Question on the Users stats of Steamgifts

I don't have an answer, but I feel like that is just how things work. There are a certain number of people that would want to use a site like this. The site starts to become popular and talk about it spreads throughout the gaming community. The vast majority of the people that would want to join do so over a certain period of time and then the number of new users joining starts to fall off because most of the people that would want to join have already done so.

Steam not giving the ability to buy games to store in your inventory and restricting who you can send games to based on the game price in your regions definitely made gifting harder, but that would probably cause some active users to stop gifting and become less active rather than causing less new users to join.

Also, a lot of people mainly use this site to give away their leftover bundle games, but the quality of bundles in the past few years has dropped drastically while the prices have been increasing. Like the Steam restrictions though, this would probably cause more of a falloff of active users rather than impacting how many new users are joining.

Check the date on this (by hovering over the timestamp on the bottom of the thread post):

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/ZIVso/autojoin-scripts

After cg started introducing anti-bot measures, fake accounts mostly stopped being made (at least, it went from "easy and common to spot" to "I sort of suspect maybe this one account.."). Due to that major influence, it became difficult to clearly ascertain any other factors that may have played a part in the seeming decline.

Steam removing gift storing and introducing currency-based region restrictions definitely hurt, but that's more something that hurt active users; It may have contributed to users leaving the site or reducing gifting, but it shouldn't have played any major part in users not joining the site, especially as the biggest tie-in to this site (barring in its very earliest years, wherein only unbundled content was allowed for giveaways) is bundles, which weren't affected by that.

"AAA games are not available anymore via key retailer." - I don't know to what you're referencing. 🤔

In addition to cg stopping bots, bundle frequency & quality took a significant downturn perhaps around 2018 (Humble Monthly was introduced in 2015 and changed to Choice in 2019, so that's not a clear factor; Rather, with both non-Humble bundle sites and Humble's own non-monthly bundles both making it far enough along a several year long decline to reach a status of "effectively dead" around that period, we can easily assume that the diminishment of overall bundle "culture" was the most likely core influence on the matter).

Clearly that doesn't line up right with the 2017-focused progression of population growth on SG, so we again are forced to assume anti-bot measures were the biggest component in the decline. All the moreso as cg and staff continued such efforts in the following years. Thus, while the decline in bundles may have played a part- perhaps even a large one- it's difficult to really guess at how big that contribution actually was.

As far as other factors, none really come to mind. Again, lots of factors that influenced people leaving the site or ceasing gifting (the overall decline in community discussions and events is definitely an easy to point out element, there), but there's really just those two for people not joining the site as much: The removal of multi-accounting and the decline in visible tie-in discussions to bundles*.

* (( With all bundles mostly just devolving into a single subscription service, regular discussions stopped really being a thing (at least, all the gaming-related sites and forum sites I'm familiar with massively declined such discussions over time), and those with subs often just mindlessly went along with their sub without really first looking into the surrounding discussions around each bundle, as they had perhaps been more prone to do in the past )).

TL;DR version / conclusion: It's possible there wasn't actually any decline, as the only clear information we have is that most of the initial account numbers were presumably vastly overinflated relative to real accounts (( in fact, after the anti-bot measures began, Russia went from the #1 region in site stats, to #2 or #3 (it's at #2, currently, I just forget if it went straight to that or not). As there were several known Russia-based SG farming groups at the time, this can easily be concluded to not be a coincidence. ))

That said, everything's based on the assumption the user account numbers don't auto-adjust (ie, reducing by suspended users), like many other stats do (whitelist/blacklist, for example, simply removes all counting of a list in the stats page once it's cancelled). If, as assumed, the number is static, then cg could probably give us some better numbers to work with by filtering against suspended accounts.

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I think someone mentioned that there was a time when SteamGifts was introduced in a German or British magazine and that it grew rapidly, but I forget when.

wow fist welcome winning 6 games in about a month is good going - and i have added you to my whitelist since you have started to giveaway some back to the site (doesn't mate what really anything is welcome in my book) - to be honest if all some people are joining the site are to take free games (win giveaways) and never chat or return the favour when possible - then i am glad the trend is on the lower side

And a major decrease in bundles, and those left remaining, a large group usually complains about it.

ngta gift game thừa từ bundle là chính, AAA chỉ có duy nhất 1 group Akatsuki là tặng thôi, nhắm đủ tiềm lực kinh tế thì xin join group đó