Kijib and the Giant Peach: In my defense/the life and times of Kijib

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Part 1

Once upon a time there was an adorable Kijib. He enjoyed using Valve’s steam service and the site steamgamesales.com. As a contributor, he was one of the first members of steamgifts.com.

“Wow,” he thought. “What a cool site! I think I’ll give away some spare humble bundles!”

And so he did.

Everything seemed well. Chances of winning were good due to low member count, and Kijib even won a game from the great Glapos.
But things changed.

To Kijib’s dismay, he came to observe that the people who were winning his bundles didn’t really want/play the games, and everyone was entering his giveaways just because they had so many points.

In fact, too often did Kijib see people win games and never actually enjoy them like someone else would have. Often winners of giveaways would play an hour of their game and be done with it, if at all. If points were so easy to get, there was no stopping someone from entering for a game that they thought looked sort of interesting, but really ended up disliking.

He had an idea.

Kijib figured that by requiring everyone who entered for the bundles to have at least one of the games in their wishlist, the people who actually wanted to win would have the best chance. This lead to a mixed reaction of haters and approvers.
Despite his efforts, Kijib soon realized no one read the description of the giveaway, which only maginified his belief that people didn’t care about what games they won but just wanted to greedily win free games.
Never one to back down, Kijib continued his rampage of making giveaways and then not sending them to the winner. Which lead to the horrible received rating he still has today.

Part 2

Kijib was no longer allowed to create giveaways.

“That’s OK,” he thought. “I’ll get that cleared up after I win another game. I’ll use my winning a game as an excuse to give back to the community, after the points system is revamped of course.”

But Kijib never won another game.
That’s when he realized in the last month, the site had tripled in members and giveaway winning odds were rapidly decreasing. Points were too easy to get, and no one seemed to care.

But Kijib was a visionary.

“I will complain and rant and suggest changes to the points system until people have the best chance to win the games they really want!” he proclaimed to his imaginary friends.
And he did.
Like ten times.

WTF Kijib?

Part 3

Kijib was utterly defeated. The site would never be like he wanted: super low points leading to low entries for the games people REALLY wanted to win.

The best chances to win are if you are in a gifters group, essentially making the site pay to win.

And then came a loop hole.

“What’s this? I can trade invites for games now?! Hmmmm…I could use this….”

Kijib had one last fight left in him.

“I will try trading and making tons of invites to the site for people’s extra games (mainly thinking cogs and portal).”

“Now I know people won’t offer much, but if it’s a cheap game I want then sure why not? I’m probably never gonna win another giveaway. Chances are too low on this site anyway.”

If people are actually willing to give me games (a fantastical dream) I can brag about it to everyone and show how easy it is to gather points and make invites.

“If people want to give me Portal and Cogs, I will stock pile them and give them away on the site to prove a point on how easy it was to generate all these invites. Maybe that will show people we get too many points. If not, the more people join the site, the sooner people will realize something must be done about points or else chances of winning will be so low it honestly won’t matter anymore.”

I just wanted to say it was worth it just seeing the angry reaction and rioting. Pretty hilarious!
So demand that I get banned, I don’t care anymore. Even though I have yet to trade any invites, I did this to try and prove a point. Just wanted to clear up any confusion.

I'm not as obsessed with winning games (but it would be nice come on the site is called steamgifts) as I am with how we need to give our gifts to the people who will enjoy them the most...

THE END

1 decade ago*

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CatastrophicLolcats

As much as I'm trying to stay out of this whole mess I just want to say that this post isn't needed. The last post that this topic came in was locked so I think it's clear that cg wants to move on from this choas and to stop the flame wars.

1 decade ago