is this allowed?

Why is it different to humble/indiegala links? Was answered below.

Edit: Support tickets I made in the "other" category were answered quite fast.

Should not be allowed, because it is another giveaway site.
It is different, because humble bundle or indiegala are the stores from which the keys are, not giveaway sites.
Also, Humble and the other sites do not require a registration in order to get the keys, the customer can give links/keys away without the recipient having to register at them.

To get key via email you also have to register on "another' site such yahoo, google etc. So what is the problem? It's just a secure way to pass key and extra option to make sure your key was not activated by giveaway maker or amateur trader.

It's hard to say if this is ok or not.

There is this rule :

You cannot ask users to perform any special action in order for their entry to be considered valid, such as liking a Facebook page, or following a Twitter account.

But technically they aren't asking to perform a special action for the entry to be considered valid, they are asking to perform a special action in order to receive the gift.
It's kind of grey area, and the only way to get an answer is to create a ticket.

They adding spam about their group everywhere, even in the giveaways now :-)

that's really weird.. lets hope support sees the thread n clears it up for us

Well, someone may say that you have to registry on Humble Bundle to get the key. I don't know this site, but that means nothing, maybe it's legit? I would wait to see if winners will mark it as received.

And, well, if someone don't like the idea, he doesnt have to take part in a GA.

But take a look at HB links, you have to type email there (not same, but still should be noted imo)

G2A doing another blatant spam campaign using some poor idiots to do the marketing for them for free.
At least this time they are not directly spamming forums and chats with bots. Maybe realised using these fools is even cheaper and more credible.

Nothing is real, everything is permitted... But yeah, this is fishy, and shouldn't be allowed on SG in my opinion. I'm cool with people advertising their YT channels, twitch, whatever really! But forcing you to register, to get what you won... no thanks. I won't enter such giveaways, even if it's a game I want really badly for some reason.

What's the thing with these "random key" websites nowadays? Cashmiliking the stupid? I mean like 80% of the games they offer were free in the past and the whole algorithm behind it is fishy as hell.

The theme is from envato

Even if support says it's okay, I would just ask to be rerolled. No way am I registering on some other site just to get my key...let alone one associated with g2a.
Well maybe if it was The WItcher 3, but that's not fair.

I don't think so.
OMG WHY DID YOU GUYS VOTE FOR MORE IT WAS 70-70 FOR NO AND DON'T THINK SO AND 10-10 FOR REST YOU BROKE THE HARMONY WHYYYY

What about a case in which someone creates a giveaway for some game X and writes in the description that if the key is not workig s/he would provide a key to another game Y. If the game X is more expensive than game Y the giveaway creator gets more points to her/his contribution level...

And about the main question in this topic - I've also noticed a giveaway with that description and simply didn't take part in it

Wouldn't say so. I mean no harm is done when you register there considering the website is legit, but this is promotion to get people hooked. Plus people argue that we have to register for e-mails and shit? That's an expected and necessary basic nowadays and you already needed one for your Steam account so this is a given thing. Shaking my head for this one, but back to the point. Humble Bundle and Indiegala, I never had to register there to get a key. Just put in my e-mail address and get my key and as I said I already have an e-mail so what's the problem here?
Considering it is promotion to get people hooked I would say it's pretty damn shady and a bold move, but when no harm is done noone can say something I guess?

Can you report the user so they can be checked?

Edit : Nvm, just saw the last line. Please use a report next time, though.

HB/IG/IGS giftlinks bascially need entering email address and thus are registration too. There is no mention in rules AFAIK about this, it's necessary procedure to obtain key anyway. Unless creator goes through that her/himself and makes it easier for your convenience ofc.

Hmm ... wouldn't it be possible for someone who wants to create a giveaway from hotrandomkeyswhatever, to just retrieve the key themselves (by creating an account there) and then make a giveaway for it?

so..any update?!?

It's not allowed, but technically possible. As long as the winner gets a working Steam-redeemable key or gift, all's good on Steamgifts (can't say for other websites the key came from).

Well after I registered on their site to participate in one of the giveaways (on their site not a SG GA) I got alot of spam. Cant prove they are responsible for that but for me there is no doubt that they sold my email or something.
Again maybe they are legit and its just coincidence but I havent registered to another site in over a week and it started aproximately an hour or two after the sign-up.

This kind of advertisement is not allowed.

I'll be closing the thread but feel free to report these incidents to support.