How to get over 400p. Probably known exploit ,though may be it is good to be fixed

You literally don't earn anything by using this "exploit", so it is not an exploit.

(The only thing you gain is a higher number of the current points, but that doesn't help you anyhow)

This "trick" is as old as Steamgifts... :P not really an "exploit", you are just returning unused points, the 400p limit is to avoid people who don't log regularly to hoard hundreds of thousands of points :P

It's all fair you get 6 points every 15 minutes and then you decide what to do with that.

It's already ridiculously slow to have 400 points with the new system.....
Nobody got time for that.

How dare you report an abuse we've all known and have kept quiet about!

Just kidding. I think the 400 points limit is more about preventing inactive people from gaining thousands of points for not doing anything rather than preventing active members from getting a lot of points. I'm pretty sure CG knows about this and has decided to keep it that way for that reason.

I think a lot of people do it, especially since the point system change in 2017. You can store a few thousand points if you don't enter many giveaways.

For people like me who only enter for games they are interested in playing (I currently have over 17,000 games blocked on SG), there are very few giveaways to enter. This means that my points are almost always maxed at 400 and I don't continue getting more like all the people that just enter every giveaway they can because all they want is a +1 on their Steam account. This allows those people to have much higher odds of winning because they are getting a lot more points and entering many more giveaways.

Storing points in future giveaways allows you to bank the same amount of points that everyone else is getting and use them in the future if there is a bundle for something you want and a bunch of people start creating giveaways for it. The issue is that it takes a lot of work to manually store points and keep track of all the giveaways so you can remove your entry before the giveaways end. Because of the amount of work it takes, it's only worth storing points in high value giveaways and there aren't enough of them to store all the points, so it's still not possible to get as many points as other users, especially the ones that use bots to make sure all their points get used. People that use bots or just enter everything they can to use all their points are using 17,280 points every month while others may only spend a few thousand points or less depending on how many giveaways are created for games they are interested in.

It would be much easier to have a bot manage your stored points for you, but I don't know how to program and I wouldn't do it anyway because bots are against the rules.

This is not an exploit but a perfectly documented feature (look for "How many points (P) can I receive?"). Reading docs could help sometimes.

I stopped using this site for the giveaways a long time ago, so.

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Konradz it's you?

And the issue was?

That is called "banking," and it is not an exploit. It was most often used during major SG events, where thousands of points of games were given away in a short period of time, but restrictions on gifting (thanks to Valve) have killed off such events. These days, "banking" has been largely abandoned due to point-cap and point-generation increases. Users are now able to enter virtually every giveaway they may want.

I will just add that if you're already on the cap of 400, and one of the giveaways you entered in is deleted - you will also go above the the limit. As points are returned to the people who entered, so they can use it on another giveaway.

If you either win a giveaway for a game or sync after activating a game that steamgifts can recognize, all your entries are automatically removed from all running giveaways for that game and the used points are refunded.