How is it for giving away games you lose contributor value?

You do not lose CV for creating giveaways.

You lose CV due to several reasons:

1) Games that have been in bundles or free get added to the appropiate lists manually, so it might take a while. You might have given away a game from a bundle, but the game was not yet on the "bundled list", so you receive full CV. After a week support gets around to add the game to the bundles list, dated to whenever the bundle got released, so your CV will only be 15%.

2) CV is coupled to the price of the game on Steam. So if there is a price decrease on Steam, you will lose CV. You will gain CV, if a game is increased in price on Steam.
There are some funny temporary effects due to "bundles" on Steam that might increase your CV for the duration of a sale on Steam.

Simple: You don't lose CV for making giveaways.
But you might lose CV for older giveaways, either because they became retroactively considered free or because their price dropped.

there are mostly these reasons why CV is going doing

• base price of a game on steam gets decreased - not that often
• games are retroactively added to the bundled or free lists - happens all the time as this is done manually by staff

it's about giving away games, but it's not about giving away games XD

already gotten CV can fluctuate when given away product lower/raises base price (also removed games altogether have no price which is equal to 0)

When you create a giveaway, you get full, reduced, or no CV based on the date you created the giveaway. This will not change, you will always keep full, reduced, or no CV, but your CV will slowly drop over time because it is calculated based on the current US full retail price. Steamgifts does not remember the price of the game on the date you created the giveaway. Temporary sales do not affect your CV.

Example:

• You create a giveaway for a $60 full value game and get $60 CV.
• Some time later, the game gets bundled or sold at a discount of around 95% off or more.
• Everyone who now creates a giveaway after that sale started gets 15% CV of the $60 game. You will continue to get $60 CV while all the new giveaway creators will get $9.
• Then at a later date Steam keys for the game are given away in a free promotion.
• Now anyone who creates a giveaway gets 0 CV. People who gave it away after the sale still get their reduced $9 CV, and everyone who created a giveaway before the sale still gets the full $60 CV.
• Then the full price of the game permanently drops on Steam to $40.
• You now get $40 CV and everyone who gets the reduced 15% CV now gets $6.

But shouldn't at the time of the giveaway give whatever cv that game is worth rather then months down the track it makes you lose cv? thats like saying you buy a $100 game when it comes released and give it away, then a month later it drops price, but you gave it away when it was $100 but get punished because the price dropped? sorry it just doesn't make Alot of sense, i just want to make giveaways for good people and not have to worry about losing cv, but this just makes things confusing on what i should and shouldn't give away if that makes any sense.

also would this mean once you hit level 10 you can drop back to level 9?

Ok im just going to keep giving away like ive always done, if i lose cv then so be it, ill just try to avoid the ** no contributor value ones i guess

Thanks all for the help! Really appreciate it!

I mean no disrespect. But you gave away over 2000 games. There are 499 users at lv 9 and you are one of them. How did you not notice it before?

Some games are retroactively added to free list. It's happened to me, where I bought bundles and the games are now 0 CV. It sucks lol.

This happens on occasion. But most people don't care. =)