Why not put higher contribution requirements?

Because the contributor is allowed to do what they want?
It's a gifting community. Most of the times you don't get rewarded by gifting since then it wouldn't be gifting I guess.

the difference between steamgifts and stupid playblink

Because the contributor is allowed to do what they want?<<<

Of course they are, i never put that in question. But ok let me rephrase... Why contributors do not want to put higher requirement and reward other contributors? :)

Because I want everyone to join, leechers or not.

Some people with no contributions could easily just not have any money to buy games (like me).

I've used store credit for my current gift, and my previous gift was a result of a pre-order back when i had a few bucks.

Not everyone has money to gift games... They simply buy their games for fun and they reach the $100 value to register here... (like me), i giveaway everything I have that Im not going to play, instead of trading it, but it's not because i have a lot, i do it because i simply dont need more and someone else would enjoy playing my game

Welcome to SteamGifts

I'm very poor :/
being a detective doesn't pay well

Is this high enough to you?

Why should someone be excluded purely because they don't have the money to buy extra games just to give away? I would never put a requirement on a giveaway because it's not fair to say one group of people can have it and another can't, I don't see why people care so much about contribution, fair enough have it on your profile to inflate your ego but I don't really see the point past that

you can already set the amount DOUBLE what you have contributed. its fine how it is

I sometimes set the contribution requirement on my giveaways to $0.01. Sometimes, it's nothing. But even if I was giving away Skyrim (not happening, haha), I don't think I'd set the requirement higher than maybe $20. If that. I don't see a reason to. If I want to make a giveaway where the entrants have better odds, I'll make a group giveaway.

The submitter decides its their decision

sense, this thread had none.

I think i'll start posting a requirement of the same value as the game i am giving away. If I post a 20$ game, ill put a 20$ requirement on it. This seems fair to me.

What if I told you, there was a time without a contributor requirement even available.

There are too many stupid giveaways with $200+ requirements already, so no. This whole system is really bad anyway.

put 1.000.000.000

Most of the people who exploit the site already have a few hundred in value anyway, so you're not really winning in the end.

To each their own way of doing things.

• Some people do only group giveaways because they only want a certain group of people to participate.
• Some will do private giveaways because they want to provide only to active members of the community who visit the forums.
• Some will put a minimum contribution value on all their giveaways because they don't want to give to people who don't contribute to the site.
• And some are just plain generous and give to everyone, without discriminating.

I've done a bit of each of those scenarios myself.

Up until recently you couldn't even put a minimum contribution value, so consider yourself lucky to simply have that possibility.

I try to put a contribution requirement in just about everything.

• $0.01 - someone who's contributed anything at all
• $0.98 - someone who's given at least 2x a forty-nine cent gift
• $4.90 - same as above, accounts for people who give lots of small things
• $30.01 - for people who have given at least one thing that wasn't part of a bundle

I always do a little facepalm when I see something go up for a flat dollar amount less than $30. In my opinion, posters should be using these or requirements like these more often. But I certainly don't think it needs to be every time.

not everyone can afford to contribute, if i had the extra money i would run some givaway, or if my luck on getting christmasss gifts off steam would be better, i would give games im not intrested in...

Here you go,as you wished

High enough? I can go higher if you want

It would just make steamgifts a wealth redistribution website, not a website for generous non-judgmental giving. I am extremely grateful for steamgifts. Besides groups do a lot of that regulating for us. With such low winning odds on most non group/contributor giveaways it takes quite a bit of commitment to win thus deserving and/or lucky people are the ones that win not general leachers.

why not put higher requirements on ur giveaways and let other ppl do wtf they want :)