TL;DR THIS GIVEAWAY HAS SPECIAL LIMITATIONS AND YOU WILL GET NOTHING IF YOU ENTER BUT DON'T QUALIFY

So, I decided to give away the Deus Ex collection. This is Deus Ex GOTY, Deus Ex Invisible War, and Deus Ex: HR everything. I have decided to make it a private giveaway, but publically share the giveaway on the forums, in order to enforce special limitations. These limitations have already been approved by support.

Limitation #1: You cannot have abused the Guns of Icarus Online beta keys from earlier this week. If you created giveaways to share online beta keys, don't enter, I'll reroll if you win. Note: I will not be searching the forums for beta key threads, and I will be checking if you made legit Icarus giveaways. If you made a legit Guns of Icarus (not online) giveaway and did it properly, you're fine.

Limitation #2: You cannot have abused indie bundle keys before the rule change. This will have a certain amount of wiggle room, since it's hard to define abuse, but if you have given away like 5 of the same set of games that all happen to be in the same indie bundle (who would actually buy 5 copies of Ironclads, Beat Hazard, Before the Storm, and Razor2 and decide to give them all away without getting an Indie Gala bundle?), yeah, you're out.

Limitation #3: I want to reward people who have been active in the community, and so I will be enforcing a requirement of one comment per two giveaways entered. If you entered, say, 100 giveaways, you'd better have at least 50 comments or else you're not going to be given the game if you win. Note that this will be measured after the giveaway ends, so be careful if you're close to the minimum when you enter. To test if you're reading, this is the giveaway code: 1LKUe. I'm not making a link for it. Do not help anyone who asks what the link is in the comments, it's their fault for not reading the limitations. I must stress that this is not an excuse to begin spamming the forums to build up your post count. You'll be liable to whatever punishment the mods decide, and if I catch you, I will force a reroll as well as ticket you if the mods haven't already been notified that you're crapflooding to build your post count.

It's important to know that none of these restrictions count number of wins, or age of account, or contributor value. This specifically does not have a minimum contributor requirement because the other limitations.

Good luck, everyone!

UPDATE (3:30pm PST GMT-0700 August 4): My computer vomited all over itself and decided it doesn't know how to boot anymore. I'm currently in the process of grabbing all of my files off of it in preparation for a nuke and pave clean install of Windows 7. As a result, I won't be as active as usual. However, this should be taken care of by tomorrow, and it will definitely be taken care of before the giveaway ends. None of the rules have changed, I'm just occupied with more important things. Thanks for your patience, everyone.

Thanks for the well-wishes/commiserations about my dumb 'puter, too.

UPDATE #2 (4am PST August 5): I'm back, mostly. That was really annoying. :( Complete reformat. But, fresh start on Windows, at least. Carry on asking me where the giveaway link is. :D

12 years ago*

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I qualify (I think) but I already have all Deus Ex's LOL, thanks for your generosity!

EDIT: Looking at the giveaway and it doesn't say that I already have the game, WTF.

12 years ago
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It's a combined pack, so it might not be smart enough to pick up all the individual titles for the games and DLC and etc.

This is also the Augmented Edition of HR.

12 years ago
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I actually have the exact same pack, but oh well...

12 years ago
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Weird...

12 years ago
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I think I can join. ^^

12 years ago
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You are dangerously close to falling below the minimum comment ratio, so be careful, but, yes, at the moment, you do qualify.

12 years ago
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I think I'm in.

12 years ago
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me neither fit to the 3th requirement, which is a pity because i don't like spamming 'thx' either, however i try to be active in the fora..

12 years ago
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thanks im in... for now

12 years ago
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Your comment ratio is waaaaaaay too low to qualify, so expect a reroll if you win.

12 years ago
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Thanks a lot elix; you rock!

12 years ago
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Seems to me kind sir that I am more than qualified for this great giveaway.

12 years ago
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You do, indeed, qualify.

12 years ago
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Fairly certain i meet all the requirements technically, except for the fact that I already own DE and DEIW. So I'll pass on the collection. Good luck all!

12 years ago
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/me is going to apply Limitations #1 and #2 to any giveaway

12 years ago
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You'll want to get Support's approval, and you MUST make it a private giveaway in order to apply special restrictions.

So, be careful. You can't just create a public giveaway and go "here are a bunch of rules I made up".

12 years ago
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I think i can enter. Please check my profile :)

12 years ago
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Sorry, you do not qualify by a LONG shot, under requirement #3.

12 years ago
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Meh.

12 years ago
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I think I'm ok to enter. Hopefully... :)

12 years ago
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You're in the clear, go ahead.

12 years ago
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Thanks, Elix. :D

12 years ago
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Nice giveaway, thanks!

12 years ago
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Nice to see active discussion on both forum and giveaways side. There were couple statements earlier that I found interesting. They were merely complaining about the requirements. Special rules are used for two purposes in my opinion:

  • To target your giveaway to specific group of people.
  • To limit the number of entries so chance to win will be higher for those who qualify.

Many of you, I think, agree that the latter is good for everyone. To achieve that it literally means that many have to be left out as that is the way to limit entries. If you happen to be on the the group that was left outside, do not complain. Somebody has to be to achieve that desired effect. Gifter can give his/her gift to whom he/she pleases. Other members have no right to demand a gift (wishing for it is a completely different matter).

Hiding the link this way might work alright. Some people are bound to find it out anyway without reading the requirements so it isn't perfect. Seems that you are facing similar problems as I on my giveaways. I hope you don't need re-rolling.

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I anticipate at least one reroll, but the number of invalid (read: illiterate) entrants is staying close to 10%, so we'll see.

12 years ago
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That is quite low number and the valid ones form clear majority. What you have done seems to work quite well.

12 years ago
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My favourite is all the butthurt from people who don't like requirements and limitations being placed on anything. It's my money, converted into a game license key. Why does anyone else get to tell me (within the limits of the law and terms of service) what to do with it? :P

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But the way that they try to tell you what to do is quite funny :D

12 years ago
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It is just sad. People are giving away stuff for free and some just have the nerve to ask more? I can understand when people hope for certain titles or giveaways. Gifters may or may not then use this information. But to place demands on others who are already giving is just rude.

12 years ago
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I have nowhere near as much as comments needed ... Good luck to others.

12 years ago
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now this is some wall of text :P

12 years ago
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Yeah, meet the reqs! Thanks!

12 years ago
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Pretty nice giveaway. =P

I'd definitely like to see more giveaways done like this.

Thanks a lot!

12 years ago
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Как вступить? Не могу найти раздачу)))

How to join? I can not find a distribution

12 years ago
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Ok, I meet the requirements !

12 years ago
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How does one enter? =O I qualify and would love to be in on it =)

12 years ago
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Sounds all reasonable

12 years ago
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Sounds all reasonable

12 years ago
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Yay, I meet the requirements :)

Thanks for tthe giveaway :)

12 years ago
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link pls

12 years ago
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I think I qualify :O How do I enter?

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Closed 12 years ago by elix.