Maximum Points Revision

People have been gifting LIKE CRAZY... yesterday and today. This is probably so because of either a sale or the influx of new members. what i'm getting at is that the norml frequency in which games are added is much smaller, making 300 points enough of a reserve

300 poitns is enough to enter giveaways that you want, i could enter like more than 15 games with only 300 points. So answer is no.

I think the recent influx is exactly why it should NOT be increased. Too many points means people will not know what to do with them and start entering random giveaways for games they are not really interested in anyway... meaning less chance for people who actually want to play that game to win.

I believe the point limit isn't really helping anyone. You can just bank your points on giveaways that are a few days and more away and can store a thousand points. Forums are filled with people "hinting" that they have been doing that since forever.

That's not the point of the limit.
The point of the limit is to stop people from going afk, then come back a week later with a couple thousand points.

I wouldn't mind if it was reduced.

Would be pretty nice, especially since the recent of influx of new users also gave out more giveaways. Not too much of a ridiculous increase, maybe 500 is a good round number. Though I'm still pretty cool with the current 300.

Yes, it's nice to be able to have an entry for everything OTHER then dirt and humble bundles. The problem comes from the REASON why we have all these points. I mean it's obvious people code farmed the dirt codes and just the same im thankful they have put them up here then say sell them. My 2 cents.

I think 100 points increase would be great though.

With all of these ridiculous un-moderated spam fests being allowed to generate points, points have become meaningless. It's well beyond the place where you're about to cap out at 300 and figure, "Hey, I should just enter a giveaway I'm not really interested in on the off chance I win, otherwise these points will go to waste!"

the result is that all the giveaways fill up with 500 people

it is pretty much nonsense

My suggestion is reduce the amount of points given out per giveaway, that way it'd be harder to reach the maximum and people don't join giveaways just to store or spend excess points while leaving the 300 point cap as it is.

Other course of actions people do with extra points is generate invites. This leads to a large amount of invites that can be simply dumped on a public website or group profile. Since the inviters of invitees are not reprimanded for bad behavior this could get problematic.

Making the points more scarce seems to be a better solution than increasing the cap.

It's fine the way it is.

I saw leave if, or even lower it. Your MEANT to think about what you enter, not to just enter everything.

300 is fine if anything is should be lowered

Iff you have too many points and dont know what to do with them generate invite codes for friends problem solved

I'm in favour of dropping the maximum points slightly. And raising the points required for an invite to ~100.

The problem isn't a point limit, guys. Nowhere near the problem. The problem is people abusing the system.

How are they abusing the system? Look at all the Dirt 3 games. How did they get these? Through illegitimate means, mainly 'key farming'. Abusing a system to get tons of free keys to post on here to bloat the points for all users including themselves, as well as making themselves look like contributors because they are donating games, when they're actually STEALING from a company giving out free gifts.

When you go to supermarket and get free samples, do you take the entire tray and start selling them to other people? I think not, and yet thats exactly what they're doing here. Except the sale is for 'points', and people thank them for the opportunity!

We should have rules in place to stop abuse like this. Yes its hard to tell, but if someone posts up multiple copies of the game individually, they're just abusing the system and should get penalized.

I think the maximum points are fine. I just generate some invites when I get too close to the maximum.

300 points is good. there is a different problem. i addressed it in my suggestion before, but it seems it was burried under all that flood of new topics on the forum:)

Yeah, I think 300 points if fair.

Now this is a little off-topic, but who else feels like people that give away games (other than the humble bundle) should get their point limit increased? Example: I give away a game for 50$, so my max points go up by 50, i now have 350 max. Of course you would only get the boost once the person ticks the "received gift" box.

on further thought, that should be dynamic. 300 would be too small, once there are much more people arround and much more giveaways.

i would suggest, remove points cap and introduce points expiration instead. so that you can collect all the generated points, but they expire as soon as the giveway, that generated them, closes. when you spend points, the closest to expire points are spent first. that way you can always enter 10% of current giveaways and you don't have any extra for the giveaways you missed. you can't hoard points for later use that way and there won't be a problem with a set cap

I think 500 would be nice