Moving Away from Invites

I don't like the idea. The community that formed out of a already shattered community, will shatter once more and probably never recover.
This will also just push people to giveaways in private groups even more.

The quantity of giveaways will rise, the quality will drop though..

inb4 shitloads upon shitloads of russian fakes and scams.

Good job, CG, Cult, and Loko, hopefully as more people join it doesn't get too out of hand. So far the site has been great :)

Well personally I doubt that this will help the site. It may promote a greater growth but in my opinion not an improvement in terms of quality. But maybe this is just flawed thinking because lately and for some time now the flow of invites everywhere has reached such a proportion that perhaps it is not that different than open registration. In truth, right now it was rather easy to find an invitation code as dozens are spammed evryday throughout many forums. The 50$ minimum will still avoid the mass creation of secondary accounts for point generation. Plus the site has improved a lot regarding the prevention of scamming.

All in all although I am still quite a bit sceptical regarding the open registrations, maybe the growth ratio of members will not be that higher than it is right now and the proportion between number of members / giveaways created manages to stay the same.

I'd really like it to stay invitation only
Or higher 50$ to 100$
It's my opinion.

so why you wouldn't raise the requirement amount to up a 50% or 75% to lets say $75 or a bit higher like $90, so this will definitely remove a lot of extra factors and ensure that we don't encounter wave of people joining super easily, thus making all the current members that are not so sure about this, a little bit more confident and some how "secure", and increasing / reinforcing the "private" status that the site already has.

Make the requirment like 200 dollars and I would agree with what you are about to do.

Keep the invite system, but get rid of the 50 dollar minimum because that's just stupid.

I mean, my friend wanted to join because he wanted at least one game. His steam account has no games, and he can't add friends and such. And he was blocked by this mean $50 filter

Doesn't really matter, giveaways are already too big to justify going through the hassle of making invites.

At least this means that people can't sell invites for cash or tf2 items.

I also think that the invite system has long been useless, since noone is (or has been) responsible for the people he invites. It was ok just before invite codes where given to reddit after which any person even without the "required" ethics could enter the site. Before that, I don't remember a single fake giveaway, nor people using other means of "cheating" the system.

Anyway, I will be ok with what is to be made if bundles (and games included in them separately) are not taken into account. Bundles and other (almost) free to "buy" games should generate no points, and should not be added to the account worth of games at all!

Other than that, I'm ok with the site, since I've given up on entering public (non-group) giveaways anyway. It will make no difference for me if public giveaways have 1.000 entries or 100.000 entries. :)

Bah! And that directly after I invite a friend to test my then broken giveaway. Can't catch a break!
But seriously, I think that's a good move, but it probably will mean a lot more giveaways will be migrating to group giveaways.

I would say, that SG registration needs to be closed for a few months at least, after that, could allow to register,for example, 100 new members each month or so.

DAMN, i won't be able to use all the points, still had like 10 invites left. Got all those apparently because i was in the beta and only gave away 4...

Gonna have to see how this works out in the long run, but I think it's a good thing. I think it might be a good thing to raise the $50,- minimum at the same time though.

I am fine with it. But I now would really like to see the option to limit the number of entries.

This way the giveaway creators could decide themselves how good the winning chance on their giveaways should be.

good move

seems good enaugh, now in every giveaway there would be 10 000 entries ;) isnt that just nice? :) if you decided for that kind of move it would be suggested to add "maximum entry per giveaway" option for people who create giveaways... coz 10 000 people giveaways arent cool

OH YEAH!!!

..Here comes the wave of leechers?

Prepare yourself for the onslaught guys...

Did we get our unused invites refunded?

Any talk about increasing account value or other restrictions like prevent new giveaways from new members, needing them to be approved.

It's going to be impossible to win in public giveaways :(

Oh boy, I don't have a good feeling about this :(

Keep on what you're doing and we will see about that. Good job anyway even though I won no any game yet (:

P.S. ttp, cheers to loko, he's telling right things about 'why invites are no longer necessary' few posts above