Giveaways not matching gifts 📝 UPDT 03.03

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Every game tends to be mistaken for Skyrim

It might be a "me" problem, but I once created a giveaway for Rover Mechanic Simulator when it was meant to be Mech Mechanic Simulator. And that's when I learn to create GAs using AppId instead of game name

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2477010/Ticket_to_Ride/ with https://store.steampowered.com/app/108200/Ticket_to_Ride_Classic_Edition/

Redline vs Red Line

Also, there will soon be another one. 😵

Badrats / Skyrim
it just works

Really close one (and because literally same game, just a re-release) :
Grind Zones (banned in 2018 / drops cards) & Grindzones (banned in 2022, don't drop cards).
The drop from indiegala gameplay giveaways is the 2018 banned ones.

Also JetX Space Edition & JetX VR

The delisted Run Away which can be won in the IG gameplay giveaway is frequently confused with this Run Away

Not sure if I'm understanding the thread correclty, but I once gave away a key for https://store.steampowered.com/app/950950/In_The_Dark/ thinking it was a key for https://store.steampowered.com/app/2142040/In_the_Dark/

A pair of games that come to mind when this subject is brought up are Dark Matter and Dark Matter, and now there seems to be a third game called Dark Matter. There's even some similar titles that could potentially be confused like Redux: Dark Matters.

I'm pretty sure that there's several twin games on Steam that share a title but have nothing in common.

It isn't a frequently given game, but all but of the Star Girls giveaways (except for the first 3 by Exodust) are for the wrong game. SG only has the version of Star Girls that is still available on steam, but all the non-Exodust giveaways provided keys for the delisted Star Girls.

I have come across a number of winners who have been flagged by sgtools for this very thing.
I also got bailed out by an entrant to one of my giveaways:- I usually state where I got the game from when gifting it and on this occasion an entrant pointed out I was gifting the wrong version of a game. The version I picked out was a removed version instead of the current version.

The winner can easily check by going back to the game giveaway, after activating their key, and clicking on the giveaway game link. This will show them that the game advertised as gifted has indeed been the one they won (or not).

Recently had a winner that had won Leaves - the Journey but he had Leaves - the Return on his account. Since I always use sgtools to check my winners, this is an issue, both for me and the eventual winner, as it takes time to check and takes support time to complete their assessment as well.

What about games that have two names? You got the key with a name, game changes name, and there's ruckus.
My experience:
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/tAMUS/check-vs-mate

i actually confused once "Dead Space (2008)" https://store.steampowered.com/app/17470/Dead_Space_2008/ and "Dead Space" https://store.steampowered.com/app/1693980/Dead_Space/.
it was an old key on humble and it just said "Dead Space". not knowing that a new version came out and that it was pretty recent as well i made a GA with "Dead Space" instead of "Dead Space (2008)". sadly humble doesnt provide steam links in their key list.

Always use the AppID. It can be used in creating SG giveaways, Steam Store, SteamDB, Google. Problem solved.

Updated.

All the GAs for https://www.steamgifts.com/game/E3h3F/tower-stacker are actually the delisted https://www.steamgifts.com/game/wfQx2/tower-stacker and none of the people marking them as received have the game in their account.

https://www.steamgifts.com/archive/search?q=Cosmic%20Collapse
People who created giveaways for https://store.steampowered.com/app/2707300/Cosmic_Collapse/ actually gave away keys for https://store.steampowered.com/app/860000/Cosmic_collapse/
I sgt checked winners of the first game and, wouldn't you know it, Cosmic Collapse is marked as not activated gift because the key was actually for the second game.

Mind you, only one person actually went ahead and made that mistake, and the only other giveaway was deleted before the mistake was caught, but I thought I'd share since I almost committed this mistake myself.

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TEEFAX aka TEEFAX: Cold Case

I just discovered this thread. Appreciated.

Long overdue update bump! I've rewritten the post. More comprehensive and useful now, I think.

I once mixed up Bottle and Bottle 2016 because the "2016" was not mentioned on the fanatical store page. But I don't think this game is given away very often.