the SteamGifts Points: 400 are ... Enough (poll result)

I have to think about it longer as I never imagined the amount of points being different from what we are currently getting.
As always CG seem to put many thoughts into SG and my spontaneous feeling tells me the amount is just about right where it is.

Maybe to much ... I've entered all the giveaways for games on my wishlist and recommended, so now I need to spend the points on games I don't reeeeeally care about, I would prefer a higher chance to win the games I DO want

since March-April I can't remember any second when I dropped below 300-350 but I not really enter many giveaways nowadays.

Normally enough but when the monthlies get released it's not.

the daily 400 Points amount is

Aren't it 576 points per day?

Pretty much enough... almost all time am on 400 points

I would be in favor of it being increased to 500 honestly as it would mean checking in less often. And it's not 400 points daily, that's just the cap on how many you can have at once. The daily generation is actually 576 points (6 points every 15 mins).

Aside from really big events I never run out of points. Most of the time I have all 400 points, both when I log in and still / again when I log out.

Give more points for higher levels! (joke)
I prefer 300 daily and lower points per day.
I would say the same as SketCZ ^^

There used to be time where I found myself constantly out of points (wasn't entering random giveaways either, just stuff I was genuinely interested in) but these past six months or so there's been a serious lack of giveaways for games I want for some reason O.o
The number of blacklists I'm on didn't go up by much so I it's a bit weird, perhaps people decided to do more invite-only giveaways lately.

The bottom line is, I rarely drop below 300 points nowadays.

For myself its way too much - but it depends on how you approach entering giveaways. If you just entered as much as possible you may say its not enough, but that'll be different for people who are more selective.

Also for some its going to be much more difficult to find worthwhile games to enter once your library is in the thousands, maybe the people with smaller libraries see much more than we do because we forget how many games we actually own :D

It depends.

400 points is ok. Maybe it is some kind of sweetspot. I image that 500 points would be OK, too. More would be too much IMHO. Voted for enought then.

Edit: i am talking about max points. Not Daily. Daily is ok as it is now and it is different number then 400.

I often find myself wishing the max was higher, but honestly if it was I'd just have to wait a day before I'd be back to wishing it was higher again. You have to cap it somewhere, and 400 is good as any, I guess. No lower though, I hate systems where you have to check two or three times a day to use up all your energy/points! (Not that I do end up using all my points, it's the principle of it!)

I'm not quite as selective here as on my Steam wishlist, but I've hidden enough stuff that I only have two pages of giveaways visible (except for the week after the Humble Monthly), so it's probably my own fault for not entering literally everything. :D

400 points are enough for having 400 points almost all the time. Basically, nothing would change for me if this number is suddenly modified to 200 or 800.

It just depends on what type of SGer you are.

I only enter giveaways occasionally = 400 is way too much
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I enter every giveaway that gets posted on the site = 400 is not enough

Never is enough xD.
Anyway... less Giveaways are created day by day... I think the system by points created according quantity of GA is better.

576 points per day (maximum) = 6 points every 15 minutes
17680 points per month (maximum) = 400 points rolled over from prior month + 576 points per day * ~30 days per month
1360 entries per month (estimated) = 17680 points per month / 13 points per game (guess based on some group GA data)

So people who only enter in Public GAs or have huge wishlists can be more likely to think that points are too low, whereas people who tend to enter non-public GAs or have small wishlists may be more likely to think that points are too high because they are tired of going up against so many entries. The calculations above indicate to me that someone who only enters public GAs have odds of only winning one game per month.

I have a decent size wishlist of 300+ mostly indie games, and I find that the 400 limit is enough for me most of the time to enter everything that is wishlisted from public & group & WL, what I want from Recommended, and what I want from forum GAs.
When a bundle or Humble Monthly drops with multiple games I want, I tend to have to limit my entries to GAs that end within several days instead of weeks. I also try to keep a certain small number of points available to enter GAs that pop-up within that shorter timeframe, especially hour long quickies.

In the end, my unpopular opinion is that 400 points is too much due to the massive amount of public entries, and that some kind of decrease to the cap or point regen rate would decrease the amount of public GA entries.

The only thing I miss is back in the day, point generation was fluid and depended on the number/pointcost of new giveaways being made. So when massive bundles dropped, your point generation went through the roof and you could afford to enter a lot more.It was a nice ballancer and dear god did it feel so satisfying to enter so many giveaways.

I vote for a 100 points cap and a limit to 5 GA entry per day.

Even when bundles come out with games i actually want which is rare I barely use that 400p so yeah a bit to high for me
However i think the 400p max is fine. Gives all the public let me enter everything people enough points to enter a decent amount of things and then when the hb monthlies or even just a really good bundle comes out it gives the rest enough points to enter those, at least if they dont want evrry single game then they screwed!