Kinda split between the two- both options have their cons and pros. You just KNOW people are gonna complain just as much if you remove it as they do about it now. So I honestly don't see any way of "fixing" the situation(Well, apart from not paying attention to people whining. After all there are ALWAYS people whining.). If you make the system "fairer" in any way, then the people who can't abuse it/lost from the change/didn't bother learning how it works/are inconvenienced by it in any way will still whine.

Well, I put in a vote for getting rid of it only because that would give some variety to the usual stuff that pop up every day, but I still think this would solve nothing in the long run. Humanity will be humanity. :P

It's not a matter of disliking the system itself. It's a great idea and works well, but the problem is the features are all wrong and simply put, just need to be redone. The idea itself is great. It inspires people to participate more.

Remove it, the contributions are not useful with offers (Humble Bundle, games free limited time, newsgroups, indie gala, etc.)

If we vote keep it, will it stay as it is or be reworked?

I am not against overhauling it but removing it would IMO be a bad idea as it creates public giveaways. Without it we'll go back to 100% group circlejerks.

I want to watch it burn and dance in its ashes.

keep it, but make it so that games that have been in bundles as bta only are worth more than normal bundle games

Needs to be reworked but not removed. There's enough stupid groups for private giveaways as is, and removing contrib will just cause more

I voted to remove it. I appreciate the intent behind it and was in favor when it was introduced, but my feeling is that removing it would mean losing something that is in theory a minor positive in exchange for the end of a whole lot of acrimony, abuse, and headaches in the community and for the staff.

I think it would need and enormous amount of people and resources to keep it completely fair, so I say remove it altogether.

Even if you say you want to reward people who contribute things, there keep appearing so many ways of cheating it that is kind of pointless.

If you can find a way of making it so everyone is happy and there's no cheating by all means do it. Now, I don't think that's so easy.

To modify it would be the best option I think.

Giving games shouldn't be about raising your C.V. It's about giving a game to an other human so he can enjoy it.

Thank you for asking for our opinion. Sadly, I don't have any good idea to improve the contributor system.

If it is removed, there will be far less giveaways.
The only people giving games away will be those in super tight groups and the site will die it's death.

I don't know if you'll read comments this far, but here's an idea I have. Instead of having a cost-based system you can more easily implement a quantity-based system, that is how many games the user has given away. Maybe some AAA titles would give a double score for the first months they are out (since they are generally the expensive ones).

So instead of having user A with 50$ Contribute Value you now have user A with 10 Contributed Games or even user A with 16 Contribute Points if you want to assign more for new AAA(=expensive basically) titles.

You can also have both systems(quantity of games and points) if you want to allow contributors to say "I want people with at least 1 contributed game to enter".

Thanks for steamgifts and your continuing efforts to improve on the service you provide.

i vote keep it,if remove it maybe people dont wanna giveaway their game again,its like acipment/objective for contributor and about bundle point maybe the point contributor get same as bundle price BTA not normal price its more fair i think

Any system will be abused, human nature. That said best thing I can think of is split contributor value into two distinct categories. Bundle (with a firm definition, like anything sold at 95% off or greater, more than X copies given out free etc as examples) and Normal. With that give giveaway creators three options 1) Normal CV only 2) Bundle CV only and 3) Combined CV

So yeah, I voted keep it but it does need some tweaks.

I'm not active on the forums so I have no idea what all the problems are people are talking about :P The only thing that has annoyed me about contributor giveaways is when you're like 1p under the required value. Currently, for some reason there are 2 giveaways for $30.01. It's annoying i can't enter them because my contribution value is $30.00 :P I'd like a system where rather than specific values, you could choose a group, like $0-$5, $5-$10, $10-$15, $15-$20, $20-$25, $25-$30, $30-$35. So for example, since my contribution value is $30, i'd be able to enter from $0-$35. It would also allows people with none, to very little contributions to enter at least some of the CV giveaways($0-$5). I know no one will likely care, but i've nothing better to do. There will probably be some great flaw I haven't picked up on, blah blah blah :P Good night

How about a third option. Fix it?

I think the system is good, but it's been abused a lot lately. Adding humble weekly and simlar to bundle list should solve the problem ( I know humble weekly is now on the bundle list)

You should just change it to levels. 3 to keep it simple. Minor contributors, Middle Range and Very Generous People. :)

Did my vote. Goodluck SG.

I favor keeping but tweaking the system. I favor adjusting the bundle list/system at the same time. One of the major complaints is contributor farming. I've brought this idea up but you can decrease the possibility for contributor farming by decreasing the CV gained as more giveaways for a given game are active. This should help encourage more diversity in the giveaways people do and help prevent floods of games. People could obviously still farm over a period of time but it would be much more difficult.

there should be 3 type of ansfer.
change it!

I think the contributor should stay but the bundle prices should be heavily modified or removed completely.

Remove it.