Could someone point me to the information on how the math works?

Thus far I've gifted three games on here, one of them having a value of over $30, yet my contributions come to a precise clean total of $30.

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they are bundle games, they only give cv for the first $30

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Not completely true, you get the value slowly equal to 20% of your non-bundle giveaways I think. Anyways, before using the site read the FAQ.

Edit: You can tell if a game is counted as bundled by looking for a * next to its name in the create a giveaway list.

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First $25 of bundle games is full value. After that it's 20% of non-bundle giveaway value.

Total Value = Non-Bundle Value + min(Bundle Value, Non-Bundle Value * 0.2) is the exact formula.

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Nobody knows how math works, is some kind of magic.

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+1

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Thanks for the laugh. :P

As others have said, you've only given away bundle games, so you can only get a maximum of $30 until you give away a non-bundle game.

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"anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. at best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house." - robert heinlein

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Robert Heinlein sounds like a cunt.

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I don't know, sounds awesome enough that I want to quote him to my family, who can only do the first two anyway.

Most of them will agree with you though.

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lol. I concur :)

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That doesn't even apply here... He's asking for the formula not saying he doesn't get the formula...

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i know but i found a quote and i had to use it somewhere

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Wow, look at all these people being rude to somebody who doesn't know something and is actually trying to find out about it.

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Or maybe just read the rules?

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That's fair enough but no excuse at all for rudeness. Certainly not an excuse to insinuate somebody is "subhuman".

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Thats right too.

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Edit: I have no idea how to get the less than symbol working inside a code block

I was always interested in this as well, from a mathematical perspective, so I did some empirical testing,
Can someone review this, (ie find me a counter example) thanks!

 Let X be the value of nonbundled games
 Let Y be the value of bundled games

 if(Y <= 30){
    T = X + Y       //If your bundle value is less than 30 you get all of it
 }
 else{
    if(Y - 30 <= X*20%){
        T = X + Y       //After the first 30, if 20% of your nonbundle value exceeds your bundle-30, you get all of it.
    }
    else{
        T = X + 30 + X*20%      //Otherwise you get nonbundled + First 30 + 20% of your nonbundle value
    }
 }
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Nope, that formula is wrong. It's actually the first $25 on bundled games that gets treated as non-bundle.

Proper code would be:

if (Y <= 25){
NB = X + Y;
B = 0;
}
else{
NB = X + 25;
B = Y - 25;
}
T = NB + min(B, NB * 0.2);

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I think they must have changed it recently,

I have $60 in Bundle and $1.99 in nonbundle

My CV is $32.39, and not $27.39

$30 also makes sense to why I see so many $30.01 giveaways

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It's always been that way.

$30 is the first $25 counted as non-bundled plus 20% of it, so $5. That's why giving away bundle games will always net you a maximum of $30.

In your case, the first $25 of your $60 plus $1.99 gives you $26.99 as non-bundled games. Add 20% of this ($5.40) and you have your $32.29

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i see, thanks

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People have already said it. So that means Fortix.

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Closed 11 years ago by RagnarH.