In the 5 years I've been wandering the SGlands, I was always able to climb the rubble piles, scavenge, squinting eyes shielded from the assetflips storms, the acid comments and the toxic wastes, all that could hurt you if you allow it...all that, to this day, to this point in time when for the first time I was caught offguard, dragged through a hole in what I naively thought safe ground but apparently was very thin layer of old cheap egg-shells.

At first I could not see the rope-like arm that was still dragging me down, and then, when I was already at its mercy, I've given up as there was no use fighting the invisible unknown, right then and there the foreign thing seemed to have vanished... I was alone, again, in the darkness...

So now, a new journey begins, I'm supossed to roam this unfamiliar grounds, probe for a way up, in a futile attempt to see those grey skies again, what is the point? I wonder, the fear of the dragging rope-like arm was deep, a scar more profound and damaged that I cared to admit. Even if I somehow scavenged for enough pieces to climb again, there will always be this sinister fear, lurking in the shadows, running in the back of my head, whispering ominous things to make me stumble, all that it'd take is a simple mistep, and I could easily fall deeper, darker, pitch black and no way to get back, no hope for return.

This life is fragile. It haunts me how easily all we think precious can be smashed, broken to a million pieces, all because of the swift dark scythe. I survided in that 4th floor for long enough, I thought I had left the horrors of level 3 behind me, after the world ended whod thought we would still here? undeserving and empty smiles, hollow eyes and jealous of every bit of shiny stuff... I fear--I fear that if I stay around I might turn like them... You haven't seen what I've seen, I've heard stories, good folks turned mad, blackened and then nothing, like they were never here, never to be heard again, casted to oblivion. I don't want that for me, I don't care if there isn't even a cold tombstone for me, but I'd like to be remembered in the heart of those who yet fight the unknown darkness, claws, nails and teeth all pulling to make it another day.

I like that feeling, life is pain, and as long as you can feel pain I'd say you're still you, maybe even keep your soul intact, who knows?

I think I'll go do some gathering rounds, shiny stuff is even more scarce than the first time I was here...Not that the level above is any better, but I have the faint memory of being slightly less crowded by howling hollows, and since many of them lost their minds might be easier to scavenge some scraps.. who knows?

After a while the itch is gone and the unknown rope-like arm starts to feel like familiar...You might like it here... in the deep

TL;DR
Few days ago I was surpised to see I've dropped a level, I was 4 now I'm 3, again.
Since I almost always do bundled giveaways, I thought it was a safe bet I could not lose cv points, being that I wasn't never wining big loads of points either, the ascention was slow and hard but thought it was sure. I was wrong.

The reason behind this, is that the already discounted bundles would no longer be affected, SG would not "discount" them, would no go down than what they already were. Wrong!

Now here's the part I don't understand. I just checked SGTools (didn't even knew/remember the proper url) then checked the latest bundled games, and copared that list (78 games as of right now) to the whole list of my giveaways, granted is small.
Couldn't find a match, meaning I don't know why I lost a few cv points but enough to drag me to lv3 again.

If anyone of you kind souls would offer assistance I'd be grateful.
I hope the above story (improv btw, made up as I go along the way) to make it amusing to read. THere's this TLDR part for those who don't like wall of text or simply don't have the time.

It's pouring rain now, buckloads of it plus is cold af so it thought it's fitting.. anyways, if you want you can check the list here:
my giveaways
SGTools lastbundled

Disclaimer: This -I hope- is not taken as bitching or to annoy anybody. It's in offtopic! just hope to get some clarity, because it hit me like a cold shower that I got downed just after doing another giveaway, and no, it shouldn't matter much that it had bad ratings, or regionlocked, that's just an unhappy coincidence.
Disclaimer 2: I'm from southamerica, a place not too hardly apreciated thanks to the stupid inmature inmoral behaviour of some "people". Let me asure you guys and gals, we are NOT all like that, I'm not even from Buenos Aires, which is the capital and most people think you are when you tell them where you're from.
The actual situation is bad, maybe not as Venezuela bad but bad nonetheless, we have regionlocked zone, and the new/latest steam rules made it even harder to get decent row stuff to giveaway. Now, I don't have to tell you this because you know and it's also not your fault.
Plus the US Dollar affects everything, so there's that.

Thanks again, hope you all have a great weekend, and dont' forget to say hi to that friend you haven't talked to in a while, I could do another poll, but WTH XD! how do you call the "friend day" in your country?

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Has this happened to you?

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Yeah, but I know why and how...
Nope, I'm always way above, they can't catch me!
Give AAA expensive sh--titles and you won't have this problem
Potato, because you potatoed the small potatoes while mom potato was running some errand, now you're s-mashed-potato!

"hit me like a cold shower" Pfffttt!

You are at level 3.99 - giveaway a little piece of trash and get your level back. SOOOooooo much easier and faster than writing this up and searching your giveaway history.

Plus you'll get blacklists this way.

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yeah well it's up to them, isn't it? I can't nor would do anything about it. Pl blacklist for no reason, it would be nice if ppl would also wl for no reason XD

Plus even if what you said is true, it's my time and didn't screwed anyone by writting it, all the better provided a TLDR version.
Lastly, I don't have any piece of trash to get it back, I do however, want to know why, I mean which game(s) did this and when.
I've read it's retroactively, fine, (discussion of if it's fair or not for another day), but I checked -quickly- jun/jul and I could not find anything. So they either re-reduced something or something hit it's thing now instead of back then.

Like pizurk mentioned above, Millie. when I gave it away, it wasn't free yet, so it shouldn't count.
The other gib had less than 5 entries, all fine, except that's old. I was 4.02 with the latest gib (on Friday 13th) so I simply want to know, nothing else.

What people do with this, is up to them. Thanks for your input.

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As far as I see, you got 2 problems:

  1. Millie was free.
  2. You gave more than 5 copies from Mystica: The Ninth Society.

The FAQ stats:

After you give away a game 5 times (whether in the same giveaway, or in multiple giveaways), it will begin decreasing in value. The value is decreased by 10% for each additional copy. This means if you decide to give away 8 copies of a $10 game, it would add $74.39 (10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 9 + 8.10 + 7.29) to your contributor value. This has little effect on the majority of users, but prevents individuals from receiving a high contributor value from gifting a large number of promotional gifts, games obtained through pricing errors, or keys from contacting game developers.

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Hey, yes, I know, but Millie wasn't free when I did it so it shouldn't count.
the Mystica, I tried helping a friend it was all that it matter to me didn't think how to do it, didn't calculate sh!t, so there's that..

Thanks for reading

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Upon further investigation [AKA going to your profile and looking at your sent games], I can see that Milie doesn't count as free in your account. So, it's probably the Mystica GAs. And/or another game got the price reduced in the Steam Store, as Fnord said.

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My level variates from 3.73 and 3.75. It was 3.74 again recently and now it's 3.75. I think levels should not decrease due to the decrease of prices of games overtime and stay the same.

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They do, plus is retroactive, but that's not my point. I'm not asking for rebutal or anything free or recovered. All I want to do is understand.
If everything I did was already bundled, and could not find a match in recent bundles, then how it happened?

"No matter how much I give, it'd never be enough!" should be a meme or something haha

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Some nice creative writing there.

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+1

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Since I almost always do bundled giveaways, I thought it was a safe bet I could not lose cv points,

CV is still based on the value of games on the steam store. If a game drops in price, you'll lose CV. That is likely what has happened here.

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Probably the result of a price drop or a giveaway. Luckily it's a quick fix

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haha true, but that's like saying everything except mortal decease or broken heart can be fixed with money, which is kinda an issue for me for now.
I'm more after something solid, like a brick house. If it costs but it's sure then it's fine, endure, power through it! now if it's a straw house and still costs... well... just sit and wait for someone to come blow it eh?

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I can certainly sympathize with your situation, but I also have only this to say: there's other more important things to worry about than your SG level ζ༼Ɵ͆ل͜Ɵ͆༽ᶘ

Good health, number 1!

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Yes ofc! I merely wanted to write something up. Most of it can or could be about fighting a decease or a state of mind, I don't live from or for SG, don't even use it much now. I saw it like a puzzle or a riddle and wanted to know why. Logic mind at his best, right? :P

You're right btw, thanks

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I hear ya! It's somewhat (there's another word I'm looking for) soul soothing to actually write your thoughts out and look at them that way. You get to look at things a bit differently. Always struggling with the "how and why" of every single problem I encounter; if I can't figure it out, it eats at me until I can.

I'm pretty sure I had the exact same question when I joined a few years ago 🤠

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True! RobbyRatPoison threw me a hint and I didn't picked up till now..
Unfortunately I don't have anything else to give ( Space Farmers copies but that's free so..)
Haven't bought a bundle in...in... heck last year?

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Feel free to include the GA your main post, if you like.

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hey, no not at all :) why would I be mad? :P it's nothing, compared to other stuff going on IRL
Tell me, what do you mean by mess up the title? is "dragged" worng? haBe I misspelled something, doesn't it?
Oh God I'm such an illiterate idiot!
no, seriously, I didn't proofread every word so it's entirely possible that I messed up something.
I'm no native english speaker you see, and I wrote this whole thing in the spur of the moment, there isn't even a draft
hmm is it the right word? draft, wasn't that a current of air whistling, the same word to describe a temp or work in progress text? not an essay, that's another set of rules which I'm not familiar with :P

Thanks. I intended to do an amusing read while I asked the community how it happened. I don't care about the lose in itself; just how.
Sadly, the bl seems inevitable, but oh well, that's people business.

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You're right, silly mistakes, haha just typos, oh no! I must be human :P
Thanks, haven't noticed them until you pointed them out

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I had the same thing happen to me, i finally hit lvl 5 months ago, and dropped down a quarter .25 just in time when i finally used up the steam bucks. what can ya do. i never did bundles either. although in hindsight there were a few games on sale on steam that were included in bundles at the time \ later on.

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Hey, yeah it sucks but I'm not mad, if anything, it's just dissapointment.
In my case, almost all were bundles, meaning they were already at low price very low cv. In this case, then, I'm inclined to believe SOME game got even lower price and thus SG system decided to readjust.

Worst thing is that to recover it'd take at least 2-3 crappy games, even garbage would still need to be 0.03.. I have no scraps to give, so guess I'll stay like this till something changes.

Prob wont create more topics either; community seems to take pretty much anything the wrong way, despite humour and politeness.
Thanks and I wish you a speedy recovery to you, Bruud

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nah, wont be a recovery for a longggggggggggggggg time. i just got accepted into a medical program.
never used any of my own real $ on this website in ages. sold a lotta game skins and cards to buy my giveaways :D

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