Can we bring back previous "free" games as Bundle Games please?

Just curious, why? You can always filter them out without any trouble, and it doesn't really benefit people giving them away.

So, why not?

damn i thought its previous titles :D still nice your giving the away

This is what i think. I dont have metro and missed the free deal out so yeah... im kind of sad :D

I can agree with this idea.

+1 zero CV

I'm not sure if 0P is possible on the site, but can be set as 1P + bundle status.

Agreed.

Exactly, just to gift em. There are lots of people who would like Metro, and it's a good game as well!

+1

Perhaps we need a "zero value list" which is like the bundle list, but which both completely prevents a giveaway from adding CV, and prevents it from giving anyone points? (Entering a giveaway for a zero-value game still costs the usual number of points.)

Everyone would benefit in that case, because people who aren't interested in those games would presumably see fewer entries in giveaways for the games they are interested in (the same number of points divided among more giveaways means fewer entries per giveaway!) And the people who enter the giveaways for free games are presumably happy because those games have value to them.

To the last point, bots. Or just preferring an RNG handle things, and SG, though definitely not the only choice, is the most convenient choice for that.

But to your first and second points: good points.

Well, the forums are less convenient, for one. And I think that it is good for SG to have a diverse assortment of games on its main list (we don't want it flooded with games that were once given away for free; but we don't want them to vanish forever, either.)

Perhaps (if a Zero Value List does get created) there could also be a hard cap on the number of copies of a given game from that list that you can create giveaways for? So you're capped at one copy of any game on that list, but can still give unlimited copies of other games.

Why not give full non-bundle value for non-key / Steam Gifts of bundle games? (Arg, I mean the steam gifts given through steam as opposed to the keys you get from bundles -- it's hard to discuss this because steam gifts means different things. But you know what I mean.)

The only problem I see with this, though -- either way -- is that I expect many people would just hit "received" even after getting a key for a giveaway that was supposed to be a steam gift. They're not going to understand the difference or why SG cares about it, and honestly, to them, there won't be a difference. If I just got a game I want from someone, I'll feel grateful to them and won't want to turn them in for a rules violation that doesn't mean much to me.

Plus, what I do otherwise -- redeem the key and then hit not received? I'd feel weird doing that. But if I'm not supposed to do that (if I'm supposed to ignore / refuse to redeem the key and hit not received), that creates an incentive for me to just quietly accept the key... it's tricky.

As was often said in response in these other topics, this idea is wide open to exploitation, collusion and other cheating. It opens up an obvious loophole, which users can conspire to exploit, and should never happen.

I'm not 100% convinced about adding these games back as bundle games though, as it rewards those who took advantage of the generosity of these developers beyond just snagging a game for themselves. It does, however, allow those who have spare copies from other sources to give these to the community.

It's a shame that these games can't be set up as zero contributor value items. After all, that's what the majority of users will have paid for them...

Another problem with this is people who buy the game on sites like amazon. They would end up with a key that would be considered pretty useless if they were trying to give away for CV.

Wtf

Negative CV is silly, but it occurs to me, amusingly, that making "free games" cost you points to give away would solve the fears people have of them getting spammed even if they grant no CV.

I don't seriously think it'd be a good idea to handle it that way, but it's an amusing thought.

Just a qustion because i missed it. How did you get them when they were free?

I actually have one in my inventory. I wanted to give it somewhere. Bought it a few months back before we were hit by the first plague.

I still have two that I bought from Amazon a long time ago xD

Still have one from Amazon. Oh well.

This is the problem though, if you knew sg would eventually add them back to the giveaways list you would probably have held onto them, and thats what will happen in the future, I guess 0cv or making them bundle games would be okay. I personally never get keys this way living in New Zealand, as either I cant connect to the sites or the are announced in the middle of our night and all gone by the time I hear about them, but I have Metro from THQ bundle, now if only I had the spare bandwith to download it (stupid caps lol).