How the amount of users in each level changed after the big purge of fake games* [RE-OPENED]

so your the reason it's hard to level up now

That amount is based on Steam price for USA. It changes when prices change on Steam.

Hover over the amount for Received Value. It behaves like Contributor Value. It will go down when a game CV changes if the effective date was before you won the game.

It must be because of RUNE II: Decapitation Edition. Probably Steamgifts treated it as 0P for some time and now it's back to 30P.

If you hover over those amounts on your profile, you will see your "Real CV" value. That's what determines the level of your account, not the current retail value of the games.

Let's say a good bunch of members had fun seeing how some bad guys struggled and tried each day to raise their cv with new freebies, that weren't marked as free, or new 40 or 50p trash games that weren't marked as 0cv.
And each day that gained cv got nuked shortly after or before the GAs ended.

They switched then in the end, partly, to lower p trash games and partly to normal bundled stuff ( which i haven't seen since a year on one of the accounts... so it was something that surprised me :-D ).
But 90% of this guys don't changed something, they still try to abuse/exploit each loophole that is available.

Let's say, i better not say more as "you know him for sure", or i would reveal too much.

I send you a friend request on steam because i want to write you something about the stores that i don't want to do here.

Thanks for the added stats.

I would put the "Change in amount of users by level from 29.07.2022 to 29.08.2022" above the box. I assume it would look better.

I link in the first post to yours.

429 people returned from higher levels to level zero

Damn, that's crazy...

I lost 0.17 :o(

But i am still happy with my level 7 and i don't expect that i ever reach level 8 :-D

It doesn't work that way, games only get lower CV if they were given away AFTER a bundle date. They get added to the bundled list manually though, and this sometimes happens a bit later, not right on the date of games being discounted (sometimes months later); that can affect your level indeed. According to your profile, you only gave away 1 game that wasn't bundled yet at the moment of the giveaway and only 17 bundled games, everything else was free before you gave it away.

Because of that had the title the * with

*and after hundreds of handled reduce/free tickets

Of course were not all bad/fake games but the reduced/free status was incorrect and got, in many cases, corrected now.
So be not sad about the lost levels, be happy that you had so long a higher level as you normaly should had.

The date get retroactively set to the date the game was free or bundled and you loose only cv if you gave the game away after this date. 10 years are unlikely but 3 years were not rare in this cases because a lot of my tickets were 2 years old and reported not only "new" (at that time) bundled or free games.
I stumbled from time to time about something on barter, old freebie sites, forums, reddit etc..
Masa sees all^^

Time to make more giveaways haha!

Good decission. The users will be happy :o)

I checked your account.
Damn, that was a massacre with your GAs + cv.
But to be fair, for the freebies was it clear, from the begin, that they will be handled at some point.

I think it is hard to define the "worst way to level up", that it fits for each ones opinion.

For me is the worst way to level up with cheating in any form.
Grabbing 30 copies of freebies on all sites with the help of bots as example and then give it away as fast as possible to have a advantage till the mods handle the game and partly have full cv forever.
And when someone base his account on 9k of such games then he is the trash not the games.

Groups can be bad but that depends much on the members and if abusing/exploiting GAs are allowed or not.

Some people don't like, nearly all, groups and fight against them with giving Blacklists to the members.

A good bunch.
Or how do you think so many reached level 10 ? ;o)

I would say a much bigger part as the "catched" 9% don't deserve their level 10 but i am (since) "not so long" active on sg and weren't experienced enough in the first year. And not many hunted in the past the cheated levels.

One of my members found something, in the past, that pushed partly the cv of people $1k up (multiple copies, extreme high price, available for free for one country). It got nuked, retroactively for, if i don't remember wrong, 5 or 6 years ago.
Was a big hit for some high level accounts too.

I'm at 6,66, i don't want to move from here !

Thanks :o)

Yes, not "only a few".
When i assume that we have maybe 15k active users on the site and nearly 500 of them lost levels, means that in the end around 3% of the users on this site.

Thanks.

Strange, for me is with my link all ok.
So i will not exchange it with your link, now, and hope that the majority can hear it from my link.
If a few users can't look at the link they can search shortly on YT. If the majority have problems, i will exchange it with your link.

I say thanks for all of us :o)

Thanks, but i done a few more .... :-D
Other mods, mostly the same 3, handled over the years a bunch of them.

View attached image.

Partly, yes.
And it is a bit funny for me :-D

Sometimes I don't like your witch hunts, but CV abuse harms everyone, so here I'm totally with you, ...

Why call it witch hunt then? Your wording indirectly implies irrational behavior hurting innocent victims a rhetorical figure of speech all to well known from politicians manipulating public opinion.

Thanks, in the name of all involved ones :o)