Should giveaway creators be suspended if the game was given for free but was not yet added to the free game list?
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They should not be suspended and the giveaway should not be deleted. The bundler should be quicker to add games to the free games list.
They should not be suspended, but the giveaway should be deleted. Leveling up without actually paying is an abuse of the system.
The giveaway should be deleted AND they should be suspended (even if they purchased the key and did not receive it for free)
Dan Quayle should be suspended instead
This is exactly what happened to me a year or so ago; I created a train and it included giveaway for a game from an old bundle that had just become a free game. But since I was able to create the giveaway I had no way of knowing short of scouring the forums / the greater internet to find out. And it's obviously ludicrous to do that for every giveaway you create.
Edit: it was 5 months ago and not a train but just 56 separate giveaways.
8 years ago*
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I can see the logic of suspending users for creating giveaways of games that have just become free, though it would probably be sufficient to delete those giveaways as soon as the game is added to the free games list. The problem is that in some cases the giveaway creator actually purchased the key, and it's only by mere coincidence that he/she decided to create the giveaway at a similar time as when the game became free.
I bought the IG bundle Spring Mega last year and created a giveaway for it a week ago. A few days later it was given for free. Obviously I was not suspended and the giveaway was not deleted. But what if I created the giveaway a few days later, before it was added to the free games list, but after it was already given for free (in this case by gleam.io). Would such a giveaway suddenly become suspension-worthy? What kind of background checks are GA creators supposed to perform to ensure that a game they paid for is not suddenly a reason for them to be suspended? I think the principle of presumption of innocence should be used here, and giveaway creators should not be suspended for creating such games unless there's solid proof that they got the key as part of the free promotion and not purchased it earlier.
O.GA
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