Contrib Value Changes

I don't really agree with the contribution value dropping with price drops, but when a game increases it's cost, it's typically due to DLC or other games being bundled with the game.

Why would you receive the value for items that weren't included when you originally gave it away?

I think it would go up, but Magicka is a bundle game anyway.

The newer Magicka Collection probably doesn't have the same ID on Steam as the old one with less DLC. To SG, it's probably two different games and that could explain why the contributor value is different.

shouldn't contributor value stick to what it is? if someone giveaway a 60$ game and like 6 months later the price drops to 40$ is it fair to the gifter? since he bought it for 60$ back then.. ?

Need to just get rid of contrib value all together or get rid of the bundle lists and changing values.

If someone gives away a game, they should get some contrib value for that game (should contrib value stay), the price or the fact the game came from a bundle or not shouldn't matter. IE, person A and person B both give away Game X, A paid 50 dollars while B paid 5 (or even less if from a bundle or whatnot or some sale, but not really the point) for their games, both should get the same contrib value since they both gave away the same game.

Actually, values are and will be what they are in Steam's API, from which they are taken. Just ask people who gave away Railworks 2012. When it switched to 2013 and the value went up, that was reflected here on the site. The alternative to using values supplied automatically by Steam is entering and updating that information manually for the hundreds and hundreds of items available to be given away, and only the administrator would be doing that. He already has quite a full plate handling every aspect of the site that we can't, so it's impracticable in the extreme.

It might not be perfectly fair and balanced since people who have a tendency to giveaway more expensive newer games will get hit harder by the system as it is, but for the most part, most users will be affected the same amount ON AVERAGE. Obviously someone giving away 100 copies of one game that takes a steep price cut will take a big CV dive. Assuming that most people give out a healthy variety of games though (which seems to be the case having been on the site for over a year), on average you can expect people to take a similar % in cuts to their CV due to price drops over a significant period of time.

And wbarton already explained it, but case in point for anyone who gave away Dear Esther, the price dropped at one point to I think $6.99 and your CV would have dropped $3 for every copy of Dear Esther you gave away, however for some odd reason they re-raised the price some time later to $10 and I can attest myself that my contributor value went back up, reflecting the new price of Dear Esther.