I agree with OP. It's a limited number of free games, for a limited amount of time. If you're one of the lucky few who get the game, good for you. If you already have it and want to share it with others who couldn't get it, why be damaged if you want to do so?

Plus, after the promotion ends people will still pay the 'real' amount to get the games so why would those people have to be damaged as well when deciding to give it away?

I "get" why this rule stands, but seriously now. People get games for cheap prices and give them away here to get more CV than they've paid for. Should they keep track of sales as well and reduce the CV earned for the game? Should they ask for proof of purchase for games you decide to give away so that they can decide how much CV you get from it? It's a ridiculous rule. They can "disable" creating giveaways for certain games that are currently being given away for free by third parties, for as long as that giveaway continues. After it'd end, people then should be able to do whatever they want with their copies.

All the Amazon games that were given for "free" during their Indie Store launch are also on the bundle list. At least they're consistent.

Just Cause is listed as a bundle game.

This!

Bundled games still get credit here, just need to contribute non bundled games to get the full effect. The exact same thing would occur if Civ 5 got added to the next humble bundle that's later on today.

I remember more than a year ago people hinting that there's a change coming to the contribution system, site improvements too... Well, no wonder staff members are dropping lately.

+1

you only need highly specific solid line black and white mindlessly enforced rules where you turn off your brain if your organization is large enough many in it won't have one anyway. steamgifts mods have brains. so its more guidelines than actual rules because it can stretch and grab something that technically doesn't fall under the words of the rule but definitely the spirit, or exceptions can happen for the other way round.

I demand an official acronym! BAAG list?

As a support member, do you have some quick look into some statistics - mostly about how many $30+ CV giveaways are being made everyday as public/private giveaways (but not group ones - those are unaccessible, while private giveaways could be puzzles), compared to, I don't know, $50+, $100+ GAs?

Seeing how 'everyone' cares about CV, I wonder if number of public GA justify all those whining...

Do you feel you are somehow morally better than people that you can sit in judgement? Please point to the part of Steamgifts where it asks you to qualify why you are giving a game. It is not your right to judge why a person gives a game. What's worse, a person who gives a game for CV or a person who feels they have the right to judge others?

Two questions

1. What would abusing CV earn you? More games? No. More entries? No. what would you gain?

2. People abuse the CV process a lot. Create a group, have giveaways locked to the group. Basically give games to each other over and over and get full CV value. How many people with a CV of $5,000 dollars do you believe actually gave away $5,ooo worth of games?

The OP was more an exploration of defining bundle games vs games that are given away and how they are valued. It was not meant to question why we have CV or if CV is morally correct.

in this "Free MAFIA 2 or CIVILIZATION 5 with GMG" thread

They're both free right now...

They throw in 2K games just about anywhere

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Now, there will be a few people who can't handle a civilized discussion and will go off the deep end commenting on this topic. There will also be people who can take an intellectual view of the topic and offer counter arguments or supporting arguments. It is not a life or death issue, please discuss politely. Thank you, looking forward to the debate/ discussion ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for reading!

Sorry you're having trouble getting what you "deserve."

See what I did, there?

From the OP

Now, there will be a few people who can't handle a civilized discussion and will go off the deep end commenting on this topic. There will also be people who can take an intellectual view of the topic and offer counter arguments or supporting arguments. It is not a life or death issue, please discuss politely. Thank you, looking forward to the debate/ discussion ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for reading and the polite and intellectual nature of "cry me a river". Well done, you must be so proud!

You're right. I would much rather they just be tagged as bundle games than not be able to have them given away at all. Besides, with all of the website issues, people have to put in a fair amount of effort just to get one key.