I had this happen, well the key failed so he gave another which worked but happened to be a different game of equal value - mentioned it to support, weeks down the track got a temporary 1-2 day ban block for not activating your (gifted) game... Whatever you do, don't tell anyone or support about it, they will just ban you as morons report you completely ignoring the actual issue and that it wasn't your fault! Oh wait, you already have already mentioned it, bugger.
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To be fair, if you marked it as recieved, that was your own fault. We don't check through tickets 99% of the time for such a simple issue unless we have reason to believe there might be more to the situation than meets the eye.
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Yanno, I just looked at your stats and I gotta say I have very little sympathy for you. In four months you've entered over 1,700 GAs and commented ONCE? You've won four games and given ONE game and now you're complaining that that your fifth win was not as advertised?
Srsly, take your complaint to support instead of here cause i have got very little for you....
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I agree that one should thank the gifter, but this is not required. Rules are rules. Take your complaint over lack of comments to support instead of complaining that a user has obeyed the rules but not a nonexistent rule.
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probably not but the guy is a dick and he deserves to be effed once in awhile for being one ;-p
Just sayin is all...
This place runs on good will, right? When we can't act like civil human beings that can't be bothered to thank gifters for FREE effing games well...whatever, I think I made my point.
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Wait, you are calling HIM a dick for not spamming insensible "Thank You"s in chat? Wow.
Sure, he has won 5 giveaways, commented once, and given away one game. That does not make him a dick though. He posts on the forum for guidance on what to do in this matter and whether his current choices, which he has chosen, are right.
You are not required to give away games to win games here, nor are you required to give away games or comment on giveaways to receive friendly feedback on the forum.
I do sense that there is a doucheback, or dick, as you would call it, nearby. It is not the OP though. I believe we both know who I am referring to.
Good day.
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Yeah, I am. I've been here a month and I get that this place runs on the good will of gifters. Right? Those that show up, enter, never comment, give little DO NOT make this a better place. I think you'd probably agree if you thought about it a bit but hey, bash the newbie who gives a lot and goes out of their way to thank peeps for giving away games AND takes the time to voice an opinion about how the OP is kind of a jerk- it's so very nice of you, thank you!
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"Goes out of their way?" "Takes the time?" If we're inconveniencing you, then you can fuck right off, you gigantic chucklefuck.
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Same bundle games you offer in group giveaways. Stop hating on the bundles, if it weren't for them, point accumulation would be scarce and the chances of winning something would be non existant.
Winning an indie game from a bundle is better than not winning anything at all.
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"Enjoy your forum full of the same, crappy bundle games" and gave away 90% bundle games.
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At least he made a giveaway to give back. That's a lot more than I ever made, just sayin'
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"Hey, I'm giving away games, and he isn't, obviously that means I can be a dick to him."
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Nice comments, thank you WAR DEATH FUN! BTW, what are your stats?
I just checked - nice ratio! Are all of those comments as "community building" as the one above? Oh and I am not a guy, wardeathfun. I'm an female and yeah, calling me a "fucking asshole" is very special and oh so welcoming to someone that's been here a month. You and the OP might consider creating your own group - the "I have exactly no manners and I don't give a GD".
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Being an attention whore is worse than not making useless comments. OP-1 U-0
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His stats are way better than yours. Do you know how I call a guy who enters a site and just in one month he spends $71.96 on games for others? Yeah, that's right! A spoiled moron who wants to show his wealthyness to others! Sorry, it's the truth. Or you just giveaway games from Gameminer, Gameblink and Tremorgames...
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You can't be serious. First of all, $70 is not a huge amount of money; second, no one spends the actual amount they have for their CV. Most people give away game they got in a bundle or at 75+% off.
Therefore, someone with $70 CV likely spent $20-25 (unless they are giving away brand new releases, etc). So you think that someone who spent $25 on giveaways is some kind of "spoiled moron" trying to boast? Get real.
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Oh, my apologies. You're a female, I guess I gotta sniff your vagina to see if your fertile so we can breed. Nothing has changed, you been here for a month and already act like you know how the place works. Pretty disturbing. How do you know this guy never says thank-you to the gifts he receives? I don't know about you, but I always send a reply in email or in Steam chat a message that shows some form of gratitude. So I do not see how you feel the need to act like an ass hat to someone for not being grateful when you have no proof that he never shown any gratitude to anyone.
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Well to be fair Momo could have lurked a lot before joining. It's what I did. This whole comment thread is full of assumptions anyways :)
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You don't need a real penis to have an e-peen size contest ;)
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Sorry to tell you, but you seem like the biggest dick here . . . Just sayin is all.
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Really? How do you know whether he thanked the gifters or not??
I haven't won too many games here, but I always thanked the person who sent me the game. And I admit I enjoyed it when I sent a game to someone and that person thanked me in return.
You seem to be confusing "giving thanks to a real person" with "randomly spamming <thank you> messages that most people don't even read". You may want to consider that before calling names...
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You could also make a giveaway with a requirement that entrants have to post their favorite food in the comments. It doesn't make people feel insincere compared to forced tys and might foster discussion.
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It would need to be a private and have the rule confirmed by Support first, which is a lot of trouble.
And sadly, people still won't read the description.
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Most people read private giveaway descriptions. And those that don't won't be allowed to win anyways. Just a bit more work to get the rule approved and potentially rerolls.
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Dawww. Well, then. Here you go: Moar bananas for you ❤
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So yeah, now you spit on someone's else generosity ("crappy bundle games") and you call someone's else a dick? You sure are a piece of work.
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... You just said it yourself - you expect people to copy-paste a useless, hollow gesture of two words, which means exactly fuck-all, as if it's some kind of sign of gratitude. Yup, sure. You know, when I was a kid, my mom would always look at me and say "thank yoouuu" suggestively whenever she did something for me or gave me something, as if to say "come on say thank you now". Which only made the thanks I gave seem facetious and forced. Think for two seconds before you post such asinine comments.
Aside from that, you're acting like an entitled windbag and using horrible argumentative form to defend yourself. DropTheDodongo makes you out for an "attention whore", and the best you can muster back is "and that makes you what exactly?"???? Really?? A good old bit of tu quoque ad hominem "argumentation"?
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Given how easy it is to take part in the forums, knowing that people are quite happy to come here only to mooch their free games while not giving a damn about the community providing all of this can be sad.
Now you, start posting in more topics. 9 months and so few comments? That is barely more than 1 a week.
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It says something! It says "Hey, this human being is giving away a free game - the least I can do is effing copy past a thank you comment."
But hey, whatever - it just drives gifters to private groups where their gifts are actually, i dunno, appreciated? Where the entrants spend five extra precious seconds of their lives posting a basic, human comment like "Hey, thanks man!"
Cause yanno, that doesn't feel good to the person gifting a free game when less than 10% of the entrants can actually be bothered...nope, no need to even try to make gifters feel like peeps care less or anything...
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I'm in the group of people that feels most of the comments on giveaways are spam. I much prefer reading actual comments in my giveaways. So I don't copy and paste a thank you in every one I enter, nor do I use a script like some people. People that take comment ratio too seriously are part of the reason these script users are here.
But I sure do thank each giver when I receive the gift, and make sure they know I appreciate it very much.
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I'm also with many of the thanks being spam, and doesn't help when I see obvious thank script users. I'll ask people not to post thanks, but to use interesting comments, either by asking a question in my opening post or asking for images of some random object.
Still, the forums are here, and I've gotten over 7000 posts in this part of the site. Isn't difficult to have a decent post count.
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Ok, fair enough but I found that getting a thousand people entering for a giveaway with 50-75 commenting felt like a slap in the face. Hey, that's my personal opinion and frankly it made me decide NOT to do public giveaways. So I don't think my, as you call them "spam" thank you comments have little meaning to other peeps - I really don't. Especially when the winner couldn't be bothered to even post that much...
Life with people runs on good will and manners and those things actually do matter. Srsly. You may think generic thank-you's are spam and you're free to post that for your GA's "no need to post a spam thank you", but frankly I think most gifters are plenty pleased to be thanked no matter how spammy or canned those thank-you's appear. The words still have a real meaning....
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Especially when the winner couldn't be bothered to even post that much...
I thank with email if I receive key with email or in Steam chat if I am added in Steam. No post required.you're free to post that for your GA's "no need to post a spam thank you"
I tried. Does not seem to work.
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Yep, but this "thank you for the game" doesn't necessarily happen in the comments. I always thank if I win, after the contributor sent me the game. Sometimes I say thank you in the comments too.
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Because it really does have meaning when I take the extra five seconds to scroll to the bottom of the page and thank you gifter. It has meaning to me. Really.
And when I first did a GA and over a thousand people entered but maybe 66 took those extra five seconds...well that said something to me. It said, "Hey, eff you. I can't be bothered to do a simple human convention like thanking you for giving me a chance to accept a gift from you."
Does that make sense?
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Yeah, that's one of the things I really want to see implemented. Sometimes I post something pretty long, or ask a question in the giveaway, but I always forget about it.
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That's why I often have a shitload of tabs open. Takes forever for Firefox to load, but at least I can go back and see if I got any replies to a post that I made in someone's giveaway. Would be nice if a feature was added that allowed you to track replies to your GA comments.
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The lack of a "Thank You" ESPECIALLY ON THE INTERNET, does not equate to someone being a dick.
It's like saying if your parent doesn't hug you that they don't love you. Maybe it's just not their thing? At least they're not going around calling people dicks for ridiculous reasons.
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I've heard that there are even thank you scripts for this site, where a program just types "thanks" for you. Even if they just type it, it doesn't feel sincere at all. I giveaway my games on steamchat. If they don't say thanks during then I can get pretty mad, but who cares about the comments, especially ones with a script, meaning that they used literally no effort in posting it.
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Don't get me wrong, I like to thank in all of my giveaways and have never (and will never) use a script to do so. I see it as being polite to thank people for the gesture of giving an item away and for the chance to win it.
That being said, I will never attack or persecute another for not following the same frame of mind as I do. People are free to do as they please provided they are following the rules. Stating your opinion on the matter is one thing but you would do well to avoid lashing out at people who don't meet your "comment ratio" standards.
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+1 The FAQ also states, "Be considerate of all users at all times related to the site/chat, etc." Pretty sure the OP is going to wake up to this shitstorm of a thread and never make another post again or something horrible.
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You taught your child manners? Are you sure it wasn't the father? I ask because the very comment chain this all came from starts off with a post of you showing very little to no manners. I hardly see acting like a snobbish bully telling people to go to support instead of making a thread here because you have no sympathy for them can be considered anything close to manners.
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She just said she taught the kid manners. Didn't say they were good manners.
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Well, it is three games received and one not received, but other than that minor correction, I do agree with you. I'm not one for posting thanks in every single giveaway I enter though (though the smaller giveaways will get a decent comment), but I take part in the community here in the forums instead. It isn't that hard to comment, and the knowledge that this is one of the rare times the TC has chosen to speak here is sad.
Also, about your below link, might want to remove it, as it will fall under the Calling Out rule.
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So all this proves that he has very little activity and prefers to lurk. What a big deal.
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First time I've ever felt like commenting and defending myself..
I read the forums all the time, I read what each giveaway I entered have to say, be it their games are up for Greenlight (which I vote for if its a well made game) or they have a youtube channels to promote (watch a couple of vids, subcribe if their material is something I like) or random stuff.
I say my thanks all the time in chat. But honestly, I'm just a lurker and introverted. So I'd rather keep my stuff out of the limelight(that is until you've made my night with this crap, seriously).
So on my end, I don't understand what I do wrong. I'm glad and happy that many people have the chance to win other games that they maybe couldn't afford or have been on their wishlist for just to long. But I usually have nothing better to say to the creators. I am thankful, but I don't show it. Doesn't make me less awful than you.
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This thread is exactly why I joined giveaway groups and 90% of my giveaways are to group members.
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Just what the fuck does OP's reputation or how much of a dick you think he is have to do with the person he won a giveaway from not following the rules of the site? Nothing, that's what.
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Hey, how's my comment ratio? Am I entitled to comment on what you're doing here? Because I think you're needlessly being a sack of dicks spraying all over OP's thread where they asked a very good question instead of simply assuming they knew what to do.
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Correct to mark it as not received since you got the wrong game.
Start a support ticket.
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Was I wrong to do this?
Not at all, you tried to find a resolution and they didn't come through. In fact, never mark received unless you actually receive what you're supposed to, otherwise you could inadvertently get banned. A lot of users get reported for not redeeming the games they won, without knowing your situation, people could easily make the assumption you won it but didn't redeem it.
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It only takes one chucklefuck to ruin a good topic.
I think you got you answer despite, zombiejesus262. Now please close this topic so the attention whore will leave.
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Since you have managed to comment under practically every single comment I've made - and none of my original comments contained any curse words or "aim to inflame", like yours, I suggest that you are the one looking for attention, not me DTD ...or was that DDT ;-p
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You're the one who entered a random thread and started to insult a completely random average guy who just wanted to ask for help on the forums. What did he do wrong? Is it wrong that he is just trying to test his luck and win a few games on steam? Is it wrong that he did not post a comment on every single giveaway saying the exact same word as 500 other people which I'm freaking SURE the giveaway creator is going to read all 15 pages of comments? You're the only douchebag here since you act like some kind of steamgifts police and you keep judging people just because they don't use the same broken logic as you do.
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No, don't do that... I hate when I make a well thought out post/reply and someone comes and closes the thread.
The discussion may have derailed but shutting it down is no better. If you're done with the topic just move on.
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i received a wrong game once. but this "wrong" game was also in my wishlist, so i marked it as "gift received". i said to the sender that u gave me the wrong code, and luckily she/he replied and apologized. so in the end, all were happy... :D
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I'd contact the support now, because if they will backtrack the giveaway one day, they will find out you don't have the game in your account even when you won the giveaway and marked is as received. That could lead to ban or something D: (because few friends could just make a giveaways for each other and mark it as received to boost their contributor value)
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So which DLC is it so I know what giveaway to delete?
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You should give a copy back of the game you already activated in your account and then to receive the game you won. Is just fair for both parts. Or you accept the game already activated, because if you like so much the game you won, you should own it with money.
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So you win a contest that you entered for free and they give something other than the stated prize. You then have to go out and purchase that exact reward they gave you and give it back... How is that fair?
And marking the gift as received when it was not received is not the answer either. I do a contest for Call of Duty Ghosts and then give you Fortix and because I gave you a game anyways lets just have you mark it as received and i earn $60 CV for giving away a $1 game. Again, this is not fair.
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Just FYI, if you're sent a code you have no way of knowing what it'll be. No reason to question what it is either. You paste it in, and voila, wrong game. This is in NO way the winner's fault and marking as not received is in my opinion exactly the right thing to do.
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Yeeeah, that's not how this works. If someone gives me a key for BioShock Infinite instead of Fortix, that is not my problem. That is either their fault for not being careful enough with their keys or it's lucky chance thanks to a third party site messing up. I am not required in any way to compensate them for BioShock, nor would I even attempt to. Either way, either they request the giveaway be changed by our admin to BioShock and all is good, they give me Fortix as well or they don't give me Fortix and I mark it as not recieved. Those are the three options.
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Palm + face = this post.
How on earth is the recipient suppost to tell, simply by studying the serial key, whether the game is Dawn of War or Titan Quest?
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Basically, someone was sent the wrong game. They came here looking for guidance on what to do. Some user named Momo freaked out that he doesn't spam "Thank You" on every game that he vouches in for. Because the submitter always reads each and every thank you, instead of just the one from the actual receiver. This whole thread if a huge cluster of stupidity.
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This has happened to me. I was supposed to get Titan Quest but instead I ended up getting Saint Row 3 duplicate. I emailed them back and a week later I got my key. Its good that you marked NO, and be sure to create a support ticket.
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Closing thread as it's technically calling out. Users can find which giveaway the OP's talking about. Please create a support ticket if you're having problems with a gifter.
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So I won a warhammer 40k GOY giveaway....was sent the product code for titans quest by the gifter...I emailed the gifter back several times to tell them of the mistake and recieved no reply. I am kind of new to this website but I marked the gift recieved as a NO. I gave the sender close to a month to remedy this....The reason I marked it no was because it seems to me that since titans quest is half price of warhammer 40k game that it could of been a ploy to up thier contributors amount while not actually giving as much...i figure most people would mark it as recieved because they got a gmae without really checking. Was I wrong to do this? Also as a side note if the gifter would of responded with a whoops my fault I would of gave them a YES for recieved but not getting a response to my emails seemed kinda fishy.
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