People begging games with friend requests

Wow, most people try to ease into asking for free games, this guy just straight up said "GIB!"
Oh, and you may wanna censor his name. Would probably be considered "calling out."

Don't call people out.

Nope, because I don't accept random invites. If I haven't won a giveaway and the person isn't in a group that I'm in that isn't an official group then I'm going to ignore it unless they leave a comment saying why they'd like to add me. Saves me a ton of hassle.

Hah, was uploading edited picture while those messages were written, oh well.

I wonder what their success rate is? They wouldn't keep doing it if it didn't work every once in a while.

Almost everyday,it happen to me too,and you know what happen,i block them ...

Wow, that was somewhat obnoxious. Doesn't happen to me at all though, but then I don't generally accept random adds and usually click ignore.

Just once so far. Ever since then I don't accept anyone who doesn't own any games.

I got a few. It happens when you are often in giveaway groups or on Steamgifts forums/chat.

It happens.

That escalated quickly

Whenever you give away s bunch of keys, someone asks if you have some spare keys. I did it once, and someone was like "Got any spare keys" afterwards, and I was like "So I gave away all of my keys, as I said in the thread, and now you beg for keys?"

Once during my first giveaway. The guy spoke (or at least typed) some pretty broken English and outright asked that I cancel the giveaway to give the game to him. I told him no, obviously, he then unfriended me almost immediately afterwards. No one else has begged to me since.

Not too often but it does happen to me. Recently had a guy beg me, so I asked his age. He said 13. Then he asked why I wouldn't give him anything. I told him that unlike him, I have rent, bills, food and travel expenses to pay for and can barely cover those. Not only do I not have the money to give you anything, I don't WANT to give you anything.

So he comes back two days later to try again. Idiot.

I had someone asking for money when the big winter sale was on. He was already on my friend's list and didn't add me just to ask though. That said, we weren't exactly close friends or anything, if he was I might've given it to him! :p We'd chatted briefly a couple of times, that was it.

I've ignored a few friend requests lately when I haven't been able to work out why the person was adding me, trying to avoid this kind of thing (or phishing attempts). I'm not a trader as such so it's usually quite apparent why somebody may be sending a request. For the traders out there who may have people adding them all the time to make deals I guess it would be much more difficult.

It only happened once.

Well, just once for me.

Psychological hit will be good for him

It happened to me as well. I believe it was only once that someone added me strictly to beg.

In my experience it barely happens if you're not a part of shit quality groups, especially trading ones. Which for me means all of trading groups... :)

For over a year I've been managing the groups I'm in pretty tight and I could count examples of begging on fingers of one hand. Earlier on it was waaay more troubling and I'd get 2-3 invites like that every two weeks at least, especially when I had Skyrim in my inventory (ah, right, private inv also helps).

its my daily life, even friends that i got on coop games do it every now and then, i just block everyone who begs.

if someone's begging you, just beg him right back!
no, seriously, try it.

I've had a few, usually when i'm trading some game of somewhat value. like yesterday i was trading a copy of bioshock infinite and 2 people added me saying " hey i saw your thread on steam trades. Can i have your copy of bioshock infinite please :D. i have no money to buy games :(. i really need this game plox. PLS just this once can you give me this game:)."