For anyone who has questioned the policies with Indie bundles in the past, just look at the amount of Lucid literally clogging the front pages. It's floods like this that contributed to the ever evolving policy. They are not sour pusses. But trying to make the site usable to all.

If you have any constructive processes that would help out it's of course appreciated. But the lock out of the bundles seems to have worked the best so far.

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Look at Lucid? Do I have a choice? It's not like I can see anything else right now.

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^

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Rofl.

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You clever bastard.

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The thing is I'm at PAX East so I can't get the reddit codes. Even the iPhone app is clogge up with Lucid for me

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send a reddit pm to http://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=YeaBoingCodes for 2 private keys while supplies last (just got my own a few minutes ago), redeem in your own time.

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Why do you need to necro this thread you god damn pony.

12 years ago
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Brohoof

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lucky._.

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Well played

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Because the Lucid shenanigans -just- came up today.

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I guess gifting a gift is accepted for lots of people.

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people received two keys from reddit. Should they just throw them away?

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When you get 2 keys of Lucid from reddit and 4 keys of Faerie Solitare from reddit yes. Why do you think they give you extra keys? To sell them?

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Better giving them away than throwing them out unredeemed or try to trade or sell them. Don't you think?

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I filtered out Lucid so I don't see any Lucid giveaways.

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But lucid is still a full game and all the lucid giveaways have more than 100 people so what's so wrong about that?

12 years ago
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+3.14

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I came here to make this same point. Regardless of what some people consider a valid or valued giveaway, there are still many many people willing to spend points on the opportunity to win this game. This speaks volumes and should not be ignored.

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Bundles are blocked to support charity and not because the site might get flodded. And I don't see the problem with people having some free wins and goodies. Please stop this elitist crap..

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Individual bundle keys are disallowed because the site would be spammed with them AND because you could easily get at least $30-40 worth of games gifted from your $1 bundle (previously $0.01 bundle), if not much more. Some things, like entry requirements for some groups, are based on this, and allowing those giveaways would be a way of abusing that system. These giveaways of things which weren't even cheap, but free, are basically the same thing. If people weren't limited to two each (assuming no multiple Reddit accounts prior to the keys being given out, as new accounts aren't eligible), it would likely require a change in policy. This is not about "elitism," but about honesty and fairness in the value of what has been gifted.

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I wouldn't mind an option to make the giveaway not count towards your gifted value, I had some fs keys left, and want to give them out but don't want to just post them there to be ninjad by people who may not even want the game :o

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True enough. Sadly, having a proper giveaway doesn't guarantee it will go to someone who really wants it, either. As some people posting here in the past have demonstrated, some folks will enter pretty much anything just to be entering. I'd suggest asking around to people you know, your friends list, other members of groups you're in, etc. to try and find them a good home.

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^

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thats true :P I should ask around in more of the groups im in, i suppose, already asked the online ones in friends i could catch.

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$30-40 worth of games for $1 is better than $50 for nothing such as for Dota 2.

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+1

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I thought they were disallowed because it's against the policy of Humble Bundle and many of the other big ones to separate the bundles. They say "all keys for personal use" or something on the page.

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Why do you care what value it has? It is the thought that counts and not the value dude..

And I am pretty sure that those that don't want it are the minority of the community.

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Did you even read my post?

" . . . you could easily get at least $30-40 worth of games gifted from your $1 bundle (previously $0.01 bundle), if not much more. Some things, like entry requirements for some groups, are based on this, and allowing those giveaways would be a way of abusing that system . . . This is not about "elitism," but about honesty and fairness in the value of what has been gifted."

It's a way to abuse the gifted value system. The rule keeps someone from being able to boost their value to hundreds or thousands of dollars' worth of games gifted with an investment of only a few dollars. What's so hard to understand about that, "dude"?

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Because it ain't true. And again: Why do you care what value someone gifted be it via bundle or else? And how can you abuse it all? If some groups have shitty requirements based on some number somewhere on the internet, then it should not be our problem. Also, if you submit a bundle, it is marked as such. And that's what I am talking about, nothing else. I see why individual keys are blocked but I still dislike it very much, because this site should be about the spirit of giving and having a decent community and not about who gives what. Yes, I hate those 1€ buyers because they DO hurt the industry and the charity, but it is the consequence of the offer and we have to live with it.

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There seems to be a miscommunication. This isn't about submitting bundles themselves. That's all fine and dandy. It's about breaking them up and submitting the keys as individual games, which are credited at their full retail price. So, say 4-6 games at $5-20 apiece is $20-$120 worth of games credited for $1. THAT's the problem. Submit full bundles all you like. That's allowed and I'm totally fine with that. Sorry if I wasn't clear before. Also, giving out individual keys here in the forums or the chat or anywhere else besides an actual giveaway is fine and highly encouraged. Making giveaways with them to boost one's feedback stats is highly frowned upon, however. We don't want to discourage people's generosity. That's what the whole site is about, after all. We just don't want people exploiting the system is all.

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Another reason is that people are less likely to buy tons of copys for 1 penny if they have to wait a while for them to be raffled.

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how about enforcing bundle games to be added separately and giving no credit for the giveaway ?

This is a bit stupid to create a giveaway page and disallow giving away

Also you can get bundle games cheap as long as the bundle is still being sold, after you just cant

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You know how there's a semi-official Steam Gifts group? It'd be cool if there was a similarly semi-official, admin-approved group for individual bundle key/Lucid/Faerie Solitaire/etc. giveaways.

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Lol I offered a ton of solutions before. Here are some that could help SG.

  • Have certain games (keys) be under one stickied endless giveaway. i.e. Lucid giveaway could be stickied in the first page under 1 link and anyone who creates a Lucid giveaway would have their giveaway be under it. If one would click on the stickied giveaway it could be viewed as such:

Lucid by x1 ends in 2 hrs, 34 entries, 4 comments. enter giveaway

Lucid by x2 ends in 5 hrs, 23 entries, 2 comments. enter giveaway
etc...

  • Allow individual bundle giveaways after the bundle sale is over but for 0P so that ppl can't manipulate the point system. You can't fight the tide of ppl who wants to give these away/wants these games anyway.

Anyway offered alot of other solutions before. These are the top 2 that came to mind since then.

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i d like 2 lucid keys, but i dunno where to get em :S
pwis? :o

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Closed 12 years ago by satoru.