Why can't you offer DOTA 2 keys anymore

Because VALVe has this secret plan to drown us in Dota2 invites, that's why cg was forced to disable Dota2 giveaways on here. We can now no longer get rid of our extra copies (properly) and will slowly drown.

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DreamDrop

Bad luck to those people then, I've never been flooded with invites even though I gave that survey long ago

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TimFL

Add me and I give you one. It's heartbreaking to see nearly 2 inventory pages of invites...

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odinau

I can think of worse things to drown in.. I guess. But I just signed up on here for the purpose of giving away my copies lol... sh1t.

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Sinovera

You can still find people to give them to on here simply by making a forum thread saying you're giving them out.

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RaBloodWings

Why do you have to post 2 threads?

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Drafek

i though your kind died in the fight... I was wrong

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tohands

dota 2 = free to play.

Why people pay for it ? to access the beta, and if you read the faq

FAQ for Giveaway "Do not submit guest passes, beta keys (Dota 2 and CS:GO giftable copies whitelisted), or in-game items from games such as TF2"

See, no beta key, and dota 2 key are technically beta keys.

http://www.dota2.com/spoilsofwar/

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Aukeroorda

Lol, this comment fails to explain, sir.

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TheRealDealReece

if you could I everyone would have 1000$ contributor thats why,oh and btw stop spamming.

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ariadourden

You know that the Wall of Shame is not a contest and having more threads on it won't get you any prize, right?

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cxiong93

why do you think you have some invites now and not a long time ago?
because everyone has it now

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Jadax

Because valve hands out invites every week now. 1 yr ago 1 key was worth $40, now ppl just throw them away.

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MagYCko

Yesterday i sold 5 dota 2 for 6 tf2 weapons each, and i was lucky

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Drafek

maybe you was depends on the tf2 weapons allot of people are buying them for tf2 items for 7 dota's i did got 12 itemss

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adderke

I never got a free dota from valve, only one from somebody else :(

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lucidus

This site hates you, that's why you can't make a Dota2 giveaway :P

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ChiP

I have an idea, a stupid one. I think it would be nice to have the possibility to make giveaway for games like dota where 0 points are needed to enter the giveaway and that doesn't give contribution value.
With this, threads like this and the ones where people ask for who want a free copy can disappear...maybe.
What do you think?

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Brotbaum

No.

People will make "Where's my contribution value" threads instead.
The site will be laggy again.
The biggest problem: People will win (and regift) Dota 2 multiple times.

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KaOtiCz

Why would they regift if it supposedly doesn't give contribution value?

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Brotbaum

Because there are also people that think it's good to regift something and most people wouldn't even know that Dota would give no contribution value. And that people win multiple times and keep all those copies is a fact.

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TheDopefish

Due to a problem on Valve's end, Steamgifts can't correctly track if someone owns Dota 2.

copy & pasta from one of my old posts:

I think the problem is, that Dota will only show up in the list of games you own (aka your Steam library) when you have installed and played it.

BUT if you have only the spectator client (and installed and "played"), it will also show up as Dota.

So you see, Steamgifts has no way of really determining if you own / don't own Dota, because Valve decided to not properly update the library.
If Valve cared, they would have made 4 library entries (Dota test, Dota spectator, Dota beta, Dota full).

The problems could be
a) people with spectator client can't enter Dota giveaways
b) people with Dota could enter Dota giveaways, if they havent played the game yet
c) people that won Dota and haven't played it, could be reported/suspended for "not activating" the game, even if they activated it

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ChiP

Oh, i didn't know this. So yes, this is a problem. Nevermind, I said it was a stupid idea.

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Disturbed0ne

If you want to give away copies of Dota 2 just make a forum thread and give them to people who don't have Dota 2. (I think there are still about 4 people on the planet outside of China who don't have Dota 2 yet)

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Zapek

Offering Dota2 keys is like offering air nowadays, that's why.

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epistemic

There's a place for your Dota2.

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