How We're Planning to Fix Bundle Keys and Contributor Values (Option #1 Revised)

HOLY CRAP. I still got my full value. How could that happen...

It's impossible to say, because it's a dynamic number based on your giveaways received, both present and future.

Quick update. Games on the bundle list now include an asterisk after their title on the create dropdown.

I agree, best solution so far!

Total Value = Non-Bundle Value + min(Bundle Value, Non-Bundle Value * 0.2) [Note: min(x,y) picks smaller of two values)

Samples:

A. You have contributed 100$ in non-bundle games and 50$ in bundle games. 25$ of bundle games goes to your non-bundle contribution, rest is processed by equation provided above

• 125 + min(25,25) = 150$ contributed (first number in min() is bundle contribution minus 25$ free and second one is 125*0.2 ) [Note: Each next game marked as 'bundled' will not increase your total contribution in this situation, unless you gift more non-bundled games]

B. You have contributed 300$ in non-bundle games and 50$ in bundle games. Same as above, 25$ of bundle games is 'tax' free.

• 325 + min(25,65) = 350$ contributed (325*0.2=65) [Note: You can safely contribute 40$ more of games marked as 'bundled' to keep their full value in this situation]

C. You have contributed 50$ in non-bundle games and 100$ in bundle games. Same as above, 25$ of bundle games is 'tax' free.

• 75 + min(75,15) = 90$ contributed (75*0.2=15) [Note: Your 'bundle' games are already losing their value and will not increase total contribution unless you gift some 'non-bundled' ones]

D. You have contributed 0$ in non-bundle games and 125$ in bundle games. Same as above, 25$ of bundle games is 'tax' free and goes to non-bundle contribution.

• 25 + min(100,5) = 30$ contributed (25*0.2=5) [Note: If you gift nothing but 'bundled' games, your total contribution will always stay at 30$]

I felt like doing some math. :P Correct me if I did it wrong.

You wouldn't have ever been banned for that.

All of my giveaways are like that, tradable items of games that were in bundles. This option penalizes me as if they were bundle key giveaways though, so I'm still not a big of it. And the $25 allowance does little to help if people just start setting contributor giveaway requirements above that.

And SuperFluffyKitty loses even more than with the /update version ... I don't get it how this is possible.
Maybe in the calculation of the /update value, a smaller list of bundle games is being used?

Faerie Solitaire and Lucid got intentionally removed from the list or is just a mistake? I see these keys are exploited as well (multi Reddit accounts I guess).

They could either quickly update or make the system retro-active, in other words their contribution would be readjusted once the mods added the new bundle.

And the bundle list will get updated and affect them retroactively.

If i'm not mistaken, the contributor value will be calculated completely dynamical in realtime based on all your giveaways. So the moment a new bundle gets added it will affect all contributor scores, even if the giveaways ended before it was added

Yep, exactly.

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Loving your avatar though.

I do think that could work, actually. Just make it a simple yes/no without value -- either you have contributed or you haven't. People pumping up their contributor credit won't be a problem if there's no value to pump up, but you could still have contributor-only giveaways.

But after some limit, it penalizes people who give away tradable copies of games that happen to be in bundles. I still think a solution needs to account for that difference if it's only bundle keys that are the problem.