Steamgifts needs an intervension, fast

i think (80% sure) that he is talking about number 3.

Currently Humble Bundles are enjoying two special privileges that makes them advantageous over every other single game or bundle. I explained what are those and how they can be fixed in detail there.

What I'm asking is them to be made equal with other bundles immediately, or them to be stopped until such balancing is implemented. Otherwise I know the pain of missing one (I was missing HiB2 until recently).

Right now you can buy HIB2 - it comes with a purchase of HIB3 at an above average price (when I bought it this afternoon that was $4.47 or so), and comes with all of the already bought HIB3s regardless of price, hence the sudden influx of HIB2s.

IF this one point can be easily done creating it by paying 0.1 cent and the limit to your bundle giveaway creation is currently 3 , well i can consider that a problem .

It is not just a single point when dozens of Humble Bundle giveaways are created everyday. If you disable your filter for a second and look, you'll see all pages are filled with Humble Bundles with one or two other games each page. A lot of users are abusing the free (vs every giveaway being mod checked first) system the site is deigned with good intentions to generate unlimited points.

No one is "fighting over" anything. There is a saying in my native tongue which roughly translates as "Shall the snake who doesn't touch me live a thousand years.". Most of the users are adapting this thought, as long as they think this abuse doesn't hurt them directly they can't care less. But they don't realize this is undermining the site as a whole. It is the same with a country that constantly prints new money to pay of debts, with each batch reducing the worth of that said money more and more, until the point that a million of that money can hardly be equal to a single unit of others.

This is reducing the value of all the giveaways by both reducing the worth of points they generate and by allowing everyone to enter every giveaway. Steamgifts is deigned to be a place where you gather points for a couple of days to be enter the giveaway of a game that you really want, this abundance of exploited points causes everyone to enter every game just to spend all the excess points, no matter if they ever plan to play that game at all. Reducing the chance of those few people that really want the game to a fraction of a thousand.

That's where strict modding comes in. As I said in various other threads, we need more mods with the ability to shut down, or disable giveaways until the problems in them are fixed. Current site design only allows CG to remove a giveaway once it's created and he can only do so much.

I assume you are just being lazy about reading what you consider to be a big column of writing and responding to what you saw most others' replies are about. Please be smart and read what you are responding to next time.

This thread is not about my personal tastes, I already have the filter and I don't see the Humble Bundles if I don't disable Greasemonkey. This is about the users that are slowly, but surely, killing the site. And most people not seeing this shielded by their filters and greed.

Why disable Fortix and DLCs? They are legitimate purchases which people who do not have them may like to win. Or are you saying that a $1 free contribution isn't enough to qualify as giving something away? Why not $2? Surely a person giving away a $2 is cheap too, right? Where do you draw the line? The HIB things are different since they can be exploited, but with Fortix, someone spent that dollar so that somebody else could have a (god-awful Qix clone) game.

They already have this system in place. There is a max of 3 copies per user for any HIB submission. So if you have 3 HIB giveaways, you cannot make anymore.

lol, i don't care what you pay, the reason i say 5 dollers is because most people SHOULD have that kind of money, but if you pay under a doller, you are costing the humble team money, thereby being part of the reason they will one day stop... thus ruining everyone elses fun, worse than piracy!

Why make that specific to HIB? Limiting the number of concurrent giveaways of -any- game would do the trick. People wanting to give away a maxed out game could still do so. As soon as one of the other giveaways for it ends. This would both solve the pointfarming and promote creativity in choosing which games to gift.

O noes. Grammars Nazi!

Actually, they receive 1 point, but yeah i get what you're saying.

I came to the site a bit more than two weeks ago. Not only did it have 3 times more games, but there was VARIETY. Sire, there were a couple of portals and half-lives, but all in all the selection was great. Now we have like 2 games (packs) to choose from, and a shitload of points to spend... on nothing.