Rant about bundle games and stuff.

I didn't read all the comments in the thread, but after going through this thread a bit, there's a bit of misinformation I can see here. A couple of points to clarify:

1) Only one person has access to editing the bundle list

2) Games in bundles are usually added promptly. Sometimes the bundler misses a game or two, and we have to rely on people to report the missing game to have it added.

3) Games that are exploited are much more difficult to find. Most of the time, it's either because we see the exploit as it happens in a thread, but in some cases, the lesser known ones are only added months later when someone submits a ticket to report it.

4) There is some IGN exploit used to get hundreds and hundreds of keys for the free games. I don't know the specifics, but there are quite a few accounts on sg that just give hundreds of copies of IGN games. I believe one account was at level 8 or 9 just from exploited IGN keys before the games were added to the bundle list.

5) Adding exploited bundle games to the bundle list was based partly on steamgifts user feedback. There were a lot of people complaining that it was unfair to give exploited games full CV. This is one of those cases where it's impossible to satisfy both crowds of people.

I personally believe there needs to be an overhaul of the CV system, but it looks like none of the alternatives has raised the interest of cg. BTW if anyone has a really good idea, please post about it. cg has personally stated that if there's a better way to do CV, he'll implement it.

My pet CV system would create the exploited list and allow one copy for full CV of the game, further giveaways with some type of CV discount. We already list these exploited games, so it's not much harder to just separate them onto a separate list.

there are quite a few accounts on sg that just give hundreds of copies of IGN games

it rings a bell...

I still don't understand why there is only one bundle person. It's been like this for a year or 2 if I recall right?

...ist mir diese Woche erst aufgefallen, dass es kaum (noch) Sinn macht, Nicht-Bundle-Spiele wegzugeben...

Level 9 to lvl 7 with these 1 year backdates :(. Well over $1,200 cv gone.

Another recent example of this is Telltale's "The Walking Dead: Season Two"

Added to the bundle list a few days ago. Backdated to Aug 1, 2014.

Seriously?

(I only gave it away once, but I can only imagine in 1-1/2 years how many people did GAs for it believing it was unbundled.)

That's a pretty hot take.

At first I was like "oh noes, my precious CV! All ruined!".

But knowing it's due to IGN prime I'm ok with that. People with "free unlimited subscription" should't be able to farm CV for nothing.

Oh boy, all 3 of my Never Alone giveaways are retroactively bundled... Guess I won't be climbing up to Level 7 anytime soon T_T

And I was thinking about leveling up a bit. Seeing games being retroactively bundled is not cool .. especially months back ..

Yeah, it's annoying sometimes. Wish there could be some solution to this situation but I doubt we will see this. All I can say is that current situation discourage some people not only from creating giveaways but from using this site as well. And I don't miss their giveaways but I miss them as great people who decide to leave SG :(

i understand you

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I bought that game twice and even paid full price for one of them. This is fucked up and really discourages me of making nice unbundled giveaways. I think I'll start making only bundled giveaways from now on, like I have been doing lately.