When you try to make a GA, look whether the game has asterisks on the right
No asterisks means it gives the full cost in dollars in Steam as CV
Considering that, you can calculate how much CV you'll get. Or use ESGST, and before submitting a GA, you'll get info on how much CV the GA will give you.
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If the game in question was in a recent bundle or pick & mix, I suggest that you try looking in the Deals section for a thread corresponding to that Bundle. The chart is sortable-by-column (at least to those who use ESGST, I don't know about non-ESGST users) and will tell you which games offer the most CV, in case you are buying solely for giveaways.
HOWEVER, sometimes the chart was published before CV changes have occurred (This is especially true of games listed on the chart as "full CV."). Therefore, for any game that you are buying to give, it is always a good idea to make sure that that game still has the bundled status that the chart reports, as per RiderOfPhoenix's comment above.
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Thank you!
ESGST can be found here: https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/TDyzv/extension-userscript-enhanced-steamgifts-steamtrades-esgst-v884 , for anyone who lacks it.
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You're welcome; I'm glad to help!
Sorry about that, but at least it is better than no information at all. However, the reduced CV is the same as entering the store price (rounded to the nearest dollar if it is .99 cents) into your calculator and multiplying it by 0.15.
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is the same as entering the store price
*Store price in USD, to be precise. This is also the same value used to determine P (which you can easily check just by going to the confirm screen in giveaway creation, or by searching the site's giveaway archive), though P cost was changed to cap at 50, meaning that's no longer a direction correlation after a point.
Also, due to Steam misreporting the wrong price [both through the Steam API, and within the store's own search function!] if a package listed on the same store page is on sale for cheaper than a base game, you may also run into unreliability in P cost in that instance, as SG'll read a larger P value [ie, the retail cost of the on-sale package] instead of the retail cost of the base game.
If needed, you can always check the cost of a game in a foreign currency by looking up the game in SteamDB.
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I did a tool years ago to follow your contributor level (CL) and plan your giveaways. As you "only" did 66 giveaways, the spreadsheet could be easy to fill. It will give you the exact value of your past and future giveaways.
OSS (Ouinx2's SpreadSheet)
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/ykOEs/
It's free for use, full of figures (for people who like that) but I dont improve it anymore.
I did a complementary tool to evaluate the value of each game in a bundle and to compare a bundle with another but it's not the OSS.
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Keep in mind that the game's CV is 100% (unbundled) or 15% (bundled) only for the first 5 copies of the game that you giveaway, after that, the value progressively decreases. See full explanation here on Contributor Levels.
This is also a useful table to reference back to in regards to the amount of CV needed for each level, if you don't use ESGST and want to keep track of things yourself.
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Fanatical gives me several games to choose from to redeem.
I'd like to know which one would give me the most CV points to my SG account.
Thank you in advance!
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