Incentive?

A sense of pride and accomplishment

If people stop giving or invite people that don't eventually gift, then less people gift and it dies. The only thing that keeps it alive is positive people and eventual pruning of bad apples/mass ban waves.

CG is entertaining the idea of AD's or sponsorship to generate money to fill in gaps that may occur but that's not something currently going on.

I really don't understand this either. Let's say I feel generous and give a few games away. I then use the points I rack up to enter a few other giveaways, but I don't win anything because there is an obnoxiously large amount of users just in on this trying to get free games and nothing else. No, there is no incentive, and no, I will not be using this site until it is easier for people who post giveaways to win than people just entering giveaways.

We have ideas and are discussing perks for members that post giveaways (among other things), but I can say with absolute certainty that we will never give somebody increased chances to win a particular giveaway because they've given away games themselves. If you want to obtain games because you're giving away games: look into trading.

Edit: This was supposed to be a reply to linkingday above.

I think the incentive is just the sense that your extra gift copies are going to someone who'll value and cherish the game, and if you buy games to gift to people on here, it's about the sheer generosity of it.

Basically, linkingday and OP, pure goodwill. Strange, right?

I was thinking the same thing when I first joined the site. I wondered how it could survive purely off human generosity and goodness, but somehow it's working! We've got over $30,000 worth of gifts given away (although that might be inaccurate because there's that troll rolling around right now), but nonetheless we've raised a ton of money and our community is thriving. I believe that as long as the site stays invitation only (so we don't get trolls and stuff), the site will continue to grow in this good direction.

To be the very best like no one ever was! GLaPOS MON!!!! Actually once you reach a certain amount of giveaways like me you get a ....

This is an interesting idea and to show my support I have created a giveaway. In the long run I don't see this model sustaining itself unless the people creating giveaways get some sort of perk or point increase. As it is approx. 2/3 of the members are just hoping to get free stuff and will probably not giveaway anything. I see this number getting worse as more freeloaders flock to the site as the word gets out. With so many entries and so few gifts eventually the user-base will dwindle as very few members will win. In conclusion, there needs to be incentives to give games or the site will kill itself.

I haven't created a giveaway yet, but I do plan too give back to the community when the situation arises.

And as for trolls, it's the internet and they are everywhere..... feed them at your own risk.

I agree that it'll work out. The majority of the games are well-priced for their value. A couple of bucks, and I can feel like I genuinely contributed. If I hold out until I win something, then throw out a different game in a giveaway, I'm straight-up FUNCTIONING. And everyone wants to function. It's what makes relaxation so damned enjoyable. And, at the worst, it helps justify snobbishness. -.-