About Gamegiveaways.co.uk

looks too shady for me :) hope u get a response from someone who used it

This is pretty ingenious. I doubt it's a scam, it just seems cleverly designed to make profit with an absolute minimum operating cost.

Step 1: Buy a domain name for eight bucks a year.
Step 2: Sign up for a free host (Weebly), run ads and use third party services for all site functionality (Gleam, Shadow Pnyxe).
Step 3: Create 1 attractive AAA, but heavily discounted giveaway a month. Throw in a bundle key every now and then.
Step 4: Require users to join your Steam group and pimp your site on social media to join the giveaways.

• A big Steam group means you have an audience, and attracts developers looking to promote their game on your site.
• Pimping your site on social media = more visitors and members = more ad impressions!

Step 5: You have no visitors to start? Get the ball rolling by offering your early adopters a free game simply by joining!
Step 6: Profit?

If all goes well, your ad revenue will exceed your giveaway expenses and you can start recouping your nominal startup costs and making profit. Maybe you can even start creating more or higher quantity giveaways, attracting more people?

Of course, maybe I'm jaded and almost all of that money would go into making the site better and for more giveaways, but surely the admin could fork over a few bucks a month for web hosting if he had genuine interest in the site?

Administrator of the steam GAMEGIVEAWAYS.CO.UK group and the site http://gamegiveaways.co.uk/ is the guy who developed Blood of old. He is perma banned here because he flooded the forum with "vote for my game and get a free key for blood of old". when the game was released on steam he "forgot" to send the keys to supporters. Now he is spamming in desperate attempt with small number of free keys for trying to greenlight another one of his shit game called Infection, that's why he ask for youtube, twiiter account, join this group, that group etc. So yeah i would say is it a SCAM.

And hes asking for donations...lol xD

http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/JOYQH/update-1-rather-hostile-developer-who-is-censoring-criticism

doesn't matter, free key. not that i would upvote that game xD