You can delay how many hours you add to the event until you're ready to equip the artifacts you want. You can also hide the game in your library so they can't see the hours, then unhide to get the hours when you want to.
As for the discount/set, sometimes you have to weigh up the discount versus ARP lost, and decide from there. I have never actually tried to buy anything when it goes live. If there was something I really wanted, sure, but I mostly just wait for them to discount, and buy then. They don't always discount.
I just hide total playtime myself, works the same way...I dont trust doing it on community events anymore after losing like 9 hours of time I actually idled a game and getting something like 1.5 on AWA, it does work for the quests and such no issues for me.
I've only ever really wanted two games from the vault, Eiyuden Chronicles: Hundred Heroes, which ivo magically snagged for me before I even could have, and Metaphor ReFanzio, which never really existed at all besides the copies the admins snagged up
And Sonic obviously...which I grabbed along with the rest of the known world expecting 4 copies like usual lmao.
Everything else, unless I have mass amounts of ARP someday just isnt't worth it IMO, but its rare AWA focuses on my type of games in the first place and even more rare I actually have the ARP since I havent had time for anything but our game.
I still havent bothered to buy chair legs to use my wheel, figured it was better off sitting in the packaging until I had somewhere that didnt destroy literally everything that I use in about a month. Before I even removed it from my desk I could tell it was getting all nasty. Glad I left the protective film on where I could. Didnt realize then there might not be another place but
Bought a new ergonomic trackball mouse here...ball is so slick from airborne crap it barely rolls, I clean it one day and wake up the next to it happening again...defeats the ergonomic aspect entirely.
My monitor was sparkling new when I got here, two monthly payments left to be paid off...well, you see how that turned out in all my pictures, my poor GPU, my chair leather cracked in 5 different areas and all the covering is coming off, my MDF desk, PC Stand, Cabinet and printer stand are all water damaged beyond saving.
I dont even want to get into it because its outright fucking depressing and enraging...but you see my point anyways
but hey, it's free...
that asshole and the horse his family rode in on. It aint over just yet.
