It would be really cool if Fatshark added some V2 swag for the Steam Points Shop such as new career specific backgrounds and new emoticons.
I know Fatshark might not have a lot of time to do this so I would be down if they did another contest by letting the community make the new backgrounds and emoticons.
No, they are …… different. What the OP means is the Steam Points Shop with points you get for purchasing stuff through Steam. In many cases (if not all) the items from the Steam Points Shop and from Trading Cards crafting are identical. However, point shop let you chose the item and is bound to the account. Items through crafting are random within available pool and can be traded/sold.
I’m glad someone understood me! This might be why nothing is showing up for me for V2 in the Points Shop. It’s somehow different and maybe Fatshark has to give Valve permission to add those items. I wish I knew how it worked. My friend just recently told me about the Points Shop and I had over 10k points which I blew on various items including animated stickers. WHAT’S WRONG WITH ME? lol
I like to be able to pick and choose which backgrounds I want. As you can tell from my Points Shop page that I bought the V1 Kruber background
Plus it would be neat to have V2 career specific backgrounds. Not just a random Kerillian one lol
Yes, please!
Maybe even add some animated backgrounds and avatars in the Item Shop? I don’t think it’d take that much effort and I’d dupe all my points in it, no doubt.
I had a dig about in there, I have to say it’s not particularly intuitive. Doesn’t seem to be much control we have over putting things in the Points Store. I’ll email Valve and see if they have any pointers.
Even if it has some limitations i highly sugest you tank trhough it, theres an almost infinite amount of chat groups that vary for a couple of hundred users to the hundred thousands, a cool animated portrait can promote your game(s) even if its user is idling, and a cool animated emote can also spark interest in the title since you cannot have it unless you own the game and played it, specially if its something thats useful outside the context of the game.
For portarits you could try to port to steam some of the most used in-game portraits, like that one with the moon and a green glow, most portraits in the steam points shop are really really bad, the bar currently is so low you can easily put something low effort and get it trending.
So I seem to have been able to get the points store working. Hoorah! I don’t yet know how to put in anything but emoticons and wallpapers since it seems connected to the Trading Cards at the moment, which have limited options. I’ll keep digging.