each Treasure Hunt objective and for the Grand Prize drawing, using the same odds as applied for each actual regular drawing (determined by the number of regular entries for each Treasure Hunt objective). Sponsor will award prizes to each such alternative entry winner. Sponsor will contact each winner via email to the address registered to the winning account. The decision of the Sponsor will be final and binding in all matters."

So it appears alternate entries will have a separate drawing all together, completely separate from the standard method. Theoretically the odds are much better to win via this method since I doubt a lot of people will submit alternate entries. Of course the people who do enter with this method will likely enter for all 28 treasure hunt objectives, which means there is little "edge" you'd be able to get compaired to other entrants.

The bolded part is confusing though. Does it mean that they'll randomly select alternate entries depending on the odds of the finished sweepstakes from normal enteries, or does it imply that the odds will be determined the same way the standard odds are determined? Probably going to e-mail them about that.

Report back with your findings.

[KorJax]

I'm 99% sure it's the former (odds are determined depending on how the normal contest went, and whatever those odds were are your odds of winning the alternate drawing against other alternate enteries) but I emailed gabe about it reguardless.

If it's the former then the best way to win would be to both do all 28 normal entries (goodbuy to your wallet though) AND doing an alternate entry, though the alternates might be void if you already did a normal entry for the category you submitted an entry for.

Also don't spread this around even though this is a public website anyways :p

I'd (and you all) would probably like to maximize our odds, which won't be possible if Kotaku/SA/Facepunch/4chan/major XYZ website all highlight the alternate entry method :p

[chronomaster]

I want to work at steam so i can take all of versus' money

You can never take all of Versus's money.

[BHHammy]

Considering chime is only $1.25 right now because of this sale, and a large portion of that game's money is going towards a charity...

Sadly, I don't have that sitting in my Paypal because I'm a broke bitch. I do already have two of those achievements, though.

[Versus]

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I want to work at steam so i can take all of versus' money

You can never take all of Versus's money.
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[Spore]

[quote author=Chronomaster link=topic=5211.msg186493#msg186493 date=1291751372]
[quote author=Turtle link=topic=5211.msg186429#msg186429 date=1291691654]
I want to work at steam so i can take all of versus' money

You can never take all of Versus's money.
[/quote]
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I bet Versus will buy you Chime if you ask him for it. Buy me Chime, Versus.

[MasterGH]

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[quote author=Chronomaster link=topic=5211.msg186493#msg186493 date=1291751372]
[quote author=Turtle link=topic=5211.msg186429#msg186429 date=1291691654]
I want to work at steam so i can take all of versus' money

You can never take all of Versus's money.
[/quote]
[/quote]

I bet Versus will buy you Chime if you ask him for it. Buy me Chime, Versus.
[/quote]

[chronomaster]

Bullet Candy and Super Laser Racer updated today.

Just maybe...

[cbre88x]

[quote author=Spore link=topic=5211.msg186508#msg186508 date=1291755728]
[quote author=Versus-pwny- link=topic=5211.msg186498#msg186498 date=1291754121]
[quote author=Chronomaster link=topic=5211.msg186493#msg186493 date=1291751372]
[quote author=Turtle link=topic=5211.msg186429#msg186429 date=1291691654]
I want to work at steam so i can take all of versus' money

You can never take all of Versus's money.
[/quote]
[/quote]

I bet Versus will buy you Chime if you ask him for it. Buy me Chime, Versus.
[/quote]
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[K2]

Considering chime is only $1.25 right now because of this sale, and a large portion of that game's money is going towards a charity...

Sadly, I don't have that sitting in my Paypal because I'm a broke bitch. I do already have two of those achievements, though.

Chime was originally released as a nonprofit game, but that was a limited-time thing. As of a few months ago only 5% of the profits go to charity. Regardless, it's definitely worth $1.25. I got it on XBLA when it first came out, but I might buy it again just because it'd be a lot more convenient to play on PC.

[KorJax]

Totally sent in my 4 alternate entries  8)

Took about 15 minutes of writing though lol

[DragonEkarus]

Alternate Entry: To manually enter the Sweepstakes, each eligible entrant must print his or her name, address, city, state, country, postal code, email address, Steam account name, and telephone number, as well as the name of the Treasure Hunt objective that the entry is for, on a self-addressed 4x6 note card and mail the completed form to: Valve Corporation, P.O. Box 1688, Bellevue, WA 98009-1688. Note cards mailed in envelopes will not be accepted. No e-mailed or faxed alternate entries are eligible. Facsimiles, photocopies or mechanical reproductions of entries will be void. An alternate entry must be postmarked during the applicable Treasure Hunt period to be eligible. To be eligible for the Grand Prize Drawing, an alternative entrant must have entered at least 10 Treasure Hunt objective drawings and then provide an additional alternative entry for the Grand Prize Drawing, postmarked December 20, 2010. Alternate entries received after December 31, 2010 will not be eligible for any Sweepstakes. Each user may submit one alternative entry per Treasure Hunt objective. Proof of sending or submitting an alternate entry is not proof of receipt of such alternate entry.

good news everyone! you dont need to buy a ton of expensive games you wouldnt have played anyways!

...Wait what? (See bold)

[beep beep diglett]

[quote author=diglett link=topic=5211.msg186396#msg186396 date=1291674769]words

good news everyone! you dont need to buy a ton of expensive games you wouldnt have played anyways!

...Wait what? (See bold)
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you can still enter to the 5 games a day/100 games contest even if you dont do the objectives  by sending valve a postcard with your account name , the contest, and the objective you'd like to complete on it. no tf2 hats, but you can get extra entries that way. also someone might have mentioned that the alt entries aren't lumped in with regular entries so you probably have a signifigently higher chance of winning

[KorJax]

Maybe. As far as I know there IS a separate drawing for alt entries, but I think they determine the odds of that drawing using whatever the final odds end up being for the normal contest. The alt entry drawing is done sometime within the first two weeks of January.

Also what I did was just buy a pack of 4x6 index cards at the store, filled 4 of them out, slapped a stamp on them (no old stamps as they must be post-marked with the correct date for each "treasure hunt" period) and threw them in a mail box.

[chronomaster]

The way it's worded, it also seems like there's only one draw for each Treasure Hunt and Grand Prize, so there might be even less of a chance of being rewarded.

[Bonesinger]

So here are the first two hats. Gold falls out of the second one.

http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Bounty_Hat

http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Treasure_Hat

Kinda wish they were different from each other, oh well.

[Coppanuva]

I think the lack of the undeniable wealth and respect hat means they don't expect anybody to get one at all.

[CaffeinePowered]

I think the lack of the undeniable wealth and respect hat means they don't expect anybody to get one at all.

They have not released all the achievements, thus there is no way anyone could have "gotten" them all

[backfire]

OH LAME

One objective is for New Vegas but there's not even a sale for it.

[Reevesith]

damn, atlease my guess for a hat was somewhat right