It's an easy way to give away the junk I buy on impulse while also getting my contributor level to enter more giveaways.
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Newb to English, actually. Look at where he's from.
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You are doing the flying spaghetti monsters work son.. Keep at it! :D
Also I totally get what you mean... There's nothing like making someone's day brighter :)
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Yes, you're the only one. Everyone else understands that English isn't his first language, and is very hard to become proficient in. We all appreciate his effort.
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I'm happy to see you're enthusiasm for spelling properly, but you might also want to work on your punctuation and grammar.
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So, let me get this straight - you buy shit you don't even really want, then dump it on others so you can get more free games you do want?
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lol, he's not dumping the games on others, you make it sound like giving away free games is a bad thing
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"..while also getting my contributor level to enter more giveaways."
Wrong motivation, and he said "junk", as in, he's fine giving shit he sees as junk to others, so he can win more good games for free because he's boosted his contib. stat. Nothing to do with actually wanting to give games away, purely doing so for selfish gain.
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Forget Karma. It's nothing more than a spiritual facade engineered to justify divisions in a class based society & to prevent social upheaval resulting from dissatisfaction with assigned roles.
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It doesn't matter what he believes. Hes giving away games for free so that makes him better then most people. Share the love man. Share the love.
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personnaly, i prefer share the love with sexy womens ^^
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Hmm..well I'll never agree that it doesn't matter what someone believes, I have no issue with them believing it; part of karma is that karma doesn't exist, only its effect which is of course nullified by desire, so if they did believe in it then they wouldn't believe in it. Plus, giving things away to other people doesn't make you a better person, it either makes you charitable (if you are wild minded enough to use this as a gauge for character, its the better person who gives not the giver who is a better person) or a sycophant.
Keep your toxic love away from me!
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Even if it is just that, it can still make a lot of good. Just look at religion, it creates maybe only 50% of all wars :)
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I recently aquired bunch of stolen credit cards so i might as well put them to use
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Well if it was mine, then I'd know exactly who had it since they just outed themselves, so that would be pretty hilarious.
They also didn't say that they stole them, they could have had their own cards stolen & gotten them back.
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I know of some Malaysian sites on the deep web that will ship heroin right to your front door.
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Why bother posting that you didn't read it? Just a bit rude to op who put time into it.
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That's the second time that someone told me i was rude, or offensive today. I wonder where that comes from and why i don't see it myself until someone points it out..
The reason why i said that, is because i really felt that it was too much text for a question as simple as that, and to avoid confusion in case the topic actually talks about something other than the title would suggest.
I was just being honest and didn't think about the harm my words could cause, sorry.
Maybe i'm not such a dick anymore after i got some sleep. Good night.
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Sometimes being succinct is taken as being curt. I would suggest adding a little more emotion (or even an emote ;) ) if you normally have trouble communicating your intention to others clearly.
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That could be the case, but it might also be a matter of "too much information." Not every thought should be expressed, and some thoughts need to be expressed diplomatically. I was a frequent offender in this category, but experience and practice has helped quite a bit.
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Because I like making people happy. I get joy out of this.
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This! :D
Nothing like making someone's day brighter :)
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I'm not doing this to sound mean, but...
It's polite, jerkass!
Seriously, I don't really want to sound mean by that. I just thought some laughter would cheer up everybody's day. That, and I have my first giveaway up, as well. It feels weird giving up games, but as long as it makes others happy, I'm all for it. Plus, I already have the game I'm giving away, so that's a load off my mind. Sorry for rambling, btw.
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Well, for me giving away gifts has nearly the same reason as yours. I am still a kid (18yo) but i know what you mean, i also had made some decisions that i really regret, and i kind of confronted "reality" these days for the first time. If you know what i mean. So i try to feel better by making other ppl feel better. But, i also want to grow my contributor level, to win better games (yes, it has a realistic reason as well).
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a bit of generosity in a selfish world increasingly, and as you say, make someone happy :)
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Well, most of my giveaways were stuff that somehow appeared in inventory (like those Serious Sams, where I had them earlier, and when buying Serious Sam Franchise I received them again) or bought for friends and turns out they don't need them.
No reason to let them rot in inventory when they can make someone smile a bit.
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Not sure, however I do love doing F5 giveaways to torture people.
Very very fun.
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Before I was able to buy games on Steam, I simple had no way to get games myself. However, a great group of people I know on another furm have gifted me more than 100 games since I first got my account started with a free copy of Portal. Now that I can finally purchase items, I started a group for people on that forum and have been giving away games for them here.
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Mostly because I'll buy a bundle if there's just one game I want and the bundle price is cheaper than the regular price for that game. At least I know that here someone will want the game and may be unable to buy that same bundle.
Though also I'll buy stuff just to ensure Karma continues to like me and to let others enjoy games I've liked. When I have more spare cash or it goes on sale again, I'll buy Ys: The Oath in Felghana to give to someone because that game is awesome and sadly the series is so obscure and unknown.
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I don't have an answer but what you said was very deep and moving.
I understand wanting to do something, a book or movie or whatever, to convey your feelings and to share your story. To make something that people can lose themselves in and be happy or not sad for a while.
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Pretty much everything has been said already.
I tend to buy a lot of bundles/game packs cheap. Not just the humble bundles, but packs of legitimate games as well that go on sale. In those, there are some games that I want and some I know I will never play. In some cases, the packs actually contain games I already have (but the price is good enough that it's still worth picking up for the other games). Instead of adding them to my Steam profile and letting them gather dust, I'll give them away.
Adding to my contrib value and allowing me to enter more exclusive giveaways is a nice bonus as well.
I actually like having a concise gaming profile with only the games I really like/want on it. You wouldn't know that by looking at it, since before I found Steamgifts, I added every single game I got no matter how small and uninteresting to me. I regret that now. Now I have another outlet for those games I don't want, and I make someone else a little happy in the process.
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If we're gonna get all deep about it... I think I do it because I just want to be liked.
I don't have too many active people in my life anymore. I have my family, which all live in different parts of the country (none here), my girlfriend and her family (live here)... and that's pretty much it. The best friends I've had throughout my life live in other states and I'm terrible at keeping in touch.
I've made friends at past jobs, but "out of sight, out of mind". Once I'm gone from the workplace, the relationship dwindles to nothing, which is equally my fault as it is theirs.
This is the online community in which I'm most active right now. Being liked here gives me some self-confidence and happiness. I've been in a bit of a depression the last couple months, and my participation is my distraction from reality.
I know this might all sound sad, but I don't want pity or sympathy. My whole life has been pretty darn good. I'm 31. I have a stable, happy family, I went to a good school, got a degree. I have a roof over my head, food in my belly, a car that I only dreamed of owning 12 years ago. I have everything I need and most of what I want, and that's good enough for me. I'll get a job sooner or later, and I'm sure some new friendships down the line. I'm just in a funk.
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If it's any consolation, I'm in a relatively similar funk. Except instead of just my closest friends of the last 10-15 years drifting away from me... my ex-girlfriend of the last three or so years also put the kibosh on that and moved to the other side of the world. My job is pretty much one of the few things I have left to keep my head on straight.
I like you. :-]
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Thanks for giving away AlbertXp :)
For what it's worth, I lack passion in general. I am too chilled, laidback and sometimes downright lazy. I like stuff, but it is hard for me to get truly passionate about something. I can commit to something, but not necessarily out of passion. It is part of my personality (I have always been in general a calm and reserved person), but also just life in general.
So yeah, you're not the only adult who lacks drive to push for the amazing ^^
I give away because I enjoy it. Also, I started giving away before I won anything, because while I waited to win I wanted to do something. And I felt personally better about not just leeching, but "helping out" by giving away.
But I will probably stop giving away at some point, because I need to save up more money ^^
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Your story is touching, i hope you find a way to be happier in the long term :) Maybe find a hobby where you can create stuff and get involved in a community ? Myself, for 75% of the gifts i gave were games i enjoyed and that i tought more people should play :P I just wanted to share something i liked ^-^ Also, getting contrib value up is nice :P
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I think the simple answer that describes why I enjoy giving the games away is the appreciation. Still be just a teen (15) I'm still surrounded in the comfortable womb almost of childhood. I'm able to do what I want mostly and not have to worry about the adult world just yet. But more recently as I start to get older I've noticed that I feel almost an emptiness inside. Instead of talking about the random crap me and my friends choose to entertain ourselves with these days I find myself wanting to do something more worthwhile. When you give away any game and people comment on your giveaway it is absolutely amazing the feeling. To know that you personally have brought happiness into someone's life it makes me feel better than I have in a while. Like you said instead of entering these things I could just buy the games myself and who cares about giving games away? To see the joy that someone feels because they have just won a game from you cannot be replicated by buying a game for yourself. I think that is why I give these games away. To know that even though I'm still a kid, I have the power to light up someone's day. And I do.
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Oddly my situation is similar to the OP's - adult with wife, children, bit more than a decent job that I don't necessarily like any more, wanting more out of life than simply running the rat race for the sake of doing so and this is turned out to be an easy way to spread some fun/joy with others that for some reason helps lighten my mood.
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The question is simple, but I think the different answer may be more complex.
In my case, the answer is I don't know, is not to enter better and obviously more close giveaways, considering the amount of money I have spended I could have bought all the games I wanted.
Honestly as I said in some of my giveaways I am kind of a sad person I guess, and NO I am not a small boy, I am a grown up adult, married, with a job, living in a wonderful city, with 2 university degrees, but I ended up not being where I want (I mean spiritually) in the sense that I feel I could be doing more with my life.
I don't really love my job, but I cant quit, since I have to pay for the house and stuff, my wife is not working right now so I cant go and just quit and move to another place.
I dreamed with movies, that is what I really really love, not being an actor, or being famous or the money, but the possibility to tell a story, to be part of something so fascinating, I literally cried watching LOTR ROTK extended in the extras when everything was done and peter jackson kept making the same shot once and again not waiting to say goodbye.
I tried to study Computer Graphics, I would have loved to work at pixar or weta, however I come from a very humble family and going to USA or another country to study that was impossible.
So I think I am a very frustrated grown up man, and the reason I think for what I give so many games on steamgifts is that I hope that what I am doing is bringing real happiness to someone somewhere (hoping not only scammers win my games).
Reading thanks from so many people in some way, is well, let just say gives me some comfort.
Probably many of you saw the indie movie, and you know I wish had the passion for something as the meat boy guys had, is so Overwhelming to see people passionate about something, because that is really something that makes you move trough your life and is of course better when that passion delivers something like meat boy and gives you reassurance that you are doing something good that people love in their case also some financial tranquility.
So giving games is not a passion, but just give me some happiness at least for a moment.
Sorry the long post I know Steamgifts is not a confessionary.
Wo what moves some of you to make giveaways?
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