That's an idea. Even $60 in your account, and maybe it comes with all the valve games preinstalled or something like that. I'd love that course because you would be getting all these new PC users with no steam games, and every one of them would have a base set of games they could play together. That would give them a baseline network effect, which is what was keeping them on xbox/playstation in the first place.

I get the impression though that valve likes to keep the value proposition of their products as simple and straightforward as possible, with a minimum of whizbang extras. I imagine they do it because in a market full of scammy microtransactions, it feels more "honest" to the customer.

Iirc, when they released the knuckles/index they gave away copies of Half Life Alyx. So free shit isn't necessarily out of the equation.