Why playfire reward so cheap now?

Probably because they overextended themselves with the rewards and underestimated how many people didn't need to buy games from them because they already had them in their library. I don't see what difference it makes though, they're still paying you to play your games.

Clearly, because it was too successful. Besides, they've probably already achieved their goal of gaining exposure for both Playfire and GMG. Now they're the phase where they try to see how little they have to spend and do to maintain the exposure and customer base without continuing to give away money. Its the digital equivalent of "Give you the razor, sell you the blades".

I imagine that once enough people have burned through their residual GMG credit, they'll start offering better rewards. There's still quite a bit of free money in people's accounts, and GMG/Playfire don't have much incentive to give away more just yet.

because giving away money is not good for business.

Because there's probably a lot of people abusing this stuff...

i was able to get 10.10$... still waiting to spend it on something. all gmg sales are basically games from steam sale +100%

i recently finally reached the $100 milestone in rewards. and i have to admit. if they gave that much out to everyone who joined. i feel bad for their bank account

RIP playfire rewards.

They were also giving rewards for previously released titles before, but now the only titles that get a reward (an extremely meager one at that) are the ones that are released on that day.

I just stopped doing this shit because time not worth's that "money", and is even worse if your currency is €, since practically all games are already much expensive to you, they don't actually give you 0.1$/€/£ for each reward, they actually convert 0.10£ into equivalent in € like ~0.12€, same for $, at least they did that when I was using it, this means $ gets more money and having cheaper games it benefits them, and £ has the actual number for example 35£ less than 40€, not currency, so this means doing less rewards they get same game as you doing much more rewards and paying with €.

Damn, did it used to be that good? Should of jumped on that when it was still good. Oh well I guess.

High reward in the early phase to encourage adoption (and the consequent access to player data), now lower rewards because the installed user base is apparently large enough.

Haven't been looking at it for a while as I felt it became like work and not fun but am not surprised to hear they've reduced the rewards. I'd imagine they were losing a fair bit, especially when you factor in people using SAM.

My biggest beef with it was the deals for existing GMG customers got worse as they tried to push this more. 25% off coupons that were applicable on any game in the store disappeared. They were getting rplaced by 15% or 20% off deals but only on certain games or if you spent £10, $10 or €10.

They also used to give a little credit when buying a game, most often £0.10 or equivalent, but sometimes £0.25 or £0.50. That stopped as they tried to push Playfire Rewards. It felt for a good while that they cared more about the people using Playfire Rewards than people who wanted to buy games on GMG with cash. I have approaching 100 purchases with GMG but the rate at which I've bought from them has really dropped off. They don't offer as much value for money since they started pushing Playfire.