One Year Anniversary Announcement

3 more months til my one year anniversary on Steam Gifts...

Happy bday to this great site! :D

Great job cg/loko on keeping this great place clean, I've enjoyed being part of the community here.
Here's to another year of awesomeness!

The new feature sounds great, but I'm not sure I like the "time" parameter. I'm not sure whether anyone should be barred from taking part in awesome giveaways because they've been rather poor and busy during the immediate period before a contributor's giveaway, even though they might have contributed hundreds of dollars worth of games in the past. If anything, the minimum time should be tweaked; I believe that anything under 60 days would not be good.

Awesome to see this here now :). Thanks cg, and all the mods, and gifters who have carried this site the last year :).

My suggestion is that "exploited games" don't count toward your total. I'm not sure if that's already how it is, I didn't see it mentioned.

Grats, though, REALLY not liking that the Contributor giveaways that are currently running keep inserting themselves in between almost every single giveaway. That is really not cool, it's almost like those forums that have adbots that post an ad every other post. Really thought this community was above that type of behavior. Once at the top, ok, once in the middle, ok. Every couple of giveaways, sometimes the contrib giveaway 3 times in a row, NOT ok at all...

I hope in the future giveaways your not eligible to enter are either automatically hidden, or there's an option to hide them. Otherwise it's going to suck going threw 20-100 giveaways just to find out you don't meet the requirements for most of them. Especially if a lot of them are for extremely high requirements like $500-5,000+ for example.

Congratz!!, Nice job :)

The pyramid scheme continues!

Just kidding. Great work by the team and thanks to all the contributors!

could you guys make it so contributor giveaways work like group giveaways? if you aren't eligible then the giveaway doesn't show up for you

Sucks for me. Gave away 3 Dota 2 gifts when they were still rare and now due to it being 10c I cant join these stuff. I regarded value of gifts being unimportant as it is the spirit of giving away that is important but with this new feature I feel excluded from contributor giveaways.

That's cool idea, thanks mods and happy b-day to steamgifts!

When I saw that giveaway, I thought it was testing for a feature which will allow people like Pkeod to make an official giveaway.

Anyway, I stated when this was discussed that I don't like the idea very much, but since several people have been adding such conditions to their giveaways I guess it makes sense to make it official, as it's easier on the mods than having to re-roll.

I assume that normal contributor giveaways will be listed in the normal order of things. Right?

And congratulations on a very successful first year.

I have some key and i would like to use this "only contributor" option, I really hope it will be availabe also for everyone! or , if somebody is able to contact me also now for this option, just add me on steam

Congrats

HBD! (^^,)

Congrats!

This is an excellent feature and I can't wait until the public is able to use it. A major complaint is "I wish less giveaways were won by leechers" and this feature solves that issue completely.

Gratz and good job with this!

While being completely calm and not panicking at all, I want to point out one other issue:

A person creates private giveaways, shares links with a single accomplice. The accomplice agrees to confirm receiving all the gifts even though they never existed.
???
Profit

Dunno what's your current policy on checking private giveaways but I Hope you will have the above fictional story in mind while polishing this new system. Thanks.

Happy birthday to sgifts.
It's nice to see new features added, but now some people started making groups of 2 people with fake gifts. Shame on them.

WOOT! So this was actually the first year this was on? This is massive! Congratulations!

I think the idea would be best it it cost no points to enter. If you have contributed that much to the site, it should be a free raffle to enter.

Congrats. Keep on good work.

My only concern about this is that people may start spamming keys from Humble Bundles, it's an extremely easy and cheap way to rack up a very high value without actually contributing much at all.

I know at least one user has over $300 given away strictly through Humble Bundles, and given that they may well have cost all of 1 cent each I dislike such a person getting higher 'priority' in contributor giveaways then someone who had contributed even $50 worth of games direct from the Steam store.