Check the calcuator: Real CV for account Nev3rmore: 90.4$, you are in the 50-100 range for Level 3 (3.81 to be exact). See ? :)

Remember, games from bundles only cont 15% of the original price.

(I know this thread is old but I wanted to contribute).
I totally agree that the CV should be calculated with the price a certain game has during the giveaway, not with the current price. However I see a problem that exists now too but would be worse with a new system. Games have regional pricing but most keys are not regional restricted. Sure, Turkey, Russia etc have regional locked keys. But there are also massive price difference between global game keys from different countries.
Ori and the will of The Wisps (03.2020 release) is a great example. The MSRP (all prices from release) of the game on steam is in the USA 30 USD. Some countries pay slightly less, about 25 USD. Some countries pay significantly more for no reason. Norway had an price of about 37 USD at release, which is significantly more expensive than most of the lower priced countries. Then, there was switzerland, which tops norway with 48 USD. The thing is that compared to averge loand and prices in other countries, the swiss do not have more money to spend than everybody else. Regardless the price, they literally payed about 60% more for the game than people in the USA, even though they do not have more money than them.

What price would the CV system take? The US price which would cheat everybody who payed more? In general, we do not know what a certain user paid since steam isn't the only platform to buy steam games. The problem still exists now but since the value decreases over time, the gap between regional pricing is getting extremely low.

Bundle games do give a lot less then a game you bought, for example, I give away a lot of games from bundles and they only cont as 0,75cents or less.

Whichever way you count it, your total contribution to the community is... 0$! What are you worried about?

The system also doesn't work for those of us who buy previously bundled games off the steam store for definitely not bundled prices. It sucks, but you get used to it.

So say 10 games in a $5 bundle = $.50 per game and a $5 game on 90% sale costs $0.5

What is the difference that means bundles should give $0????

The 15% is a far better solution

As others have said, as you have given $0 why do you care?

With the 15% rule, the vast majority of bundle games are probably going to earn you less CV, dollar-per-dollar, than a game you bought at a 90% sale (which is worth full price.)

For comparison, most bundle games average about 7$ (very few are worth more than 10$, and they get watered down by all the $5 and even $2 bundled games.)

So let's say you spend 1$ to get four games like that. 1$ = 24$ * 0.15 = 3.6$ of CV.

Whereas if you'd spent that on a game on sale for 90% off, you'd have gotten 10$ of CV.

Of course, people have a lot of bundle games lying around which they bought anyway, but... I think it's still worth giving people some recognition for going through the bother of gifting them. In terms of exploiting, though, the 15% rule ensures that the vast majority of bundles will be a bad deal, and the diminishing-returns rule ensures that even the rare bundle that offers you more than 10x your dollars spent is still going to have limits on how much it gets spammed.

(Now, you could argue that 90% sales also shouldn't give full CV, but that's just not really practical to prevent.)

Some of us also WANT bundled games, as not everyone has been around or taken advantages of bundles no longer available.

I think the current system is reasonable / fair by giving 15% value. Games bundled tend to go on significant sales semi regularly, and the CV you get for a bundled game equals the value of the game on 85% discount.

Haha 0 gifts sent - talking about ratings. Go eat a bag of diks

It probably gets rounded then or like someone mentioned in the other thread, there might be a small mistake in the algorithm of the calculator. It's only 5 cents. :D

I'm bumping this thread, and also... WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT BEING LEVEL 4??? (you're level 6...)

If it's a game that has never been bundled, $4.99 CV. If it has ever been bundled or been on a discount greater than or equal to 95% it will appear on http://www.steamgifts.com/bundle-games and will give you $0.75 CV ($4.99 * 0.15, rounded to the nearest cent).

Except there isn't even an inkling of any kind of semblance of a pyramid scheme in there.

Maybe you should educate yourself a little bit. ;)

I lost a bit over $500 in the process, the low-entries GA didn't help. The reduction in value from bundle games really killed it though.

Yes, it is

All the games you gave, except for HL2, got bundled before you gave them away.

Heh, wasn't that much work, just tidied up the values in some nice table, cg provided the info. Your tool helped me to prove that these levels are right, couldn't really convince people before. No idea how you coded that tool, but it's great^^

Real CV for account DVDVD: 10.5$. Nope, Level 1 is correct. Bundled games don't give you free 30 CV anymore, keep that in mind. Dota 2 & Metro 2033 were definitely bundled, Defense Grid: The Awakening was bundled in 2012, Men of War: Assault Squad - DLC Pack was also bundled 10 days before you gave it away.

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