How We're Planning to Fix Bundle Keys and Contributor Values (Option #3)

Thanks to a couple of users for suggesting different aspects of this idea.

Proposed changes to contributor values

Contributor value is no longer calculated using dollars and cents, it's based on what the community would like to see posted. Value would be determined based on game votes. This would mean users could view a page of all the available games, and check off games they like to see in giveaways, up to 10% of the total games. They can modify this list at any time. Perhaps they win a game they checked off, well, they can uncheck it, and check something else they are now interested in seeing. If the data is not modified within a few weeks, it's discarded from calculations, so we're only looking at fresh information. For example, let's say Half-Life 3 is coming out next month. People visit the voting page, and check it off saying they would like to see HL3 giveaways. Meanwhile, common games, such as Shadowgrounds might not receive many votes, along with low interest games, such as Railworks. If you create a HL3 giveaway, you might receive 10 contributor points, and if you posted Railworks, 1 contributor point. This value is assigned based on current data, and would not change over time. This means, a year from now, say HL3 is already owned by everyone, and there's now little interest, your value wouldn't drop from 10 to 1, but rather remain at 10 points.

Now users would have the option to create giveaways only for those with a minimum number of contributor points. For example, if you set your giveaway at 100, this would mean entering users would have previously needed to giveaway 100 games that few people were interested in, 10 games that everyone was looking to play, or anything in between.

Of course, we would need to discuss a fair method of converting over the current contributor values into contributor points. If people think this option has any potential, we can start tossing around ideas.

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