Contributor Giveaways

This seems like a great idea,even though I still haven't made a giveaway yet.

Interesting idea but fyi it'd take a contributor to contribute :3

If you want private giveaways, start a group.

This is pretty much like the SGS giveaways. There, you had to post 10 comments every month or week to be titled Contributor. I like this idea, tho, people would give away a 1$ DLC and get an entry. So, it should be refined, say, 20$ worth of giveaways, or 30, or 50.

Sounds....Original and intriguing...

These are called private and/or group giveaways. Contributors can easily make giveaways private or group only, and yet most of them don't. You want special treatment for people who have given away something before? Let me just list some Indie bundles or DLC I got for free, then.

Seriously, don't lobby for discrimination here just because you've won four public giveaways and didn't win a fifth.

What about people like me who can't give back due to anything from expenses to being underage, and DO want to give back but can't?

Maybe this should happen, but instead of giveaways only for contributors, maybe contributors get a higher chance in these types of giveaways, something like a bonus. Small chance varying based on how much you gave away, perhaps. But only in the giveaways where a 'Contributor Bonus' button was selected. Sounds good to me at least.

Nah. There are already invite-only groups that are just for people who have given things away. You can pick one of these, or you can do what many do and give private links through the forum or the chat, so you exclude people who take no interest in the community. If CG implements this suggestion, we'll soon have people complaining that they entered such a giveaway and lost to someone who has only given away a Humble Bundle! Or they gave away Alpha Protocol when it was on sale last week when it was so cheap, he hasn't -really- given anything back! I understand your frustration, but a random system means yes, sometimes someone you perceive as less worthy than you will win.

sounds greedy, and like a try to provide beneficial, and to discqualify innocent site user. Im in.

Dude, 'the hell is this attitude?

This site MEANT to giveaway to people who can't afford games. Why should you give a game to someone, If that someone can afford games and even GIVING AWAY games to completely strangers?

Maybe you're half right, there is people who can afford but still pirate and entering giveaways, however it's not right to call everybody a "freeloader"

About 60,000 members and 20k gifts.

So that's 3:1

But A LOT of people gift more then once.

So I think it's something like 10:1 for "Gifters:Freeloaders"

EDIT: Also I agree. Would be nice to see it, encourage people to gift more.

I've been in favor of this since the beginning.

what made me laugh the most is that almost everyone against this idea usually have zero giveaways! hee hee hee :D

Its cool idea, and the guy who is setting the giveaway will set his own ammount of $gived to get into giveaway :P