Site Improvement Idea: Lower the max points

Just out of curiosity, does it bother you that your odds may seem unfair?

Mmmmmmm NAH! More people should mean more giveaways, so it should balance out by itself. It's just up to you to use your points to the greatest effect.

I don't think lowering the points would be a good idea. 100-150 points would only allow you to enter 2-3 big giveaways that you might not have a chance of winning, and leave you with no points. 200 is better, but around times like Christmas and similar sales, there's a large influx of giveaways. That means that stored points get used pretty fast, normally on games the people actually want.

I think 300 works as a good limit anyways. It's not like you can enter for a giveaway of a game you own.

Nah just make the minimum points 5 instead of 1.

Need more giveaways with 100 points.

Maybe an official giveaway that requires 300 points to enter and make the person hosting get 100 back at the end.

Lowering max points only penalizes those who can't be around very much. There's no reason to.

Maybe start at 200 and increase by increments of 5 or 10 or 20 or something to a max of say 300 or 400?

I agree that since going public the entries in giveaways has gotten ridiculous. But hey, whatever its free :D

Obviously, I signed up after the site went public, and I've only held one giveaway (and I'm hoping to hold more, once I get my college tuition refund), but I feel like the site needs a way to balance "points earned vs. contribution". I don't know how it would work, but I'd say most people that enter giveaways haven't held any of their own.

I admit too, that I signed up after it went public. And that I'm only here for free games... especially since I'm broke, unemployed, and can't afford to get the games that I want. I personally think the point regain is a little slow... but I'm also locked into a few that will be going for a long time. Now, I haven't won anything yet... and it will be some time before I can even begin to think about starting giveaways, but the points balance and everything else seems rather fair right now. To be quite honest, I've had more fun out of trying for the "Puzzle" giveaways (few of which I've fully solved), than I probably would have out of the games. The only thing I'd wish for is a special forum section for the puzzle giveaways so that I could find them easier. :D

no!

lowering the cap does nothing but makes everyone check the site more often. which probably results in the site getting slower

what they need to do is to lower the number of points given. so people would have to choose what giveaways to enter instead of just entering every single game they don't own. overall there would be less entries across the board and higher chances of winners actually playing their games. but that will never happen

Right now it's 300

If I had to decrease, I would say 250 at maximum.

Yo, dawg, we heard you like gathering points, so we put points to your points, so you could spend points to gather points!

At the moment, lowering the max points would penalize only those that are not on the site everyday. In effect what you want is to decrease the number of entries overall which would actually require the number of points overall to be lowered. Lowering the max points held would do nothing to combat the number of entries since the rate of point gain remains the same and most people like myself seldom reach the max threshold anyway. I personally suggest that the point gain is lowered to .5% (from 5%) and to offset the dramatic decline to perhaps include private/group giveaway as well to the point totals, though I would think that private/group giveaways account for a far greater number then public giveaways making my suggestion moot.

tl;dr. Your point is moot, you want to lower the point gain not maximum threshold.

WHAAAAAAA! I CAN'T WIN FREE GAMES! WHAAAAAAA! I WAN'T SKYRIM! WHAAAAAAAAA!

Your odds are as good as anyone else's at winning. The system is as good as it's going to get.

took me 384 entries to win and I won on a gift with only 79 entries, was awesome

no

No, for god's sake never ever do that. 300 is already a small ammount.

I think that point reduction to 200 might be a good idea so single person enter less giveaways = bit less people enter each giveaway = mo chances of wining.

make it 100

and the point gain rate should also be nerfed, that way you only enter in what you really want and not everything on the front page

Instead just limit the number of entries of users each day, like limiting between 3 or 10 would be interesting. Sometimes, as a student, we may have very though weeks, and we forget to visit here or even forget many things to do. So we don't want to loose points :) Point limit should be unlimited, but the number of entries not :)

I feel that this thread really needs to be closed or axed sometime soon, as the only thing I see it being good for is causing argument over personal beliefs of what the site should be like. I see the requests to lower point maximum and point production as thinly veiled whines that they haven't won yet/enough. People will always complain about wanting more, as that is the way a materialistic society operates. There are many less fortunate than you, so be thankful. If you can't understand this, then tough luck

Besides, if you really don't like the way things are being run, you're perfectly free to make your own site with your own rules and have people complain about your hard work.

300 is already a small amount. Honestly taking it to 100, you would waste every single point of a valve complete pack. xD