Gleam killing off (almost) all Steam game giveaways

Steam key gibs was only a small part of their whole business though

And less free games in the giveaways. :-)

No more games you would never turn on..

+1

I told gleam directly already 8 months ago that they should have put limits on tasks & stuff to counter it, but they didn't listen.. and instead pull the plug only after Steam banned them..

I only recall Woobox off the top of my head. Don't know if there are any others, since 99.99% of the stuff is gleam abuse/spam.

ETA: Rafflecopter too after a bit of research, though I don't recall them having an instant-win kind of thing.

making your own system requires knowledge and time or time and money to hire someone to do it. Also money to maintain the system, to improve it, repair bugs and exploits etc. For most of these groups such an investment would not be profitable. It's one thing to spend few bucks on premium account it's totally different thing to spend hundreds to make something of your own, while it will still give you the same profit as few bucks investment did.

the whistling tune got stuck in my head after seeing that

Did the Lakers beat the Supersonics?

This. I'm sad for not having extra shitty games to farm up but this was getting out of hand.

Not necessarily. As the thing says, devs can still give away the games themselvea. Maybe they will? Might also make the devs look at other ways to give away stuff (here, indiegala, opiumpulses, other giveaway sites) or these groups to look at alternatives.

I'd imagine there'd be an impact short term as to how many free keys are available but not really in the long run.

Edit: I suppose one thing will change is that before this you might be able to get the same game twice from 2 different giveaway groups if you wanted. In the future the devs may just make one large giveaway for the same total amount of keys.

nah, I still have hundreds of those keys from the time I used to use gleam
couldn't bother lately though

it may also mean that gleam while blocking these groups did not close already running GAs. The link you posted is from yesterday and they refunded premium accounts today.

emphasize on for now I'd say

We will now actively start disabling Rewards that are used purely for this purpose. We will only allow developers themselves to giveaway their own keys, or approved marketing partners.

1) GrabTheGames does mostly raffles
2) Rewards they do are games they publish

Thus there is no problem.

aaaand gone

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Valve did kick things off by blocking every link to Gleam posted on the Steam Community, so....