Am I the only one who gets bugged at how games are generally $xx.99 while contributions are generally locked at $xx.00?

Like how a game you send is worth 4.99 or 9.99, then you see people set 5.00 or 10.00 minimum contributions to enter their contests?

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Send more gifts?

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Fortix will save you

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Contribute some more, problem solved.

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Actually, if the game costs x,99 you'll receive x+1,00 in contributor status.

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no you don't. I gave away rush and got 4.99 in my contributor status.

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Nope.

As for the OP, that is why I make my contributor-only giveaways at .99 increments instead of a solid dollar (eg. 4.99).

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so some1 who made for example 5 fortix giveaways still would be missing 0.04$ to enter ^^

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I always put x.50 because what if he/she has gifted more than just one before

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My mistake, sorry. BTW, we can always use the SG Enhancement Addon to prevent seeing those giveaways... it gives a great psychological effect.

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Problem solved if you gift more games....cause you wont have a x.99 anymore...

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Just make a Fortix giveaway

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I don't think the people saying "Send more gifts" and such are even thinking about it. If you've given away $4.99 worth of games and then give away a $14.99 game, you've then given away $19.98 and will not be able to enter a contributor giveaway with a $20 threshold despite giving away (essentially) $20 worth of games.

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... and? What's your point? Round it up? But when what about those who gave away $19.97? We should round those up too, or they'll be complaining. Then what about those with $19.96? Then $19.95?

Gift. More.

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Kindly round me up from $666 to $1000 please.

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But if you gift more, you're in the same scenario but just a higher number. I'm not saying you should start rounding everyone up, but people seem to be simplistically overlooking the problem.

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Are you really that naive? It should be rounded the same as the points needed to enter them. A $9.99 game requires us to spend 10 points to enter, so why isn't the gifter given $10 in value? If the rounding is done on a per game basis, then you wouldn't run into the problem you're illustrating.

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Then we should also round down Dawn of War Franchise Packs to $150. You know, it'd only be fair.

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Hmm, so that Sega collection that was worth ~428 dollars?

We should make it only 150 dollars worth, since you know, it costs 150 points to enter it.

So, yeah, it's completely fair that way.

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Yeah, because that's the same thing :rolleyes:

I forget how stupid people are on the Internet.

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I think I'm going to set all my contributor giveaways to $XX.01 now, just to be a delightful bastard and screw up your plan. <3 I think you're missing the point. The creator sets the price. If they want it to be $9.99, then they'll set it as $9.99. If they want it as $10, then suck it up and donate more to breach that limit if it's so important to you.

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You're missing the point too though...the more you give, the farther away from a flat dollar you go (until you donate a multiple of 100). So the creator can only do so much. For example, I set my last giveaway at $9.99. This allows people who donated a $9.99 or greater game to enter my giveaway, which was my goal, but if someone donated two $4.99 games, they'd be shit out of luck, because they'd be at $9.98. I fail to see any reason why .99 shouldn't be rounded up for contributor value to alleviate this issue. Just seems like a rather simple fix.

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Then they can also giveaway a dlc or a fortix or something else...And THEN they will be able to enter :)

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Not always. If the contributor-only giveaway ends in one hour or less, they won't get credit in time.

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Then they won't join.Problem solved

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I'm among the few people who would increase the required amount to $5.01 just to annoy everyone who'll have $5 after. Pricing ain't SG's fault btw.

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Same here, no need to whine.

If you have $19.99, and the giveaway requires $20.00, well, you haven't given away enough yet, then.

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Contributor giveaways set a minimum threshold for gifts given away. If you don't meet that threshold, well, sorry, you don't get to enter.

Deal with it.

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I will set all my future contributor giveaways to 666$
Only true spawns of Satan will be able to enter them

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And no eggs.

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Heh

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auch

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She did it on purpose, cause "There's no better gift than to see kanga rage" ;_;

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You made me crack up badly

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Gotta love that penny. I just set my giveaways to require whatever the game costs.

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I was kinda mad about it a first... but fuck it i'll just contribute more if i want to enter that giveaways

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Do what I do, contribute DLCs lol

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Fortix > DLC

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The DLCs I've contributed are worth more than Fortix lol

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I had it too on one occasion, only the values were a bit more unusual than in most cases.
The required contrib value was 55,94 and mine was 55,93.
It P'd me off for a moment, cause it was a good game.

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