This is great.

Great idea :)

Sounds great to me!

Here's a thought on the point system:

How about it takes away points when you apply for giveaways but in the end it works differently:

a) If you win the giveaway, the points are automatically subtracted from your total and you gain them as outlined.
b) If you lose the giveaway, you get all or half of your points back.

That way, the losers who haven't won a single time won't get penalized as hard as those who are actually winning giveaways.

If there is a cap of 300P then what would happen if you remove an entry and get the points of that entry back? If the point refund makes you go over 300, would you just lose the other points?? or would the system be able to notify me that 'i am going to lose some points, the cap is 300P'

the one thing i dislike is that people are now more likely to enter cheap indie games due to the low point barrier, lower chances of those who actually want the game.

I think this is great, good job.

I wonder one thing tho, if you enter a giveaway, and then remove your entry, do you get your points back? Cheers. And also, it wouldn't be bad if the givers receive some extra points, like 30% or something. They deserve it more than we do. :)

I dont really like it :(.

Because you are restricted to enter a giveaway now , like i said earlier CG use a game checker. Otherwise make it harder with answering a question. or limit the giveaway entries but not with points :(.

I think the folks contributing the games should definitely get extra points for doing so. I dig the system otherwise.

i have a slight feeling you're over complicating things :D. But if it works, then I'm fine with it.

EDIT: I just retracted from a huge bunch of giveaways to get some more points and I broke the 300 cap and reached 358. Is this supposed to happen?

I think this is a great idea. It's encourages activity and we all know activity is the backbone to the internet.

If you are giving away a game, you should get a cut of the points the people who are entering your giveaway spend. For example, if you're offering a $10 game that gets 500 entries, you get a cut of the 5,000 spent points. That gives people a greater incentive to give away games; popular games at that (to get more points).

Under this plan, every time a game contribution is made, their point total should also increase. No reason why someone who has never given away a game (like me as of now), should have the same point limit as one who has given away 10 games. Maybe raise the limit by 100 for every $10 game given away (or more).

It's a good idea, but we need more ways of getting points, like for example, get the value of the game as points if you win the giveaway (if you win a $10 game, you get 10 points).

Also, is it possible to show what contests are entered on one's account? Make it public for everyone and it would help with the awareness level. I ask this because I just entered for Titan Quest Gold for 20p and now I lost the page to it.

Heh, at least this system justifies the tons and tons of Portal giveaways. :P

I think it's a very clever idea. Let's do it!

I like this idea!

Stop messing around with the server cg ;)

Great idea, it will stop greedy little kids from entering EVERYTHING

Could we see it that if you make a giveaway, then you get either full points of that game's value, or even x2. Sort of as thanks for gifting games.

So if a giveaway is closed, do I get points refund?

But now I can't enter the dozens of Portal giveaways all at the same time...

i managed to get over the 300 cap limit o_O i got 319 points and counting o_O_O

IT'S OVER NYAN THOUSAND!!!

How new do you have to be? I have 25.