I'm confused - why no trading giveaway wins?

Because the point is to enter in games that you would enjoy, not trade fodder that you can profit off of.

Well people want to win games to play...If you don't wanna play the game don't enter the giveaway, as for your second question....Really??

Because none of us here wants to feed your profit margins. You don't go around joining free giveaways because you want to turn a profit, you do it because you want the game.

Giveaways are not for trading.

If you want to trade, click Network and then click steam trades. You can trade all day long over there. But not with won giveaways.

¿Me puede dar cosas gratis también? Lo voy a vender y quedarse con las ganancias.

You want to give me free stuff? I'll keep the profits.

Here's my bank account number. please deposit at least a minimum sum of $15000 USD. thanks

por la misma razon que no tenes que comprar humble bundles a 1 centavo, y despues registrate 20 veces en steam para farmear carbon...

WOW - touchy subject... sorry, I was just curious, I didn't mean to imply it was my reason for joining...

I just don't get the idea of giving something away with rules of what can be done with it. If I give something away it's because I have no use for it or already have one and if I'm giving it away it shouldn't really matter what somebody does with it - paint it green, set it on fire, add something to it and yes even (gasp) sell it or trade it for something better.

So it made me wonder when I saw it - I get it now... y'all are very clear - thanks

Traders are even worse then leechers.

Don't deprive someone else a chance to win something if you already own it.

OFF WITH HIS HEAD!

Imagine you make a gift to your friend and he just give your gift to another person on the next day. How do you feel?

Trading aside, what is your opinion on giving away what you've won? It's discouraged in the rules, and I can understand why, but consider this: While I only enter giveaways for games I would actually play, I still have a large backlog, so anything I win probably won't be played (or even installed) for many months. And if a friend has that game on their wishlist and doesn't own many games in general, so is likely to enjoy it more than I do, is there anything wrong with gifting it?

I see your point Vercinger, but that would make enforcing the rules much too difficult, and allow greedy people like the OP to abuse the system. OP would only give something away if he wouldn't use it? He doesn't get the spirit of this website, doesn't get how good it feels to make another happy. I just won the X Superbox, and I am in the hospital with nothing to do. Now I am extremely happy, THANK YOU STEAMGiFTS YOU MADE MY YEAR! Altho it's kinda hard to play on Morphine rofl.... Oh and THANK YOU HUNTER42!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Because greedy Spaniards like you wouldn't waste giveaway wins, and people who actually want the game to play it, would win it?

Why enter a giveaway if you're just going to give away the game again?

Same goes for trading it, just a waste.

If you want to make a giveaway, buy the fucking game yourself! That's what i did.

If you were going to trade it away instead of play it, why did you bother entering the giveaway and reducing the chances of people of who would want to play it of winning?

I didn't know this was in the rules, though I feel stupid for not thinking that. Not gonna do this anymore, because once in a while when I have a bunch of points I just enter random giveaways with low entries even though I would probably trade them. :/

Sorry for stealing post. If i win something can i trade with my wife ?

So it's even frowned apon to enter a giveaway for the purpose of winning a gift, for a friend who doesn't have a SteamGifts account themselves? It's still one entry, for a person who intends to play the game, without trading for profit.

Yo mommas so fat that when she won a game Lokoponka banned her for re-trading a game as she didn't fit under one IP address.

i always defend to only show up the games to apply that members have on wishlist to prevent ppl apply games that they arent priority for them