You need to do three things before you can progress anywhere with MvukeUnity:
Once these three steps have been completed, you are then ready to Lend and Win.
- The first step will be to lend at least $25 (this includes the bonus one gets when joining Kiva.org) through the MvukeUnity Kiva team page. DISCLAIMER: It must be through this team page link.
- Then, once the loan has been completed, message me or the team on Kiva you're Kiva.org profile link, and you will be added to the MvukeUnity Steam group.
- Lastly, win yourself a game.
Success!
I'll see you on Steam,
Stephen
The foundation of this idea all started with Steam and the communities that live there. After spending enough time on TF2 and CS:Source, I eventually heard of a site that gives away games for Steam, SteamGifts.com. Free games for Steam?
The site is such a beautiful idea: you accumulate points as time passes, then you use those points to enter giveaways. AAA titles cost more points to enter, cheap-o indie games use as little as five points. Simple.
It wasn't long before I discovered my real draw to the site: giving away games. I bought games on sale and used leftover keys from indie bundles to create giveaways, then I thought of something.
Kiva.org is a microloan site that allows people to loan small amounts (as little as $25) to people who traditional banks won't touch: people who live in third-world countries or those who are here in the United States but deemed to risky to loan to (too 'poor').
MvukeUnity is an attempt to join micro-lending with free videogames. With so many people entering the public giveaways on SteamGifts.com, the odds are quite low to win. With a closed group, you can maintain much higher odds to win.
Will this spur people to loan more on the platform or will this create a group of one and done-ers? The hope is once people see how easy it is to use the Kiva platform, they'll become long-time users.
And that's it. Free games if you lend at least 25 dollars on Kiva.org. I hope it seems simple enough.
I'll see you on Steam,
Stephen
Here's how it works:
- You lend at least $25 (you can even use the bonus you get when first signing up with Kiva.org) with the MvukeUnity team on Kiva.org, which then admits you into a Steam group that has at least one giveaway open on any given day.
- New giveaways will open, at the very least, once a week (probably more than once a week around payday).
- Multiple copies of games will be given away at one time as the group gets larger, to help keep the odds of winning high.
- Those who lend more than the initial $25 through the MvukeUnity team will be moved into groups with better odds (the system for people who lend more through the Kiva team is a work in progress).
- As the group ages, there will be a system instituted to incentivize loaning more than the original loan amount on Kiva.org.
So there it is. A system in its infancy is bound to have a hiccup or two, so if you have any questions or suggestions, please post them.
I'll see you on Steam,
Stephen
