Suggestion: Convert CV into Contributor Points (secondary giveaway option)

Yum. Brownies. CP...means either fan-shipping in China or that unspeakable thing.

No. That's even more segregative and juicy for exploitation from my point of view.

Seems bad, seems like Galagiveaways.

pretty much galagib and heavily encourages to abusing and exploiting. Increases quantity,decreases quality.

I'd like to point out that the current way of gaining points would not change this is purely a subsitute reward system for the currently in place CV incentive.

You can still enter giveaways the normal way.

sounds bad

So turn this into a corrupted steamtrades? No.

That would end up costing as much as much or more than just buying the games yourself.

Just a thought.

The way I understand this is:

Public giveaways don't change at all.

When you complete a giveaway, you get points to the value of the game, same as now.

If you want to enter an exclusive giveaway, instead of having to have a certain threshold, you have to use your points. Which means you have to build them up again. Someone creates a contrib only GA and decides its worth 100 points. If you haven't got 100 points, you can't enter. If you do, you enter, but lose those points, so you have to GA more the get them back.

If that's how it is intended, I can get behind it. Combine it with the current checks and balances, add a few tweaks, and you'd have more of an incentive to give than what's currently in place.

Its like playblink and i don't like that site too much. Also galagiveaways or something

In the end there's not really any difference. If this is being suggested to alleviate point farming, it would not work in that capacity. Both methods require giving away games to earn points to enter exclusive giveaways, so the people who are "farming" points to enter them would continue to do so. If the end result doesn't change the way people do things, there's really no point in making the change in the first place.

Doesn't work well for bundles which are bundled retroactively

Well that's kind of like doing the GameMiner or GalaGiveaways system and I prefer SteamGifts over those other sites. Therefore, bad idea.

I'd agree, but no setting up ' contributor points to enter giveaways.

For me it could be the real price of the game, so, for an example, red orchestra (currently $9.99) would cost 10'CP' to enter (if set to contributor giveaway)

This way you'd REALLY think before entering a giveaway for a game you're not sure if you'd want. I like it. Plus, farmers gonna farm anyway, so if they need 60p to enter Bioshock Inifinte, we minions would probably get 3 Bioshock / ACII / whatever's worth 20p giveaways. And I like that as well.

Not such a huge fan of being able to choose how many CP the entry would cost, though. It should be the same as the $ value imho, or maybe 10% less than the actual price of the game, to discourage "Well, fuck, I could buy the game and that's the end of it" kind of thinking.

Not convinced. I'd prefer to see them converted into gold bullion.

There's nothing safer than gold right now.

people would abuse the system even more if it'll be that way...

If you lose the giveaway, I think you should get ~-90-95% of the CP back if you lose, so all that you given away isn't completely useless in that regard, but you still lose some so you have to think about it first.

Other then that, I agree with it.

INDIEGALAGIVEAWAYS!!! keep^it out of HERE

No. Just no.

Also, your contributor points balance should be halved every 3 days, just to keep people from hoarding contributor points.

Stupid, all stupid!

That would just give more of a reason for exploiters to buy games like crazy machines, give them away with no limitations and profit from a couple of coins in the long run by winning 50€ games, no thanks. Said games should be added to the bundle list for good reasons.

I would support if this CP was something monthly and a special type of giveaway was added to the list, at each new month, the CV would reset to it's original full value, and if you ended up making giveaways in the mddle of the month, obviously you would get CV in return to get instantly used within the same month.

Also CV giveaways should be based on full price of each game at the moment on steam, like giving away skyrim for 40 points/CV. CV would act as a special "currency" in this website, not entirelly necessary to win things but it would help. And to make things even more legit, CV giveaways should be up to half the CV value in your profile (eg: if you have 300€ CV, you can make CV giveaways per month up to a value of 150€).

tl;dr

Make a 4th option for contributor value only giveaways, said giveaways would work with monthly limitations and a new currency (1/2 of your CV can be used to make giveaways each month, full CV is used to enter said giveaways [reset each month, eg: 40€ skyrim would deduct 40€ from your total CV at the time]). And most importantly, remove the current CV option from all giveaways, except these new ones. Basically: Public, Group, Private, Contributor.

This doesn't in any way solve the bundle spam that occurs for contrib.

And if it is spammed fast enough, people could spend the points before it is turned into a bundle.