I get given codes from devs, but I can't make dev giveaways, so this would be a terrible idea.

crap, valve marketing director writes a letter to sg...

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My guess is that Steamgifts would become kinda empty witch few giveaways and thousands of entrants:)

I'm new but I have noticed a lot of the games being bought are sold as keys by a 3rd party (not steam). If you take those keys and activate them yourself the game goes to your library and can't be gifted...another example is someone buying a bundle where they already own a game or two in it, then giving away those extra keys...what would they do if keys were banned? Just let them be a waste?

who are you......?

It doesn't need to be explained. This falls under common sense.

Everyone else here seems to disagree. You have the only opinion that others don't seem to value, even though you have some (not-very-valuable) reasons.

^ This. It's okay to take part in a conversation, but if you're going to state your opinion, you should give a reason for it. Otherwise people won't take your opinions seriously, and they're worth nothing.

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Dude you're getting games for free in the first place,so why are you bitching about the possibility of getting a rare bad key?

A real life example. I can't verify you are actually the one that created your Steam account, therefore we should have you banned from Steam for buying a fraudulent account and then thrown in jail for violating laws regarding unlawful computer access.
Or, you know we can assume that unless we have a reason to doubt the legitimacy of something we can accept it, sort of like the whole reason the US legal code was invented.

"but that would put a lot of work onto your support team, which are only volunteers"

Could you give up?
You've started contradicting yourself :D

So people that are already trying to manipulate the system won't, for example, continue to manipulate the new system by pretending that a giveaway isn't a key?

These people already exploit the system. If they lie and act like they're giving away a tradeable copy, then offer the winner a key, probably 90% of those winners would take the key and never complain. Because then they get a free game.

And even if this winner [i]did[/i] report the lie, as you say... things are not enforced enough as it is. This won't reduce the workload.

1+8999=9000

Someone else should +1 to make it over nine thousand.

Nope. If the key is fraudulent, steam will just remove it and nothing more.

Why are you concerned so much about someone stealing a cc and using it to give you a game? The worst that will happen is that steam will remove the game from your account. And besides, I really doubt that someone is going to steal a cc number and use it to give away games on steamgifts.

Then remove EVERYTHING except simple giveaway. I'm sure those guys with puzzle private giveaways plotting something against this planet.

It's not solution to solved for your wish, If owner not send to winner? If gift revoke? If owner trade and giveaway still going?

And for many key will not use and lost forever.

In my opinion Steamgift growing like this because people trust each other.

Man, what you prefer? 50% on steam or 75% on retailer?

Actually same here, sometimes support is swift and really good. Other times they tell u a million things and it takes weeks.

You're not very constructive about it at all.
You mention there being certain cons, without doing the research that renders them to be almost nonexistant (fraudulent keys only cause bans in the rarest of cases) and you don't consider that any means of acquiring a game from someone else is risky anywho, on top of the fact that you don't mention the benefits of the opposite case and why they're not worth it.

Hmm... So you gaveaway a key...

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Which other games could be activated with an Key generator?

I'm not saying there haven't been exploited keys on Steamgifts. I'm saying that the exploited keys tend to all come from one or two games at a time due to a specific exploit (Dirt 3, Dead Island, AVWW, Dark Messiah, etc) and can be handled by adding it to the exploited key list and banning giveaways of those specific games, rather than a blanket banning of all key giveaways.

The risk is non-existent.

Problems exist but they are addressed as they come up. Most keys are not stolen. There are legitimate reasons for allowing keys as well.

The use of stolen cc also seems extremely unlikely. This would be much more likely to be TRADEABLE steam items not cd-keys. Thus it would make much more sense to disallow tradable items if cc fraud is a concern.

Also given that even game revokations no longer result in steam suspensions of the account, the impact of even a theoretical cd-key exploit would be to have the game revoked and that's it. An inconvenience but not catastrophic.

I think it's simply a better policy to deal with the exploited keys as they appear. Not to throw out the baby with the bath water and disallow all keys. The issues exist as you indicate, but not to the point of being unmanagable.

Yes stuff like MW3 and Valley of the wind were exploited. So were Eets and AI War and Dead Island and others. The site hasn't collapsed because of it. User impact was pretty minimal even if the games got revoked.