These games are gotten free from the summerseal giveaway and people are getting free contributor status from this. (meaning they are just getting free keys and using them to get contribution.)

Unless I'm wrong, this is an abuse of the system.

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Wait till I win a copy, I'm having terrible luck with the slots ^_^

1 decade ago
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If you don't get anything in the next hour, add me on Steam so I can give you my spare Shadowground Survivor key :)

1 decade ago
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Same here, I'm surprised that there are so many to give away.

1 decade ago
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Is that what it's about? I was wondering why theres so many giveaways, I've had the games for a year now and found it weird that theres all these giveaways.

1 decade ago
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Yatter said they won't bother with it now because the new system will handle it. If it was up to me I'd disable the games until than.

1 decade ago
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no

1 decade ago
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I am trying too win them here. For though I won them 12x on summerseal...I never got a single e-mail so this is my chance too win a copy.

1 decade ago
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Did you check your spam folder mine went there. I sometimes forget to check it myself so figured I would remind you.

1 decade ago
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I even started to report them, but then I changed the site page, omfg, there are everywhere....

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Nowhere in the rules does it say that you can't give those away so if anyone's doing something they're not supposed to, it's you for making what would be considered a false report and you could be reported for that.

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Let me guess... I think they could be marked as "exploited" keys, but what could I know, its only tens of thousands keys given for free, multiple to one person or I don't know, the bundle keys that give you a lot of contribution for 1$ are disallowed, but when you can get 100 keys for free and give it away, nope, it's cool, totally legit, lets do that.

I don't know who will report me, but go ahead.

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I'm not going to report you. I don't care to report you.

I'm just saying that by reporting people based on a rule you think should exist as opposed to a rule that actually exists, the only person breaking rules is you. That's pretty hypocritical and ironic but whatever, do what you want.

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Because people have never ever given away something they've gotten for free here.

I mean whether they got them free or not, they are contributing...

1 decade ago
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Please stop whining.

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+9999999

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I'm not sure why they would be disallowed. It's not like the bundles, where you are specifically not supposed to break them up (thereby creating multiple copies).

If a friend gives me a game, and I gift it here, who cares where it came from? I'm not sure this is any different. For that matter, no one complained about all the copies of Torchlight that were gifted here that were received for pre-ordering Torchlight II. No one paid for those either, but they are still valid gifts that people can share and enjoy receiving. Shadowgrounds is no different.

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I don't know why people don't get it. It's not about the game being given for free to you, it's about that you can get it for yourself for free, SO MANY OF THEM:

"Reset times?
Right now you get 10 more tries after 5 minutes. If you win, it's going to take 20 minutes. "

Where do you see contribution here? Getting tons of free keys and giving them away, WOW super contribution...why don't you try to won the key by yourself, same or better chances than here.It's cleary a site and contributor giveaway exploit, nothing to do with contribution to the site.

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I actually haven't been lucky enough to get any of the games, but I won it here. So for me personally it was a contribution. I understand the feeling that people are gaming the system and you're right. But there will ALWAYS be a way to game the system, they will find it. It's SG today, Nuclear Dawn yesterday.. X game tomorrow. As more and more people win free keys, at one point the demand for SG will be less and less until they won't even bother putting the game here.

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It's still a Steam game, who can be bought on the Steam store. It's not their responsability if other sites are giving away it for free.

1 decade ago
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Hey guys, can anyone teach me a polite way to call someone "an ungrateful, whining little twat"?
Looks like it might come in handy in the future.

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I think the way you put it covers it pretty well actually.

1 decade ago
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This bitching is funny. If you bann free games you also should bann Games like Choo Choo with a -90% sale... thats not that different.

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Still paying money to get that. Its a bit different from just sitting there and clicking on the slot machine getting free keys. Which you then use to make a giveaway, then head back to Summer Seal, spam click the slots, get another key, and repeat at the cost of exactly $0.00. No money required.

I'm not against people buying cheap DLCs to bolster their contribution, but I am against people abusing a free giveaway to bolster their contribution when others have payed for it. (Or have used something like Spiral Knights trading/TF2 trading to get games. Those take quite a decent amount of time to get one game out of it.)

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that's different... shadowgrounds is easy to get without spending only a bit of money everyone is able to get mass of copies.

1 decade ago
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its still free games. calm down. if you dont want the game dont enter or filter them

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And a you're gonna be fine with people who can put $100 contribution limits on games who've abused the free giveaway?

I mean, I think there's a bit of a difference between being smart and getting a game for free buy trading time for money, and when you just spam click something till you hit jackpot.

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As more people get free copies and activate them, the less people will be able to enter these giveaways. We will eventually reach a point where everyone here will have a copy of the game.

1 decade ago
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I lol at all those "they do nothing wrong" or "Its not different than sales offer/preorder bonus". Seems like most people on the forums lost their brains in one of those countless raffles. Plz, continue amusing me. XD

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Rule should be the same for all. What about the ton of Asia only DOTA2 keys that people grabbed handfully from alienware and are still gifting here?

1 decade ago
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If you want the mods to actually see this and read it, you should file a support ticket. I know Forum and Support are close to each other on the page but they're two different sections of the site.

Making it a forum thread just makes their job more difficult.

1 decade ago
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Please remove user Cyowolf from steamgifts. Thank you.

1 decade ago
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^

1 decade ago
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Later, I dont win Shadowgrounds Survivor yet.

1 decade ago
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given free? where lol

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at summerseal.com

1 decade ago
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I don't mind the fact that they're using free games, but it's just the fact that because there's so many of them, it's significantly slowing down the site.

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I'm pretty sure anyone who ever made a giveaway of shadowground will have that contribution amount erased from their account pretty soon

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The influx of these should really stop. It's lagging the site so bad that it takes two or so minutes to load and screws up your browsing. Congrats that you're getting a 7 or 10 dollar contribution, but really, giveaways should be limited to only so many at a time, or something.

1 decade ago
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How much did you spend for your "The Ship" giveaway again?

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Closed 1 decade ago by Cyowolf.