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psbox

Hi guys, so this days i've seen post on SG forum about the contirubutor value, post like "stuck in 30$ contributor value" and found that the explanation in the forum threads about the rules of bundle games giveaway and value, it's some of confusing to the ppl and even for me understand the math behind this rule. So i pull together a little windows program to calculate how much non-bundles games you need to gift in order to achieve the full bundle contributor value.

The program it's quite simple as you can see on this screenshot. just imput the amount of $$ you giveaway for non-bundles games and for bundles games and click "calculate".

You can get the program from this link

Feel free to let me know what you think about it.

PS: if you get an error try to use "," for decimals like "9,99"

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Mew2

Thanks!

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ZeikJT

Why not just make a web application?

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psbox

i dont know php or web based lenguaje yet...

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ZeikJT

Ah, well this seems like the perfect kind of project to start with! A serverside language like PHP is alright but for such a simple project a little JavaScript would suffice :D

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ZeikJT

[sarcasm] But what about that 1.5% of users with JavaScript disabled??? [/sarcasm] In any case, that's what I said.

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datenshi

I would like to believe there's more than just 1.5% of us...

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ZeikJT

I've looked it up many times in the past and the percentages are always down in the 1-3% range. That's actually still a large number of people.

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DeS3InY

you could make it in ASP.net, basically VB/C# for webpages (a bit of html knowledge required)

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Bladnir

An external program? Really? This cries for some JavaScript.

Besides the main problem is to find out what of your giveawys are actually bundle-games. Because even though a game is not on the bundle-list when creating a giveaway, it might be added to that list retroactively.

Since the site is calculating them anyway, I am not sure why they are not shown on the profile page.

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Soto928

Thanks. Works pretty good.

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Solnaga

Cool but I didn't find contribution confusing :x
After the first $30 of bundled contribution, you get at most $1 bundle contribution per $5 non-bundled.
In other words: Take your non-bundle contribution and divide by 5. Then add $30. That is your max effective contribution coming from bundled games.

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DarksidersDeath

WOW!!! AMazinG :O

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GotDayum

The main point is don't give the game away for nothing unless you are just feeling overly generous. Wait until you are in a group that requires a giveaway to stay a member. Or if you don't have the game, activate it yourself. I got .02 cents for 2 games. What a jip.

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nevyn

..It seems like we're getting opposite morals from this site.

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Cheeseburgermafia

The site suggests both "moral" tracks. Minimum contributor value giveaways, for example.

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kt

If you could just give it your user profile and it'd do all the magic, that would be nicer. Like, I've given away some games, how am I meant to know which of them were bundled and which not?

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kataztrophik

What we really need is to have 3 stats in our profile: Non-bundled contribution, Bundled contribution, and Total Contribution.

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Cloonaid

This isnt Linux ready no go for me.

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Closed 12 years ago by psbox.