The Poison Known as Bundle Giveaways

Finally eh. My reporting finger was getting sore.

Sounds like plenty of fun to be had soon, cheers guys.

I don't see anything wrong with giving away bundle keys. It's nice of them, but it would be better if you added and option as "bundle key" which would lower the contribution from the game.

and how can be people sure that the game is from a bundle? If they just give a key or how?

Curious on what the new way of handling them is :3

Good news, but I used to call bundlers Humble Bundle, Indie Royale, Bemine and the others. What d oi call the mnow ?

There there

I only ask (community feel free to shoot me down if I'm out of line) that you somehow preserve the original gifting value on a vanity capacity if that will be effected by this change. So if joe-shmoe gives away $1000, and gets reduced to $500 (if that's how it will work, if not, disregard) that somewhere on his profile there is a vanity gifting value that still reads $1000, even if he can only enter contributor giveaways valued at $500 or less. Hope that makes sense and sounds reasonable XD

Does this count for people who giveaway steam gifts of Indie Games or Only Key Givers like form Indie Gala , Indie Royale etc ?

Proposal: Stop restricting them? Why is the policy even there?
Absolute worst-case, why not ask in the giveaway-creation dialog if it's a key. If it is, then it still costs points to enter, but generates none and doesn't count toward contributor value.

You are referring to individual keys from bundles right?
Also, what about indie gala 6? Are you going to enable it?
I got a bunch of them.
Thanx

Suggested solution: Making the said bundle games on a special separate dropdownlist called "Bundle Games". (Genius!)

Examples: Commands: Behind the lines, Bastion, Razor II, Making History, World of Goo, Fortix 2 etc.

If an user manages somehow to get non bundle copies of those (examples 1 2) , he won't be able to submit them unless he has given away a certain value of non-exploited games, he'll then have to submit a special ticket to the support section with a description on why his bundled games aren't from bundles, and that can be either approved or rejected by the moderators. If users don't provide coherent proofs, they'll be busted and get suspended. :)

If you devalue the games that have been featured in bundles, I will not make giveaways from me leftover Serious Sam 2 keys that I bought during an Amazon promotion o.O

Other than that, I am curious how the new system will work ;)

Grab your pitchforks and burn the bundlers!

I don't understand. What's wrong with people wanting to give things away for free? Why is the stupid policy even there? I'm just happy all these people are wanting to give away their games without getting anything in return. Now you're going to punish them for giving something away?!

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gtfo what do you have with bundles? There are that didnt got them

I'll be looking forward to seeing what's implemented.

I still think it would have been a good start to mention this rule on the giveaway creation page.

I am now trying to decide if I should make ANY more contributions to this site. I have 5-7 games that I bought in bundles that I had doubles of. Besides the asinine nature of banning any giveaway, if you buy something on sale or in a bundle does that make it valueless? If I bought a case of toilet paper on clearance for $1 when it usually sells for 8 dollars, when I give it away to someone that has to pay 8 dollars for toilet paper is it somehow devalued to $1 because I got it on sale? It's still worth $8 to the person I gave it to. It's sick how greed and ego seems to run the world. One day it won't and the people that feed off of this stuff will be in dire circumstances. I guess there are 1%'ers in the gaming community too! SO maybe I should forget about giving any double games away or anything new away they'll just have to rot on the key pages and my gift inventory. The rules here make a lot of sense. NOT! I'm better than you because I give more away? A levelling is coming in the high places and low. Get ready for it. Rant Over!

I think this site should admit that the point system doesn't make sense anymore. A different system needs to be implemented.
Just a suggestion, how about reducing the winning chance of the winners by some small factor for every game, it could be reset after some period of time, that would alteast ensure that other peole win too. Or do it like playbink does, the winner of a giveaway canot enter another giveaway for the 3 days.

so what's happening loko? are you just removing those items that have once appeared in bundles from the giveaway list completely? i think i'm missing something

Damn, this topic has created more excitement and suspense that prolonged waiting for steam sales! What will these measures be and will it help? No one knows, and those who know, do not speak. It's the Twilight Zone all over again!

can you guys maybe make a list of games in bundles, keep it updated... and add a script (or whatever) that calculates what % of games given are part of that list... and if that % is > 25% of the total giveaways then that person contribution value is lowered by 50% or something like that...

i know its not perfect, but it might work

Kind of curious to find out what the solution is.