Only letting other givers enter your giveaway?

the general community consensus it seems is that we don't like the idea of having to contribute to win. It also perhaps more importantly takes the altruism out of the site. if you really wanted to though, you could start a thread stating you have a giveaway and you just pm the code to people who have a giveaway in their profile and say they want in.

The easiest (?) way to do this at the moment would be create a private giveaway and PM everyone who has gifted.

I think this would be a good option to throw on the create a giveaway page. Though there's many out there who do not need an incentive to gift (I won't say names but it starts with a G and rhymes with GlaDos) there's plenty out there who have zero desire to gift. I've been watching the ratio of members on the site to gifts given and it's gone from roughly 2:1 to roughly 3:1 just in the last two weeks.

Ideally everyone would throw in at least one gift (on average) and do it only for thanks and warm fuzzies, but lets face it: people are often less than perfection. Even with a gifter giveaway, there will always be those who do not gift either due to cost or grinchliness- and that's fine. But, I honestly don't see the harm in incentivizing giving. There will be people on this board who will whine and cry about the concept but I, personally, think steam gifts is more fun with, you know, gifts.

It would be nice if there were an easy way to invite only gifters to a giveaway.

Ive been holding back on gifting stuff for this reason to be honest, Id much rather gift to people that deserve it, instead of leechers that probably wont ever give back to the community even if they could (yes, i know that some people are really broke and cant get games, but I believe its a minority).
And the remove the "gift 1-3 HIBs" to join the "gifter" rank or whatever you want to call it, either remove those easily acquirable games from the list that would get you into the rank, or put a minumum of $ spent

Been in favor of a contributor option when creating giveaways since the start.

yeah i would like this option. but i think it must be limited some how, by public the giveaways given.

My solution to this would be to add tiers. Once you gift xx amount of games/dollars worth of games, you're bumped up a level, that way, you're given the option to create gifting giveaways for people on your tier, or people below it.

In general, elitism doesn't bring communities together. Just sayin'. Some of us just can't afford to give things away right now for whatever reason, does that mean that we should be second-class users? My advice is, if you want to be a prick about who you give stuff to, make a private steam group. Problem solved!

I made the same suggestion once, people who had made giveaway supported it.

Leechers whos here just hoping to get free games were against it and called it "elitism"

@dyffrin Theres game atm on sale for 3 euros or less. Everyone can afford to give something.

I had recently lost my job so a friend of mine gave me an invite to cheer me up, previously before entering this site I have given away 7 games purchased straight up as gifts for friends, and another 12 games that were all extra copies of games I got from the potato pack, however if you look at my account here I have only given away one game, I know I am a small minority but there are some of us that can't afford to give right now but have given in the past and will give in the future.

I think the idea has merit. However personally I would like to see some extended options on top of the simple 'filter by gifter' when creating a giveaway. They have probably been mentioned elsewhere before but I will list my initial thoughts anyway.

• Allow non-gifters as well only if they have joined within a certain period. This way you can eliminate leechers who have been a member for X months/years and have not contributed anything. This way new members are still encouraged and promoted but will hopefully deter leechers.

• Able to create a giveaway for gifters who have not won (or won very little). Although gifters shouldn't be entitled to gifts in return, I believe it's nice to give something back (or at least increase their chances) to the people who given so much to the community and make it what it is.

• Following on from the point(s) above this could also be applied to people who have gifted X items or have a gifting rate or X items per month/year.

My opinion is fairly simple. Just remove anybody who has been a member for a certain length of time (say 3 months) and hasn't given a single gift away yet keeps entering ones as much as possible (I don't know if the admins/mods have a way to track private givaways. They should be counted).

I don't mind people who can't afford to give gifts away much but there's a line between being a part of a community and just being a leech on a community. There's no excuse for people who have been a member for a long time, can buy a number of games and still hasn't got a gift for this place.
I regret one of the public giveaways i made. Somebody with 300+ games on their account won, they've made no gifts, no comments and entered quite a few. People like that don't deserve to be a part of this site.

dirt 3 keys are exploited as well as bundles meaning this idea will not work.
russian cd keys are cheaper too so this is a bad idea
that is why it will be kept the same