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A simple option to the contributor value issue

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UselessB

I know there's a lot of discussion about CV right now, but I'm in the camp that thinks it's generally working. Here's my proposal:

Keep the bundle list, but give each giveaway a percentage of its retail value, somewhere from 10-20%.

The rationale for this:

Non-bundle games are already get marked up to retail contributed value, but are likely purchased at 25% of that cost. Your $20 gift likely cost you $5. If it was a bundle game, and it were devalued to 20% contributor value, then it assumes that the $20 gift cost you $1. But you'd still get your $4 CV, which is in line with what I assume are the majority of purchases.

It's late here, so I hope this makes sense.

1 decade ago*

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MagmaClaw

i agree

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UselessB

I think it really is the simplest and most fair adjustment. Just a matter of picking a fair percent.

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norfar

good solution but i wouldnt like that percentage higher than 10% because there were many deals where u payed 1$ and got games of value 70$

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Incog

meh, I like how it is now, where I get 100% value for my bundle games

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Bor

+1, maybe change it so that if your bundle games represent less than 30% of your non-bundle value you get 100% of its retail value and only 10% for value that goes over that.
In more mathematical terms: you gave away
X non bundle games
Y bundle games
your contributor value is than
if Y<0.3X: X+Y,
if Y>0.3X: X+0.3X+(Y-0.3X)*0.1]

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UselessB

This would work fine too, but I think the simpler the formula, the better. There's a lot of confusion from new members about how everything is calculated.

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LucasC
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How about 1% of retail value?

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irule9000

why cant they just only allow one bundle purchase/giveaway per person at full price. Then offer x percent for subsequent which decreases exponentially.

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StarGroin

Dont agree, too few people would be giving awqy bundle keys

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vidmavidma

Nice bump.

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Closed 1 decade ago by UselessB.