I am seeing a lot of people may be getting activating a game and installing a game confused. If someone doesn't instantly install and play your game and you get upset, you need to re-prioritize the reasoning behind giving games away. What if that person has a solid state drive filled to the brim with installed games, and has a lineup of games they are trying to beat, and will get to yours later? You should have nothing against them.
If they don't activate the game on their account, obviously that is against the rules.
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Appart from the limited space on HD, gamers are human beings. They have lives (jobs, gf/bf, married with or without children, whatever). My backlog is HUGE and I'm a gamer since the mid 80s and that has nothing to do on whether I appreciate or not a game in my backlog. So any reasoning that ignores all these is silly according to my point of view, and sorry for using the word "silly" on that matter... Also I'm a bit pissed off with the previous guy, since he deleted his post and screwed the flow of our discussion... go figure... I guess he realized that he was saying bullshit.
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That is exactly my point, I wasn't arguing against it. Installing and activating are two different things. if you don't add the game to your library, you don't appreciate it AND are breaking the rules. If you simply do not install it, there is no problem.
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On the contrary I'm not against your post Vasigo! I'm just adding a bit more into it. I don't remember the name of the previous guy who posted all these ridiculous points againt the people who don't play the game asap... My memory sucks :( Anyway...
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While I respect your right to control who receives the game you are kind enough to give away, I can't help but question why this is a big deal to you.
I understand the rules (I myself also choose to follow them), and that this particular rule is to prevent people from giving their games to multi accounts. However, assuming I have a hypothetical friend who hasn't spent the required money to join SG, but really wants the game and can't afford it, why can't I spend my extra points on it for him? Why can't someone trade your gift for something they want even more than what they won?
Personally, if someone came to me and said, "Thanks for the giveaway! My brother/friend/cousin/whatever won and gave me it as a gift!" or "Thanks for the giveaway! I used your game to get <insert game that's rarely if ever seen on SG>!" I'd be happy for them.
Again, I'm not saying you have no right to feel this way, I'm just curious on the logic behind it. It's not like regifting a Christmas present. A Christmas present was picked out specifically for that person based on what you feel that person would want. This is far less personal, as winners are selected at random. I dunno...
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Because unfortunately we do not live in an ideal world...
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It isn't difficult to have an account worth 100$, there are bundles, sales etc. so you don't have to pay much for it. When I make a giveaway I would want that the person who wins the game want the game (what rarely happens) and not that he gives the game to one of his "friends". And it's even worse to trade the game. You have to think that there are other people that wanted to win the game and then someone steals it to trade it to make profit or gives it to one of his "poor friends" (which also could be traders).
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It's as easy as this. There are rules on this website, you agree to said rules when singin in. Refgifting is against the rules. So the discussion should not go further. There are already many other websites which allows winners to regift their won games and which I gladly allow to have any contact with.
If you want my opinion in your diatribe, however, the hypotetical friend should get the amount of dollars required to sign up. It's quite easy to reach that amount so I think that anyone with a minor interest in gaming is able to log in.
And without that rule hypotetical friends would turn up into traders stocking up piles of Steam gifts to their personal profit wich would deeply upset me or people having multiple hypotetical friends willing to gift their won games to them.
On you other point if someone won a game I had given away and tradet it for another I would not only be more than upset but also would not understand why he entered a game he was not interested in not had any will to play thus privating of others who DID from the posibility of enjoying said game.
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So I never look like someone has turned (activated) the game. Why? It is a gift and I have given away. Under the law, I am not the owner, but the gifted, the owner has the right to do what he wants With his property. No website or Licenses are above the law!
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Tbh, give it a while, I have a massive backlog of games in my library so I normally don't activae games I win for a while either unless they're keys.
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So it's happened to me finally. Someone ungratefully won a gift and decided to regift it to someone else or just win it for collection purposes. It kinda sucks; You try to do something out of the good of your heart and people want to take advantage of it.
So, how does one prevent these scum from winning?
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