Why do people care so much about fake giveaways?

Almost all the time, probable fakes are easily spotted by anyone for whom a brain cell count would necessitate the removal of their socks. Beyond that, based on the evidence, you choose to enter or you don't. It ain't hard.

Not sure about your opening post: I don't recall reading ANYONE [other than the odd dismayed "winner"] complaining that a particular giveaway WAS fake. It's always people letting the world know that a currently open giveaway IS [in their opinion] fake, which is strictly prohibited by the site rules, for reasons that should be obvious, and [if you are in doubt] have been discussed to death in countless other threads.

You ask if people are crazy for getting upset about losing points? At the risk of repetition, I don't remember anyone getting upset about this. The argument always surfaces in the form of users voicing a misguided concern about other, less intellectually proficient folks who [unlike they themselves] lack the necessary cranial faculties required to recognise a fake giveaway, causing the "Good Samaritan" user to take all measures possible in order to prevent these unfortunates from being parted from their hard earned and much treasured points...

I think that is because people don't like to waste time. Points are free that true, but they take time to renew so waste point for nothing is a little bit frustrating. Moreover, yo sometime have to make choices that are not easy. Enter a giveway for 60 points in order to try to win a game like Watch dogs or Dark souls 2 or enter 6 giveaways for 10 points each, with real prizes and more chances to win... If you aren't sure you'll get a game in the first case, it's more easy to choose to try "smaller" games.

What gets to me isn't the point "loss" or anything like that. It's how god-damn retarted one has to be to think that giveaways winners are actually supposed to give games to the creator. 'Cause obviously we all have way too much money and are willing to almost kill each other for a chance to gift a game to any fella that walks in off the street.

people get their hopes up and then while seeing the profile is onlY 2 days old people will become sad because all they saw on the GA was 'thanks' so they think a GA is true. this makes people post: FAKE

You don't have infinite free points. If i waste 60 of my points at the moment and get refunded after 2 weeks then i can't enter in many legit giveaway.
I won a fake giveaway in the past and i was so pissed off..

well lets say that you are an unlucky guy that made some legit GA but never won one, then one day finally you won an awesome game that you wanted but then the GA its fake, that can desmoralice him to keep aporting GA to the community

another one can be that you are in a lot of group giveaways so you need your points, then some one create a fake GA on one game that you want and spend your points on that GA instead of some group GA then you win and its fake and you lose your opportunity on legits GA

so there is people that dont read the rules (like me) and call a GA as fake to sae some troubles to another users because waiting 7 days for a winned game and then just found that it was fake really sucks

srry for my awful english u.u

Say it with me now....

It has nothing to do with points. Why do people keep harping on about points?

People like to point out trolls who do the fake giveaways for lulz, they like to point out system abusers (people who make fake giveaways to promote their facebook page, etc - happens quite a bit here), and NO ONE likes to see the happiness of their win turn into a "LOL I'm not giving you the game" comeback from the fake gifter. This is why people point out the fake gifters that the mods don't do anything about.

No one gives a shit about their free regenerating points. Stop babbling about points as if it was an issue.

Why would someone care about gveaways on a giveaway site? idk, seems crazy

why would you like to win a fake giveaway in first place? you said that the points is not a problem so you enter in giveaways that you know that are fake? and if you win?

all i know is wen i won dark souels 2 and it was a fake i was rellllley anoyed

Three basic reasons:

·First. I don't want to waste my points in a fake giveaway. Even if the points get refunded later, i could use them to enter in another giveaway, as i'm not all day here entering giveaways.

·Second. If i win a fake giveaway, who knows when will be the next time i will win one. I think, the more you win, the more time it has to pass before you get another win between each other. I mean, that there is a low probablility to win twice in the same day or in the same week, i guess.

·Third. To win a fake giveaway has to be dissapointing, to be honest, specially if you want that game so badly.

Thankfully, this didn't happen to me yet, as i always check profiles, time of membership, inventories, etc...
In any case, i never called out noone, as i usually pass about possible fake giveaways.
The only thing i don't like is when people make giveaways from free key games.

Have a nice day :)

Ask the pie.

My reason to hate fakes - watching that green bar for whole week knowing you won't get it.

I once joined obviously-fake giveaway just for lulz. And I won it. And it was making me sad, seeing that green bar.

Stupid people annoy me.
And every time I see a game I want (because it's inevitably a popular or high cost game) and I click on it, and see it's just some dumbass thinking free games come out of nowhere, I die a little inside. After a hundred of these tiny disappointments, it gets fucking annoying.

Why do you care that people care about that? See? It works both ways.

Read some of Siegmund Freud's books...:)

Totally understand what you getting at!
But look at it like this!
I know random is random! Hell, my most played game is Borderlands 2!
But in the number off GA I entered, I only won one!
And guess what??? It was a fake GA!
Yeah, Dead Space is free on Origin (Got it there BTW), but I would like it in steam....
So, when you see a phrase saying you won a game and turns out to be a fake, you can tend to be a little "rager" and call out all fake GA's!

why? because mathematically you will only win a certain amount of giveaways, therefore if you win a fake giveaway, you just wasted a win.

I think there is a perception that a lot these fake giveaways are made by people who think they are getting the game, as opposed to giving it away. I can understand the frustration of someone breaking the site rules in anticipation of thousands of people lining up to give them something... or if not frustration, then at least giving them a hard time for it.

The answer is simple because if no one did care this site would be cramped with gazzilions of fake giveaways, accounts and cheaters.

It's very disappointing to see the green win bar and then later not actually getting anything.

Anyway i don't usually enter giveaways made by people who didn't make a giveaway before. The only exception is some currently popular title to give away, because it's more probable that it won't be fake even if the person who made the giveaway didn't make any giveaway before.

because when someone goes on a site, and they put up they are giving away a game, then someone wins and they say, oh, it was fake. 1. they already agreed to steams terms of service 2. they didn't provide what they promised 3. it just ruins everything for people who win and can't afford to buy the games they want, in hopes someone giving it away would be the answer to that. 4. it's fucked up and people who do that to be assholes are shut out of social interaction for ruining a conveniently hosted site for giving away games to those who can't afford them.

You mean, you can't understand why honest people hate dishonest people, even if they receive no direct damage from their dishonest actions?

Because reasons.