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Status: Closed enrollment. Group officers with prior officer/admin experience wanted.

Most popular recent exclusive GAs: Dishonored 2, Outcast - Second Contact, Battle Chasers: Nightwar, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, The Stillness of the Wind


Do you want simpler group rules with flexibility on what and how often you give? Do you like having a decent chance at winning GAs and freedom to enter any GA at anytime? Do you want most of your group GAs to get 5+ entires so the CV counts?

Its in the BAG!: Balancing Act Guild


Rules for staying a member are relatively short:

  1. Be excellent to each other and follow SG/ST rules (because guilds have merchants)

  2. Do not add any other groups to your GAs for the guild, but up to half of the guild GAs you create can include your whitelist.

  3. Each month ends with removing 1 member with the worst negative Value Diff and/or SG members who show "Last Online" 4+ months ago. So try to keep a decent "Value Difference" in our group: Sent minus Received CV. This is the balancing act folks (Easily check your stat here anytime in SG.)

  4. Be reasonable with your group GAs - Make sure at least 50% of them are NOT: No value (Red ** when creating), 1-5 $/points, region restricted, <1 day GA length, or level restricted. Some of those are ok but such restrictions are more what public GAs are for ;)


After initiation giveaway(s), there are no other mandatory or monthly GAs, gift when & what you want! Initiation GA(s) are designed to mitigate becoming a CV Negative Nancy after your first wins from the group.

Life can be a balancing act - We make things simple for our members to gift & win games as they choose so they can focus on just having fun!


Joining the group is simple:

  1. In general, have more Sent than Won CV (regular or real) or request further review (give group names where you have a positive Value Diff, etc).

  2. Be Level 3 or higher on SG with recent activity and in good standing with SG/ST.

  3. Visit our Steam group and click "Request to join" button and post to this recruit thread with a meme or something...or don't meme - You be you.

  4. After joining the group, you have 2 days to create group-only no-whitelist one time 20 Point OR two 15 Point or higher GAs that are not "No Value". These giveaways must end with verified winner(s). Feel free to post your GAs here to the guild forum's new member thread.


See full FAQ for details.

Former members wanting to rejoin must make up their negative VD and meet other requirements in the FAQ's "Rejoining the group" section.

Tweaks to rules may occur in the future but are transparent, and everything is at leaders' discretion: Such things will be announced through this page, the Steam Group's announcements & private forums, and/or leaders' group GAs, etc.


We hold monthly contests where the winner wins a game outright from me and becomes the Steam Group's "Player of the Week" for 1 month. Past winners chose: Styx: Shards of Darkness, Book of Demons, Whispers of a Machine, Invisible Inc, For the King, and many others.

Group leaders have tools that regularly monitor all initiation and on-going GAs, far beyond the simple group user stats, managing the group's own balancing act.


Perhaps the most important question & answer: How do people increase their group Value Difference or number of entries received?

  1. Gift back more or higher value games to the group, and maybe your heart will grow 3 sizes that day.

  2. Check the group's wishlist here, and gift things near the top to get THICC entries. All you need is one verified winner for your GA to count toward group VD. # of entries only matter only if you want the CV to count on your profile (5 entries are required for that).

  3. Check your position in the group's user list sorted by VD - In this case VD positive is a good thing! To see the guild's lowest Value Diffs, go to the last page of that user list.

  4. There are multiple ways of getting notified when a purge may happen: Enable group announcement notifications using Steam Chat's Friend List settings under Notifications, enable it in the Friend Activity list by navigating to [Your Username] » Friend Activity » Friend Activity Settings within Steam, or subscribe to the group forum's Moderation Log (visible to members only).

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Hope our members & everyone in the US had a good Memorial Day weekend!
Please welcome haedaeso to the guild, a level 7 gifter.

4 years ago
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I have sent a request to join. :)

4 years ago
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Added - Enjoy our GAs and think of something 20P+ to give for June

4 years ago
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Thanks...... Looks at group wishlist...... Sees a wall of stuff already on my list. Starts adding stuff that looks good that I dont have on my list..... wait... Thats not why I looked at this. lol.

looks at what others have upcoming. I see a few that I also have an extra copy of. OK. I'll come up with something. :)

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Starts adding stuff that looks good that I dont have on my list

Haha, my wishlist has totally doubled or tripled since I joined SG last year! Oh well, makes it all the easier to find games to give to each other.

4 years ago
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I'll join.

4 years ago
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Glad to have you on board!

4 years ago
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Thanks!

4 years ago
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Would like to join

4 years ago
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Lets chat first - I added you on Steam

4 years ago
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Hello, I would like to join

4 years ago
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Go to our Steam Group and hit the Request to Join button so I can add you as our 30th member :D

4 years ago
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thanks a lot

4 years ago
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Added - Sync to get and give group GAs

4 years ago
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What's a guild without merchants?
Seasoned SG users & merchants takk and pastel have joined!

4 years ago
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Hi, would like to join if thats okay, requested to join

4 years ago
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That's awesome - Welcome to the guild!

4 years ago
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Bumpy :)

4 years ago
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Glad you could join us!

4 years ago
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I would like to join please.
thanks

4 years ago
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Your Sent CV is higher than Received, but you are not yet Level 3.
Feel free to reapply after reaching that level!

4 years ago
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Sure sir
I apologize for my failure to meeting the requirements.
thanks.
regards.

4 years ago
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Hi, I'd like to join, can I? :)
Request sent.

4 years ago
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You may - Have fun and don't forget to post a 20+ point GA for June

4 years ago
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Hi, can i join?

Don't like memes 😋

4 years ago
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You brought this upon yourself (link):

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🤔

Thanks!

4 years ago
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Welcome to the guild! I'll spare you another meme, for now...

4 years ago
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I'm ready to act if you don't mind 😹
Request sent ofc :-)

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Balancing cat accepted ofc

4 years ago
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I would like to join 😊

4 years ago
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Added to the guild!

4 years ago
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Hi, I requested to join.

4 years ago
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Sync up to treat yo self to group GAs! Also, be thinking about a 20+ point new member GA for sometime this June.

4 years ago
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Thanks. :)

4 years ago
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New members' one-time GAs for June are worldwide, with a few starting to begin NOW at Central Europe (UTC+2): HEVN, Distortions, and TRRT

4 years ago
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I'm interested in joining the group.

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Welcome! Be sure to post up a one time 20+ point GA this month.

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Done.

4 years ago
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Thank you :)!

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You are now our 40th member! Check out our GAs and create a 20p one sometime this month.

4 years ago
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I would like to join this group. I am already in enough groups, but I think with the right moderation and the current rules this group might be a good fit for me :)

4 years ago
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I know the feeling, which is why I wanted the rules for the guild to be easier to handle :)

You've been added - Enjoy!

4 years ago
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Update the post with a few group stats:

June GAs so far: 59 @ $852 CV total (Active or completed)

Top 5 most popular exclusive GAs: Outcast - Second Contact, Slay the Spire, Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3, The Turing Test, HEVN

Also, the following rule is under review by existing members - Stay tuned:

3) In the month of June create a one time 20 Point or higher group-only GA, post it in our forum (members only), and have a verified winner.

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We have two new level 5 members that joined via Steam: Avantyr and Bujica89!

I updated the end of this post and our Full FAQ with this note about how members' group Value Diff is calculated compared to profile CV:

All you need is one verified winner for your GA to count toward group VD. Number of entries only matter only if you want the CV to count on your profile (5 entries required for that).

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With our guild CV matters much more than ratios because Value Difference (Sent-Received CV) is what keeps or purges people on it.
I'm curious: Are there some private groups where you have a positive Value Difference? If not, some public groups?
If you're not sure, the easiest way to check stats on many of your groups at once is to use ESGST, enable the relevant Group Stats settings under section 7.5.*, enable endless scrolling (#1.8) at least for SG's "Steam - Groups" page, view your SG/Steam groups page, and keep scrolling to see the stats for all groups.

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Exactly - So for groups like that if you give the names of a few that have your best positive Value Diffs, I'll be able to look those up in SG, and I will consider those.
Then I'll get back to you after this week when I review some guild & other stats to inform my decisions on possibly updating guild rules, some of which are already under review.

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ooh, may I join?
I have a lot more sent real CV than won. :D

4 years ago
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Yes, just go to the Steam group and click Request to Join button in the upper right: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/BAGuild

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done, ty. :)

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Is the CV ratio for real CV or raw CV? I qualify under real but not under raw. Requesting to join assuming you mean real.

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Either type of CV - So welcome to the guild!
Just know that Value Diff only uses your GA's raw/normal CV:

All you need is one verified winner for your group GA to count toward group VD. Number of entries only matter only if you want the CV to count on your individual profile (5 entries required for that).

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We've hit 100 total GAs! (Active or completed)
I've updated our month-to-date stats so far

June GAs so far: 84 @ $1346 CV total (Active or completed)

Top 5 most popular exclusive GAs: Outcast - Second Contact, Slay the Spire, Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3, UAYEB: The Dry Land - Episode 1, Do Not Feed the Monkeys

We have some people applying direct to our Steam group which I'm reviewing.

Also, stay tuned for rule updates within the next few days that will make things more flexible for people to join.

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Closed 3 years ago by NobleGamer.