If you could make ONE change to steamgifts right now, what would it be?

It works the way it does to discourage people splitting up the bundle and giving games individually to inflate their contributor value. Doing so used to be flat-out forbidden, but having those simply not count toward your contributor value takes up less of the staff's limited time. The $30 mark is there to account for the fact that sometimes you buy a game to give away and it happens to appear in a bundle. That happens sometimes (it happened to me). If you buy a bundle and give it away you always get full contributor value unless you try to split the bundle into individual games.

I think it's a really bad idea. Give away the whole bundle --> problem solved. In this case, you will get the price of that bundle as contribution value, and you should not worry about the $30 limit as far as I know. If people decide to give away bundle keys separately, they can easily receive $30 contribution value from one single bundle. So you pay $1 --> you get $30. And without this limit, people could "farm" ridiculously high contribution value with a very little effort. I think it's more than unfair. Yes, there are many other ways to "fake" your contribution value, but bundles are the easiest method of it. So removing the limit doesn't make sense at all.

If you give enough non-bundle games, you can get more than 30$ from your bundled games. You get the full value up to 20% of the value of your regular games. That's the best way to prevent contribution farming from $1 bundles while not completely discouraging people from giving those games altogether.

The problem is, you can never know if those are bundle keys or Steam gifts. For example, two of my giveaways are listed as bundle keys, but those were actually tradable gifts from Steam. With this rule, a lot of great games would be removed from the site, just because some people are boosting their contribution value with bundle keys. I think we should decide which is more important: these games or the contribution value?

It used to be like that, and policing these giveaways required almost all the mods time. It's unenforceable unless we remove the games from the list completely. But you would be preventing people from getting really good games by doing that. I thing the current contributor's limit system is the best trade-off.

+1. An option to set a specific amount of entries for a giveaway would be awesome. Gives higher chances to the people that are frequently visiting steamgifts.

that is feature from gameminer, right? it is actually great idea, but what if win someone who didn't meet requirements for group giveaway or something?

Has been suggested before and it won't be done. cg doesn't want to store keys on the server. Developers are another thing.

We don't need even more people entering giveaways without reading the description.

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Sure, we definitely need less people reading the giveaway description before entering.

SG Plus already does a good job on that regard...

Yeah, we really need a proper forum. Something like, [Giveaways + Puzzles], [Off-topic], [General Discussion], [Support Forum].

We also need all the features a normal forum already has, like being able to subscribe to discussions, being able to track your post history and threads created, etc.

Heck, just move to vBulletin. =x

No we don't

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this is actually a pretty good idea and nothing of those "I WANT TO CHANCE THE WHOLE SYSTEM" stuff

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or at the very least, add the custom filters feature.

actually, having said that, since it's not a hassle to have to install plus, I'd probably got for adding notifications as my choice.

So you can keep a tracking list, and get an email or something whenever a giveaway is put on.

+1 for custom filters.

also include the sgplus addon as default

I thought this was the case already, just only visible to support.

You paid $19.98 for those two games?

I honestly don't see this as a valid criticism as 99% of giveaways on this site were games bought on sale. Even if they drop down, you still have more value than you actually paid.

The database doesn't hold historical value of prices. It's been discussed before and althought it would be a nice addition, I don't think it will be put in place. And it affects everyone as the price of every game is bound to go down at some point, except maybe for Fortix. It's the one and only safe value,

Its called STEAM gifts, just sayin

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You can give them away on galagiveaways :P

Doh.. They already are ;)

Learn JS, make use of Greasemonkey.

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I don't want to be a that guy but if the point of saying "thanks" is to express gratitude over a giveaway such a button would only make such word meaningless! If you feel so little about the giveaway that saying "thanks" is just a chore you probably should say nothing at all...

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That's not Steamgift's fault, that's your browser doing that. Click on the topic tilte if you want to relad the page.