Anyone else feel like the contributor value bar is always just out of reach?

I've got the steamgifts js extension so I don't even see the giveaways I can't enter, so no.

lol yeah, I am just shy of $150 (but have a giveaway ending soon that will put me over), which used to be a standard for a lot of people. Now I keep seeing $200 limits! warms up the pipe and passes it to kharm

Once you go past $200, you can join almost everything, the only thing out of your reach is usually $1,000 and up, for the hardcore contributors.

I can join most of them. The only ones I can't are the ones that are in the hundreds that I'm not even close to.

Nope, my value dropped about $50 or so last month (Steam price drops or whatever I imagine) and I haven't found myself any more limited then I was before. The overwhelming majority of contributor giveaways are under $50 so it doesn't take too much to fit in most.

The only real high value ones are those that end up at $500+ for the biggest gifters, and their pretty infrequent. There isn't much between $50 and the very high value giveaways.