The Humble Bundles are slowly making this site die.

Have a look at galagiveaways and tell me which site suffers from bundles.

"and it makes the games inside those bundles worthless to give away for years to come"
someones missing the point of the site, The games are games, not points. stop trying to get the most points.

Hah, didn't even know about this. Ah well, I regret nothing :))

Well why is that a problem to you, simple solution is give away games that are not on bundle list. There's still many of them.
You want to boost your CV right?

Too many people participating and almost too many gifts to count. Such a sad death indeed, thanks for your excellently accurate insight.

You still can giveaway games that -75% off etc. If bundlelist will have expiration date then a whole lot of people will buy dozens of bundles and just wait for that date to abuse the system.

After the latest downtime, I think it's you who's killing the site.

So much wrong in one thread.

I agree that CV corrupted this site. It made the site be based on CV instead of generosity. I gave away lots of games before CV was around, but once it was there it became part of the considerations. I'm less likely to buy and gift a game that is on the bundle list. I'm not saying that in a theoretical way, I really didn't buy some games on a Steam sale because they were on the bundle list, and I would have gifted them otherwise. And it's not like I really care about CV, and really I shouldn't and I have no reason to, but because it's so much a part of this site I find it hard to ignore.

this site should add a choice to giveaway cd key or giftable copy with different contibutor value for the same game.

Delightfully - CV again.
Example: Forge. I still have gift but now this game got and what to do now? Share this game here? Why? This is not fair. Others got CV, I - nothing.
I give because I have a good heart - what's next? This -> You can't enter this GA - contribution only, you need 5 $ more.
Conclusion: I share Forge on Playblink for exp.
And say goodbye Alan. 1-2 weeks and Alan never return here.More = more games killed.

Eh...everyone has said just about everything but I'll leave my small opinion. This site won't die that easily, that much is obvious. And everyone has their own reason for giving things away. Myself, I do take contribution value into play to an extent.

If it is not in a bundle, I give it away here, simple as that.

If it is in a bundle and is a tradable copy, I send it on over to playblink (P.S. this only happened once).

If it is in a bundle but is a key, I take it on over to reddit to give it away. Because in the end, the generosity of giving it away doesn't necessarily mean I have to do it on this site. As long as someone gets the game, the end result is the same.

This is why I'm glad my gifted copy of Forge was given away in advance of the latest bundle (I had a second copy but I was considering trading it or giving it away later, but my choice was made for me when the new bundle hit). Farming contribution value doesn't matter for me concerning bundles, because things like Amazon are good enough if you wait for the proper timing. And this isn't a strict rule set, I have given away a game that was in a bundle since reaching the limit because I didn't care, but it does lower my incentive to do so.

There will be plenty of other people to fill the void people like me leave, so it makes no difference at all.

I do wish games that were in BTA sections were excluded sometimes, like Saints Row The Third or The Walking Dead for what $5? That's more or less what you might pay for it on sale on Steam. But either way that wouldn't really affect my decision concerning that.

all i wana say we should get atleast 50% of bundle games cv

I thought about a different rule for bundled games. Instead of limiting bundled CV by a percentage from the non bundled CV, why not make bundled games value around 5% or 10% of their original value?
Example: if you could get 60$ CV from a bundle you get only 3$, which is the average price for bundles. You still get CV and are more encouraged to give bundled games, plus you can't boost your CV without spending some money.
It seems a reasonable idea to me, don't tell me that you could get 5$ of CV with just 1$ from the humble bundle because you can do the same with a gift bought on steam at 75% off.

I give what I have spare of and get for super cheap. I could care less about CV but the fact that it has built up still is fine by me.

You understand that bundle games are counted, right? You just have to give non-bundle games to cover it. Look up the exact formulas for counting contribution value.

I strongly agree. I recently went to gift forge but because of the recent indieroyale bundle its now worthless. To get decent cv nowadays it seems you have to spend your own decent cash. Not easy for the ones on low income or mortgages

The site did just fine for the year and change when bundle games were completely prohibited instead of having their values restricted. This is just more whining about not getting hundreds in value for a few dollars' outlay. Stuff it. I'm closing this thread. This subject has been gone over to death and it's just more flamebait.