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Some of the games You gave away got on the bundle list.

would like to know too

No it doesn't.
I had a giveaway for close friends which was an invite with 3 copies and 5 entries.

Either,There are two possible causes.

1. a game you gave away had it's price reduced on steam.
2. a bundled game you gave away was ust added to the bundled list.

I'm guessing you issue was 2 when you first gave away the Why So Evil Duology Pack you got the full game price, but once the maintainer on the bundles list realized it was on such a large discount, it was added to the bundle list. Any giveaways made after the start date of the sale on steam were reduced in value. As there is only one person maintaining the bundle list, you'll have to forgive him for not being omniscient.

wtf? i saw people with permanent suspensions but this is the first time i saw someone banned.

thank you! :3

You don't need to level up, since there's a lot of giveaways with no level requirement. However the higher your level the more likely you'll win games because fewer people can enter giveaways with level requirements. There's no other way to level up other than giving games.
It looks like you're trader though so it should be easy-ish to trade for a bundled game or something to get your CL to 1.

When it was in a bundle or 95+ per cent discount anywhere.

Probably coincidence. I'd guess another game you gave in the past just dropped in value at roughly the same time.

What likely happened is one of the games you gave away earlier went down in price. If something went from $30 to $10 in the Steam store, lets say, you would see the effect in you CV.

You were getting extra CV for the Deponia game (it was showing as 100 points) you gave away a few weeks ago (because of last week's Steam "sale" price and a bug with the pricing on here). That's since been corrected back to 20 points, which is what it should be.

its worth noting that games are marked as bundled with some delay and your cv may drop if you made giveaway before they're added to list but after they were sold in bundle.

It would give $30 CV.

If Valve CP was discounted 80% for example, that would bring its sale price in Russia to 4,818% of US store full price value (so discount would be over 95%) - which would get it onto the bundle list.

A game being more than 95% off base USA price ANYWHERE.

So Talos is already cheap in Russia (around $9 base price). Add 66% discount on that (making it $3) and then add another 50% from stackable coupon. Now sale price for it in Russia is $1.5, while the base USA price is $40. That's why it got on the bundle list - it was on sale SOMEWHERE for 3.75% of the base USA price.

game publicly avaiable for below than 5% of it's US store price (over 95% sale) in any region = game may end up in bundle list. Talos Principle is 40$ in US vs 599 RUB in RU store (equivalent of 9$). Now besides game being on 66% sale there was also giveaway of thausands of STASCKABLE 50% off coupons on Alienware making it total sale worth of 83%. While added to russian store price it would make it cost 102RUB = 1.53$, which is 3,825% of US base price (and games Value on SG) or in other words 96,175% sale (it would also mean that you could farm 40$ worth of Value for just 1.53$). It is more than 95% thus game got added to bundle list.

Yes, if the full edition itself is not on the bundle list.

1. "Bundle" refers to any game that has been part of discount such that total of individual giveaways would results in over 95% discount.

Valve complete pack for example can't be broken up so it has one singular value, or value of any product in it as you can give whole pack instead of single pack in game.

2. 5 entries means that atleast 5 users must join giveaway for it to give CV. It's the number listed as entries on giveaway. This is done to discourage boosting CV by making giveaways between friends and small group of people.

3. It's true, however there is no easy way expect trying to check some sites.

valve complete pack never reached the -95% threshold so it will give you the full US price in cv ($75 $100, US price corrected -.-).

-1. bundle game here means it has been heavily discounted, nearly over -95% taking into account all regions (so if it's -95% in RU, based on the US price, it will be bundled for everyone else).
don't confuse "bundle game" with bundles like humble bundle.

-2. public GAs only require 1 user entering them to give you cv.
whitelist, group and invite-only GAs needs 5+ entries (doesn't matter how many copies you are giving away).

-3. bundle game = # 1 :3
install enhanced steam on chrome to check regional prices, always go with the lowest and compare it to US prices to see if they fall below -95%.
price errors will make some games go into the bundle category.
also, extra discounts like cumulative coupons apply.

valve complete pack gives 100$ cv

1. as long as the game/ package ur giving is not in bundle list u get full cv irrespective of contents(it can get bundle in future)
2. 5 entries in applicable only when doing private ga ie whitelist or group ga. if its public u get 1 entry he wins u still get full cv. if private ga dont get 5 or more entries u dont get cv for that
3. steamdb is a good place to check history of games

Thank you very much, Gentleman for your replies. It's getting clearlier now =)
So i can freely giveaway Valve Complete Pack and get up to Level 4. =)

Pretty much everything has been covered, but here's a few links that you might find helpful if you haven't found them all already. If you haven't already it sounds like you have, Please read the FAQ and guidelines. Another nifty tool is the search bar right under the new discussion button that allows you to search for questions already asked. If you want to have some fun comment formatting is here. Here are some good threads as well.

Thank you again for everything. This is the only place where I've got so many usefull replies at such a short time.
Thank you agan! :)

P.S. will check what is white list later on :) Thanks.

You're at level 1.19 (you can hover over the circles to see the exact level.
And you can find the level requirements here
CV is basically doesn't matters if USD or EUR, as Steam uses 1to1 exchange, save very few games.

See this thread as well.

1) If you give away a game before it becomes bundled, then you will get full CV. But if it was bundled (but not updated on SG yet) then you get the bundle CV retroactively

2) If bundle CV stays for one week then people will keep their keys and start giving away the next week.

But I do agree with one point, if a game was bundled once and a really long time ago (say 2 years) full CV should be given.

You may do have a point there if i spend 50 dollars i should get a cv for 50 dollars but its also wrong why

1) with sales there is no way that someone can be sure that you actually gave that much money example you can get mortal kombat 10 prenium from legit sites for 40 dolalrs (lets not mention shady sites) and the cv you will get is 90 you can get an exrta 50 there that you never paid

2) we all here take advantage of bundles there are bundles you buy for 1.5 dollar and can get you a cv of 15 or 20 if you are lucky

So in all fairness a system that traces a reciept and awards that much cv would be the most fair but i cant immagine how much hard would be for the stuff to manually handle all that they do have lives. So i think that all here all users for every 30 or 40 dollars they lost maybe they gained in general so much more

Thanks, everyone, at least the logic behind the rules is clear to me now.

If I'm not mistaken, TWD2 got bundled, alongside a few other games (like Endless Legend) due to an exploit with IGN prime :(

Getting levels through bundles games is not that bad though. In terms of money per CV, you'll do about as well with bundled games as you do with non-buindled games bought at a good discount.

correct. You may not like it, but its part of the system. If your full priced game gets bundled, then it will now count as a bundled game, even if it was not bundled at the time that you bought and gifted it. I was really upset at first when I learned about this but its something you just gotta accept. You can still rank up with bundled games its just a bit of a longer process
I'm poor so I've ONLY given away bundled games + one non bundled, and I'm slowly getting up there. The key was to not worry about the rankings and only about the fun of the site :)

Think about the current HB Telltale: for 1$ you would get 85CV, which would be more than giving away an preordered AAA game. Instead, you get 12.75CV, which is still too much, but it's a reasonable amount of CV.

Also, you get full CV for everything given away before it was part of a bundle (or at a very low price). For example, Apotheon got bundled on Dec 24, 2015. I gave it away on 12 Sept 2015 and I get the full CV of it.

$599 US Dollars

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/XaCbA/list-of-all-cv-levels-and-their-corresponding-real-cv

$25 of real CV. Be aware bundled titles give reduced value, so you are at $3.30 so far.
http://www.sgtools.info/sent/zinedddine/newestfirst

There is a person who adds them into list. So until it's been added, you will see full value but after that your CV will drop. But if you giveaway before sale happens, it doesn't effect your CV.

No matter number of copies you need 5ppl to get CV. Ofc if you are giving away 10 copies and only 5 ppl enter you will only get CV for 5 not 10 copies thou ;)

5 people

Public ROW giveaways award CV even if there is only 1 entry.

EDIT: Public region-restricted giveaways require 5 or more entries in order to gain CV