Always dropping contrib value

Damnit! My penis shrunk too!

True that

Solution: Don't care about it at all.

This is the system that a lot of people - that had a saying in it - agreed upon and now they're sticking to it.

At least you're not alone ;)

Well most people buy the games on sale, up to 75% off. Games rarely will drop below the price they were actually paid for when given away so you're still getting more CV points than you actually spend :)

Oh wow. I guess my milestones are kind of pointless.

Maybe its a lots easier to sync the CV only with the actual Steam-Database for prizes...otherwise SG had to make an own database with Steamprizes.

Oh boy, my e-penis is shrinking.

"Buy now enlarger for your tiny litlee wee-wee, you'll feel better about yourself"

Doesnt this encourage people to do giveaways of games that wont drop in price? All $60 games will be $20 someday, a lot (if not most) $5-10 games wont go any lower. Seeing giveaways of a brand new $60 game is rare but it does happen. So imo it's a bit unfair (but I guess there's a good reason why it's like that).
I don't mind it (I do dislike it a tiny bit though) :p

Cry a river.

This is a good idea. Oh, and any games given away during a sale period should only give CV of the price of the game at the sale period. They should also tag your IP so that SG can match your CV to the cost of the game in your country. And also, they should vary it vs. the worth of the currency of your country. So if your country's currency becomes more valuable, it changes how much CV you get from giving a game. And because people are in different economic situations, we should each fill out a detailed tax form for SG to determine what our income is and what we can afford to spend on gifts, and increase CV for people that have low income, as they're really giving away more of their total income. And good games should be worth more because the value of a game isn't just in money, it's how carefully the person selects it, so if they spend time to select a good game, that should be reflected in the value of the CV you get from it. And SG should also monitor every trading site and key sellers to see if you traded for the game you're giving away, because some people get games for even cheaper through trading or through 3rd party key sellers.

Only with these changes will SteamGifts TRULY be fair. And that's what the website is all about, right? Rewarding gifters as fairly as possible and making sure nobody gets ahead of anyone else?

Agreed. patch it now!

Even if the current value of the games isn't reflected, just having the max contrib value stored somewhere would be a decent idea. That way you can still qualify for giveaways despite the game value dropping.