Hey guys, here's a short story for you.

I'm a Taiwanese and about two years ago, I went to US to study master degree.

I create another steam account so that I can buy games in USD, and I also started to use SG to practice my English.

One year ago, I got my first GA in thread, so I activated it as soon as I saw it.

The tragedy began, I didn't mention that the account is wrong, I supposed to activated at my Taiwan account.

Now I can't enter almost every GA with SGtool and the worst thing is, I won two GAs in the same thread last week, but I got suspended because of that.

After suspension, the GA owner change the GA's winner. SG punished me after a year, right after I won this GA, is them has any connection? I don't know, but what I know is I'll never violate these rules again.

Althogh there are worse things happened in Ukraine, here is your rewards after reading my sad story, hope you enjoy and hope the war end as soon as possible =)

2 years ago

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Now I can't enter almost every GA with SGtool

You can purchase the game on the correct account, and your sgtools will be clean :)

2 years ago
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The story isn't that sad if I bought it a year ago, how stupid am I =(

2 years ago
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Wait so you bought the game after or before won that GA ?

2 years ago
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sorry about your misfortune so far :( thanks so much for the GAs!

2 years ago
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I am sorry to hear of your struggles, I hope things can work themselves out. And thank you for the giveaways!

2 years ago
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At least it looks like your misfortune is behind you now?

2 years ago
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Bump.

2 years ago
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bump!

2 years ago
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bump! =)

2 years ago
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If you got punished with a temporary suspension right after winning then there probably is a connection. SteamGifts does not check the rules by itself, someone has to report it. I would assume the person that created the giveaway you won just now checked you, saw the problem and reported you.
On the bright side, as far as I know having an unactivated win is not a reason to reroll all the time, you can only get a new winner if the old winner is currently suspended, i.e. it's the first time someone noticed. Nevertheless it might be a good idea to look into getting a cheap key for the game you did not activate so you can pass sgtools checks

2 years ago
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Thanks for explanation =)

2 years ago
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To confirm:
Your unredeemed win qualifies you for <one suspension, applied at the time when the unredeemed win is brought to staff's attention>, plus rerolls for one month following that suspension. After that, you're no longer at risk of any difficulties from SG itself (so long as additional non activations aren't added), though SGT obviously'd still have some potential issues.

While you can remove an unredeemed win simply by buying and activating the game in question yourself, you can also try and arrange with the GA creator to get the GA deleted; Typically, you'd do this by offering them a game or games which exceed the value and/or CV of the win in question. Of course, the GA creator is under no obligation to accept this, but if you've got a bundle game of higher value than your win, that the GA creator has on their Steam wishlist, then it's often an all-around more beneficial approach than buying the game.

For the present circumstance, you could check SteamTrades, Barter.vg, and GroupBuys to see if any of them have American Fugitive available for cheap, since its recent, cheap bundlings may still have it at a low value and high quantity for trades.

2 years ago
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bump

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Bump :)

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2 years ago
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Sorry about your misfortune but at least u can buy the game and things will be good. Thanks for the train. Bump!

2 years ago
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Bump and ty ! tragedy ll always happen. i had it too. Just learn how to fix it and done with it :)

2 years ago
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was wondering why you would need another account when going to US. cant you "just" change the country in settings?
not trolling, serious question.
and thanks for GAs :)

2 years ago
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Some games are cheaper in USD, having two account can help me save money =)

2 years ago
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bump!!!

2 years ago
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I'm sorry about your story.
Thank you for gibs.
Did you successed in getting master's degree?

2 years ago
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Due to Covid happed, I forced to finish the degree at Taiwan. Yes, I got my degree but I missed the chance to work in US, that's another story =)

2 years ago
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Ooh, I'm so pity about it. I find it very painful.
(Thkinking to get new education in USA or other country to try living in another better country)

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Bump!! :D

2 years ago
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thanks for the giveaway, sorry that happened

2 years ago
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Thanks for the chance! phycoleo, Sorry for your bad luck.

2 years ago
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I feel for you. I was once suspended a few days for a reference link. I read the rules, and I did read that reference links were not allowed, but I had no idea what they were. They have since added an explanation in the rules so others will know what they are talking about. :)

2 years ago
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Wait, are you saying you are having two SG accounts?

2 years ago
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I only have one, I don't have that much money to level up both =)

2 years ago
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Careful, its against rules to have 2 SG accounts.

2 years ago
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Bump

2 years ago
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Thank you

2 years ago
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Bump!

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