No, I'm just wondering if there's any sense in spending my points when I see such giveaways. If it never happened, then probably no point in entering.
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I'm sure there are new users that understand how it works and actually deliver. So I say just enter and maybe you are lucky enough to win and get it delivered (it is all about luck anyway).
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Hmm, don't be mad, but this is very bad adivce ;/ There are few things that can give you some idea about who you are dealing with (check my comment below). Not to mention that you can loose many points that could be spent on some legit GAs.
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That's true, but I guess it depends on how much points you usually spend. Personally I don't enter much giveaways, so my points never really go below 200. So for me it doesn't really matter that much.
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who ever runs short on points anyways? I'm rarely not swimming in them
edit: wops, 4 months old thread, someone must have bumped it lol
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Yes, it has happened in the past. One was used as an example by Support to stop users going "FAKE" in comments for such.
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Why? Some random guy created a valid AAA game giveaway. Some other people decided to show to everyone calling out that a random guys with 2 days old account can create a valid giveaway of an AAA title. Why doesn't it count?
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if something is created for testing purposes, or as an example, then it shouldn't count in a sample consisting of real-life/world "measurements"
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You'll have to ask bobofatt for the giveaway in question since I don't have a link handy. It was created by a legitimate new member, bobofatt just used the giveaway to explain why the no calling out rule exists - it was not created for testing or as an example.
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i think saw some where the new user generated like $3000 given away in a week or so? he was giving away brand new aaa titles, too. don't remember the name though.
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I always wonder about that, but I never did anything about it, mostly to not calling out rule.
As for GAs - just check desriptions, and their accounts. If creator didn't made any description and game that is given away is on his wishlist/isn't on his account - it's most likely fake. If there is some kind of description, there is only one GA, and not 3 of them, then I think risk can be taken.
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well, today you are not allowed to call out.
you can point to the faq and ask if they have read it ;)
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I know I'm not allowed to that and I never did that. You know, actually reading FAQ and other infos was very first thing I did here when I first looged in.
As for pointing to the FAQ - you know, I feel like it isn't my fight. If someone do fake GAs, sooner or later justice will meet then with ban, suspension, blacklists, or any other nice things that can happen to users not following rules. Not to mention that comment about FAQ, added to the sea of copy pasted thanks (you saw how many somments this GAs get?) won't reach creator anyway.
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you are only a month here?
man it feels more... ;)
you fit right in
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Users only get 3 giveaway slots to begin with, and if they're all marked as undelivered they can't make any more. So it's actually a self regulated system.
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I know that, that's why I said sooner or later justice will meet them :P Anyway, thanks for posting this, maybe some other users didn't know about it :)
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Good tips! I think that's exactly what I'll do. Thanks!
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+1
I usually check the amount of games the giveaway creator has. If he's got few hundred games it's highly likely his giveaway is legit.
If it's someone with only dozen games then it's highly likely the giveaway is fake.
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usually, no.
but there are a few exceptions, like this one, so people calling out fake giveaways is always a bad thing.
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so people calling out fake giveaways is always
a bad thingforbidden and cause of a temporal ban for the caller
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i think that support don't mind good "calling out"
like, this user is great, whitelist him or something like that.
saw it once or twice and even Khalak approved.
Let's ask Tempete
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maybe it's ok, but i just wanted to show that a 1 week old user made x2 fallout 4 GAs and delivered the gifts.
you will never know for sure if a user will deliver or not. :3
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I'm still against that. If I see someone asking for whitelisting someone, automatically I tend to start hating both people. That is my cagey side
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The thing I find most weird (or annoying) is that those GA's have a duration of weeks... like WHY!?
AAA + Public GA's + Weeks, I don't trust them.
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i have seen it happen a few times but 8/10 u can be sure its either a troll or someone who doesn't understand or havent read the rules of the site.
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is it allowed?
http://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/zADLLtu
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It's not what we refer as calling out if it's positive.
Calling out is anything that is potentially harmful for the user involved.
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I won a fake Half - Life 2 giveaway. I never lost anything but that's a bit heart aching. I never entered suspicious giveaways from that day on.
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Here's a small set of examples from a couple years ago:
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/F1ALs/assassins-creed-2-deluxe-edition#AeWArCV
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/wG2mC/max-payne-3
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/HQDdq/xcom-enemy-unknown
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/P7Rlq/call-of-duty-world-at-war
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/6sL6H/call-of-duty-black-ops-ii
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/b8a0C/counter-strike-complete
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/QgWxl/sleeping-dogs
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/lpR06/borderlands-2
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/w2O8A/bioshock-infinite
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/kQFF8/sleeping-dogs
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/3EiSv/bioshock-infinite
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Gosh so much rude stuff -.-**** instead of just moving on, or being at least helpful and ASK the GA creator if s/he knows what s/he does
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Acorrding to a quick scan with SGTools, nearly every one of the winners is a non-activator too. Mostly for other games. That Bioshock:Infinite GA is a great example of why to never make public AAA GA's with no CV requirement. The winner was apparently a freshly made account that won that GA, "stole" (not activate) the game, and never came back here again in 2 years.
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wow, that's sad... some of those creators even stopped visiting sg. -_-
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I don't know if Mortal Kombat X, Grid, Walking Deads, and etc. and so on qualify as AAA (I guess?) but I've personally given them away and there are more on the way. To newer members, the advice I always see would be to increase your own level to gain access to high-level giveaways that can dramatically increase your odds of winning. The more you give, the more you get around here, it seems.
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Mortal Kombat went for sale on a certain website for 10-13 bucks REALLY quick after release, that's why there were so many GAs for it here.
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i usually have 300p all the time so i just enter without thinking.
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568 games on my wishlist and yet I'm at 300P most of the time
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you have more wishlisted games than my library :|
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Well, I have 612 games so I think I'll soon have more wishlisted games than my library too
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I have 438 wishlisted games/dlc atm, but I have 2k+ games. Most of the stuff I see appearing here are CCC titles. The odd AAA title is something I really don't care about and mostly if I spot it, there's a high probability of a fake GA. Ie. all the later COD titles are extremely popular on the 0 day accounts.
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My first GA ever was not for a bundle game but for Assasin's Creed instead - and I got called out on it being fake as well - guess what - it was not.
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Also a good friend of me gave a copy of Bioshock Infinite when it came out :) (but it was 2nd game)
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If someone else gave you Bishock Infinite, you shouldn't have marked it as received.
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Sry i dont understand what you want to tell me o.O
I just wanted to say that he gave away a copy of Bioshock but it was his 2nd giveaway so he wasnt completly new to this webside :)
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Never mind, I thought you were saying you had won a giveaway of BioShock Infinite, that it had not been delivered, and that someone else had given it to you.
Then I looked at dyshviccer's profile, thinking it was yours - yeah, don't ask me why, I was in a hurry and did not really think straight - and saw a won giveaway for BioShock Infinite, marked as received.
Hence my misplaced advice : if someone doesn't deliver a promised game, but you later obtain it via different means, don't mark it as received.
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I never won a Copy of Bioshock so everything is fine ;) (Although i would like to have it since i liked the first 2 parts :D)
and BTW i know that i shouldnt mark as recieved if i dont get the game from this person ;)
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My first two giveaways were BioShock & BioShock 2 - now they are bundled, but then (over year ago) they were not that cheap:)
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Not to bring up idea's but isn't it also possible to scam the whole system and do (private) giveaways and enter with other account you or friends own and just say you received a game to get leveled?
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You need at least 5 friends to get CV.
And there's $100 requirement to have SG account.
But yes, with lots of work you can scam the system. But most people will blacklist you for doing this stuff.
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they will probably be easy to spot by support, either by IP or because it's the same people entering the same GAs all the time.
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This made me remember this guy who was a new user and created like 10 GTA V giveaways and in the description of all he wrote "i hope i win", lol
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This is calling out.
Your blacklist is pointless without giving away anything.
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is it wrong to comment like that?
if it is, I'll delete the comment, sorry I'm new to this site
I already give 1 game, and I'll do it with better games once I get a job
I already make a list of my fav games to giveaway so that other people enjoy it too
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you will probably need to remove the link there...
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lol I got banned right after my second comment asking whether my comment is against the law.
The support banned me right away and didn't give me a chance to delete it
But the funny thing is they don't delete it right away...
Imagine it's like I killed somebody, the police arrest me, but right after I got free, I see the corpse is still there
The police don't do anything about the corpse, and only care about punishing me.
So I guess the problem is me the user, not my comment up there
10/10 for the support member
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It's quite common that new users create giveaways for games like GTA V, likely not understanding how the site works (normally these giveaways are deleted for this reason). The question is - was there ever a giveaway of this sort that did end up with the giveaway creator delivering the goods?
Update: I think by now it's pretty clear that there are plenty of examples of awesome new users who started gifting with a bang. This is all of the more reason to be nice when you see such giveaways (being nice is otherwise a good idea).
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