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i just ran around the forums real quick checking peoples gives vrs games owned and i saw a direct correlation between games owned and gives made. just looking at the five people posted here is great example. as far as i can tell the more games you have the more you give and its probably because of bundles, every time i buy a bundle i keep what i want and give what i dont.

so it seems to me like its a really bad group theme if this person is interested in making an active give community.

Dude, I'm already one of those people who barely pays a cent for my games and have never put a cent in my Steam wallet - leaving my account grandfathered in a time with benefits that newer accounts can't have. Especially those exclusive badges, which you'd need for certain Steam benefits. SG is secondary in this respect. All that matters for getting here in SG is essentially having a $100+ valued account. SG doesn't track how much you spent, so my actual purchases are irrelevant. I've been here for a while and it took me a while to get here, so I know a thing or two.

Your GA was likely shut down because at some point you set up rules which can't really be enforceable for SG to hold any liability, among whatever else they deemed didn't satisfy how the GAs work. So, setting up a group restricted GA is really a better way to go without having to complain about blacklisting people (and its limitations). After that, there's not much of a debate. I don't think anyone was really upset about the terms you set in itself, but your GA you had was misleading in the beginning because it was an open GA listed on SG that anyone could technically get in before one even gets to click the GA page and blindly enter it (and when you blacklist people like that for not following your rules, the powers that be on SG may hear complaints about that). Your GA didn't actually work the way you wanted it set up. The only way to really put such restrictions is to make it a group GA, and that among the level restricted GAs is what SG allows and streamlines for its members.

Again, as I said, it's fine to have a group-based GA with those parameters, but essentially, the whole rationale of your restrictions is irrelevant to the way GAs work here anyway. No one has any advantage/disadvantage with winning a GA unless the creator changes the winner, or the winner doesn't take the win. Wins in GA are by nature based on the number of people who enter, and that can be further restricted in a number of ways like those GAs you mentioned. It's basically a glorified raffle, but everyone only puts in one ticket at a time for each GA. By saying that it's "unfair" people who have less games than others who have more, it actually isn't the case here at all.

if he spent less money on pot he would have just as many games as the rest of us. this whole group idea is born from salt. he is just a bent basement dweller who is salty we have more games then him. like you said he has only been on this site for a month and judging from his library and give's this dude doesnt even know what humble bundle is.