You make a giveaway. Do you get Key Activation Anxiety?? ;D

Well that depends. Do you suffer from anxiety? If no then yes it probably does get easier. Still be a bit of worry but nothing major. If yes you do suffer from anxiety, then no. It usually never gets easier.

I have anxiety and every time I have ever made a giveaway I am always worrying that there will be something that goes wrong with it. No matter how many times nothing goes wrong you are just constantly worrying that something will happen. All you can do is do your best to keep checking and ake sure what you did was right, and if something happens then you just calmly try and follow the rules and steps to try and correct the issue

Nah, not really. It's especially anxious for you when the key is super-old, so you have no idea whether it will work!

I understand, I get anxious and paranoid very easily too so I try to not keep too old keys and only generate new ones when I create a giveaway. We are all just humans though so making mistake is unvoidable, when/if it happens you just have to deal with it rationally.

Sometimes, yes. Solved it by inserting the key after it ended, so I knew where I copied it from.

I had it when I created my first giveaway, the winner didn't mark the key as received and didn't log on SG since winning. After a few days I was like "Uh, did I mess anything up? Maybe the key isn't working and that person doesn't want to make it awkward. Did I just failed my first ever giveaway? What to do now? QQ". Turned out the person just afked and I got a reroll, still stresfull.

I worry about it each and every time.

On one of my first giveaways, the user won and didn't mark the game as received. Days passed, I sent emails to remind them, never heard back, nothing. Then finally, after 5-6 days, I saw it marked as received, so I guess all was good.

But so far it's all been positive, so I think we should just worry less and enjoy it more.

I did at first, but I'm OCD enough to know better now.

i've never worried about it, and only once across 142 giveaways here and 45 trades at steamtrades i gave away the wrong key. it was a copy-paste error into my unused keys document which somehow had two copies of the same key, but i just went to the bundle page and got the correct unused key and sent that. the person receiving the key was still happy to get a free key.

I have this all the time and I've done 999 giveaways :-( Fortunately all my keys always worked, except for one time where I forgot to remove keys I used in giveaways from my list and tried giving them away again.. stupid :-p

I usually give away bundled games I have at least 2 keys for or just bought keys for unbundled ones, so I don't have to worry much. Had two or three issues when I started here and gave away older keys without replacement, but was able to buy them cheap again.

I only had that worry at first here on SG, during about 400 level 0 <=> 3 public giveaways. Now I'm doing mostly SGTools (level 2) giveaways, WL giveaways and some group giveaways I really don't have that anymore. ^^

For example: I had 250 SGTools giveaways (level 2) ending last Sunday 1300 hours local time and now it's Wednesday 1515 hours local time and 246/250 giveaways are marked received and of the 4 others 2 gave me a message that they were on vacation. And a winner does have 7 days to mark received.

Yeah actually. I have a notepad w/ 50+ keys that I wanna give away. No clue which ones I've given out to actual friends or not -_-

Nope.

To be honest, I get so afraid of giving someone a bad key. I really don't do well when people yell at me or get mad. When I first made an account on here, I thought it would be really fun to make giveaways. When I finally started, I would get so anxious that when things finally went well and the keys were successfully received, I'd finally relax so much that I'd almost fall asleep right where I was sitting. As someone who has always had really bad anxiety though, I cant really tell you if it's normal or not to feel that way. For me, this is totally normal and so far hasn't gotten any better. I do keep really good track of my keys though so I know I should feel confident but still... I am always on the edge of my seat after a GA of mine ends as I just keep refreshing the page waiting for them to put it as received.

I'm always worried even though I haven't made a mistake yet. I cross check the key/game for each GA but am never confident until it's marked received ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I guess that tells a lot about me

That happens to me too, trading or on a GA, thinking if the key isn't gonna work.

I feel the same way. I have a system where I put all my keys in a spreadsheet and change the color of the cell as I go. Green means it's available to give away. Orange means it's been posted on SG. Black means the key has been marked as received. It takes some stress off of me but I still worry that I'm going to mess up.

Everytime. I've got 150 giveaways ending next week too, so wish me luck. Keyboard's gonna be covered in sweat.

The worst time was the once I copied a key and accidentally left it in my clipboard then keyboard smashed in a chat and pasted the key with Ctrl V...then it was eaten by a bot...at this point I know all my keys are valid but I copy random sentences or blank space into my clipboard after making every GA.

This is something that scares the crap out of me, especially because it happened to me twice. I don't know how or why, but two of the keys I sent out once had an issue. I went to both recipients and did my best to rectify the situation with both of them, but the other person just stopped responding. It still haunts me to this day. :(

1. You dont rip someone off by not giving what you promised to give.
2. Rhinos are cool and badasses.

I had a few cases that made me worried. When I just started here, I made a few ga's of games bought on g2a. One of the keys turned out to be revoked. Very worried, but the winner behaved normally and the seller after an open dispute sent a working key, and we solved problem (Since that i do not buy on g2a anymore). A couple of times I've mussed up the keys to the games from 2-3 same bundles (key for another game, or key i actually activated) when I created a lot of ga's at once (but I solved the problems quickly and winners were nice). Now I try to be more attentive. But sometimes I still get anxiety :-)

No. When/if I get extra keys, I put them in notepad and delete what gets used in order.

No, but I got anxious if I don't activate it right now. In fact, I won "hyper light drifter" recently (hehe) and I activated it so fast I neded to recheck if the game was correct before marking as received, wondering I didn't make a mistake.