How do you feel about this?!

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Its disappointing but what can you do...maybe they are super awkward/shy.

...So? You gave away a game out of generosity. Didn't you? Because if you did it to fish for appreciation and validation of what a good person you want to be, or think you are, then you're doing it all for the wrong reasons.

So make the rest of your giveaways contributors then? Some people are assholes, this is life.

Nation Red! <3

This is why I don't like doing public giveaways. If I ever win another public giveaway, I plan on PM-ing the gifter and thanking them personally.

But...yeah, this has happened to me. This is what happens when you make a giveaway for IRL friends. They're total jerks to you. :P

That's pretty messed up to say the least.

Though sometimes when we get things, we forget to thank the giver, (i'm sure at one point we all have done this).

Such simple words of thanks and you can mean a lot to someone.

I hope this experience doesn't harden you against other people though. As there are many other folks out there who would truly appreciate a gift.

Thank you for Skyrim!

I gave away bf3 and the guy sent me a apple pie.

I made two giveaways recently. When they ended, one winner was online and the other wasn't. I friended both, and chatted with the one who was online to make sure he/she got the game and marked it received here. It all went fine, and this winner was friendly enough, thanked me for the game, etc. The other winner took about 1.5 days to accept the game and mark it received, but never said anything to me at all. shrug It would be nice to get that extra thank you from the winner, but not everyone's going to do that, just like not everyone comments on the giveaways they enter (only about 10-20% of the entrants on mine did) even though the FAQ says, "Always thank submitters." (Granted, it's followed immediately by, "Thanking is not required to enter a giveaway.", but still.) I guess you just can't take it personally.

He checked off that he received the gift. I think that's enough at this point.

That's ok, English isn't my first language either

I had one guy who added me immediately after my giveaway ended, asked me his game on broken english, placing the game in his inventory and not redeeming it after he deleted me. Later i got him banned. It's these little pleasures in life that keeps me going

There's nothing you can do to a leecher, it's sad :(

The whole 'give me my game and get lost' attitude of the first couple winners of giveaways I did is precisely why I stopped doing public giveaways. Group giveaways have resulted in much better reactions.

The winner of my first giveaway never thanked me, either. At least they bothered to mark it as received.

I blame him, not the community. And even then, who am I to judge? Maybe he has this "Give me my game and get lost" attitude, or maybe he sincerely meant to thank me and completely forgot, or maybe he was too busy celebrating his win to get back to me, or maybe right before he could thank me his grandmother died. While those are unlikely, the point is I don't really know for sure. So yeah, it sucks, but whatever, I certainly won't extrapolate it to mean something about SG users as a whole.

I thought if you sent by email to some one and they accept on an account it instantly adds u to friends list. That happened to me twice, if he accepted the gift it would of added him and then he would have had to remove you after that.

Whenever I win I try to make it really clear to the person that I'm very thankful, and I think everyone should do the same. A complete stranger just spent money on you, be nice about it!

Shame that people like that are discouraging people from doing public giveaways =/. Most of my entries are public ones and I've only won one game so far but I made sure I thanked the guy with a decent sized message and I still have him on my friends list since he added me (he didn't need to as it was a Steam redeemable key). I guess people lose their manners when they're dealing with people they don't know... but that's really no excuse.

Donut worry when you feast on their flesh after a quick battle the memory is soon forgotten.

Most of the winners of my giveaways didn't thank me for the games. Recently I gave a game (group giveaway) and planned to give the winner a DLC if he thanked me, but he didn't, so I made a giveaway of it, and said what the deal was on the giveaway and that the previous winner can't enter. He still entered (but didn't win) and the winner still didn't thank me.

Rather disappointing. Still, I do get thanks on a quarter to a third of the giveaways (I estimate).

I usually blacklist people if they don't thank me ^^

You are doing something wrong, next time make a contributor giveaway or group giveaway and you will likely get a thanks in return as a comment/steam chat/profile comment.

This is one of the reasons i hate doing public giveaways for games, so i usually do DLC giveaways public and games private/group/contributor.

There's also the possibility that the person is foreign and doesn't understand you, i also checked that person's profile and it doesn't have any friends at all, coincidence much?

EDIT: Same person has no comments on SG + joined recently, guess he got a lucky shot!

Just write a support ticket after 7 days from the moment when you sent the gift.