Important Updates to Contributor Values and Bundle Games

БАХЧИСАРАЙ!!! ВПЕРЁД!!!

Great, I hope this reduce the number of self centered jerks who just throw crap around.

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Надо на Русском этот гайд.

of course :D

no one care

The big problem is why would you buy a game to gift that's been in a bundle as you have no insentive to do so. I gifted xblades,chains and pinball dreams 3d which were purchesed and gifted over steam but got no contributor value for it even though it was not part of a bundle and I paid full price for it and would have to check against bundles before gifting any game bought from steam again

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Cool :)

That is great news. thank you

i like it too =]]

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haha

Collapse distributed on russian forum board from buka.ru absolutely free, i think it is not fair that this game is in the statistics for their full value. thx

Good~!

Go on...

ANOTHER!

"I shall have another!" +1 for referencing an awesome scene :p

Indeed, very nice :3

Read 2. a little more closely. Completely depends on the TOS of the bundle and you could still get banned for posting giveaway for keys from bundles.

Nono, it's like this - first 25$ worth of bundled games you giveaway will increase your contributor status at the games' full prices. Once you accumulate 25$ of bundled games giveaways then the system gives you 20% value of future bundled games that you give away. Hope I didn't write it too confusing :)

the giveaways going down, nobody wants to make giveaways anymore.. :)

That was a game in itself!

as Brazilians would say - hue hue hue

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huehuehuehue Quem transa nessa porra?

Yes

It's value will only decrease if more than 20% of your existing gifts have originated from bundles, otherwise, you'll receive full value for it. For example, if you posted $75.00 in non-bundle games, you'll get the $15.00 value for Bastion since the value from bundles is equal to 20% or less of $75.00.

In other words, rather than a blanket rule against posting bundle keys, they're going to handle it on a case-by-case basis. Some bundles outright state you're allowed to split up your keys. Others specifically state you cannot do it. And some bundles don't say anything either way.

That's right, you can't give away guest passes at this time.

Yep, but they'll only get contributor value equal to $25 plus 20% of their non-exploitable keys.

As long as they aren't beta keys, you're good.

Yes, please fix this. Aquaria is not exploited and is very underplayed.

I had the same initial reaction and pointed it out in the original thread, but cg made a good point in response: apparently, people were listing entire bundle keys as a single game in the bundle in order to get more value out of it. He pointed to the stats page for Amnesia, and it's pretty hard to argue against that graph.

IGN Keys were never a problem and nothing new was mentioned about them recently, so I guess nothing changes on that front. You can give them away freely, but The Game gifted will be marked as 'bundled' if it happen to be in one of bundles in the past. But yeah, that's my conclusion, not official statement.

I'm sure cg will process a refund for your registration fees and monthly subscription fees promptly.

Looks like they do count as normal giveaways, you may want to clarify this in your explanation of how the contributions now work for bundle keys.