In honor of the Golden Joystick Awards GreenmanGaming and 2K games have teamed up and are giving away your choice of Mafia II or Civilization V. Both are redeemable through Steam.

Here's how:

  • First you need to make CVG and GMG accounts, !!IMPORTANT!! You must use the SAME EMAIL for both accounts or it won't recognize you.
  • Next Login into The Golden Joystick Awards and click "Start Voting >"
  • Go through the process of voting for whatever Games/Publishers/etc you want, doesn't matter as long as you vote for something, feel free to skip categories that don't interest you.
  • Once you're done voting click "Submit Votes" and confirm your email and country.
  • Now you have to go to the GMG Golden Joystick page, click HERE
  • Choose your game, and then fill out the form using your GMG account details(the email should match your CVG one as well), hit "I want my free game"
  • You should get a confirmation screen, and then receive a verification email. Click the verification link in the email.
  • After clicking the link you'll probably get a page saying "Oooops. Looks like you haven’t voted yet.", but don't worry you'll just have to wait 12-24 hours for them to recognize your votes. You'll get an email with your Steam code once they do. If for some reason you don't get it try clicking the verification link again.

That's it. Sounds a bit complicated, but it isn't that bad. You get one of two decent games out of this for free, it's up to you to determine if it's worth it.

Now for the fine-print:

You must be 16 or older to qualify(just check your birth year ;)). Voting ends October 20th so you might want to hurry up. Also if you live in the below countries you don't qualify either.

Disqualified Countries:
  • Mafia II: Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Venezuela, Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela
  • Civilization 5: Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria

EDIT: I thought I searched first but I guess I didn't use the correct keywords. But I hope my post is useful as the email thing screwed me up the first time.

1 decade ago*

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1 decade ago
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the offer is back up

1 decade ago
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Yes!
I did the whole thing a few days ago, so I just had to revisit this page here and I got my game in a minute.
Who knows when it'll be down again, though...

1 decade ago
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Tried now as well, checked the option for xbox instead of steam, yet the mail I got still mentioned Steam. ^^

1 decade ago
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Thanks for the link:) and yes it took only a minute to receive the key

1 decade ago
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these keys, if i were to give them away on steamgifts.com, would they increase contributor amount??? +^_^+

1 decade ago
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Yup, totally, so what are you waiting for!

1 decade ago
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Do they still have keys and do they give them to new accounts?
(I thought i had a gmg account but i can't find it, maybe it was gamersgate..)

1 decade ago
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Oh well, i tried, hope i didn't waste 5 mins of my life.

Btw same "OOPS you didn't vote" error, we'll see

1 decade ago
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"OOPS you didn't vote" isn't a error, link start to work after 24-48h ;)

1 decade ago
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Am i the only one getting an error message going to the CVG homepage? nothing on the site works. just keeps giving me the error.

Edit: it only happens when im logged in -__-

1 decade ago
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oh goody

1 decade ago
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I've tried repeatedly since the promotion started to register for a Civ 5 Steam key, but every time I've attempted to do so I've received the following message:

"Oooops. It seems there was a problem. Can you please try to register your details again, as we encountered a glitch in the matrix."

Anyone else had this issue?

1 decade ago
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i have this problem too. Anyone know what is it?

1 decade ago
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same problen, and tried with two combos of gmg/cvg acounts

1 decade ago
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+1

1 decade ago
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I contacted support and they weren't able to figure out what the issue was but asked that I send them proof that I voted, what game I wanted, and my GMG account name. They said they'd see if they could just send me a code. I wasn't really expecting that, but GMG has always been great in terms of support in my experience so it wasn't all that surprising.

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Closed 1 decade ago by jayp90.