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So the game stats are being implemented....

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zolwiciel

I think its a great feature and maybe it can be used for something more than checking the numbers.
A couple last days i had an idea running through my head about how the contribution score is counted and it maybe could use a change.
How about conting contribution score basing on the stats of the game that has been given away. i think giving a game that havent been given away to many times contributes more to this community than giving away another copy of a game that has been given away over 1000 times. As anyone can see scrolling through giveaways there are the same games all the pages down. Its smply becouse those were on bundles or simply on a great sale. most of the people have them or have somehow no interest in them. IMHO the contribution score for those game could be devalueted as it promotes users that give away some unique game. I understand there are many "must have" games that many people will want even if it's comonly given away. But for this we can use the whishlist option an if the game has high (total giveaways)/(total whishlist)score it shouldn't be devalueted as much or even at all.
We have all the stats/numbers we need - something could be done with it

pros:

  • bundle keys won't be such a problem cos as many of them will be given away the contribution score for those giveaways gonna get lower and lower - and i'd say neatly anybody will gare about them being given away. "No bundle games" policy wont be so needed - ergo less job to mods
  • more variety of giveaways as people who game an unique giveaway will be rewarded
  • more giveaways of the games people actually want to play - the same reason as above

cons:

  • if there will be no "no bundle keys" policy we can have a spam of these even when they wont be worth that much contribution.
    The idea for this is to let people blacklist games on their profile so they wont see them. (giving "dont show the games i own" button would also be great)

What do you think about this?

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midnightshooter

Not even close to read that.I'm too fuckin lazy, but i guess you are right.

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rasLivity

plus 1

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keffertjuh

I don't think the people who boost themselves using bundle keys will care much for stats, though...
Though I might've misinterpreted and you said something that wouldn't make much sense if posted on someone's account in that manner.
Or I still misunderstood and gl with your idea then XD

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zolwiciel

The poit is people wont care much about bundle keys as long as they dont add to much to contribution score and they can blacklist them so they wont see those. On the other hand giing away i.e Skyrim should be rewarded more than giving away 6 portals imo as people whould be more happy to see 1 Skyrim giveaway than another 8 Portals

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Nayenezgani

I'm not sure that's a fair thing to say. 8 happy winners is better than 1 happy winner, even if everyone would agree that Skyrim is better than Portal (which most certainly isn't the case).

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zolwiciel

85% of users on this site has portal already. Portal giveaways are only for those 15% For Skyrim its probably the other way around. 1 Skyrim giveaway has omore then 2 times more entries than 10 portal giveaways summed up.

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Nayenezgani

Which is relevant, how?

Portal giveaways still get hundreds of entries so there are still plenty of people who don't have it.

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SFaPiL

Don't know zolwiciel. This seems like a step in the wrong direction.

Adding this system reminds me a little of TF2's hat trading. We'd reach a point where people would make threads with lists of games ranked by its "contributor value" followed by stats about a game's rarity level (like TF2's hat tier guildes).

All this would make donations less about the giving and more about the "investing" and speculating. :\

EDIT: besides, what's so bad about indie bundles? They're pretty awesome.

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annelions

Indie bundles ARE awesome, but it's clear that some people are posting individual keys from the bundles. This is a no-no. If it were allowed, I'd do it too. But since it's not allowed, I'm giving away whole bundles, which is okay.

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zolwiciel

but now its about "investing". most people look only for thee best discountto rise their contribution value a lot with a low price.
People who would want to get this after the change would have to give that is on many whishlist and not many people have it. Not giving away crapy high discount games that bearely anyone wants unless its free.

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adeyke

How often a game is given away really says nothing about how valuable a contribution it is. In the end, the game is still just going to one person, and that person is someone who doesn't have the game yet. The game isn't worth any less to the winner just because there were many giveaways for the same game previously (after all, they didn't win any of those previous ones).

If there's something really rare and desirable, it might get a lot more entries, but that just means that each person who enters has a lower chance of winning.

The only way this idea would really make sense if a game really has complete saturation. If literally everyone who wants a game already has it, then you're not contributing anything by giving that game away. This is extremely unlikely to happen for games (it could happen for DLCs, though, where not everyone is even eligible). If it does happen, no one will enter, and no one will win, so it won't count towards the contribution total.

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kyleptx

Look at Project Freedom it is only a $3 game yet there have only been 4 giveaways ever would that not raise the value substantially just not many people have ever herd of the game befor

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Closed 12 years ago by zolwiciel.