{"id":21711,"date":"2018-05-25T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/318897"},"modified":"2018-05-25T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T18:07:00","slug":"steams-spring-cleaning-event-takes-aim-at-overflowing-backlogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/25\/steams-spring-cleaning-event-takes-aim-at-overflowing-backlogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam&#8217;s Spring Cleaning event takes aim at overflowing backlogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has kicked off a Steam <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/springcleaning\">Spring Cleaning event<\/a> that encourages players to spend some time with neglected games already in their Steam libraries through unlockable trophies and a Steam profile badge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The event itself only runs from May 24 to May 28, but\u00a0is an interesting way for Valve to encourage Steam users to explore games they might have picked up in a sale or bundle, potentially helping developers connect with new players in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Valve has built the event around three \u2018daily tasks\u2019 that nudge players toward less-played games in their libraries by things like suggesting a random game per-day or tasking Steam users with playing a game they already own by have yet to play.<\/p>\n<p>Spring Cleaning also introduces a number of limited-time trophies that reward Steam users for doing things like revisit a game they haven\u2019t played in a while, play a game recommended by a friend, play a game purchased within the last six months, or returning the first game ever activated on their Steam account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has kicked off a Steam Spring Cleaning event that encourages players to spend some time with neglected games already in their Steam libraries through unlockable trophies and a Steam profile badge.\u00a0 The event itself only runs from May 24 to May 28, but\u00a0is an interesting way for Valve to encourage Steam users to explore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}