I mean it could be an option. Like if the giveaway uses 10p return 1p after the giveaway is finished. It could be rounded off to the higher percentage if it has decimals. Just a suggestion.

After further consideration I thought of a better solution than my previous suggestion. Instead of returning percentage points for every giveaway, why not limit it to a bundled game from bundle sites. And it will be applied for a specific time period only (ex.: 1 week after the bundle release). Also giveaways with less than 10p won't return any points so bots will not abuse it. I thought of this solution because those bundled games are eating our points away.

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How many percentage do you want?

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None, wait your turn peasant!
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
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100% just enter as much as you want.

not even 12 hours and there are already threads about points.

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:)

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I respect your opinion. I actually want to create more giveaways but it can be difficult acquiring keys in my country so I only buy my games on steam and the steam gift makes it harder to gift people.

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try DIG https://www.dailyindiegame.com/account_digstore.html
they do games that can be given away starting at $0.03 - some even lower

just check for the single asterisk when you are setting up the giveaways - if it has one you will get a little CV - if it has two asterisks (**) you will get no CV

it is not much, but it is a good way to start out if you cannot afford much - $5 will get you alot of games to give away and also increase your levels in the process :)

sorry about not showing single asterisks as an asterisk - but formating here means when you put an asterisk it just turns text into italics - so damn annoying :P

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Do you know if newly added friends can be gifted on steam? or is there a grace period before you can gift that friend? I've been thinking of creating a giveaway and directly gifting it through steam.

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as far as I am aware that is okay - as soon as they are friends with you, then you can gift to them - my last direct gift from my inventory was to a person who won from here and I friended that day :)

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No I wasn't talking about inventory. I mean directly buying from the store and gifting it directly because you can't buy inventory gifts anymore.

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I believe it works the same as it did from the inventory - you friend the person and then purchase the item and send directly to them via the steam gifting service - it also says you can email the gift when I last purchased something

there are more knowledgeable people than me who could confirm this (if anyone reads and can, please do) - but since the change in steam gifting policies I stopped buying from them and choose dig or humble or indiegala instead :P

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I think there are no further limitations, just to be friends

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Shitty attitude and no contribution towards the discussion whatsoever.
You're calling bans on a person who didn't show signs of doing anything wrong, out of your personal beliefs that behaviour as his 'should' be illegal. Witch hunting on this site is getting out of control.
If you don't watch your own words, I'm sure you're the one more likely to get banned for flaming other people and calling them out for fake violations.

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+1 to the DanZDKs words
You are not the law here (and this one is for the greater good 100%)!There is no rules to ban because of win/given games ratio
You could be ban for ur avatar just saying
Like it?

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No, just no.

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If you're going to return a % of points per giveaway entered, why not just raise the points generated by that % for everyone?
Also ... this would give an advantage to people who enter more giveaways ... to enter even more giveaways.

So yeah ... NO.

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Per Giveaway entered a clear (bots, autojoiners and leeching are rewarded)

NO


Only for the giveaway creator (gifting are rewarded)

YES

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Only for the giveaway creator (gifting are rewarded)

Gifting is already rewarded by access to higher level giveaways.

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No - that suggestion goes in opposite direction than the recent changes. Returning even a single point will mean that users are encouraged to enter the shortest GA's so later they will be able to enter the longer running ones with the points returned to them. It would mean that bots would once again get a large advantage in points to spend

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Nonononononono.
The whole point of the change is that there is a limit in points.

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Don't see a point in that one.
You already spend you points by entering giveaways you want.
This is the only purpose for the coins. Why should you get them back again?

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I think that jeridex have a fair point of view
I mean 30% is not that much and can be used to give some "free space" in order to enter giveaways
But the problem is there are still auto-join bots which can use that thing
So i suggest make somekind of check for those points
For example you have 0 points after entering the giveaways...After those giveaways ended there will be like 300 points and 100 points as pending 300(100). And if you would like to add them to ur regular points u should pass a captcha or something like that. But since the limit is 300 you should spent 100 points or more not to waste those extra 100

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But .. why?

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Nothing specific really. Just a knee-jerk reaction to the recent changes.

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I see. Though I meant why this way to increase points (just like Tzaar described above)?

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I'm more surprised at how creative some of the suggestions are becoming.
(and that they're actual suggestions .. and in the right category).

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What's up with all the retarded suggestions...

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The only points return changes I'd agree on is when a giveaway is deleted. It sucks especially if it's a 40+ points giveaway.

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