Confused..

A bit of a temporary measure perhaps - but then again, we do this with every sale...

They win contributor level, we win points... fair enough for me.

I don't know. Seems okay.

nobody loses so whats the problem, they are just taking an opportunity thats all, the oportunity is there for u also

Oh no! Free stuff! Report them naoo!

Also, you gifted Nuclear Dawn. Seems a bit like double standards to me..

I hope Railwork will have the pont lovered, because it is as You said, the only worst abuse are key from bundles.

I like trains!

I agree i also dont think someone should be allowed to spend 50$ for a 300$ pack and get a 300$ contributor level, i wish there was a way to check the date at which you purchased the gift, and if any discounts for that game existed during that day, give that amount to the contributor while making the entry cot, the price of the original game. But that will never happen and that we will just have to accept that in life, kinda sucks.

well, that system is made to be abused, so...

Yeah... it will be abused :\, not very surprising... the mods are probably going to do something about it atm.

I'm not sure why you're confused- you seem to understand what's going on just fine.

Yeah!! let's ban any game on sale!! And while you're on it, ban those $150 bundle giveaways!! (how people dare to giveaway those packs, when they only `paid $50 for them??)

Stupid logic is stupid

Well, that's almost that same as with bundle keys. Easy way to get high contribution

oh here we go. People are going to bitch about people taking advantage for the sale. You do know steam runs daily sales that can be up to 75% off the price right? So you could do this year round and take advantage of the system. OHNOEZ PEOPLE GIVING AWAY FREE GAMES IS SO BAD AND IF SOMEONE ELSE GET MY GAME ILL CRY MYSELF TO SLEEP!

This is by far one of the stupidest threads i've seen. This whole website is about giving away games and people try to save a bit of money and contribute to this community with games that go on sale and you can't recognize that no one on this website is required to giveaway games.

bad guys will use that in bad way

bad guys will use that in bad way

So we should also do something about localized prices like Russian sales? You know then usually can get a game for half the current US price. That means they are cheating?

people normally only give away things on sale to gain more contribution points. buying things on sale and giving away for full price is the thing to do on steamgifts! duh...

While it seems terribly selfish to give out games for something as trivial as raising contributor level, it seems just as terribly selfish to take offense at your contributor level being lessened by this somehow. I thought the whole point was people giving away games because they're nice people? So what if the system's a little inaccurate, people still get free games at the end of the day. And I highly doubt there isn't a vast number of giveaways created here from steam sales.

Take advantage yourself and inflate your own contributor level.

This is an arms race right now.

What I can say to you is that this is LEGIT, unlike the bundlers that loko hates. And decreasing the value of it now is just plain stupid to do cause it will make new gifters think twice if they want to give, hence having less giveaways on the site. Burn for that if that's what you're aiming for.

85% deals like Metro 2033 are ok?
(as in 2.5€ for OP = 20$ steamgift)