About level-system on SG

Some games have fluctuating value that people often forget about (Daedalic games), and also the price drop is inevtiably followed by a CV drop . As Talgaby often said in similar topics: give only bundled, then you know what you're getting, and it will stay like that.
I'm at level 7 which is 4 times more CV than level 5 of yours, so maybe it's not that noticable - but I checked my level diagram in the stats, and I didn't drop at all in the past two years of being level 7, or at least it's not visible on the graph.
It's a way smaller issue than some people love to think it is. Giving bundled, (IG Happy Hour is great for that) not buying "unbundled" around 80% discount because in Russia that likely means it will hit the magic 95% discount , and don't buy shady Russian keys because as they cost just a few rubels, they also cross the 95% threshold.
And really, don't worry about 0.03, if it's unavoidable. At level 5 that is 7-15$ RealCV, that can be bought for about 1$ with the said IG happy hour bundles. (Turn-Based Definitive Bundle gives 12$ CV, Virtual Reality XXVIII gives 13) And as levels are getting practically useless after 3-4-5, it's really not even worth to check them all the time. Takes quite a time to reach a new level, and that gives almost nothing than bragging rights.

Most of those complaining about "back to level #" have been hit by one of the following. All these points are adressed in the FAQ/guidelines and should not come as a surprise to anyone.

• They gave away games that had their base price changed by the publisher. Most of the time one lose CV that way, but you can also gain CV, if the base price increases (the latter happen to me for example with my Shovel Knight GA).

• The buy a new bundle or give away a recently free game. They receive full CV until our great bundler finds time to update the bundled-list.

• An users CV was bloated because Steam's API reported a price incorrectly. This often happens to games that are in developer bundles on Steam, e.g. "Daedalic - Gigantic Bundle". If the bundle is at a discount and cheaper than a single game, Steam reports the bundles' base price and CV gets bloated. For example, if the "right" combination of Daedalic bundles in discounted, my real CV is bloated by about 600$, level 9.6 -> 9.9 in my case.
  If a user gives away such a game and it gets marked received while the CV is bloated, the user will get a higher level than they should have.

You suggested above a dynamic data base. For example the "Daedalic bug" is a reason not to do that but just go by a games base price.
If SG would use a dynamic data base, there would be huge abuse as many users would give away for example Daedalic games only while their CV is bloated and cheat the system that way.

Isn't it hard to solve legal issues cause of pre-made assets?

It's so petty of them. o_0

I red article really shit games studio chose this way cause they get more money for large number of very chip games than they get by low-quality or medium quality games. (Hm... I just catch thought: why they not make simple game for very weak PCs or transfer big games to very chip and low-quality versions?)

I know. But higher level also mean smaller count of entires and higher level of gibs (I mean it's easier to find "AA" game on level 4 than on level 3). I'm not sure about last today...

What do you think about this way of DB maintance?

I mean that user make giveaway and get so much points as game cost at the moment. This ga take "price count" as "key field" but not "current price". So, "key field" will have limited point-price value (CV) and "current price" will be dynamic field that could avoid (in my humble opinion) current situation where "current price" is a "key". This way should avoid endless DB growth and save cost of "giveawayed gibs". Isn't it?

Thanks for making me feel ancient 😉

Maybe I'm just old, being in the second half of my twenties

Agree mostly. But I still feel like... I can't find way to say softly so I ask to not understand exactly. I feel like somebody take something my own that I don't want to give, it's something like theft or leak.

P.S.: why people feel old age in the second half of twenties and first half of thirties? It's so far from crysis of middle-age