So I've been thinking about what to give @SG, and I have no idea that I usually ask my friend if they want something giveaway.
Then when I visit some person's profile, I saw him/her regifting and I'm like, "woah, all of the gifts that he/she won is given away again."

But then if I enter giveaway for my own wishlist and gave away games in my wishlist won't people misunderstand that I might be regifting? The games that I won are activated in my steam profile but it's quicker to blacklist than checking :P

I usually gave away my wishlist because I haven't gotten any time to play, and I have no idea what games other people like.

TL:DR; what do you think of gifting your own wishlist games? If it's bad, what kind of games should I gift instead?

8 years ago

Comment has been collapsed.

No, as long as you activate the games when you win them. :) Many people here give away games from their wishlist, including me.

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Deleted

This comment was deleted 3 years ago.

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Nah, as long as you activate your wins on your own account, you can give away whatever you want.
Sometimes I'll win a game, then buy a bundle with the game in it a few days later, and give it away.

No big deal. :)

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

When you win the game, you must activate it, thus making it disappear from your wishlist
Giving away wishlisted game means that you haven't owned it, so it is not violating any rule.
It just that some new members who don't understand the system here, make giveaway of their wishlisted AAA game and hope that they win that game lol

I've also given away 1 of my wishlisted game, and someone with name similar to you won it.

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

I see many people doing that :). I've done that too - I'm giving away "Child of Light" and in the meantime (while the GA was active) I also won this game XD. And I've done it few times before. There's nothing wrong with that. You can always check if the person activated their wins, many times it may not be re-gifting, but someone simply enjoyed the game and bought it again to do GA.

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Yeah, it's fine. It can be infuriating to see your own GA in the wishlist section though and not be able to enter it.

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Done it before and I'll probably do it again. I like to infect other peep's wishlists with the random crap I find :P.

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

If you install SG++, user profiles have direct links to their SGTools Non-Activation/Multi-Win pages, which wouldn't show any sort of issue for what you're describing.

In other words, for anyone that actually cares to put in the time to check regifting, the number that won't have the patience and resources to spend an extra 10 seconds to also check it properly are going to theoretically be a very small subset.

And no, clearly you'd give away games you've enjoyed or expect to enjoy.
Why would you give away games you can't stand [bundle leftovers aside]?
I don't understand the premise to this concept, or why anyone would default to a regifting assumption over it :P

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Deleted

This comment was deleted 2 years ago.

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

sglinkies just adds a top menu to manually check profiles, this one adds a sgtools sidebar http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/6fClz/userscript-links-on-profile-to-steamgifts-tools

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Deleted

This comment was deleted 2 years ago.

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

"Add links to SGtools by SilentGuy" is apparently the GreaseMonkey script I'm using, sorry.
Keep forgetting I actually have more scripts than just SG++ and Enhanced Steam installed. :'P

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

I have 7 scripts installed to navigate around SG easily xD

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Only 3, though I've been putting off installing enough to get me to 7, so I can see that being an easy to reach number :X

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

What is a wishlist? How to put a game on my wishlist on SG?

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

It's based on the wishlist you have on Steam. It syncs automatically every week or so, but you can manually sync in the top right corner if you click on your points.

If you go to http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaways/search?type=wishlist you can see current giveaways that's on your wishlist.

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

I've seen it many times done here and I have done it before and will do it again.

I thought like you at first that it could be seen as a false positive but in the end if you win just activate and mark received and you're good.

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

is it?
was event about it twice at least :)
http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/sKaUm/dscs-winter-challenge-1

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thanks for the reply everyone! I get it now :D
Well then, I will continue what I'm doing ~

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Sign in through Steam to add a comment.