I gifted a full EA Humble Bundle separately & my value of gifts sent only went up by $10

Nowadays, alongside the official thread outlining the bundle rules, a working knowledge of the forum search function should help you discover a veritable cornucopia of identical threads, and startlingly similar answers...

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Peroxide

You paid $1 and expected $110 CV?

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trinner

yes he does!

11 years ago

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zeroxxx

A new low?

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Yusyuriv

Maybe you should read FAQ before doing something? Or at least try to search?

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bobofatt

Games which have been in bundles or otherwise made widely available at little or no cost are added to the bundle list. Games in this list will not add more than 20% (1/5) of your non-bundle contributions, disregarding the first $25. For more detailed information, see this thread.

In order to receive any additional value from your current bundle gifts, partial or otherwise, you will need to contribute more in non-bundle games.

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Khalaq

(Senior Moderator)

Bobo, you're so patient.... lol

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SolDeus1

Bobo's right, I bought the humble bundle cause I wanted to raise my CV by a bit, didn't know about the 20% thing but I think it's perfectly justifiable on their part. Keeps people from cheesing their way to a bajillion CV.

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TRUCKER

Tell me more

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bobofatt

I copy/paste that like 5 times a day, it's just routine.

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iamchoppy

its still fair and people like that.

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Doppleganger

That's still being too nice imo for people who can't read the FAQs. I mean, they're in a sticky post! You can't miss it! And I've never seen the OP actually comment back in their threads..what a waste. You should just introduce them to QQ Cat

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bobofatt

To be fair, it's really not that easy to find.

If you go to the FAQ, you'll see "What does the asterisk (*) mean beside a game on the Create a Giveaway list?"... which doesn't really say anything about contributor value, so someone with a CV problem will glance over this.

You really have to go to FAQ, Site Guidelines, Comment Formatting & User Add-ons -> FAQ and Guidelines -> Official CG Announcements (which is tucked between translations and base rules) -> Important Updates to Contributor Values and Bundle Games. It's kind of a difficult thing to find an answer for on your own.

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Oxol

Yeah. Can't it be made easier? Like at the "create a giveaway"-page?

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bobofatt

When someone has an issue with their CV, they don't go to the create a giveaway page. A "?" link next to the CV on the profiles would be best.

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Oxol

That too. I just feel it would also be great to inform people before they actually create the giveaway.
Or, a small warning on the "comfirm your giveaway"-page saying something like "You will not get full contributor value for gifting this Bundle Game". the more places the information is at, the better, I'd say.

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DeltaBladeX

(Senior Moderator)

The * has also been mentioned on the giveaway creation page for a while, complete with a link to the explanation. If they don't want to read up on something when it tells them to, they have only themselves to blame.

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wauwi90

thanks to you, and your epic rant thread 2 days ago, i'll keep my origin keys and let them rot.
if i had enough money for a humble bundle, than anyone should.

11 years ago

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thereaganator

Have you thought about implementing a hard to omit FAQ/howto when signing up? I know most people will just skip it anyway, but even if some of them read it...

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bobofatt

You'd be hard-pressed to suggest a useful suggestion that hasn't been suggested before.

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PrinceOfJerusalem

I thought bundles or bundle games didn't add anything to your CV

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unwan7ed

Just do a lot more giveaways and your CV will go up in no time. I heard people want Skyrim. A few of those and....

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Khalaq

(Senior Moderator)

For sure. About six copies of Skyrim Legendary Edition should do the trick.

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snowleopard1024

Can never have enough Fortix!

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Hague

A neverending stream of stupid threads.......

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wauwi90

i just realized, that TC wants to give away games for selfish reasons...which kinda defeats the whole purpose of giving away something.
i'm so smart sometimes.

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MrCrotchFTW

I won a game on steam gifts which was in a giveaway at the time then, as I checked my email and steam messages for the guy he was so desperate to give me the key, he got worried I wasn't going to respond and was so desperate for cv, I didn't even want to accept the gift but, at least he wont get a lot from it :)

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AgeOfArmageddon

Haha, you really expected to spend $1 on the bundle and get $100 of CV? You didn't think there would be a system to prevent abuse?

Did you see when you made a giveaway: *"Wondering about the asterisk () next to certain games? Click here to learn more."** It's right above the box where you select your game :P

11 years ago

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Devil231

Welcome to Steamgifts..where no one read the damn FAQ and CV is stuck at 30$

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Ayce

this should be the slogan for whenever someone post things like this.

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PrinceOfJerusalem

lol

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Serenity87hun

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qetc

bundleru gameru

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xFidelCashflow

You must give away 60 copies of Skyrim on the forums. Only then, will the righteous power of the CV be bestowed upon you.

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MrCrotchFTW

I always laugh when I see someone post these I just like it when someone only puts giveaway games for cv then gets mad for not getting the full amount.

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ANeM

So you only spent $1 (I seriously doubt you actually beat the average since you seem to have only been interested in CV) and you're complaining about how you only got 10x that amount in credit.

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DavidSarif

CV never goes above $30 and when it does, it's a bug.

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WoShiJiawei

Came here after reading title expecting you to request support to lower it to $1 , was not amused.

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