Is $50 enough?

Yeah, it's not too much. Especially when there are midweek and weekend sales that let you pump up your account value with ease. Maybe include another check for the number of games on the account? Obviously not counting free games.

well i think the value is sort of low because if you look at giveaway games 'pops' around they easily give you these 50 bucks ...

like Dirt 3 one for example

It must be higher!

The point cost to generate invites was already changed...

Why is $50 too low? It seems enough that it would keep out most duplicate accounts, as they would need to buy a few games on each if they wanted more accounts.

I don't know if the cap needs to be raised but perhaps something that takes into account sale data. The sister site to this place, steamgamesales tracks when games went on sale and for how much, so perhaps the "value" of games can better reflect that. Obviously not everyone gets a game on sale so I'm not saying that some game you bought for 60 bucks new should only be worth 3 points now because it was on sale for 2.50 three years after release, more just an average being taken into consideration. Like say Jamestown, 10 buck game that's gone on sale for 5 bucks a few time, so make it average out to 7.50. Would not mind seeing something like that applied to the point values on this site as well. Granted, it'd probably be a pain in the ass to implement, so meh.

200$ is ok i think

I have $1000 bucks on my account... Make it as high as you damn well like

It's pretty easy to get 50 bucks worth of games for four dollars if you use the right sale -- the civ 4 complete pack counts as like 100 dollars and can often be had for five bucks.

I think excluding Dirt3, Dark Messiah, Eets and all games included in Humble Bundles including the Frozenbytle Bundle from this $50 calculation would fix most of our problems.

100+ mainly as said before Dirt 3 lets you in but also prices

On Steam 50$ usually equals 50€ sometimes even more.
Something more affective than making the number higher, would be not counting exploitable games towards your total sum.

I think the required amount should be 2000 dollars. <3

If someone is willing to spend more than $10 to make an alt (presuming Huge sales of 80% off on a $50 game) then they can. It's not like there aren't other methods in place to detect abuse of the system.

Really, who would be so desperate for free games and at the same time have $10+ to spend to increase their 1/500 chance to a 1/250 chance of getting a $10 game?

As someone who usually only buys games when they are 75% or more off, I can definitely see raising the minimum. There have been enough pay-what-you-want and free games for someone to have a game library well over $100 while spending less than $1. For instance, HIB 3 is worth ~$70 on it's own. Alien Breed 2: Assault was available for free during Steam's summer event for another $10. Add in HIB 1 & 2 and you are over $100 for a potential cost of $0.03, and that's just for things available to everyone.

I think the best way to do it would be to exclude games known to have been free or pay what you want from the price.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/gamer_7601 hes account is worth $4071.03 USD epiiiic

Raise to 200$ + Account must live more then 1-5months to prevent multiple accounts. Doesn't solve anything at all, to be honest.

$75 would be enough... Even $50... But over $100 wouldn't be good...