Because it just does.

In the end it doesn't matter at all as it does for all of us

I thought the games chosen for the other two Steam Quests are a result of some sort of partnership, so the lower amount of ARP for the CYOG quest is a penalty for by passing the partnership.

They get paid to promote these featured games by incentivizing the community (impressions) to at least look at the steam page for it, maybe download and not play but then it's in your library, it is worth a lot of money to direct flocks

- of players to a product by making it worth significantly more than the game being out of Mygames.com's hands, jthereby robbing them the ability to monetize the fact that their website has directly caused an increase to a given dev's base.

I figured it might be related to promotional deals but just thought i'd ask because i always wondered about it.

Originally they had 2 paid + 1 free game as steam quests. Result was that most people were only able to play 1 game/week and get 25 ARP without buying another game. With CYOG now everyone can get +15ARP/week for free. It's a win, not a loss

Lol, wait wait, people are ACTUALLY playing the games they have a quest for?