As said above mark it as received and report. Its not your fault but theirs :P
Comment has been collapsed.
Always report. You can write him/her to activate to avoid banhammer and to send You another copy, or take this key and report, or mark as jot received and report. :D
Comment has been collapsed.
I think it's not your problem. You don't need to know where is the key from, you just have to activate it. If the key was regifted, then the other
user is in trouble.
Comment has been collapsed.
This is a community, zibo86. We care about our mates :) That is why steamgifts is so amazing
Comment has been collapsed.
We don't care about the user who broke the rules and regifted in the first place though.
Comment has been collapsed.
I care. What if that user wins your giveaway and then regifts the key?
Comment has been collapsed.
You report him and use key before his giveaway ends. No mercy for regifters.
Comment has been collapsed.
That's it. Regifters have to be exterminated :)
Comment has been collapsed.
Then said user is a cunt, but it's not my problem. Sure it's always nice when a game gets won by someone who'll enjoy but once ive delivered the key I've fulfilled my obligations.
Comment has been collapsed.
Then what if you think in this way: that user is getting CV without spending money, so entering and winning giveaways for high levels compiting against you and other users, while you have to spend money for that.
Comment has been collapsed.
I rarely create giveaways for anything but my bundle leftovers so I'm already spending that money anyway and as it's bundled there's minimal CV to be earned from it if I did care about that. As for competing against me, the whole sites doing that anyway. Winning games is great but if I want the game that bad I'll just go and buy it. I'm not breaking the rules, as for the rest, let them eat cake.
Comment has been collapsed.
Yeah, pretty much what I thought too - thx for your opinion
Comment has been collapsed.
- activate (if he is regifting, he doesn't want it in the first place)
- mark as received
- report (it will be deleted later)
Comment has been collapsed.
Activate and mark received and that's it. Nothing else is your business.
If you are going to report because you do believe in the "sanctity" of steamgifts or out if some righteous sense of right and wrong in this place, then reporting AFTER benefiting from supposed rule breaking would make you a hypocrite and every bit as bad.
Comment has been collapsed.
I disagree.
The game was originally slated to be activated by the regifter. If that person gives the game to someone else, the recipient is free to accept or reject the gift. If the recipient accepts the gift and activates the game, he or she is simply accepting what was given; a game that belonged to and was at the disposal of the person giving it. In such a case, the regifter is the only person doing anything wrong. Regardless of whether or not the recipient of the regifted game decides to accept or reject the gift, Support wants to hear about the regifting itself because it is a violation of the rules.
Here are a few possibilities in such a situation:
- Recipient activates the game and regifter gets in trouble for regifting.
- Recipient refuses the game and regifter offers it to someone else..
- Recipient reminds regifter of the rules and the regifter activates the game (which should have happened from the get-go).
Generally speaking, the simplest solution is to activate the gift and report the regifting. (The third option takes effort from the recipient and has no guarantee of success.) It may turn out to be something other than regifting (e.g.the guy had an extra copy), but Support can check it out.
Comment has been collapsed.
It's hypocritical for someone to complain about rule breaking and then choose to benefit from rule breaking. If he genuinely cares about the rule breaking, he shouldn't seek to benefit from it... By benefiting from the rule breaking before complaining about it, he basically says he doesn't find it morally wrong, he just wants to 'get his' and the dump someone else in the shit, just because he can.
If he truly found rule breaking reprehensible, he wouldn't take the ill-gotten key. I'm CLEARLY not arguing about the legitimacy of taking the key (you'll see my first recommendation was to just take it, mark as received and leave it at that), just that he's a massive hypocrite for thinking that rule breaking is bad, while being happy to benefit from it.
Comment has been collapsed.
I dont know where you get that I seek to benefit from rule breaking. I actually think that regifting and rulebreaking is not ok. I am not going to take the game if he posts it, but I want to be sure that I dont get punished for not activating the GA.
Comment has been collapsed.
You could ask the creator of the original giveaway (search for a giveaway from that user and ask there). As JasmineMcCoy says below if it was me I would rather have the winner of the second giveaway got the game and then report the user so he doesn't benefit from it.
Comment has been collapsed.
We do not punish people for following the rules. If you accept the game (and activate it), you are within your rights. See my response, below, for a more detailed explanation.
Comment has been collapsed.
i disagree.on three counts.
-
You seem to be under the impression that the person receiving the gift is happy the rules were broken. While I admit that is possible, it is highly unlikely. People who are constrained by rules are generally unhappy when someone breaks a rule they are all expected to follow. I have yet to run across an instance of a SteamGifts user being happy about someone misbehaving.
-
You seem to be under the impression that receiving the gift is somehow "wrong," when it is not. We are not talking about something which is stolen. Rather, it is misappropriated. The regifter is entitled to give a game, and the recipient is allowed to receive it. The only problem is that the regifter has chosen not to give a game separately bought, but has instead used one which should have been activated on his or her account. In effect, A gave the gift to B, who then gave it to C. In such a case, B is taking credit for gifting the game to C, but it is A who is the "real" gifter. Why should C feel guilty for following the rules and accepting a gift from A? Answer: he should not.
-
You seem to be under the impression that not reporting the regifter is an acceptable option. Not really. If nobody reports the infraction, the regifter will probably continue to break the rule until caught by some other method. This is undesirable at best, and harmful to the community at worst. We live in a time when many of the world's ills are the result of people turning a blind eye to the wrong that occurs around them. If we cannot prevent evil with our hand, then let us prevent it by speaking out. And if we cannot do that, then let us at least hate it within our hearts, and that is the least of Faith.
"All all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
Comment has been collapsed.
hi, i have a question on the 3rd point.
if:
i receive an obviously regifted game,
i remind the creator what will happen if he regifts,
i give him back the game,
and he activates it.
=
- should i mark it as not-received, then he gets -1 GA slots?
- should i ask the creator to delete the GA (we both agree) so support deletes it and no one is affected?
- i mark it as received and i get suspended. -_-
Comment has been collapsed.
You do not mark it as received, for you have not received it. The giveaway creator may either choose to have the giveaway deleted, or he may choose to get you a copy of the game. (He may or may not need extended time to do that for you.)
Comment has been collapsed.
that option seems to be the best, unfortunately i doubt it will ever work... at least in most cases. i mean, if they are regifting they probably don't even care about the rules.
(not that i ever checked a creator for refits before winning something)
Comment has been collapsed.
On those occasions where a giveaway creator mistakenly thinks he can regift, then is corrected, and then activated the game on his own account, sometimes he deletes the giveaway, and sometimes he buys another copy of the game for his winner.
Comment has been collapsed.
If a game given by me would get regifted, I'd hope for 2 things:
- that it's won by somebody who does want it
- that the regifter gets suspended
Comment has been collapsed.
You want the game? then get it.
May be that he not wanted finally (after of accept the gift) and is best re-gift to other person can enjoy it.
Comment has been collapsed.
Even if they later changed their mind, rules state that there is to be no regifting.
Comment has been collapsed.
Yeah, rules......... opposite case is that he only want points, but, how we can know that? May be best post key in Discussion topic and not regift it?
Comment has been collapsed.
May be best to activate their win in the first place.
Comment has been collapsed.
"Yeah, rules ......" sounds like you don't really approve of rules in general, is that right?
Comment has been collapsed.
What you saying dude?? you do not invent.
Why do you ask me something like that ?. Why do you accuse me? like a juez. I have not violated any rule for you rage againts me. Respect me.
Comment has been collapsed.
I'm not raging, I'm just asking a question..... And about the rule breaking ... are you sure?!?
Comment has been collapsed.
Well, I ended up making a support ticket, I wont take the key if he posts it and wont click recieved, seems most fair to me.
Comment has been collapsed.
U should always check as well if the person activated your game after 7 days älthough maybe majority don´t care as long as they get their cv and a mark as received its exactly this wich is why regifters can get away sometimes before getting caught.
speaking to people in general btw * in terms of what to do i would report the guy but than again i usually check their wins if its a common regift type of giveaway u see here such as overture faerie solitaire and several others
Comment has been collapsed.
I have just won a GA, and I can see with 99,897% certainty that its a regifted GA. He has not posted the key yet, but assuming he will when he gets online, should I mark it as received or what would be the correct action to take - any opinions ?
Comment has been collapsed.