Saw many people joining contributor giveaways that have only private giveaways maded by em. Is it fair, how do you think? Nothing personal, just want to hear your opinions.
Discuss.

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If they actually gave the game and not just faked a giveway then it is perfectly fine.

1 decade ago
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Agreed, i am thinking of making a private giveaway for some of my friends. As far as i know its fine as long as the game were actually given and activated by the winner.

1 decade ago
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Isn't that the point of private giveaways? To give stuff away to a smaller closer community?

1 decade ago
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Yes.

Next question.

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Who killed JFK?

1 decade ago
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Nazi behind the moon.

1 decade ago
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NO :O

1 decade ago
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Lee Harvey Oswald.

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NO :O

1 decade ago
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JFK

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Where is Jimmy Hoffa?

1 decade ago
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He lives as a baby in a different dimension, along with Amelia Earhart and some other lost guys.

1 decade ago
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Aw tht's so cuuute ^^

1 decade ago
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Is Evlis still alive?

1 decade ago
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Died on the throne, as befitting a king.

1 decade ago
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Can i **** you ?

1 decade ago
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Why we are still reading this?

1 decade ago
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Because we crave entertainment. And we are very sad people.

1 decade ago
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Only if you explain how to four star someone.

1 decade ago
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Take them to a four star hotel? MAKE THEM a four star hotel? Make a four star hotel OUT OF THEM?

1 decade ago
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Four fingers and their "star"?

1 decade ago
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How to conquer the world?

1 decade ago
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call Eric Cartman.

1 decade ago
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I mean it's easy to cheat, cause you can just create group for you and ur friend and give away darksiders II or whatever everyday and let him type "recieved" every time.

1 decade ago
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The system doesn't count private giveaways with one or two entries only. Though the cheaters can use like five accounts to try to get by that too.

1 decade ago
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Yep, but the fake accounts need to pass a certain value of games in their account before they allowed to sign up for SGifts and CG said they were writing code to check that all winners of giveaways that had registered the game as received had actually activated that game on their Steam account. Not just claimed to have received it on SGifts such that the fake giveaway creator gets the count up.

1 decade ago
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Wrong, giveaways with two entries do count as any other giveaway.

1 decade ago
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yes...you can do that...and after you have done it wait for the admins to ban you.

1 decade ago
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how they can check it, m? Even if they somehow knew about (no one reported but for example) how?

1 decade ago
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database monitoring
They don't have to watch through the site
Have you ever eard of a thing called SQL?

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I tend to agree that public giveaways should be considered for more. In a lot of cases private giveaways through Steam Gifts could have easily been done without Steam Gifts, and I imagine that the main reason they're here is indeed to add to the contributor's profile.

1 decade ago
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Finaly! I knew that there must be a sensible person!

1 decade ago
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finally? there has been like 15 threads about this recently

1 decade ago
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I like how you ask for opinions and declare that only one viewpoint is sensible :D

And I for one openly admit that I started private giveaways when I could have just started a puzzle on the forums, made a list with the names of all who solve it and then have some kind of randomization algorithm pick one for me so that it is reflected on my profile.

And I'm not trying to be snarky when I say that I noticed that you gave away 24$ worth of games and are probably not eligible to join most contributor giveaways.

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That would be so fine if public area wasn't filled with thousands of leeches
Some nice folks appear there too, but sooner or later they end up being invited into one or more groups
After making public giveaways that ended up unplayed or traded by winners who never contributed anything... I was done with public... Contributor giveaways might bring me back to it, when the dust settles down and the exploits are taken care off.
Privates were used mostly for puzzles, and now are being exploited too

1 decade ago
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People sure like to QQ and tell people how to give their game away on this forum.

1 decade ago
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i just tell them to give it to me.

1 decade ago
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Nah, I'm usually pretty tired after your mom.

1 decade ago
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oh nice you shop together.

1 decade ago
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+1

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WUT

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Closed 1 decade ago by Blackmore.