Dropped a level

you must create more gas

Let's say you created a giveaway for a $20 game and after a year it gets a permenant discount, sold for $10 now, your contribution value drops and you might lose a level.

In other cases you giveaway a game, its not in the bundle list so you get full value. But that game will be added to the bundle list sooner or later. If the game was bundled before you gave it away then you will only get %15 of full value.

There's two options. Either the above (game has reduced in price) or you created a giveaway of at least one game that wasn't on the bundled list when you created it. That game was added to the bundled list later - with a "bundled from" date that was before you created your giveaway, so the amount of CV (contribution value) you got from that giveaway was reduced to 15%.

This often happens when early bundle buyers put their games on SG before the bundled list maintainer has had a chance to update the list accordingly.

My Rank decreased???!!

Yes, levels aren't permanent. If a game's price drops on Steam, it drops in CV, If a game is removed from Steam, it's worth nothing. Level fluctuations could also be a temporary bug.

http://www.sgtools.info/real-cv

This way you can understand about contribution value and bundle games, so you avoid level decrease

This question got asked a ton of times already. Is it that hard to use the search function of the forum and do some research into this by yourself?

It's simple enough, when you get it sorted:

1. Giveaways are valued for CV to their CV when you post them. So if they get bundled/free-promotioned later, that won't affect them.

   • The exception is retroactive bundling, as only one individual handles the bundle list, and those demands on his time aside, he can't be expected to immediately notice every exploit or sale out there.

2. If retail value of a game on Steam is permanently lowered, then your CV from that game lowers to match the new price (or .15*price if bundled). In other words, you can't exploit by buying a bunch of Early Access packs for a game that goes F2P on launch, since their CV will drop to 0 at that point. :P

   • Free Weekends will temporarily report a value of 0CV, dropping your level. If a store page has multiple items on it and a more expensive item becomes higher discounted [eg, 'Game A: $13.99 from a full price of $20, but Complete Package for 12.99 from $40] then the higher value is temporarily reported to SG [ie, in the example, the $20 game would temporarily report as giving a CV of $40].
     This corrects itself as soon as the promotion ends.

Ok, thank you for anyone with a description of this. Was a little confusing.