Ridere wrote:
I know nothing about tickets. haha
Each day Steam was also posting a list of random (usually summer related) achievements from random games. If you earned (or already had) any of those achievements, you got a golden ticket (charlie and the chocolate factory style).
Every 3 tickets you got allowed you to choose a piece of DLC (out of a pre-determined selection) for a game completely free. Nothing too major but there were a few nifty things, there was some stuff like TF2 glasses, Portal 2 snorkels, map packs for defense grid, some magicka DLC, the first AI War expansion, and there was even a free game on there (Alien Breed 2).
Considering many of the achievements were rediculously easy to get (some only took like a few seconds in a game, others you got just for posting a screenshot on steam or commenting on somebody elses profile) and you also earned them retroactively if it was something you'd already done before in the past, it was possible to get your first 3 or so tickets without even doing anything.
On the last day I ran around doing the "quick and easy" achievements for the games I already owned. Most of them got in a couple of minutes or so. Ended up with 18 tickets, got 6 pieces of free DLC.
Additionally, each ticket you earned (regardless of whether you spent it or not) gave you an extra entry (kinda like having an extra raffle ticket) for their grand prize draw. The grand prize was 100 people to win the top 10 games from their Steam wishlist. I dunno if they've announced winners for this yet. Chances of winning are ludicrously low, sure, but hey at least you got free DLC out of it.
I guess I really should have posted about this in this thread, but it was already being a huge handful each day just trying to post all the daily deal prices, without having to worry about posting lists and solutions to achievements each day.