300 P is too many points.

That would get full if you check only once a day.

You're only saying this because you have 16 wins. I can guarantee you that you have spent your points on random games as well.

People do it just to feel what it's like to win, regardless of the game. Some people have never won before and by reducing the points, reducing the games to enter, reducing the chances to win a game, people leave. Less people = less giveaways. Less giveaways = even less people.

No.

I do agree that there are a lot more people entering giveaways for games that they aren't interested in which has resulted in a lot of regifting/trading games that they've won.

I don't think that everyone should be punished by having their points lowered though.

Maybe a new system of reduced points for rule breakers could be implemented by the staff the same way giveaways are reduced because of deleted ones?

I already ran out of points on things I wanted and have 170 points left, so I need to look more closely thereforce 300 is fine

Now to enter more games I sorta want a tiny bit

Cool story bro. You caer too much.

No one asked you.

If people could only enter a giveaway for 1 game at a time (I mean only 1 entry for Binding of Isaac at a time)This could be fixed.

I disagree.

That's bad idea, better ban all ppl which have 832 or less games on Steam!!!

Luckily, no one is asking you how many points we should have.

Not everyone is a douchebag regifter. I only enter giveaways for games i am honestly interested in, and I run out of points often.
Sometimes I sit on the 300 points for a while, because nothing pops up that interests me. Other times, there games i am interested in, and enter dozens of giveaways for that game at the same time. Example: Shank 2 and the basement collection.

I enter stuff that I really didn't know about when I first saw it but I do research and find out what it is about. But honestly at this point in time there are two games I really, REALLY want to get and those are Dungeon Defenders and Killing Floor. But, I can see what you mean by 300 points being too many.

Maybe just maybe there are 2000+ cheapskates out here that want the same games as you and everyone else. I don't know why, but a lot of people seem to like similar games.

Goddamnit, Locke.

Meh.

No, lesser points mean you're catering for no lifers who f5 steamgifts every hour

Another idea that we could do that would also cut out leechers would be do away with points all together, remove the random win and just exchange games with people that had the best offers. We could call the site SteamExchanges or something.

I want everything cause I'm a game hungry monster. Eventually I'll play them all. Just takes me time. Really it doesn't matter anyways as I've given away way more than I've won. Sometimes I end up buying the game I was trying to win.

64 points ought to be enough for anybody!

ive heard quite a few people say "i only entered because i had the points i'll never play it" ...oh well.

I think they should make it so you put 25 games on your wishlist and those are the only games you can enter for. That way it makes you choose which games you really want.

Points mostly build up when bundles are running. When there are no bundles active, points accumulate slower. Admittedly, bundles can sometimes seem an almost constant occurrence...

Cutting the point cap to 200 would favor people who check SteamGifts more often. People who check every few hours (and short duration giveaways already give you an incentive to constantly check the site) will be able to spend just about as many points as they could before the cap was lowered. (On a heavy giveaway day, you might "lose" an extra 100 points while you sleep, but you can keep emptying the points you accumulate through the day.)

A lower cap might also encourage people to bank points in 3-4 week duration giveaways. If you find there is nothing you particularly want, you dump your excess points in long duration giveaways to free up room to accumulate more. If you find you need the points later, you drop out of some of those giveaways. If you don't find anything you want, and your "banks" are about to expire, then you cancel out of them and dump the points into other 3-4 week giveaways. With a cap of 300, there just isn't that much incentive to act like that. But if you lower the cap, you make it a more viable practice.

A lower cap might also encourage people to enter more giveaways for games that they aren't really concerned about, just so they won't "waste" those points. No, I'm not saying it will be worse than what happens with the current cap, but a cap drop might not bring about as much a change as some might expect.

If people have enough points to enter DLC giveaways when they don't even own the game (which they do, in swarms) then there are either two many points in the system, or life has dealt each and every one of these individuals a grievous injustice of the cranial variety, and it is a jaw-dropping miracle that they are even able to locate their computers, let alone successfully switch them on and find their way onto the internet...