High five. It's the only reason why I don't like the late change raising the contribution value limited giveaways, imo it's too much rewarding for someone who's a leecher in my eyes.

+1

+1

why??how can i know when a bundle come out...great deals incoming...disappointing games...underrated games...i would be lost without D:

says the carebear

Stricter moderation on this forum would be nice though. All these birthday threads and useless 9gag/meme topics clutter up this place a helluva lot.

Haha!

Would you settle for an option in SG Plus to remove the "Forum" link, or maybe a Band Aid half way across your screen to cover the offending shortcut?

Hope that's not a dig at me.

Disagree

+1

Why is that matter?

This would be nice. It lets you target a number of entries with less chance of making it too short. I had a three copy giveaway that I would have liked to get more than 3 entries for, but it was late and no one was on. So maybe also allow an extension.

Or maybe an option to end a giveaway when it reaches so many entries?

what

+1

They should totally do that.

Re-add dota 2 to the giveaway lineup but have it redirect to the dota2 bot as the last step.

+1

Alternatively, selecting DOTA 2 from the giveaway list should Rickroll the user.

Interesting idea. Setting up some sort of reward system for NOT entering giveaways, encourage people to only enter for games they really want. May be on to something here, but it'd be pretty complicated.

Or more integration with steam, does checks on the games that people have in their account and bases what they can enter on that. i.e someone who has no racing games in their steam account can't enter dirt 3, this could also be used so that someone who has never played a game earlier in a series for example bioshock could not enter bioshock 2. I understand that some would have played games on other systems or may not have them through steam, but it's a risk worth taking.

That kind of misses the point of this site . . . .

That COMPLETELY misses the point of the site. People don't make giveaways to give you trade fodder. They make giveaways in the faint hope that you might actually enjoy the game you won...

Imagine it's Christmas and you gave someone (anyone) something (anything), and they just turned around and gave someone else that gift. Wouldn't you be mad? You gave them that gift for them to enjoy, not to idly throw away.

There's also the "one person, one entry" guideline to follow. Allowing regifting would allow groups of friends to pile entries and basically game the system. Also, contributor scores could get fucked.

No. Then people can just recruit their friends to enter for them and get an unfair advantage. That's why it's against the rules. It's a perfectly good reason.

Oh myyyyyyyy

So... this is a trading site... I see... makes sense now... Thanks for sharing your opinion though, it will be noted.

-1

Writing anything more would be a total waste of my time as you seem to be unable to understand some basic concepts. I'll keep it short and simple: You know shit about logic and your arguments are invalid, stop entering giveaways for stuff you don't fucking want.

yeah there is one logical reason not to do what you explained.

we're not giving gifts so that others can profit from them.

most other giveaway sites already allow this, so you have plenty of platforms to choose if you would rather trade gifts you won. one of sgifts' biggest draws for contributors is that no trading or regifting is allowed, so that people will only enter for games they personally plan on playing if they win.

Oh my....how is this...what....

Facepalm

You won Tryst and Galactic Arms Race, both developers giveaways... why haven't you activated those games? Just wondering. Hint Administrators.

That would simply encourage the behavior that's causing the few persistent problems in the community. It's perfectly ok to idle at 300 points if there's nothing being given away that you'd want to play. I don't see why it would be better to rob someone of the chance to play a game they would enjoy, just to trade it.

My favorite part: "points idling at 300".

-4

QQ

So fucking what if your points idle at 300? There is NO obligation to spend them anyway.

It survived that way for months.

Why would you want this to happen?

why?

That would be nice. Click a user's profile and see a link for "Threads started by 'X'"

^this, here and on steamtrades.

+1

I see what you're saying,
I'm thinking like "must own X game, or a game from X developer" or "must have fewer than X games"

+1

+1

I'd love that feature.

That's how bundle contributor value works already. Bundle games are only counted as such after the date they were on sale in a bundle. Of course they may be marked a couple days after the fact, so the change is retroactive to include those couple of days. That only bothers those that attempt to game the cv system.

EDIT: see above^ or read for repeat.

I'm not expert, but my understanding is that losses to contrib for being a bundle game are only applied to bundles created after the day the bundle was revealed. The losses after the giveaway are either because the bundle status was added a few days late (and the person thought they'd gamed the system), or because the game's base price dropped.

Your last point is already how it works. It's from the day the bundle releases. The whaaaaaaa threads are usually when steam physically reduces a games price since SG draws from their database.

Dang, ninjad while typing and watching tv :/ haha

Like the others said, bundle value takes effect the day a bundle was released, you still have full value if you gave it away before the bundle.

The report function on user profiles works now, at least with the Steam Gifts Plus add-on

+1

That would just mean that on giveaways for AAA titles, there would be tens of thousands of entries.

If that feature got added, site activity would decrease. Automated entries are not a good idea.

I'm kind of against automation of any kind, but that's because I view this website as more of a community and less of a slot machine.

That wouldn't help. I'm at $.88 right now. Next game will be $.87 . It's really up to the giveaway creator to solve this problem.