I joined this website a few days ago and was very happy when I saw that I already won a giveaway (Natural Selection 2). Sadly I got to know that I won't receive any game because the person who made the giveaway was not aware of how the giveaways work. He thought he could just giveaway games from his Steam library. :D

Anyways, I'm not here to complain, I'm happy that a site like this exists. I just want to know if this happens often or if this was just an unlucky day for me.

Regards :)

9 years ago*

Comment has been collapsed.

ouch, well nothing lost, it happenns now and then with new users

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

I won Call of Duty Black Ops II and the user gave me CDKEY that he used for himself xD

You aren't alone.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

99% of all CoD giveaways are fake.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

99.5%

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Deleted

This comment was deleted 5 years ago.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

statistics, but you have to calculate that statisticaly 69% of statistical data is made up

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

From the CoD player-base ratio of dumbass to has-a-functioning-brain. It's about 200:1.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

xD I am an example

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

u should report people that make ga and dont give the game else u promote trolling and ruin the website

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

It happens, not sure on just how often, but I've had it happen to me as well.

Nothing is really lost, so worrying about it is pretty pointless.

I requested staff remove the giveaway from my list, I got tired of seeing it. lol

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

wow
you are really badluck i think :(

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Better to have bad luck, then no luck at all!!!!

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

actually no luck is better than bad luck :/ bad luck = something nagtive happens to y, no luck = no good luck pr badluck

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thats like saying there are three pieces of paper in a cup.
1 you get $10,000.
2 you go home.
3 you get stabbed in the leg.

And the Order from best to worse is 1,3,2 which is stupid.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Umm, no. Magmaclaw is right. And your analogy is wrong. What he's saying is that good luck = getting something nice / having something good happen, no luck = nothing happens at all, and bad luck = having something bad happen. Which is how English has always worked. The absence of a good thing doesn't mean there's a bad thing. It means there's no good thing.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

"It's better to get hit by a truck than not getting hit by a truck!"

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

"You are better off dead than alive."

Wait a second... O_o

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Both of those are good/bad, though. There's no 'neutral'.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

"It is always better to get hit by a truck while picking $10 on the road than not finding $10 at all."

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

I'd rather let the truck go by and then pick up the $10.00.... P

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Be water,my friend ! Bruce Lee.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

You just made my day!!!!! It's good to know there are very special people out there!!!!!

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

I've seen it happen at least once everyday since I joined. Wouldn't get used to winning btw lol. Very lucky to win after a couple days.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

It's happened to me with Dead Space 2; only thing you can really do is mark the giveaway as not received after one week and move on, hoping that next time things will go smoother :)

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

When I won my first non-group giveaway, the giveaway creator gave me a key that had already been used. I was disappointed, thinking I wasn't getting the game, which I was looking forward to quite a bit.

A few days later they messaged me back with a new key that worked.

So while the site may have some bad apples, there are also a lot of great people here that like to share games. Keep at it, the next win will be even greater!

Perhaps a chance at Huntsman: The Orphanage would help?

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

It seems to happen more with newbies. So if the person hasn't given a game before it's more likely that they may not have read the FAQ. Of course some newbies can read and follow the rules right off. So really it was probably just being unlucky.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

As far as newbies creating giveaways that don't actually exist, it happens fairly often, but its very unlikely to happen to you again. I've never won a fake giveaway, although I don't normally enter giveaways of brand new titles from new users. Especially if they're giving away three copies.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thanks for all the replies, and good luck to you all! :)

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

I thought your avatar was Michele jackson

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

michael

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Maybe they'll think on it and decide to get you the game anyway.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Same happened to me this week. Keep trying.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

It happens from time to time. Luckily, I've never been bit by that particular bug, but there's not much you can do other than marking it "not received". As others have pointed out, it tends to happen more often with new users than those who have been here a while. Keep entering and you'll win again.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Deleted

This comment was deleted 2 years ago.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

I once won fortix... it was a fake giveaway...

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

I've received all 70 of my wins, never had a problem. shrugs

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

ill have to join in with your shrugs ive received all 84 of my giveaways, never had an issue

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Yeah but you guys either won group giveaways or giveaways with a certain CV so therefore the creator of the giveaway knows what he is doing..

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

i won gunman clive and didnt get it

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Just mark "not received".

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

"He thought he could just giveaway games from his Steam library. :D"
How can people think like that... F**king retards.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

You gotta admit, it would be sweet if it worked like that! :D

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Well... it's retarded to think that it works.... If it worked like that, game industry would really have a hard time.... Steam would have like no games, because there would be no need for piracy, because everyone already can get those games from others.. No need to buy any game someone already bought it and probably will give you that game for free. Game industry would bankrupt.... There would be no AAA title, because only like 100k people would buy it from 4 million people, because you can have that game for free and even you can play multiplayer..

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Well they could make it so you could only trade it off once and single player type only but even then.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

It wouldn't be so great.. there wouldn't be any big title game that spend 2 million on development... Because they wouldn't get that money back.. There wouldn't be that many people to make games.... Think about it.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Well, I too fail to see how someone can truly, honestly believe that they just choose to give away a game they don't own and BAM!, the game appears out of nowhere, just like that.
That kind of naivety is baffling.

But hey, IF this was how it worked - free games for everyone! All the time! Yay! :D ;)

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Deleted

This comment was deleted 4 months ago.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

well theres only 1 copy of the game..... so yeah 20 people can't get it.. Guy in China couldn't get your game...

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Deleted

This comment was deleted 4 months ago.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

well no AAA title these days would get by with 2 million lol

and you can not say if you could trade games nobody would really buy games as console games you can still sell and trade and yet GTA V still sold well over 30 million units

and GOG has showing that games can make money without DRM and further more there is a site that lets you trade in your games you bought digitally it is not perfect but at least it is an attempt

as it is possible to sell your digital games they just do not allow it and why i have no clue as the game is tied to your account so they could allow you to sell the game back to like steam and they could re-use the key and give a discount for it

as even with gamestop people still buy the game new to have it from day one they could have a cool off period like the game has to be owned for like 6 months

none the less it will never happen any time soon they could also allow you you to trade your game for a fee and the fee depends on the retail price so lets say the game is 60 dollar they could charge you 30 dollar to trade it for another 60 dollar game you want and everyone could get a cut of that

anyhow a bit off topic back on

i think the reason some people give away stuff they do not actually have as a gift or a fake/used key is maybe they think if they do that they can enter ones that require to have given a gift away

and some people do it just to be an ass and troll

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

+1

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

There are even more retard ppl, the ones who think that games "fall from the sky", they make tons of expensive game giveaways thinking that they or the winners will get these games out of nowhere.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

on registration there should be checkboxes with questions/answers how the site works, in every language so ppl dont fail this way :)

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

+1

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

That's a pretty decent idea. It would probably help :)

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Deleted

This comment was deleted 2 years ago.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

love this, it's actually a great idea.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

That doesn't mean he can't get it for you. All he needs is either money or time. That's if he's the responsible type of person.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Unless he's lazy. Not to say he is, of course.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

He could just go and trade for one to give it to you, Natural Selection 2 is not expensive, because it was in bundles for 1$.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

+1

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

C'est la vie. Not worth the effort of your worry, mark not received and roll like a gangsta into the sunset.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Unlucky. Never happened to me.

9 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Sign in through Steam to add a comment.