I'm calling you out for calling him out for calling someone else out.

I can almost promise this is what OP is getting at.

He gets the games from the developers, he is not one of them AFAIK.

So? He has developed a game. He worked hard, let him get payed &_&

My views. It's been discussed a couple of times between the mods, but the status quo was upheld for now.

I agree. The thing about dev giveaways is they didn't pay a cent for the games. Yes it's nice of them but they got all of them for free....

i agree, i remember a dev guy was giving away some betas for the game Tryst, then he/she entered in some high contributor giveaways and he was hit hard by the community.

^^^^ this

If it weren't for his begging devs for keys, he'd only have bundle crap and free stuff given away.

There's also the 1200, 1500, 2000 dollar contributor value giveaways he's won. Did you see those?

If you take a closer look, there are a few $1000+ ones.

Shame on you!

Maybe it was a coupon or the Steam Summer Sale?

Yes he "brought" 28k worth of games into the site but he didn't "buy" the games like every other user that joins giveaways/creates giveaways does, I'd bet money that he didn't spend a dime on any of the contributor value that he has. That's the point that the OP and a lot of other people in this thread are stressing.

I could have sworn that there was a rule that developers couldn't enter giveaways (JadeFalcon has pointed out that Deumas isn't in fact a dev but just someone who "gets" keys from devs to give away [how he gets them is debatable]) so this user is gaining incredible contributor value while not actually earning it like the rest of us have to.

In the few months that I've been here I don't think I've seen one single other account that's done "dev" giveaways join a giveaway, be it group, private, public or contributor. What makes Deumas so special that he/she is allowed to do it?

I think everyone would like some clarification on whether or not users who are associated with "dev" giveaways are in fact allowed to use their "dev giveaway" contributor value to join regular giveaways.

So Metro 2033 should count it's legit.

Yes, begging for keys from devs to give away here is so much better than giving away tons of exploited keys.

Wait, seriously? That's what he was suspended for? :/

Agree fully. I made a thread about this as well 2 weeks ago

A different video, equally unrelated. Much funnier though ;)

It wasn't his money?

I read CaMario and wondered why you wanted a color swap for mario

And that would make you an asshole.

That's ridiculous, sorry. Do you know how much time, and effort, it costs contacting devs, convincing them to give out some free promotional copies, maintain good contacts with them, and manage all these giveaways / key distributions for 1,000 copies of a game, 100, whatever? Like, seriously, think about it a second. I kind of see what you mean, but when someone does that much - read: "invests so much personal time" - for the gaming community (promoting games for devs, good for them, makes for more and better, more innovative, creative games from the smaller devs), steamgifts community (giveaways for you and me), don't you think it's kind of fair he can enter high contrib giveaways? Seeing as how, they're for rewarding people that in some way contribute?

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Or were you just looking at it from a selfish, ego-based point of view, where contrib. value purely is a stat showing the level of giveaway you can enter, that you try to get higher and higher as cheaply as possible, or rather - how much chance you get at free games?

.. looks at your profile

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Thought so.

It´s not like you give away good games, so i don´t think he would give a shit!

So he shouldn't get anything for convincing devs to give him games for the site to giveaway to you people jesus you guys are all selfish I remember why I hate this place as of recently.
You know he could just be selling those games or keeping them for himself but no he gives them away to others why are there so many un-greatful jackasses on this site now.

Always the bundlers, people PURELY trying to "win sgifts", basically, who just see contrib. value as a stat you battle to get higher with the best available strategy, as cheaply as possible, for more free shit, who complain the loudest about stuff like this, and have the greatest lack of empathy / (used google trans) Einfühlungsvermögen. See my other, slightly bigger (literally :P) post on here. Only got 3 other posts here.

In the last two months, he's won 14 giveaways he wouldn't have been eligible for without these "developer" contributions.

If you read the thread you'll notice that a moderator has actually posted in this thread at least twice.

So at least one moderator knows of this thread and they've decided to leave it open.