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So, how will the new Steam support feature - giving users the ability to delete games from their library on their own - affect SteamGifts?

Will we have a surge of issues where people remove the games they won here - and should the FAQ get an addendum to notify users not to do that with their wins?

And whoever think this is just common sense, remember that people are weird and common sense is not at all that common:

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I just removed Bad Rats cause it is the only game I want to keep winning over and over.

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You monster.

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Bad Rats is for winning, not for having.

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+1

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really? or is this one of those Kappa posts?

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What if you remove the game and blame the gifter :\ ?

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Yep, but now we can't know if a game was revoked because bought with fake card\chargeback or just removed by the winner

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Yep, I'm worried about possible abuses.
And yes, till now was stupid but... now giveaway with ratio requirements are getting popular, one could drop cards from a random game, remove it, blame the gifter and get a better ratio... of course this behavior is suspect and would be risky to do it twice, but it's hard to detect.

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Afaik, charging back causes issues to your own Steam account..

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Just because you are interested into a game doesn't mean it can't turn out to be garbage.

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I'm personally not the person who would remove games from they library, I just said some games are not what you expected to be.

But now I'm interested. Do you think people should be forced to play the games they win. Play 5 hours? Finish them? Doing 100% of all achievements? There is the line to be drawn?

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of course you should play & try to finish the damn thing why the hell would someone win a game not to?

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Supposedly the games aren't 100% removed and the licence remains attached to your account - so really this sounds like the "hide this game from my account" feature - enhanced edition.
Still, I don't think SG will be able to tell if you have a licence for a game or not.

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This. So they should show as "Exists in Account" when you see a giveaway for it.

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We can make rules fool-proof, but only if the fool is not inventive. There is a lot of ways to shoot yourself in the foot, we can't foresee it all.

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I don't see how it would affect anything. If one enters a GA and win, simply don't remove the game, or face the usual consequences

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that is the problem they activated the game and didn't trade it so they didn't break the actual rule

but i find that really stupid to remove game, in the worst case, just don't play the game

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What if they first play the game and then remove it? Anyway, in practise it has the same effect as just not playing the win. Anyone can just idle a game.

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sleepycat already mentioned what will happen http://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/2RtwQxa

if people want to remove games they won here, they can contact the GA creator, give him a key/gift for that game, and ask for a reroll or giveaway deletion.
it will be very annoying and i doubt some ga creators are willing to do it.

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I think that for sake of being able to tell whether you activated won game or not - it should be stated in rules that you cannot remove won game from your account. If you do you will be punished the same way as you'd never activate it - because we have no way to tell if you did or not. If you remove by "accident"? Same as if you activate game on wrong account by "accident", drop the key somewhere by "accident" etc - you either face consequences (suspension) or buy another copy yourself and activate it.

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+++1 I think this is well put

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+1.

Besides, there's nothing stopping users from adding a category to their games list called "Won Games" and adding games to that category as well as any other categories they might add them to. There's absolutely no excuse to "accidentally" remove a won game imho.

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