So I was in chat the other day with a group and all I saw were people trying to trade off or sell guest passes. This made me come up with some ideas on how they can be distributed for those who want to honestly give them out to those who really do want to play.

  1. Guest passes should be for those who truly want to play the game, for FREE, so why not introduce them to this fine gift giving site.
  2. Since guest passes are free, 0 points will be required to enter them and 0 points will be awarded for the giveaway.
  3. Giveaways should be indicated similar to Contributor's or Group's (e.g. Blue or Purple for guest passes, you get the idea)
  4. Those who already own the game, of course seen in Sync, should not be able to enter these, that way people who want to win and try games can do so
  5. Most guest passes can be given away by Steam Trading System or the Gifting system which is what people do now anyway, so therefore conforms to the rules of the site.
  6. This is to bring back the days of giving, remember Steam Gift Invites? Those were free, this should be an invitation to free gaming and community building that we shouldn't take for granted.

I myself have guest passes I'd like to giveaway, but I'm positive there are more people deserving or more interested in playing them instead of trying to profit or gain something from them.

What do you guys think? Please no idiotic posts (e.g."thanks for skyrims, and cool story bro's"), lets discuss to make Guest Passes free or not free and get some dialogue in on your thoughts as a community.

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Just give them away on the forums..

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+1

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Some men just want to see the world burn

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Not a bad idea per se, but I guess there are so many other priorities on the list of possible updates that it won't even be taken into consideration.

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Thats just going to encourage people to give away passes, you'll be getting new people who dont read the faq and not sure what is what starting up guest passes and normal giveways, I've already seen 4 or 5 of them this week. Better off just keeping them to the forums.

And who in their right mind buys a guest passes, unless its like a dollar or comes as a pay a little extra in my trade and get a guest pass

Edit: Also a fair bit of coding for something that isnt really that big anyway

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I wouldn't mind having an option for beta, guest passes and games outside of Steam where winner could be randomized. They would not produce any points, would not give contribution but I would still have them cost points to enter (for limiting number of entries).

Major problem for this is, as others above have stated, that people could have hard time differentiating the differences between these and regular giveaways.

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Closed 12 years ago by rxjx21.