In a 30 day month, people that spend their points and don't let their account sit at the 400 point cap get 17,280 points. So if you are only entering for a small number of GAs, you could store a lot more, but the issue becomes finding future GAs to store them in. I also manually copy and paste all the URLs in a text file and then have to remove the entries before the GAs expire, so it's a lot of work. Because of that, I only store them in GAs that cost at least 15 points to enter and I almost always run out of GAs to store them in and just let the rest of the points vanish.

Edit: This wasn't a problem back when we used to get a certain number of points based on the value of all GAs created on the site rather than a static set amount like we do now. Now when a big bundle is released and a lot of GAs are created, you instantly run out of points if there is 1 or 2 games you are interested in, where in the past you would get more points because more GAs were being created and it would balance itself out.

I don't have too many games to enter anymore either because I only enter for games I am interested in playing and I already own most of what I want. I currently have over 23,000 games hidden on SG.

It is a lot of work and since there aren't many good bundles anymore, the only time I really find storing points useful is for the Humble Monthly. If there ends up being a couple games you are interested in and you don't buy it yourself, you will almost instantly run out of points entering giveaways because of the 400 point limit, especially if they are high value games.

It's annoying to know that there are so many users that just enter every giveaway they can to get a +1 on their Steam account, so they get much better odds of winning games because they have so many points to spend. Those of use that just enter for games we are interested in and end up sitting on the 400 point limit for most of the month are just throwing thousands of points away.

I don't have an exact count because I just have links in a text file, so I don't have an easy way to remove them all to count the points. My best estimate was that I had around 2500-3000 points stored at the beginning of the Humble Monthly that just passed. I didn't use many of them this month and I currently have about 1700-2000 points stored.

The almost 9500 points that I showed was the most I ever stored and is not normal. The only reason I was able to store that many was because I was storing them in giveaways that were being created for the community train. The giveaways were open for a month and there was almost 2200 created which made it easy to store as many points as I wanted.

I probably usually store around 2000-3000 points leading up to the Humble Monthly. Then if there are games that I want and I am able to spend the points, I will be below the 400 point cap and start getting 6 points again every 15 minutes like normal. That will give you 576 points per day plus whatever is stored. That is why I estimated in a comment above that I use about 3000-4000 points in the first couple days after the Humble Monthly if there are a couple games I am interested in. 2000-3000 stored plus the 576 per day.

It is not uncommon to be only interested in one or even no games though, and then I just have to remove the entries before the giveaways end and slowly use the points over the next weeks while not being able to gain any because I am over the 400 point cap. That is where I am at now. I already started storing points again yesterday because I can't find enough giveaways to enter than I am interested in.

Yeah I knew you could get extra points this way, but I thought there would be a limit after which you'd just lose your point. I'm surprise to see that that you can get that many points by storing them in GAs, seems like a lot of work though.

The economy would certainly crash!

The cap is 50 points, actually. ^^