So I imagine most of you have noticed that Avalon Lords: Dawn Rises became a very popular choice for giveaway makers. No wonder when it goes for a penny (literally) on g2a and has a CV of 20. Am I the only one that finds this super unethical?? I don't know why it makes me so mad that I have to make a thread about it but it just does.

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I'm sure it will be retroactively bundled soon enough.

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It falls under the bundled category? I thought only bundled games and games with high steam discounts do.

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I guess this counts as "high discount".

EDIT: it seems it was removed from the giveaway list.

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I'm pretty sure stuff has been added to the bundled list for having a discount over 95% on places other than Steam before, and it's being reported that these keys are being sold on g2a for a penny. Although I'm starting to see a lot of the giveaways deleted for 'Beta Key, Guest Pass, or Free Game' - so it looks like something else may be going on instead.

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It was free on their website it seems.

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Yeah, it appears that giveaways can no longer be created for the game. So for whatever reason the mods now consider it to be too exploited for giveaways.

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Sometimes, games go for "virtually free" or there's a price glitch equivalent to that. In such cases, the giveaways are simply removed (i.e. deleted) from SG.

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Irrevelant but what's the difference between removed and deleted?

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Removed == Taken Away
Deleted == Expunged

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Thank you. ♥.

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So, I just thought a bit about this. This means that if you use removed, you mean it's removed by someone while we don't know that about deleted?

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You are thinking too hard about this. For you, it's all the same (hence the "i.e. deleted" comment).

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While you're at it with the explaining thingy - Mullins posted a screenshot a while back of a label saying "Banned" instead of "Suspended" with "Permanent" below it. Does this banning exist? And if so who gets banned for doing what? I wondered ever since...

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I'm not sure. I think being Banned is actually more "permanent" than a permanent suspension, and I suspect that only CG (and perhaps Rinarin) can do it.

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So it actually exists? Wow. What crime would I have to commit to be banned?

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It doesn't mean you made something so bad that a permanent suspension isn't enough. Being banned means that you can no longer contact support, it is used when a permanently suspended user keeps spamming tickets. Only cg can do it and it's very rarely needed, there are ~50 users banned I believe.

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Thanks for explaining, TJ <3

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I wonder, will this one be put back up to the available games list? Because it is still new, looks almost half-decent, and killing it from giveaways would be just sad. Especially considering the amount of RTS games put up on this site.

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Hmm, most of them seem to have been deleted for some reason.

Reason
Beta Key, Guest Pass, or Free Game

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Any idea where the keys actually come from? IGN prime?

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It seems they gave free alpha keys on their website.

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Ah, that makes sense. Shame there are so many trying to profit from such things :(

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I don't think $0.01 is profiting. More like getting rid of before they're revoked :/

But one cent would've been worth gamble tho.

Edit: with paypal you can always dispute even without shield

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I just checked, and a while I could not find Avalon at that price, I found several other "free" games at similar price points, so it's likely that they figure that with enough sales, they'll make a modest profit, with no real risks involved.

And if you dispute a payment, don't you run the risk of vendors blacklisting you?

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So what if I would hypothetically get blacklisted by G2A?

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I would like to not burn my bridges, in case I have to use it (like a bundle key for some more expensive or removed game not working, and there being no other (realistic) way to replace it than going through the grey market).

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I've opened two disputes on G2A, one for a duplicate key and one for an invalid key (CD DRM key, not usable on Steam). G2A refunded both of them, even without "shield". A third one was fixed by the seller themselves. So, no unresolved disputes in >200 keys.

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I'm sure a long the way Shobo will do his thing.

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They were deleted

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They removed even the ongoing ones with 1, 2 hours left. Haven't seen anything like this.

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I was wondering where they came from. I've been entering all of them.

Now, they're all removed and I never got my points back. =(

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yeah, I thought the game looked interesting so I joined a few. Then I saw some comments and had second thoughts...

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True, but you can buy up to 5 copies with a single purchase and the processing fee doesn't stack up.

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It's only 0.04 if you use a credit card payment, you will not have to pay taxes for paypal or use the g2a shield.

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I don't think many people would ever dare to type in their credit card information on a site associated with G2A…

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Ah, so that's where they're from - I thought they'd be from that monthly subscription thing, IGN Prime or whatever it was. Wish I'd known they were going to kill the giveaways, I would have kept my points out!

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There hasn't been anew game through IGN Prime for the last two/three months now

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Thanks for the info - I don't follow it generally and I'm not a member. The last one through looked really interesting, though I didn't win any.

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its like some random people trying to get an advantage on a website about gifts from a gaming platform. totally not worth to get mad about it, unless they break any rules.

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I just bought 15 of those... I don't know why. They were just soooo cheap. I don't care much for 18 cents :D
But the game is so deep in the early access stage that I don't see it becoming a full game in the near future (and I am pretty sure that if you don't have a good GPU and a lot of RAM it's also unplayable)

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Strange, the store page lists 5-year-old hardware as recommended.

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I liked it, even though RTS games aren't usually my thing. Streamed it with a friend and ended up going for about 2 hours :P
(Legitimate keys of course, nothing from scammy G2A involved)

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can I get one of those from you via a trade of cards or something? You can add me on steam if you want to work out something.

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That whole one-cent thing is suspicious as hell in itself. G2A takes 15 or 30 cents off from each key sold (cannot recall the exact amount), so selling for 1 cent means the seller was going into debt with each purchase. Not to mention it is a new account with 0% fedback, and only this one account selling the keys.
Smells like stolen or leaked keys.

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Maybe he was trying to underflow his account? :P

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Sold out now :(

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Aww damn it missed it :< Would have got 1-2 for me =/

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The game looks interesting enough for me to want to try it out but not interesting enough to buy. Too bad it's banned already :P
oh well, maybe in a couple of years it will end up in a bundle :)

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Game's now F2P, I wonder if these events are related?

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