I remember the very beginnings of this site. I definitely think that contributor value is a great idea for the overall health of Steamgifts. The point was to give and give back. Many people did and many people were happy. When Steamgifts was opened to the general public, it started to bring people who would widely abuse Humble Bundle etc. keys, at the expense of the charities and the game developers who made the game.
Contributor value is a good measure if you're one of those people who are willing to give back to the community. The spirit isn't to enter every single giveaway and abuse indie keys just so you can win games. The point was to give and get and have fun along the way. When you have people who only want to take, that creates a toxic situation.
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The point is, OP, that those people are giving away freely available content JUST to obtain Contributor Status. That's the problem behind it. The contributor system is fine, even when $1000+ giveaways are made. It's nice that they get some reward for their efforts.
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Contributer value isn't even that broken anymore since the bundle issue was sorta solved(Depends on how you feel about it).
I support contributer/groups. Still plenty of public giveaways imo...
Remember people were breaking the rules way before the contributer points were put in place.
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Back then, when the site was invite only, the spirit of the site was about giving things away and there was a small but nice userbase. I always had the impression that it was about being "social" in one way or the other. By giving away your spares and double copies from packs.
Now, everything is just about contributor status and how big your wallet is. See all the complaints about the SR3 DLC. It is 3$. That is not much. Yet, a lot of people complaining again, like with previous giveaways.
Is the contributor value so fucking important to you?
I say it is the most retarded thing that sg ever invented.
Flame on.
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