What Do You Think of Giveaways with Large Contributor Values Needed to Enter?

I'm not really bothered, however I just bought my first 2 games to give them away here and choose not to have a minimum contributor value.
It's really up to the creator of the giveway, but as far as it concerns me I would rather give those games to people who can't afford them, although I don't have any control about that.
Their money, their choice :)

wish there was a additional option: average gaming time or something like that

Please go back to your cave!

The only thing that bothers me about contrib value, is you really need to go out of your way to maintain it. With games constantly becoming bundle stuff and the price drops. Does not really seem fair at times.

I don't really care, mind you - public and low-contrib-value giveaways are more then enough for me, but sometimes it does seem like high-value giveaways are for rich people only, who can afford constantly throwing money at the site.

Got an idea, get Steamgifts plus, make sure "Show red" isn't filled in. Then you'll only see what you can enter. They can do as they wish and you can be blissfully ignorant of it!

I'm at just over $70 on my contri value. No exploited games, no bundle games, no regifting (I did give a copy of a DLC I won but I was given a key I activated and gave a steam gift to my winner).

For the amount some people have given to the site I think capping it at $2000 is actually a bit too low, if people want to give only to the most generous on the site, great.

I'd like to point out to the argument many ppl seems to make that "you have such a high contributor, you can buy this games, let poor people win" - the first thing is we don't always see sale or have money on hand. yet still may want a game, but most important 2nd one - and what about the joy of winning something? Sure I could not contribute anything to the site, buy all the games I've won so far and probably would still have some spare cash left. Yet I'm more happy when I see this green bar saying I've won something - even if it's something small and silly, than even buying better / more expensive game for myself.

AWESOME!

I think it's the CREATOR OF THE GIVEAWAY's decision, and we should be grateful they want to even give it away in the first place... -__-

Every time you (and not necessarily you, the OP) enter a giveaway, take a quick look at the person giving away the game. Some people give so much to this site, and if I can show my appreciation for them in some small way, I will! Ultimately, isn't that the entire reason the contribution value even exists? There shouldn't be anything wrong with that.

OMG you idiot noob.
WHY THE HELL WOULD THEY DO THAT?

If i wanna make a giveaway for $20,000 its because i want people that contribute to the site to benefit, not some noob like you.

What's it matter if I put my contribution as high as I want to? The higher contribution giveaways are basically thank yous to the people who really give to the site. If you don't like it then give more than you have. You've only been here 2 weeks so maybe you should spend some time on the site and than you'll see why people do the higher giveaways. Maybe you'll also appreciate things more.

The contributor value on these giveaways is too damn....ok by me ^^

This thread is a complete waste of server space... Please close it and leave with what little dignity you still have...

I'd like to be able to set a certain value that users have given away in public giveaways to be able to join a giveaway, instead of group and privates too.

At the end of the day, it's the creator's decision. They're giving it away for free and they can choose to give to to whomever they wish.

I think everyone should set contributor limit no more than 255 cause that was the highest stat level in Final Fantasy VIII

The largest problem with your suggestion is the fact that even greedy people will easily hit $225 if they know that is the ceiling. Not having a ceiling pushes even greedy people to do more giveaways. If everyone decided "sweet I got max contrib value from 5 AAA titles, now I can sit back and rake in the games," this whole system would fall apart, and there would be no more giveaways as well. There are however, the truly devoted that are giving games away solely because they can.

Well, I have no problem with it!

I don't care really because I have all public Giveaways and giveaways I don't want/can't enter for whatever reason filtered out so I never see them anyway.

I'm surprised the cap is 2000

Whatever is fine.

6 is fine, 60 fine, 600 is fine, 6000 is fine....etc...
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Ultimately I dont care, though I think I am going to start having a hundred dollar or so contrib value on my giveaways. Too many no comment jerkfaces entering.