Maybe the BTA games could be worth a little bit more of a %, but I think that removing them from the list wouldn't work so well.
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You have the stat for the last bundle right there.
If you by 'last' mean the current one, it's 304 Red Orchestra's on the 1st day (+ 14 Red Orchestra Franchise packs) and 208 Killing Floor Bundles. One the 2nd that ration is even lower (~200/80).
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Unfortunately this can't be objective as the BTA number isn't static. Sometimes it's two dollars, sometimes it's 10 dollars. People who buy for a dollar in the first five minutes are going to get a ton of free contributor compared to those who buy later when the average is higher. Plus groupees has a different higher bar number every bundle. Sometimes it's 5 or 7 dollars sometimes it's 2 or 3.
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The only bundles that have a changing BTA price are HIB and IR, both have it set higher in the beginning then it usually ends. The Killing Floor one started at $9 now it's 3, Darksiers one dropped by 3 in a couple of hour from start...IIRC only HIB V actually incresed in price over time.
IR's a different matter, they usually stay withing .5 of the preset price.
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Not really. IR starts at $4 but usually hovers around $5.50 now
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There's a lot of these threads, so I'll try to keep it brief.
Usually there's two tiers of games when a indie bundle sale appears. The $1 ones, and the beat-the-average ones. The notable exception is Indie Royale, and maybe something else, I don't remember. With the contributor system and the bundle list this leads to situations where a $5 Indie Royale containing 3-4 Steam redeemable games gets considered bundled, but an Amazon pack which has 5 Steam games and costs the same, does not (not, in my humble opinion should it).
Let's take a look on how the sales affect the number of games contributed, with a couple of examples:
$1 games:
On the other hand we have their BTA counterparts (~$7 and $5 respectively)
The disparity is obvious and becomes even bigger if you look at the whole duration of the sale.
What I propose is that the bundle list should contain only games that were part of a $1/$0.99 deal.
That would include, for example Limbo, VVVVV, Crazy Machines 1/1.5, Darksiders, but at the same time it wouldn't include Atom Zombie Smasher (only a part of BTA HIB3), Crazy Machines Elements or Darksiders 2. Or for example, Bastion wouldn't get on the list back when HIB V appeared, but rather 2 weeks ago, when i became a $1 deal. This could solve the complaints of people arguing why some Amazon/GMG deals aren't considered bundled, would let people who bought BTA versions of bundles (usually $4 or more, with the latest weekly HIB as an exception) contribute to the fullest and at the same time encompass most of what a lot of the community seems as 'contributor value farming/abusing'.
Of course, this is just a (probably not so well thought through) suggestion, feel free to point out the flaws behind my reasoning.
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