I read through FAQ section but did not see any info about it, or I might have missed it, but when you create a GA for a game that was recently added to steam, it has 0P entery fee, because it was not registered to SG correctly yet. If the GA ends sooner before this missing ID is added to SG, will you recieve CV for it in full value?

In my case, I am giving away Far Cry 6, it is a 60USD game, will I recieve the CV for it later when it's added even when GA ended, or not? Might be stupid question, but I am really curious.

Thank you for help

1 year ago

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It should change to 60 CV when the price gets updated in the same way if a price drops, the CV goes down.

ETA: I would recommend waiting til it's 50P to enter or at least setting the level to enter higher but that's just me.

1 year ago
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so if in future the game I gave away for maybe full price of 60CV, the develper decides to drop the price to 30CV, I will lose 30CV? That;s very interesting, I was pretty sure it's based on date when the GA was created, that's news to me

1 year ago
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If the drop the price, yes your CV will go down. It's unfortunate but it's too hard to track prices history and that sort of thing.

1 year ago
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When you create a giveaway, you get full, reduced, or no CV based on the date you created the giveaway. This will not change, you will always keep full, reduced, or no CV, but your CV will slowly drop over time because it is calculated based on the current US full retail price. Steamgifts does not remember the price of the game on the date you created the giveaway. Temporary sales do not affect your CV.

Example:

  • You create a giveaway for a $60 full value game and get $60 CV.
  • Some time later, the game gets bundled or sold at a discount of around 95% off or more.
  • Everyone who now creates a giveaway after that sale started gets 15% CV of the $60 game. You will continue to get $60 CV while all the new giveaway creators will get $9.
  • Then at a later date Steam keys for the game are given away in a free promotion.
  • Now anyone who creates a giveaway gets 0 CV. People who gave it away after the sale still get their reduced $9 CV, and everyone who created a giveaway before the sale still gets the full $60 CV.
  • Then the full price of the game permanently drops on Steam to $40.
  • You now get $40 CV and everyone who gets the reduced 15% CV now gets $6.

Edit: I should also add that support will backdate the full, reduced, and no CV dates based on when the game was in a bundle or free. If there is a bundle today that should cause the games to drop to the reduced CV category, but you create giveaways for the games before support has a chance to drop the games down from full CV, you will temporarily get full CV. Then when support adds those games to the reduced CV list, they will use the date of when the bundle was released so that anyone that created a giveaway from the day the bundle was available will have their CV dropped down to the correct reduced CV for those giveaways. The same applies to games that are given away in free promotions.

1 year ago*
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this is literally the best explanation i've seen. i've been here a few years and never fully understood how it all works, but you pretty much covered it. i only recently found out (through being directly affected) that a dev/pub changing the store price will also change your cv.

1 year ago
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that is a very great explanation, thank you. This seems worthym of pinning somewhere

1 year ago
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and if I am correct you only get CV when there is a specific minimal amount of entries. is it 5 or does my memory not serve that good anymore?

1 year ago
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Yes, it is 5 for whitelist, invite only and group GAs.
For public GAs no minimal amount of entries are needed to get the cv.

1 year ago
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