Giving away a game you've won

If you don't want it, don't enter a giveaway. Why would you? The idea is anathema.

Better activate on your account and share your Steam library (Steam Family Sharing). I could consider stop giving if I don't know where my gifts go.

sg rules prevent people from exploiting the system even more. just imagine what would happen if users were free to win the same game 50 times.
these guidelines could sound stupid or unfair for someone outside the site so i don't expect most friends to understand how things works here. the whole "no regifting" thing doesn't apply to most things in real life. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But does the SG community agree with this rule?

Yep, I agree 110% with the rule.
Your friends can make an account here if they want to enter for a particular game.

Nothing wrong in it if you do it right and buy another copy for yourself, nobody will even know you regifted it.

The rule doesn't exist only for moral reasons though, without it the level system wouldn't work (multiple people could receive CV when only 1 gift exists, and you could just make fake giveaways in groups and say the winner gave it to a friend) and not everyone would have the same odds of winning a giveaway (you could ask friends to enter for a game you want)

I think it's a nice thing to share, but if it's against the site's rules, then it's just straight-up a no-no.

Would you like someone to enter your giveaways with the intention of re-gifting?

I don't, so I won't do it.

I am only speaking on the moral side, from your point of view, is it immoral to share with your acquaintances the games you've won?

Yes, the least you should do for winning a game, aka obtaining it for free, is to activate it on your own personal account, and not give it to friend, trade away or sell for profit. If I wanted to give my game to friend, trade away or sell for profit then I'd not make a giveaway for you to win in the first place.

This is the bare minimum that you should do, since "morally right" thing to do would be also to play it, since this is the reason why you entered the giveaway in the first place.

The one problem I have with that kind of thinking is that when you win a game from a GA you took the chance of winning away from everyone else that entered it. So for me entering the GA for a game without actually wanting it for yourself is what I would characterize as immoral, and activating it on your own account is a way of showing to the community that was not the case.

...I think it is morally fine to do whatever you feel right with anything you've won, as long as it is legal.

If you consider "house-rules within frame of overall legislature" part of the legal system, then violating the house-rule is not legal anyhow - therefore in your take is such violation not moral anyhow since violation of the house-rule is not legal regardless of arguments about content thereof.

And so or so, as e.g. SG user you pretty much have a Terms of Service agreement you likely entered out of your free will - and if you consider violating an agreement as not moral, then violating agreement is not moral even if that agreement has no legal basis.

Also, quite many shops and companies actually do have terms of service in which gift cards/ vouchers are considered non-transferable. And violating such rule of non-transferability will of course usually not have any penal consequences, but in terms of contractual law the person who violated that rule sits on the legal short end when e.g. refused service in such regard.

As for question of whether that rule makes sense in a context of talking about that SG rule itself and not about "morality of violating it", personally I find it to make sense, among other because it makes it somewhat more likely that users enter GA only for what they care about playing and due to that the odds of winning are increased for those who enter GA for what they care about playing, unlike how it would be if they had to share the odds with sort of cartels of perhaps even hundreds of persons running some pyramid scheme entering GAs for each other, or whatever.

These friends can register here, too. Now if they don't reach the $100 account value, help them. I don't know which reason could speak against registering here. But if they mean to have a good reason for not doing so, then they have also no reason to expect getting sth. from here and should try trade sites.

Whut? Are you serious? What kind of question is that????!!
I don't know about "moral thing."
But, I'm sure the Steamgift.com won't exist if you think your "so-called" morality is larger than the rules that keep the site running.
Imagine this:
Any group of 5 people can create infinite numbers of giveaways to gain infinite CVs without cost a penny if the winner doesn't have to activate the gift on their own Steam account.
So, the CV and user's levels are useless. Then who wants to make a giveaway or enter one? 100,000 entries for one gift? C'mon!!!!

If Steamgift.com doesn't exist anymore, what "moral thing" are you talking about??? 😒

I don't even know why this even has to be asked.

Is this about seeing people do Suits GAs after the big 5000 copy GA ended?

Anyways I see the whole thing as being foul as it mucks up someone else's chances and all for a tiny amount of CV (most games in these mega GAs are both cheap and bundled)

this kind of thread is blacklist bait! goodluck.

Do I think it would be morally wrong to give a game you've won to a friend or family member, if they really wanted it?
Questionable. On the one hand, it would be better if a game would be owned by someone who really wants it, on the other hand you're opening up a lot of room for abuse right here (have 5 people join giveaways for a game with the intention of giving the winnings to one person, thus giving that person a 5 times higher chance of winning than anyone else).

Do I think we should allow people to give away won games to others?
Absolutely not.

By making it so that you are forced to activate games on your own account, you avoid having people join giveaways with the intention of selling or trading their won games. It would give people another incentive to get multiple accounts as well (funneling games to their main account).

But does the SG community agree with this rule?

Yes.

... is it immoral to share with your acquaintances the games you've won?

The answer is pretty clear when you think about it.

1. When you are freely given a gift without having asked for it, you have every right to decide what to do with it. It was given to you without any consideration of whether or not you wanted it, and you made no promises about what you were going to do with it. You are stuck with the gift.
2. When you ask someone for a gift, you are making a demand upon his or her wealth/effort/time. He or she is giving up something of him or herself to accommodate you, and he or she therefore has every right to set conditions upon the receipt of that gift. That includes any promises. If you agree to those conditions, you are morally bound to follow through with them.
3. When you choose to participate in an activity (e.g. website promotion), you agree to the conditions of that activity. In effect, you make a promise to "abide by the rules" of that activity. Those who give games away on this site do so with the understanding that their winners will (at bare minimum) activate their won games on their accounts.

If we use SteamGifts as an example, you request a game where the "default promise" is that you will activate the won game on your account, and that promise is enforced. Some people make other stipulations for entering their giveaways, but enforcement of any other promises is at best conditional. That does not mean that breaking your promise is morally acceptable; but not all wrongdoing is punished in this life.

I agree wholeheartedly with the rule. I'm not giving my game to your friend(or more likely, G2A), I'm giving it to you.

Even if we agreed that is not "immoral" to "share the gift with acquaintances", there would be absolutely no way to know if someone actually "shared" or sold the game on G2A. So, whether it is "moral" or not, it doesn't really matter. It would be unenforceable as a rule.

No.

1. It's the rules.
2. You can't really know whether the winner actually gave it to a friend or if they sold it away.
3. Your friends can also make an account on this public website.
4. If your friend didn't win the giveaway that you won, then that's just tough luck. I can't afford Kingdom Come, but if someone else gifted it to me for some reason, you wouldn't give it to some other friend, right? It'd be rude and disrespectful.

So, respect the creator by taking their gift and activating it. Also, enter for games that you actually want to play. If you just pass it on, then you never wanted it and in turn, someone else lost out on getting it.