Why should we say thank you on fake giveaways? Honestly this is a dumb thread, and there's no reason to justify fake giveaways.

Because people are angry, jealous and even when things are free they tend to react like they paid real money for it. I work in retail and I get people getting angry and offended over stupid stuff that makes no sense. People are dumb.

"Even with the odds stacked in favor of a fake giveaway, how would the gifter feel if it were real, and 90% of the comments are rude "fake" remarks rather than appreciative?"

I completely agree. It would be terrible if we as a community discouraged anyone from gifting games just because people don't like fakers.

Until it's proven people probably shouldn't be harassing them.

If the creator is going to take the time to make a fake giveaway to troll us (or just to be stupid),then I can take the time to leave a nasty remark.

Pointless thread is pointless.

Stop being retarded, OP

I don't think a lot of people realize. Even when a "fake" giveaway is made you get a % of points from that. If anyone else took the time to read you would know that your points come from other people making giveaways. So even if the giveaway IS fake you just got free points to spend on something else... (Don't confuse what I am saying, as I am not for fake giveaways. Everyone should just relax and hope that the person creating it will come through in the end.)

EDIT - Taken from the FAQ
"Every time anyone submits a game, every member of the site, excluding the giveaway creator, receives 5 percent of that gifts value (in USD) in points."

because

You're being overly optimistic. Lets test your logic - "Thank you for deceiving me. I appreciate it. You're still a cool person in my book. I'd enter your giveaways again, knowing you're a dishonest person that won't come through!" - Do you see why you're wrong now? You might wish to have a positive outlook on things, but negative behavior doesn't change to positive by encouraging it. Praising an individual that's posting a fake giveaway rather than scolding them only supports breaking the rules here and makes you appear very silly. If you want to 'appreciate' negative behavior, then that's your own flawed judgement. Common sense dictates that you should not be surprised that most people do not though.

jeez op you don't know what it is to win a giveaway here and find out its fake , so people are doing a favor to all the rest by , finding out the fake ones, you should be thankful , you don't like the negative comments then don't read it , as soon as you see fake close the browser

You'll understand the day you win a fake giveaway then.

I started reading but i got bored after reading the title.

So a tl;dr is in need for this case. I'm going to conclude this is a dumb thread, am i right?

Mostly because people who make fake giveaways can get undeserved feedback, when they really didn't spend anything on their part and completely mislead tons of people.

Imagine waiting for a game you can't afford and is rarely ever on here suddenly made into a giveaway and you actually win it.
Then having high hopes you realize you didn't win anything.

And you almost sound like fake giveaways are a good thing.

HEY, DO YOU WANT A FREE $60 GAME!? YOU DO!? HERE YOU GO...... Oh wait nvm, i can't give it to you. Now say "thank you" to me, and say how nice i am.

Do not spend giveaway points on a Relysis giveaway. ;)

If the draw is false and the winner don´t receive his prize I'm sure that u lose the points

"ill give anyone of u 10$ randomly...

na im just trolling u couse im an idiot without others things to do"

The reason why the hate is:
Imagine winning a giveaway that results fake

Being the chances of winning extremely low must be the most frustrating thing I could imagine

I think the point everyone is missing is the case where people come onto a giveaway and call it fake when it isn't. While it sucks to win a giveaway and not get the game, how would you feel if you went to a site for charity because you're generous, you set up a giveaway, and then people start going bat-shit insane on the page calling you the scum of the earth

fake forum post, don't enter, please report guys, telling mods

Why hate on the people who hate the fake giveaways?

I don't agree with the animosity that is portrayed in the comments, but I do agree with the disdain of the comments. I mean yeah, sure it's nice to get points, but at the same time no one should have gotten those points if the giveaway is false. Further the issue becomes that a giveaway shouldn't have been created in the first place if you don't understand how the system works.

I'll quote 4chan on this one, but "lurk moar." If you don't know that you can't give away games in your library, but you rushed to do so as soon as you joined you clearly need to lurk more and find out how it does work. I don't know how many scurrilous posts go on, or how many false giveaways are done... But some people don't like opening a giveaway only to find out that the game they're about to enter for is not going to be forthcoming.

I'd suggest an idea for a system where reporting a suspicious giveaway halts it until it can be checked by a moderator (can only be done once per giveaway and doing so halts all comments to prevent stupidity), but it's also exploitable and I could see people doing it for every giveaway. Then the majority of giveaways are held up by people being douchebags and reporting just because they think it's funny.

Because its EXMTREMLY annoying if u win a giveaway and its FAKE! My friend won dead island, the giveaway had 1877 entries and there were 2 copies been given away and He Won! And it was FAKE! - do u know how people feel after that??? Obviously not.

Maybe because:

1 - On the giveaway issue: Don't like applying to win something someone is not delivering

2 - Points generated: It's like injecting fake money on the market, increasing demand over an offer wich is in fact lower than it seems