Lower the percentage of points generated from 5 to 2.5% -_-

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Yes I know.
I know, I know.
At the risk of being completely shunned by the community I have one last points system rant left in me.

I think we should lower the points generation of the site (again)

Reasons:

1. People don't say thank you enough/at all

Many people think this is a big problem that people don't say thank you when they enter a giveaway.
I think it really isn't that big of a problem.
WHY?
Because you can't expect people of being thankful when it's so easy to enter a giveaway. Entering giveaways is not a big deal because we have too many points. MAKE ENTERING GIVEAWAYS A BIG DEAL by decreasing the points generation.

2. People don't read the description of the giveaways to see what the gifter has to say about the game/if the giveaway is fake/ if the gifter has something they want people to know about the game

Best way to fix this problem? Have less points so people are actually wary of fake giveaways. Right now there is a giveaway for 2 copies of Modern Warfare 3 and a giveaway for 2 copies of Skyrim.

Seeing as how there are so many entries for these (myself included) people obviously don't care whether or not the giveaways are fake because they have more than enough points to enter.

3. The Site Will Just Keep Growing

We are close to 25,000 members. The more members we have the more entries per giveaway, the more entries per giveaway = less chances of winning = chances of winning a giveaway is equated to winning the steam top 10 wishlist drawing (exagerration). Entering giveaways should be harder than it is now.

4. Change the site from people thinking they can enter every game that they are sort of interested in to games people really want

Let us not forget why we are here (excluding the super generous minority). We want to win giveaways!
And we have tons of points so why not?
I enter for games that look sort of interesting, you enter for games that look sort of interesting. I try to restrain myself, with less than 250 entries being here since the site launched, but there are tons of people who enter for every giveaway they can as long as they have the spare points.
It's not right that the person who REALLY wants to win Killing Floor never wins one because someone else who thinks it looks neat and plays it for 1 hour and is done with it decided to enter.

5. Big Games are too easy to enter for

At this point of the site, it really isn't that hard to save up 50-60p. Every day we get tons of points, be inactive for 1-2 days and you can enter for Skyrim. We need to make people more conservative. People should have 100p at all times in case someone makes a Skyrim giveaway.

It's hard to explain but you should feel pressured to NOT enter games you only sort of want in FEAR that a giveaway you do want is made.

We need to be thinking that points won't come back as fast as they do now, so you better save up and NOT enter for
Petz Horsez 2

Entering giveaways should be a big deal

Every single point has to be a big deal, we have to go from
"OH man, I need 5 more points to enter for Killing Floor which looks cool" to "OH man, I need 5 more points to enter for Killing Floor which I must REALLY want because 5 points is a big deal, what if someone makes a Skyrim giveaway and I can't enter that?"

Why does the person who registered last week have 300 giveawya entries?
Too many points.

I propose cutting the points generation in half from 5% to 2.5%

13 years ago*

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derhamster86

I basically agree with the OP. But I don't think any fixed percentage will fix the currently flawed system. Take a look at Nintendos idea on the first page at the bottom. He suggested to ditch the whole point system and implement tickets. Most if not all of the OPs problems would be solved this way imo.

Edit: Is it really 5% now? I got so many points in the last ~2 hours. Feels more like 20% or something like that. I think I will watch my point growth carefully in the next hours. That doesn't feel right.

13 years ago