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[Cloudius12]

How are points generated? I can't seem to find an FAQ or anything.

FAQ is in OP.

 

[Revoh]

I would like an invite!

 

[Card Boy]

FAQ is in OP.

It wasn't in the OP yesterday!

 

[Fuzzy]

Every time someone creates a giveaway, everyone gets 10% of the value of it. That's pretty much it.

EDIT: Actually it's 5%

Wow, they lowered it.

 

[chixdiggit]

Looking for a code! I even have stuff for a give away waiting.

 

[RoaringHawk]

Wow, they lowered it.

Yeah :/

and the invites price is changing all the time. Yesterday, I could generate one for 58 points, now it's 66! It wasn't like that before if I remember correctly.

 

[Jzero]

Can some awesome person please send an invite code my way please? i will love you for ever :lol

Edit: Don't be greedy people, i gave a lot of you Google + and music invites

 

[Dead Prince]

i could have swore the invite was 64p. now it's 66p lol.

 

[flkk]

Yeah :/

and the invites price is changing all the time. Yesterday, I could generate one for 58 points, now it's 66! It wasn't like that before if I remember correctly.

"The number of points required to generate an invite dynamically changes based on site activity."

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Totally sitting here with the registration filled out and waiting to plug in an invite. For some reason.

 

[Fuzzy]

Yeah :/

and the invites price is changing all the time. Yesterday, I could generate one for 58 points, now it's 66! It wasn't like that before if I remember correctly.

I actually noticed it goes up and down. I saw it for mid-60 then mid-50 and then back up to mid-60.

 

[Jzero]

Totally sitting here with the registration filled out and waiting to plug in an invite. For some reason.

same here :lol

 

[Fuzzy]

Looking for a code! I even have stuff for a give away waiting.

Give it away to a GAFer.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=263016&page=373

 

[flkk]

Wow, they lowered it.

Makes sense to me... when it was 10% I had enough to enter all the games I wanted and then some. This forces me and everyone else to be a little more selective when entering.

 

[scamartilhon]

Do you guys still have invites? I would love one!

 

[Fuzzy]

Do you guys still have invites? I would love one!

Invites are going to be a lot more rare since they cut the amount of points we get in half.

 

[Tenck]

Invites are going to be a lot more rare since they cut the amount of points we get in half.

I shall be on the lookout for an invite.

*refreshes*

 

[pelican]

Interested in an invite please.

 

[MrPing1000]

Also looking for an invite.

Geez my steam account is worth $759.53 apparently.

 

[Boney]

Error: We require all registered users to have at least $50.00 worth of games associated with their Steam account. This is to prevent users from creating multiple Steam accounts for use on this site, which might result in cheating. Currently your account is valued at $49.97. If you believe this was an error, please contact us.

oh cmon!!

 

[bluestuff]

Error: We require all registered users to have at least $50.00 worth of games associated with their Steam account. This is to prevent users from creating multiple Steam accounts for use on this site, which might result in cheating. Currently your account is valued at $49.97. If you believe this was an error, please contact us.

oh cmon!!

a shame, a damm shame

Spoiler

give me your code

 

[Jzero]

Also looking for an invite.

Geez my steam account is worth $759.53 apparently.

mine is worth $428.31. and i don't even have that many games.

 

[CaLe]

I'd love an invite too please

 

[Fuzzy]

Error: We require all registered users to have at least $50.00 worth of games associated with their Steam account. This is to prevent users from creating multiple Steam accounts for use on this site, which might result in cheating. Currently your account is valued at $49.97. If you believe this was an error, please contact us.

oh cmon!!

Do you have the free games from nvidia? That might bump you up.

http://steampowered.com/nvidia/

 

[Goon Boon]

I would like an invite too, I loved trading hats so steam gifts and stuff will probably ruin me.

 

[BigAT]

Looking for an invite, if anyone would be so kind.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Do you have the free games from nvidia? That might bump you up.

http://steampowered.com/nvidia/

For ATI users: http://steampowered.com/ati_offer1a/

 

[MrPing1000]

mine is worth $428.31. and i don't even have that many games.

I resist sales as best I can, and don't buy shit. 70 games in my library.

 

[geeko]

Can I get an invite please?

 

[Fuzzy]

For ATI users: http://steampowered.com/ati_offer1a/

Thanks, forgot about that one.

 

[Gravijah]

Do you have the free games from nvidia? That might bump you up.

http://steampowered.com/nvidia/

Do you not get Peggle Extreme from that anymore or something?

 

[Fuzzy]

Do you not get Peggle Extreme from that anymore or something?

It still lists it on that page.

 

[Gravijah]

It still lists it on that page.

I mean I redeemed it and didn't get it.

 

[geeko]

I'm ready to sign up, can anyone throw me a code please. I have a few games just burning a hole in my pocket.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Something tells me this is going to be like Lockers: at first it was a fun site where you had a great community and legit reasons to be there and everyone could be and was a winner if you tried. Now? It's a fucking advertisement cash farm.

With Steamgifts I see a great community, but the more people will join, the less people will care cause the chances of winning will be as good as winning a small scale lottery.

 

[Fuzzy]

I'm ready to sign up, can anyone throw me a code please. I have a few games just burning a hole in my pocket.

Nothing is stopping you from giving it to a GAFer since there's no real benefit to giving it away on Steamgifts.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=263016&page=373

 

[QuantumBro]

I mean I redeemed it and didn't get it.

It's free
http://store.steampowered.com/app/3483/

 

[geeko]

Nothing is stopping you from giving it to a GAFer since there's no real benefit to giving it away on Steamgifts.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=263016&page=373

It's portal, which everyone already has.

 

[Universaldamps]

Looking for an invite!

 

[Fuzzy]

It's portal, which everyone already has.

I actually remember someone in the normal Steam thread asking for that yesterday or Monday because they didn't.

 

[Boney]

Do you have the free games from nvidia? That might bump you up.

http://steampowered.com/nvidia/

Says my computer doesn't fill the requirments for Portal.

Said the same for Half life from the other link

Which is weird because I have regular Portal and Team Fortress 2.

a shame, a damm shame

Spoiler

give me your code

what does my code do?

 

[geeko]

I actually remember someone in the normal Steam thread asking for that yesterday or Monday because they didn't.

regardless, I would still like an invite -_-

 

[Jzero]

how do invites work? every member get's one or what?

 

[InfectedZero]

how do invites work? every member get's one or what?

You generate points that you either spend on giveaways or on invites.

 

[Fuzzy]

how do invites work? every member get's one or what?

Every member gets points worth 5% of all new giveaways. Those points can be used as entries for games (ex. $20 game = 20 points for 1 entry and you can't buy more than 1 entry). Points can also be used to buy invitations (currently 66 points but that amount goes up and down through the day).

 

[Jzero]

You generate points that you either spend on giveaways or on invites.

Every member gets points worth 5% of all new giveaways. Those points can be used as entries for games (ex. $20 game = 20 points for 1 entry and you can't buy more than 1 entry). Points can also be used to buy invitations (currently 66 points but that amount goes up and down through the day).

oh wow no wonder no one's giving invites.

 

[Fuzzy]

oh wow no wonder no one's giving invites.

We used to get 10% until they cut it to 5% today.

 

[InfectedZero]

I am saving up for my first invite to give away.

 

[flkk]

oh wow no wonder no one's giving invites.

Yea, no kidding. At the current rate, it takes $1320 of new giveaways getting created to earn 66 points for an invite. Yesterday, $1400 of giveaways were created, so it takes roughly 24 hours to earn enough points for 1 invite.

And 60 points is an entry in MW3 or Skyrim, so people are being understandably stingy.

Something tells me this is going to be like Lockers: at first it was a fun site where you had a great community and legit reasons to be there and everyone could be and was a winner if you tried. Now? It's a fucking advertisement cash farm.

With Steamgifts I see a great community, but the more people will join, the less people will care cause the chances of winning will be as good as winning a small scale lottery.

Meh. It's always been a small scale lottery. That's simply what it is, I don't think more/less people changes that.

They're up to over 18k registered users, so there's already been a pretty big influx of people. When I joined, I think there was just around 1k and while its true that there used to be less people per giveaway, there was also a lot less giveaways!!

Check out their statistics page, every time there is a bump in the users registered, there is also a clear increase in giveaways http://www.steamgifts.com/stats

Anyways, props to the guys who run the site who are always updating it, and are working hard to keep it awesome. The increase in cost of invites and decrease in number of points earned are both recent changes, meant to make invites and giveaway entries more precious, which work well together to reduce the rate of new people joining and existing members joining too many giveaways.

When the site first started, there wasn't even a point system and everybody was joining everything, even things they already owned. That was madness! :S

 

[Card Boy]

I would like to give a shoutout to RoaringHawk a junior member that gave me an invite. Kudos.