Steamgifts Level & Free Games - How will we maintain it!?

I thought you don't lose level points if your giveaway was before the game was marked bundled or given away for free. You do lose level points if the price is reduced for the USA steam store. For example: you make a giveaway for a $40 unbundled game in 2017, you gain 40 CV. Then in 2019 the price is reduced to $20 and you lose 20 CV.

i find myself struggling to keep lv 9 ... but these problems are luxury problems, or am i mistaken ...
(seeing my level points decline every few days)

There is no problem. When game added to free or bundled list - it's added with a start date. So, if you did giveaway prior to that date - your CV is safe, but if your giveaway was made after that date - your CV is reduced/removed. So, even if all games will become free today - you will still be level 5.
The thing is - games are not added to the free/bundled lists in a timely manner - because it's done manually. So, it's quite possible that game was free in January, you made giveaway in March, got full CV, and then in June game was added to the list, with the start date in January, and you lost your CV. If it was possible to maintain free/bundled lists up-to-date in a timely manner - you would never even get this CV.

See the FAQ

Why did my level decrease?
There are two reasons why a decrease could occur.

Values are calculated based on the current USD prices of games in the Steam store. If a game lowers in price, the value of previously created giveaways will adjust accordingly, and this will be reflected on profiles and levels.
Certain games on our site are flagged as "No Value" or "Reduced Value". This is done manually by our volunteers, and therefore there might be a delay before these values are assigned. For example, a game might be included in a bundle on January 10, 2018. If on January 13, 2018 we flag that game as "Reduced Value", with an effective date starting January 10, 2018 (the day the bundle started), then giveaways created between January 10-13, 2018 would have their value reduced accordingly.

The only reason you would loose CV is if the price on Steam decreased or if you gave the game after the date it was given for free or bundled.
It's not really a problem with how SG handle level it's more because at the rate games are given for free and become bundled the person who handle adding them to the list can't keep up so often it become retroactive. You can always use site like https://isthereanydeal.com/ to check if a game is bundled or given for free, it should give you an idea of the CV you'll get for a game since there are kept pretty up to date.

I feel you, I´ve been level 6 for a long time now and my CV keeps going down and occasionally up even though I´ve created plenty of giveaways since reaching level 6 (though most are reduced CV there are some full CV). Maybe 3 days ago I was at 6.69 and I am now at 6.62.

I hope I got it right, it's a finicky thing to include all possibilities

View attached image.

It's been said above but I am thinking it's not about free games, but games reducing in price year(s) later or being banned/removed which becomes 0 value. Currently the site doesn't have any way to address this since it pulls from steam api.

Granted, you guys may be right about that but even so, my level decreases constantly and at an alarming rate despite giveaways.

As for the graph on free games, as more and more games become free, we'll have a harder time gaining points as time goes by since they never reset to any amounted value in points, even years later and if they've only been free once.

How come noone blames the CV system after giving away an unbundled $10 game which he bought 90% off at a reseller?

Eventually most games will have been free somewhere

Close to 25.000 games available at Steam. So, no, only a fraction of those games have and will be free. Not "most games". No need for doom and gloom.

P.S.: Stop worrying about CV and levels and your SG-experience will be much more enjoyable.

There are only two scenarios in which you lose CV in the current SG system, and just one of them is a real issue:

1. You give away a game that has ALREADY been bundled or given away for free, but it still result Full CV here because Support members didn't have time to change it yet. So, this is not unfair for you: probably you paid a very small price for that game.
2. This is the real problem that should be face. SG doesn't have a database for the regular game prices, it depends on the prices shown on US Steam store: thus when the price changes PERMANENTLY on the store, your CV will be affected retroactively.

You see then, massive giveaway aren't a direct problem for CV. And if I can make a suggestion: it is nice to see the CV going up, but don't care too much about it. You reached level 5 in an year, so I suppose that you enjoy giving away games. Keep enjoying it, and consider the CV an added bonus. ;)

Levels are overrated.

View attached image.

CV system haunts people who care about it. I dont care about it and my CV hasn't changed in 2 years maybe 0.01 or 2 idk.