Happy cake day! You don't want to mark a game you've won as private, as Steamgifts checks will show it as not activated and SGTools will consider you as rule breaking for having unactivated wins. I'd suggest not entering any giveaways for games you aren't willing to keep public.
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No shot, that's disrespectful to those that gifted you the game.
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I used to just enter as many giveaways as I could and not check the game carefully. So I won several hentai games. Now I care and check (and hide) giveaways like that, but it's too late for the ones I won in the past. So I want to mark them as private.
Also, SG shouldn't need to keep checking over and over if you won the game. Once it's verified as redeemed and in your library it should be able to be marked private.
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should be able to be marked private
That's the same as removing the game from your account. As reigifts said, it's disrespectful.
Don't enter for games you have no intention of playing or keeping.
You've clearly used a bot at some stage (you might still do it). Perhaps it's time to put some thought into the way you use this site.
EDIT: Apologies for accusing you of bot use 😔
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"You've clearly used a bot at some stage" - that's a pretty heavy accusation, how do you know this?
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At some point it is obvious, so only sg support don't see it.
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I didn't know, that I've become SG support, but if you say so...
Still, please enlighten me, because such heavy accusations should not be made and upheld without at least a reasonably strong proof. I would like to know, where I am blind, because I can't see it ;)
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I assume others base their opinion on the entered GAs.
265k in 12 years.
To give you other stats of a VERY active member, = me, 133k in the half of the time.
Which means this user must be constantly VERY active, i mean really VERY active because i had the most of the time no job, have a chronical illness that let me be a lot at home and at the PC, force me to not sleep much etc., without a break, for 12 years.
From my hunting experience of autojoiners i can tell you that he would be one of very few innocent ones that i see with such stats.
But it is of course always possible that someone with conditions like myself exist etc..
So i never would accuse him in public for autojoining because it would be against the rules but i understand why others judge him/his stats.
If someone assume he do/done it, then report him in a ticket and let the support manage the rest.
From my experience i would say "nothing happens" in 90% of the cases, not from interest how "obvious" it is [And in many cases not because the mods want it this way, more because they don't have needed tools]-
I reported someone with 300k entries in a lower timeframe...and it wasn't enough evidence -lol-. That was one of the the reasons why i stopped the hunts.
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I assume others base their opinion on the entered GAs.
265k in 12 years.
Not hard if you consider on what games they spends those points. If most of their targets are 1-5P games then that can easily explain the number of giveaways entered.
If you considered a "VERY" active member to be someone who spends ALL the points they can get in a 24 hour period.
12 years X 365 days X 600 P / 265000 giveaways = 9,91 points per entered game average.
Provided they spent all their points.
Just log in twice a day and throw all your P's at the public giveaway with little discern for game quality and you'll get there.
A whole lot of those games just end up being a +1 to their account but that is a separate matter. If they want to pollute their account with lazy asset flips and cheap 1P porn that's their choice.
Then again I'm not an Autojoiner Hunter so I wouldn't know. :)
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yeah it's so obvious. let's hang him! you know everything.
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Everyone does whatever they want, but 265k entries in 12 years, or 22k entries / year, or 60 entries every day for that 12 years is mighty impressive. Though it has to be said, that the giveway-reliant point regeneration in SG1 (5%? of point value of every giveaway was given to every user as points to spend, no static point regeneration) was a sight to behold on bundle release days, in some cases we got thousands of points in just a few hours
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Yes, I've seen the number, which is mighty impressive. However, I'm 4.5 years on SG, I have 45k entries and close to a half of those 4.5 years I've been taking total breaks from SG, so I come to like 20k entries per year of active membership. Does it make me a bot runner? Nope, just a no-lifer, which easily gets addicted. So, if they have no better proof, they have no right to make such statements.
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Sure. I'm not really getting paid to care about stuff like this about random users :P
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I've been here for 2 years and I am averaging ~1000 entries per month. I should probably spend less time on here but I'm neither a bot nor using one. The amount of entries alone is quite poor evidence. Unfortunately it takes a lot more effort to safely spot bots/autojoiners. Without any help from the site admin that is.
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No, it is not a basis really, I can only speak about my experience and how my entry numbers dropped off as my years progressed here. Not to support or disprove any claim, I just like numbers and statistics ^^
(And just to knead the numbers more because stats are interesting - 22k a year is about 80% more than your entries. Consistently, over 12 years. There is no lack of games to enter and I am still quite picky about what do I enter and buy quite a lot for myself, I think my numbers are quite an outliner. Buying monthlies very likely means at least 100-200 entries less for each month, alone)
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22k a year is about 80% more than your entries
True, but then again I do care about (subjective) quality and my taste and I also do buy quite a few bundles. I own around 3.5k games and my filtered list is at 10.6k games, which after 2 years is quite a lot I think.
I spend all my points every month, a bot couldn't spend any more. So all that means in comparison is that I am obviously entering giveaways with an averagely higher point value than they are. Which of course could still point to a bot but it's a very weak criterion on which alone one shouldn't base an accusation like Maya uttered without naming any evidence at all.
Consistently, over 12 years
That's the more impressive part. I'm not sure if I will (or want to) achieve that. ^^
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The majority of members are the most active in the first 2 years on sg.
Normaly the yearly entered GAs numbers reduce after this time.
I assume because of entering "everything" in the first 2 years and changing then to "i take a look what i want to enter".
But if you constantly enter over 20k, each year, for over 1 decade (no time of "i don't like sg anymore, no longer "need to work more", no kids that needs attention, no partner that wants attention etc.), then it shows lower and lower amounts of users that reach this numbers without the help of additional apps/scripts/bots.
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But if you constantly enter over 20k, each year, for over 1 decade
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it shows lower and lower amounts of users that reach this numbers without the help of additional apps/scripts/bots
True, but that criterion alone still doesn't warrant an accusation like Maya's in my opinion. Please also refer to https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/QNaQ9Vh.
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As i answered here... https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/44hwQQ1
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i take a look what i want to enter
That approach is something developed by people who play or at least intend to play their wins one day.
Collectors just take all the garbage.
The problem is that they sometimes take the chance from people who would actually enjoy games instead of just let them rot as +1 on their account.
I would say that this is the case here.
Guy just realized that he doesn't want to collect "that kind of games"... after winning about 10 of them during last year xD
Other question is whether he uses autojoiner or enter that mass of GAs manually. But I won't investigate thet xD
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Collectors just take all the garbage.
I see myself as Collector and don't want each game. My hide list have nearly 18k games on it.
What you mean are, for me, hoarders.
They are a other species :-D
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oh i used a bot? i wouldn't even know how to use such a thing if my life depended on it nor would i want to because i am not that type of person. you are such a huge f'ing prick i hope you get banned for that completely false accusation.
i have been using steamgifts for 10+ years and i have been using my windows laptop and my android phone with the sg app (https://github.com/SteamGifts/SteamGifts). do you know how easy it is to just MANUALLY enter giveaways over and over ON YOUR PHONE and have the points refill every few hours? i do it bed, in line at the store, waiting at the carwash, on the toilet (literally), in lines at disneyland, and all sorts of places because it's right there on my phone at all times, you f'ing dunce! that's all i do. i check it constantly all day and through the night until i fall asleep, and enter anything i see that has the lowest number of people entering and is ending soon.
but you just know everything don't you? i come here for advice and you come here to get someone wrongly banned and lie about them. any steamgifts mods/devs are free to check my account's logs and see for themselves how i enter giveaways and what devices(s) i use btw. i have ZERO things to hide (except those pesky hentai games).
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Don't give a damn to them. Happy Cakeday whatever they say ;)
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Honestly I do the same (although I've not installed the mobile app). Whenever I'm sat at my PC the first thing I do is check SG, join games with the highest chance of winning (except things I know for sure I won't play, like hentai games or racing games). It relaxes me, it's become more of a calming habit :P seeing those points reach minimum
So yeah, happy cakeday - and also happy winter holidays if that's your thing
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oh i used a bot?
I'm sorry for the false accusation. I made a poor assumption based solely on how many giveaways you've entered. I apologise for that.
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He might be just terminally online and logged in on SG just as me xD
Remember that the site had dynamic point generation at first - and you could enter thousand giveaways in a day when they did bundles like clickteam fusion or similar (and you had 300 points back in 10 minutes xD).
That's the same as removing the game from your account. As reigifts said, it's disrespectful.
Don't enter for games you have no intention of playing or keeping.
Can't argue with that though.
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...you had 300 points back in 10 minutes...
I did not know this. They've entered almost twice what you've entered though, so I really thought it had to be botting, not squatting.
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I simply switched my attitude from "enter all" to "enter what I want to play" quite fast. Still have about 50% of unplayed wins :( Slowly digging through backlog.
That being said he might use bots or not. Better not call out xD Even if the guy is in steam groups for people using bots - it's not a proof that he is using one as well xD
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Yep, I've apologised to user, and will edit my original post now.
Also, you would be only one of a few that is trying to correct your habits, it's nice to see :)
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Even if the guy is in steam groups for people using bots - it's not a proof that he is using one as well xD
Thats correct but i still kick each one from my group that think it is a great idea to be a member of a autojoiner group (i find in average 1 each half year). Talking with that members brought in the past only a lot of work for me and still a constant stream of members that joined such groups.
We will see if the kickings, happened first a few weeks ago, will show better results for the rest of the members. The comments of the members to the harder handling were all positive.
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The comments of the members to the harder handling were all positive.
People are usually positive when it comes to punishing rule breakers.
SG is like a multiplayer game in that regard.
Game where cheaters are running wild will soon loose it's player base. Luckily chat is censored so no one gets offended xD
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There is a pretty huge difference, as marking a game as private hides it from others and doesn't prevent the user from actively using and playing it. It merely prevents others from checking whether it is being done (which is really none of their business).
Therefore, your accusation that hiding = removal/no intent of playing is groundless. EDIT: If they actually did remove/hide the game they would get flagged by the site anyway and subsequently suspended, so there is no room for abuse with the existing system.
As for your bot accusations, I would strongly suggest you stop attacking people unless you have some very strong proof as otherwise, along with your attitude, you are just being a judgemental and harassing asshole. Keep in mind that bots are permanently banned so it is unlikely that anyone would voluntarily engage in such behaviour in the first place and the problem is highly overrated considering how strict the restrictions are for joining SG in the first place.
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Tbf making a game private probably hides it from sg too, which means it gives the same results as removing/hiding the game even if it wasn't their intention.
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Yes, I do acknowledge that the issue in terms of SG would be that people would get flagged as non-activated, which would then lead to a suspension, which is the issue that OP is originally asking about (and that SG has still not made any official announcement about, therefore it is unsafe for any SG user to use this feature for the time being).
I was only addressing Mayanaise's curveball (which is in turn an extension of reigifts' curveball) that ignores OP's concern/question and instead goes on a rant about "respectfulness" which I argue is completely unfounded because in terms of intent it is way more likely that a person would hide a game out of privacy and not out of lack of intent of playing it. In this regard, they have no right to judge a person for choosing to hide a game nor comparing it to an actual removal.
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What are the requirements for registering?
Users sign-in using their Steam account, and we require their account to be valued at $100.00 or greater. Games that have been accessible through bundles, or games that were once available for free due to promotions or pricing errors are not included in this calculation. We have this requirement in place to prevent users from registering multiple accounts.
You buy a few games which are overpriced on Steam and SG moderation hasn't spotted yet on some shady store for a couple of cents. Account value > $ 100.00 and you're in. Calling this strict requirements is a bit of a stretch tbh.
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and the problem is highly overrated considering how strict the restrictions are for joining SG in the first place.
ROFL, did you mean this serious ?
The "strict" joining rules are exploited with demos/early access/fake price games etc. that are mostly FREE but not marked correctly on sg or if the people pay something then only a few cents.
Or how did you explain that the most multiaccounters (with up to 110 accounts) and the most autojoiners, that are so dumb to activate the integrated thanks script on top, have mostly only around 25 games in their steam account ?
And i have a very different view on the "highly overrated" thing.
My group and i hunted autojoiners etc. for years and i would say we have the most experience, on sg, in that field, we assume, based on this experiences, that around 50% of the, active, members use autojoiners.
But of course you are free to believe something different.
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I think a good start would be to ACTUAL PLAY the games you hoard. Also you won 2 month ago your last hentai games, so just admit that you like them, nobody is judging your more on it then on the heavy leeching. I really hope my script is broken otherwise <2h gameplay for over 800 games won is just the epitome of greed I ever looked at.
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The game: https://www.steamgifts.com/game/3QREN/planet-of-war-the-legend-of-fu has a 60% delivery rate, because the keys were revoked by the publisher. Even the people that marked it as received do not have it in their game list. Some of them have thousands of games, and probably didn't notice that it got removed.
So I don't think it keeps checking to see if it's activated. I'm assuming more people would have noticed if it did.
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about a month ago i got flagged for marking games as received that i won that are not in my library anymore. no idea why. one or more of the games must have gotten revoked, but i had nothing to do with it and i was banned for like 2 weeks. support didn't answer my ticket either. that's why i made this post, hoping maybe they wouldn't do the same for games marked private now that that is a feature of steam.
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If the games got revoked you should have received a notification on Steam about it, it's a pop-up window with a prominent yellow bar at the top that won't go away until you mark it as read.
You would of have noticed if the games were indeed revoked.
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i have gotten that before. as for the recent 2 week suspension, i have no idea. steamgifts says i didn't activate something and that was not true. i sent them a screenshot showing it has been activated on my steam account and received no reply and the suspension eventually ended.
it was for a dlc i won 5 years ago (https://store.steampowered.com/app/821601/Find_Exit_Simple_Story__Alex_DLC/) that still shows as activated on my account, yet it has been pulled and doesn't show it you click the base game (https://store.steampowered.com/app/814200/Simple_Story__Alex/). what is weird is it shows i don't own base game now, so how did i activate the dlc? my theory, they revoked my base game and didn't notify me via steam like usual (not sure how) and that confuses steamgifts auto-verification thing.
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Does it mention a purchase here and what happens if you click "it's not in my library"?
https://help.steampowered.com/wizard/HelpWithGame/?appid=814200
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2 days ago i got a suspension for not activating a key from GA i won 2 years ago. Turns out a key got revoked in march this year.
I have over 3000 games, almost 900 wins and half of them were GA i entered without a single thought in my mind. This was one of them.
So, the lag from revoking a key and getting suspension was almost 9 month - do you expect everyone writing down every game they've bought or win? Or check every notification?
I think this system - checking wins from over a year ago - is pretty dumb. How would i not activate a key from 2 years ago and how GA creator wouldn't notice that in a first place? Maybe SG should put a think about that?
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I think this system - checking wins from over a year ago - is pretty dumb. How would i not activate a key from 2 years ago
"Won gifts must be activated on the Steam account used during registration, and they cannot be regifted, traded, sold, or removed from your Steam account after activation."
Have to be activated, and to be kept on the account. Not to be removed, refunded, "privated", as those are means for the "how would I not activate a key from 2 years ago" question of yours.
how GA creator wouldn't notice that in a first place?
If the creator doesn't manually check the winner's library after they claim the key, or use SGTools, they have no means to check to begin with. I think the vast majority of the GA creators doesn't do any check if the winner actually activated their game. Nor check their winners' history with SGTools before sending the key.
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Okay, hear me out - once a game is activated - why should anyone be concerned how, when and what will happen to winner and game?
Why should it stay on account to not be suspended and why it is mandatory? Really, i don't understand specific reason behind it.
Because of this rule it's been so much people who got suspended because of revoked keys but there are literally less than 1% of them who deleted a won game themself. And, IMO, they've got a reason for doing so.
Of course it's my opinion against many others but hey, i can have one too!
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Okay, hear me out - once a game is activated - why should anyone be concerned how, when and what will happen to winner and game?
Mainly because the site that you're using has a ruleset that you accepted at registration, likely to make people think twice before entering for a giveaway, despite even thinking once is a rarity for some, they just enter anything / use autojoiners. Back in the day there weren't around a safety net as today - the one that blocks you from entering for a game you already won.
Overall I see no real reason from removing a game from one's account, other than inflating their played game stat or something similar. One can hide their game in their library to never see it again.
On a slightly different note, funny that some people are adamant about "why should I hide anything, why would I care about what others think of my library"? and then there is the "why can't I just delete everything, it's nobody's business" as polar opposites. Though rules prohibit only once of that... Personally I make giveaway for people to have the game. Many (most?) will likely never bother to even play it. But if they just keep deleting from their library, I'd rather just sell my games than give it to people who'll trash them because they can't handle the consequence of their their past choices of entering the GA and winning the game.
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I don't judge GA for it's rules, i understand your position about caring who are you gifting to - i just don't understand a real reason behind need to suspend people for not having a game they had before.
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Each one with a revoked game, can check on sg if he won it here.
It's a minimal time consuming task and really not a big thing.
I needed to do this maybe 5 - 10 times in 5 years, so max. 1 min. work each year.
Why should it stay on account to not be suspended and why it is mandatory? Really, i don't understand specific reason behind it.
Besides from the obvious "security reasons", to identify the black sheeps that sell/trade their wins, it give a other big reason.
Because the gifters spend money to gift the GAs, besides work to create the GA, deliver the key etc.. It's disrespecting, and like spitting in their faces, when you delete a won game from your library.
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For example, how often do you check if a person who you gifted something IRL is using your gift?
I don't check it at all. If a person wants to use it - he will. I can't see a difference between both situations at all.
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I don't check if they activate my game.
But I do check if they activated their previous game because the site has rules that doesn't go much further than "be decent" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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The difference is, that you know the ones in reallife that you gifted something.
So in the most cases it is a positive person for you and i am sure you don't expect that they will sell your gift directly after getting it.
But you don't know the randoms here and you, sadly, "must" expect that XX% will sell/trade your gift or throw it in the trash (deleting it from the library).
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While I don't think it is reasonable to expect anyone to regularly check if they still have their wins in their library I don't think it's that much to ask to check where one originally got a key whenever receiving a notification of a game being revoked by Steam, I certainly do check just to make sure it didn't come from some old giveaway I won years ago. And I once got suspended because of one of those keys from a years old GA getting revoked, even tho I was trying to mark it as not received through support pretty much as quickly as I noticed, and it took days for the problem to get sorted and I was really pissed off so I get how you feel about it. But again, it's not that hard to check whenever you get that notification to make sure it wasn't a key won here, it only takes like two minutes and it's not like a game being revoked is something that happens that frequently.
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The most gifters don't check if a win get activated from the winner.
I, as example, check all winners and report each one with unactivated wins. Around 15 - 25% of the unactivated wins, from many years ago, weren't seen from sg and weren't punished before.
So yes, a automatic system to check a activation 1 week, 1 month or whenever after the win should be standard.
And not all the extra work of the users (mostly gifters) and mods.
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Also - i won a GA during my suspension and, of course, because i was suspended - GA automatically (i think it works that way) chose a new winner.
So i didn't get what i won because suspension system is broken. And it happened to me 3 times already. 2 out of 3 times i won a GA and didn't get it because of suspension.
Pretty cool, i guess
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It is an option that just got added to Steam's Beta Build a few days ago, and was being discussed here...
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/Y56WH/urgent-cg-and-support-steams-new-feature-breaks-sg
Unless the game is Adults Only, no i dont like how hiding away your games is going to effect the overall community.
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Look, personally I don't think you should hide any games or ever even touch that feature if you plan to continue using steamgifts. Not only because hiding a game you've won here would make it look as if you didn't activate it on your account, which is against the rules as they are right now, but also because there's the possibility that hidden games won't show up on the api when the system scans your library thus allowing you to participate for games you already own, and maybe even win them, which also is against the rules.
I'm sorry but your past "mistakes" should not go away in this case, unless the rules change or you're planning on no longer using SG, just deal with it, it's just a few hentai games.
Oh, and happy cakeday btw!
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Is it really too much requested that you stand by your previous "errors" and keep your wins visible in your library?
After all it always was your choice. You even could have requested a reroll after you won something you actually wouldn't want in your library. It's cocky to expect that you can simply whitewash your account now.
And the truth is that you actually can do that, you'd only have to pay the price of stopping to use SG. So once more the choice is yours. I don't see any reason why you should be given a free pass when you did and do have such choices.
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true. i hope no one sets their games to private and ends up getting suspended or banned on accident though.
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When you see the title, assume that someone is trying to hide their porn stash, go in, and yep - it is exactly what it looks like.
Also, not sure how SG works but with the amount of users, I would find it too much to expect it to remember individual libraries based on a one-time check. Especially considering games can be deleted. So no, I don't think SG will or should let you do that, coz then you could theoretically enter for games you already own. Plus, it is a good incentive to make people more eclectic. Made your bed and all that.
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It is not a burden, but a privilege to have good hentai games in your account.
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There should be separate category for discussions like this. IDK blacklist recruitment or smth.
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You're on to something there but first more slots on blacklist are needed ;)
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+9999 .... because mine is always full.
And only level 5 or higher get a BL slot (i can only dream from BL someone below this level....)
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I got to a point where I find out easier just to stop do giveaways and leave sg, considering that site is just a place where we can come to feed alt farms.
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This is the reason why i nearly only do GAs in my group or for my WL.
There i know i can control that no cheater is there (or at least being 99,9% sure).
My last public 29 GAs from the jingle jam charity bundle, that i made only a week ago brought this results:
(Please be aware that i have 1k users on my BL and that i am on 500 BL of users -mostly the bad guys that wanted to hide their bad stuff-, so this reduce the bad results by a lot ..... but sadly far from enough as the results below shows very clearly)
GAs: 28x for level 5, 1x for level 0.
GA winners:
31
Would be for my BL (if i would have free spaces...):
21
Requested rerolls:
11 (9x denied, 2x granted)
Don't known the word thanks after recieving the win:
5
One of the new winners is a account that was created at the 12th dec., last visited the site at the 13th dec..
So i don't have high hopes that he claim his win before the key are useless.
Which means in the end "don't have too high hopes" when you think on sg stuff with randoms.
Ps.: I thought many times about leaving sg but i reduced my sg time by a lot, shifted nearly all of my GAs to my group, in many cases not interest anymore for puzzles, (always the same) questions of new users etc.. And this helped very much to raise my mood.
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I keep raising the level for my public gibs because of how infested the site is with autojoiners, CV exploiters gifting multiple copies of price-bumped asset flips or shovelware, regional exploiters, leechers only doing gibs for tiny dozen-like groups of people or smaller despite winning hundreds of games from others, regifters, etc. My apologies to the honest users in lower levels, blame the staff for refusing to automate suspensions for obvious wrongdoings and forever making the cycle of new junior mods have to do countless hours of free manual labour for what shouldn't even have to be done to begin with. Even reporting users is pointless. Countless hours. Too many tickets taking forever to be dealt with and the punishments are a joke. Public is a cesspool at least in lower levels.
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blacklist recruitment or smth.
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With current ways, it's not different from deleting them via Steam support. Because of this SG cannot know if you still own the game and it will be reported as "not activated". So you shouldn't delete or hide them.
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I know a guy who got suspended for this, so... no
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It's OK to hide them. Or even remove them. Just bear the consequences - that is being suspended for not activating your gifts. That will happen once. You will have break from SG that will take 3 days x number of games you have hidden (that's my estimate) and after that you will be fine. People will ask for a re-roll when they will see that you have not activated wins, but support will deny it and say that you already served your suspension. Also you won't be able to enter sg tools protected GAs if their creators would set activating all gifts as rule.
Ofc all people who would like to win those games (and maybe enjoy them) and you took that chance from them would treat you like shit. Though I don't think that is a problem for you. Otherwise you wouldn't make this thread in the first place.
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If you don't want people to see your games, change your games list on your Steam profile to private. SG only requires synchronising once a week.
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SteamGifts checks your account every time it syncs with Steam so yes; If you mark your games as private SG will show them as unowned and you will not for example pass Tools-protected giveaways, and might even get a suspension from Support for unactivated wins.
My suggestion would be to wait with hiding these games until SG decides how to deal with the new functionality of Steam.
If you've had them for a year you can easily wait a tad more.
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I still don't even understand why this is an issue. Has anyone actually said anything at all ever about any games you own? I can only speak for me personally but I don't go digging through peoples games libraries even if I had friends, which I don't. That kind of behavior seems creepy to me honestly and why would you want to associate with or care about the opinions of people who invade your privacy as such? Before some idiot comes along saying something about the games being on public display, so are the windows on your house. Why should you have to wonder if someone is looking through your window watching you? This is just games on a computer, who cares? If nothing else say they are free gifts for +1 count. More important things to worry about in life, like creeps peeping in windows.
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Now that is a valid counterpoint and I concede. I've moved past shame and if people can't accept me for who I am I certainly don't worry about it. Probably why I have no friends, I'm not concerned with altering who I am to please someone else.
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It's not about random people or the person you received a gift from checking your library but the next time you win something the gifter will (hopefully) use SGTools to check your profile for non activated or multiple wins as any gifter should. If there are games missing they will rightfully assume you probably regifted or sold them.
Nobody can force you to play your wins but ALL games won on SteamGifts MUST remain on the account that won them as long as you're using this site. If at some point you quit using the site and delete your profile you're free to delete all the games you want.
That's not up for debate. If somebody doesn't feel comfortable complying with those rules because they feel it invades their privacy they can not use this site. Easy as that.
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That made 0 sense at all. What does hiding a game have to do with that? Poster is talking about hiding adult games that was the ENTIRE reason given or did you not read anything going on in this and just choose to randomly reply about something that has nothing to do with anything? Clearly you didn't even read what I wrote because all you did was reinforce it. Thanks, I guess.
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I thought it was pretty obvious.
As of now hiding a game has the same impact as if it was never there in the first place.
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You are still just going nowhere fast. Go back and actually read stuff before you post. Or don't, whatever. If trying to argue with me while actually saying the same thing as me makes you feel better. Have at it. I don't argue though so I'll be moving along.
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I did read it the first time but after reading it repeatedly I finally get what you were trying to say.
I took your comment as that it feels creepy to you to check up on your winners (digging through peoples games libraries) while you actually ment that hiding games feels like a pointless feature to you because nobody goes around making fun of people for playing clicker games / VN / porn games.
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Pretty much, yea. Still a creepy thing to do though. I mean if a "friend" is keeping tabs on your game library, what else are they doing? Digging through your garbage? Sniffing your underwear when you aren't looking? May seem far fetched but it does happen.
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People do that a lot here.
You don't have argument? Dig through somebodys profile and then call him idk "Least porn addicted Steam user".
I'm not better in that regard.
First things I did after reading what OP wrote were:
- check his profile for how much games he won/send.
- check when he made his last ga,
- check how many porn games he won in last year.
Aren't we all stalkers sometimes?
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Never. When things get weird or heated I just ignore people and walk away.
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That's quite mature. Sometimes I wish I knew better :)
But I just can't help myself xD, I feel that urge to check if the person that states something weird isn't full of shit. He entered giveaways by mistake? 10 times during last year? wtf?
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Has anyone actually verified that marking a game as private has an impact on SGs account sync?
Additionally, tmk, making a game private would only really be a desirable option you'd use if you're actually playing a game you don't want people seeing you play. I doubt anyone is really sifting through vast libraries to see if there are hentai games (or what have you) present in them. If it's just a matter of not wanting to see them in your library yourself, use the hide game option instead.
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It would mean nobody could see it and as such would be the same as making your profile private or removing the game. Not sure anyone would be willing to risk getting banned.
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My point is really that it's silly to use the private game function anyway unless you're actually playing such a game, and you could always just remove the private status afterwards and save yourself a potential SG ban. But also, in theory, if a person isn't autojoining g/s's here, they know what the games are before winning them. Why be embarrassed all of a sudden lol.
However, I don't believe anyone representing SG has actually weighed in on the topic. Could be much ado about nothing.
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Why be embarrassed all of a sudden lol.
Special because he is here for 12 year and still won such games in the last year. So he entered a long time for such games too.
After 11 years he should known what he wanted to enter or not, so the "surprised by his wins" is much more "strange" as when it were after a short time using sg.
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I can describe a situation when somebody might be surprised by his wins. But I don't want to be suspended for baseless accusations.
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This is the reason why i don't write, on sg, all that i know or assume.
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Has anyone actually verified that marking a game as private has an impact on SGs account sync?
It has on SGTools, just tried it with a win - so I guess it has on SG itself as well.
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SG checks if the game is in your account every so often to prevent people from gaming the system. If SG only checked once; Someone could win a game, buy a copy on Steam instead of using the key, then once SG verifies the game is in their account refund it and sell/trade the key. Of course SG could just check a few times at random before treating it as permanently activated to prevent such problems, but that would add an extra level of complexity and processing that CG doesn't want to bother with.
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I didn't consider this exploit being possible too until you mentioned it. One extra reason not to support that feature.
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I believe the check can be at any time. I had once received a beta key without knowing and the game vanished from my account. The guy who gave the game didn't know either so, I had my account suspended until I explained my side as I was left in the dark. The check came from nowhere, so assuming they never check your library is a nice way to assume you can get away.
There will be cases, but liers, cheaters, and charlatans will get what it's coming for them.
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I know it's "my" thread and it looks a little silly mentioning it, but could we please stick to only one thread and use the "main" thread for this topic, so that it stays visible, gets more relevance and maybe gets dealt with now that christmas is over?
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/Y56WH/urgent-cg-and-support-steams-new-feature-breaks-sg
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I don't play Hentai games and I fully understand that it can be somewhat embarrassing, but the best thing you can do is just NOT play them. So what you got them in your account? I believe I've got myself few, yet I'll never touch them. If a friend of yours happens to see the game in your account, they are more likely to notice it because they have it too. So, by this point, it just doesn't matter.
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https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1150-C06F-4D62-4966
Now that games in our library can be marked private (in Steam Beta builds), will SteamGifts allow this or will it flag our accounts? I think if you mark a game as received and SteamGifts verifies it once, it should be safe to then mark it private after, but I am not sure if SG keeps checking it perpetually after or not. If so, then something needs to change to account for this new private feature I think.
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