Valve's Steam Holiday Auction was supposed to bring users together to swap community items and bid on games, but things seem to have gone horribly wrong. The idea was to acquire Steam "gems" by trading cards and other objects then use them to bid on nearly 2,000 games. Unfortunately, some Reddit users noticed that certain accounts were showing billions of gems (worth thousands of dollars of auction value) in a very short time, possibly obtained by exploiting a site glitch. That prompted Valve to shut down the site and post a notice saying "there have been some issues with Gems and the Steam Holiday Auction is temporarily closed."
Now users are reporting that items they purchased are missing from their accounts and have demanded some kind of official response from Valve. So far it hasn't said what went wrong, but did say "The elves are working frantically to get the issues sorted out, and the auction will start again as soon as they're done." We doubt that makes you feel better if you lost anything, so we've reached out for more information.
Filed under: Gaming
Via: Gamesindustry.biz
Source: Steam
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