SITE SUGGESTION: Entry fee chosen by gift maker

No. Here's why: It will destroy the user base.

1. Imagine if every time you want to enter a game, you have to pay 100 points. That means you can have about 3 entries running at a time. This means there is less incentive to visit the site frequently, and less incentive to enter. Ultimately the impact would be less visits, less giving, and less ad views / clicks. The community may become tighter, but it would ultimately shrink (or stop growing).

2. YES! There will be fewer entrants per giveaway, but also more discouragement when you lose. Imagine if you have to bid 100 points for every $15 game. You "invest" a lot more of your points and lose more when you don't win. I know these are not "real" and you don't come away with anything less than you started, but the psychological effect is real. If you have to invest an entire day's or week's worth of points just to enter a giveaway with 200 other entrants, then you end up losing more when you lose. As it is now, points come so freely that it means nothing when you lose, but there's also a strong incentive to come back, participate and enter frequently.

3. Yes! not every giveaway will have inflated point scales (entry fees). But what is the incentive for making inflated fees higher anyways? To reduce the number of entrants? To see who really wants it? With so many giveaways now, there are already methods for doing each of those.

I just don't see the benefit or how it will actually help the site or community. The admins of course could experiment to see, but my prediction at least is that it would not be good.

Mmh are you the guy who is on playblink nr.1 winner?

So what? Noone would enter it. That's the genius of it. Only that die hard /lulz troll guy with 100P to spare will enter.

The simple way to do that would be to have the limit be double or triple the game's value. That's what they did with contributer giveaways. You could only make one for twice the value of games you've given away.

Care to explain?

This is what I was thinking. No limit would not work I think. But a multiplier would do.

Agree

I'm curious, why do you think this would be abused? Either you have the points, or you don't. It might actually help with other giveaways as well, as people would be less inclined to enter every giveaway if they knew that a great game with a 300p entery could drop at any time.

But I'm not arguing, I'm genuinely interested in what your take on this is.

bogs pls.

no

yeah

It's logic like that that almost prevented chocolate and peanut butter from coming together. Shame on you sir!

Well we'll have to show those non-believers how amazing this system is somehow.

Ikr? :<

Ain't that the truth!

Wow I didn't even notice. I still just read it as Fortix.