About the minimum value required to create a Steam Gifts account

Reserved.

With amount of free gleamio giveaways, It's quite fast to farm accounts /w $100 value.

So unfortunately, yes.

We already have more than 900.000 users, Will it matter really?

Nah. There are tons of bundled games right now, so getting undundled games which will count towards these 100$ can be problematic.

I had quite some trouble getting to the $100,- limit myself. Since many of the games I bought full price on steam were bundled before.
So raising it will be quit unfair imho.

It's an interesting question, and I wish I knew the answer, but, I don't think there is a right answer. Too low means too many leechers and alt accounts, too high, and it's unfair for people who don't have a lot of money. Theoretically, we could start experimenting with different levels, but, from a more practical perspective, it's probably best to leave as is

Better turn off registration during (free) weekends, or raise the amount during this time to a 'save' level.

If it is wouldn't recommend it go over 150 cause thats quite a lot, thats basically limiting the types of users for this site, think about the children XD

By the way, I was under the assumption that I'd either fail the $100 requirement, or just barely make it.
Turned out I was wrong...

1. Yes I agree that steamgifts should increase the minimum value from 100$ to 1000$
2. Users who only win and never giveaway games should be suspended from participating in giveaways till they start giving away games.
3. Users who havent been active for over a year should be removed.
4. minimum steam level is +20

Literally half of Steam is excluded from the calculation, so it is relatively difficult to get in here; you can have 3000 games on your account and still return $0.00 when the site calculates their value. Which is just ridiculous. So it's fine or too high even.

It should actually be lowered imo.

I'd like to think that the current threshold is enough to prevent people abusing the system as the cost of getting a permanent suspension is pretty high. Low level accounts can't really farm giveaways abusively since the win rate is so low anyway, and if they don't activate them they will get detected and suspended through regular measures very quickly. To actively abuse the system you'd need an army of low level accounts entering and winning games of value to trade/resell - something that the $100 limit should efficiently prevent already, since whichever account abuses the system will get found and suspended on a regular basis. Most likely you'll be unable to profit because of this.

Not really. The 100 dollars limit is enough. Some people manage to cheat their way through and register, probably by buying games and then asking for a refund. Still, the 100 dollars limit is already too much. Not everyone has plenty of money to afford buying games, so I'm totally against this suggestion. :/

I think the real question is why does it need to be raised? If you can't answer that question there is no need to pose the first one.

I barely got in with the $100 limit back when I registered. With more bundles these days I imagine it's even harder now.

I thought it was £5 not $100?

i would raise it to have less people in giveaways and increase my chance of winning :3

anyway, i don't think increasing the account value goes well with what sg is supposed to be. the requirement is to prevent an easy way to register alt accounts, not to have only "rich" people here.

besides, which would be the new requirement, $150, $200, $1000?
set it too low and it will be the same, too high will prevent people without much money to spend on their account from registering here.

Have more than one account it's actually easy and cheap.
I wouldn't be surprised if someone has 5 accounts and abuse the cv system with them.

Anyway, increasing the "100$" isn't that good for legit people.

Mmh, not sure about rising the $100 minimum, it may turn this site into an elitist community.
I would just aply the same rules that are in place for CV: unbundled = 100% of value, bundled = 15% of value and free = 0%.
Then you can increase the minumum without too much of an impact.

Too easy to get $100, i had a friend just grabbing random games here and there for free and managed to make an account xD

It was much easier to register a few years ago, when I first joined the site, as bundles were pretty rare, we didn't have RU+CIS bundling -75% discounted games, and so on.

Now with all of that crap I say that $100 is more than enough. It shouldn't really be changed.