This site is the highest fail I ever seen.. Also the worst thing is that ppl can set the points enter value they like, someone set to 500 and another to 20000 the same game. And another bad thing is that if someone likes to troll and make a good giveaway for a lot of points, ppl who enter will lose forever their points.
I admit is not a bad idea to make this points regeneration like they made, but trust ppl they will make giveaway and not troll is kinda stupid, and how much ppl will giveaway games there to get points again? the number will continually decrease, so in one day practically no one will make giveaways and have points, so the site will go down or survive having their minimum GWP points that is 2500, so all giveaways will be maximum cost 2500.
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You also get points if you drop under 2500 (after 48h they will be restored to 2500).
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http://www.galagiveaways.com/GA/cc3812eb546411e2bec36527c2ccd382 someone made Cryostasis for 100k :D
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I had a giveaway for some DLC just to test out the mechanics and it was terrible. They emailed me to tell me who won the giveaway. So, I emailed it to that person and waited 2 days, still, it was marked as not received. I finally just added the person and gave it to them directly, and that was earlier today, and they still have not marked it received.
It just feels shady there. I have given away a few things here and it was always easy and marked received right away.
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the point system doesn't really work, you only regenerate points after 2 days of not doing anything point relate and being under 2500, at that point you get 2500 points
most giveaways there are way over that and you only get points from the people who enter the giveaway you made
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Just like Steamgifts, it's the person making the giveaway that's responsilbe for sending you the game. However, unlike Steamgifts, I'm not sure any kind of system is in place to prevent people from keeping to make fake giveaways.
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In my opinion the point system isn't bad. After you spend your points from registering (which doesn't take long time) it's a Pay2Win system (not much different then all the private giveaway groups here). That and that you can choose how many points people need can keep at least leechers out.
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Assuming they aren't fake giveaways. Which for the most part they are.
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Yeah, that doesn't work all that much. I don't know what drives people to create fake giveaways, but they will never delete them voluntarily. Reports either take too much time to get processed, or are just ignored altogether due to lack of evidence.
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You've not made 1 giveaway in a year, hardly commented at all, and this is the first time I even see you anywhere. You're not an active community member, and thus aren't in any private groups or groups with good people in them. OBVIOUSLY you will have shit chances at giveaways as you probably enter only pubs and those from CWLFS (same as pubs really).
Now look at my profile, my wins. Look at the number of entries on my wins. My closed giveaways pages are filled with giveaways with almost all under, on average, about 50 entries. Lots with less than 20 entries.
I'm an active community member that actually posts THANKS on giveaways (private or group giveaways at least 100% sure), am by now admin in a few groups, and actually contribute in the form of discussion, chats, helping moderating groups and reporting bad users on the site. This has gotten me a reputation, gotten me acquainted with several good site users and thus invites to private groups. Because I am an actual active member and I also bothered making some giveaways even though I am pretty much close to broke.
You hardly comment anywhere, noone knows you, you've not played your wins, and made no giveaways whatsoever.
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I think Playblink sucks more than gameminer, because you have more probablity to win on gameminer and there are more giveaways than in playblink. And also on playblink you have to pay a lot to be charity, and only for some days, that's stupid...
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I think Gameminer is ok, or at least does a few things right. It's kind of an improved version of Playblink. Doesn't have the stupid minigames and has the ability to give away keys. Points generation is of course ridiculously slow, and like Playblink they'd like to force your hand into giving games and/or paying for gold.
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Yeah well, thats not the point... I'm trying to say that the odds of winning are way higher on Gala giveaways since only people who are giving away games can actually win something 'cause of the point gaining system. If you have high amount of points, you can enter giveaways with high amount point requirements.. It seems to be more fair system than e.g. Steamgifts system.
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Yup, "fair". Ruling out people with low monetary funds from winning good titles. Uh huh, fair.
Because obviously, you make giveaways purely with the knowledge it gains you better odds at winning more, right? Not because you simply want to give some games away and make some people happy, maybe others down on their luck.
What / how much you give away should have 0%, absolutely nothing to do with what you win. Just like how what you give away, should be something you want to give away. Not a way to heighten your odds of winning free shit. Winning games, which of course everyone likes and hopes for, should be an entirely separate process in your mind from making giveaways.
What should matter, though, is being a decent human being and a somewhat active / known member. And that's where private groups come in.
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Just looked at your profile. Why am I not surprised, at all? You've only done giveaways of bundle keys to raise your contributor value, and have hardly any comments whatsoever. Typical leech whining about "oh but someone who gave away more deseeeerves to win a AAA title more". You don't even give a damn about giving games away, just about raising your contrib. value and getting in to lower entry giveaways. Pfff.
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Don't forget about my origin:I'm russian and I cannot giveaway AAA titles by stupid steam politic.If it was those possibility,I think I would create few giveaways,but..I cannot.This is not about money this is about politic of Steam:cheap and restricted or unlimited and expensive.
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Oh sure, there's every single time someone who just can't accept other people's opinions. No surprise.
Tell me, how many times happened to you when someone won your giveaway, that the person actually didn't even say "thanks"? Whenever I win something I even send thankful emails, 'cause I'm actually really happy about winning the game, so I'm not really into that game hunting shit... BTW I bought all of them games I gave away (some of them for TF items at least) +I gave them away before the bundle game contributor value rule, I've never bought a single bundle, so keep your insults for yourself. And comments? Oh sorry that I don't spam this really "meaningful" thanks everywhere just to raise my comment numbers...
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I'm not talking about spamming meaningless and generic "thanks" comments on public giveaways. I'm talking about commenting on private and group giveaways, and actually contributing to the community/forums. 3000 entries? Those were all public giveaways? Really? And you could only give away stuff you got for free (for TF2 items, or stuff like that SR3 DLC / The Ship) or below 1 or 2 bucks (all your other giveaways, really) in a whole year on the site, even after you won a bunch of stuff? You've got about 46.76 bucks' worth of contrib. value, so you can - conveniently - enter many of the "anti-leecher minimum 30.01 contrib value" giveaways. Sorry, but to me, that doesn't seem like someone who really cares about generously giving some decent games away or of their own free will wants to do so, but like someone trying to maximize their chances of winning stuff by raising their contrib value as cheaply as possible.
And ok, you've defended yourself from my critique at you, but what about the actual points I raised about a) giveaways should be open to all, especially those who can't afford their own games; it's not fair whatsoever to lock people who have limited / low funds out, b) giveaways should be made without any form of expecting something back for them, such as entry to lower entry giveaways. You should be doing them for the sake of doing them. And the higher contrib giveaways should be a nice little bonus you come across every so now and then, a reward for good things you've done of your own free will, just to be nice. Not something you try and attain or reach somehow.
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Nonsense. It's called decency, and a sense of altruistic intent. Wanting to share what's yours, even if you've got little, just to make someone else a little happier. Considering the attitude you suggest in your reply to my comment - you should try it some time.
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You keep talking about how equal chances should all people have and crap and all of your giveaways are actually group/private. Why don't you give some games to those poor people that you are defending? Nah, you give games only to people that will give you more games. Tell me something about "not expecting something back for them", hypocrite. I'm sure you got some nice games in return. 15 games given away, 64 won. I actually have more given away than won btw. I don't care about contr. value at all, really, it's you who keeps mentioning it. This topic was about Gala giveaways. I said it's nice that you get some points whenever you contribute in return, then you just attacked me without any reason - It was my opinion, but you simply need to be aggressive right? Regarding your a) and b) - So why are you even insulting me about my choice of games to give away? I already said in this topic, that I'm a student, I can't afford spending a lot money for games... and yet I try to contribute.. even as I don't have money and I could sell those games I have given away, still I didn't do it and gave them to the community instead. While you, sir, obviously have money, but you spend them on games for your private groups giving nothing to those poor people. And as I said I don't care about contr. value, I have given away some games even before that. +I'm pretty sure that most of your comments are exactly those meaningless "thanks" I talked about, I've been only in one private group and I thanked on every single giveaway btw, 'cause people know each other there and it's polite to say thanks to a friend.
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First of all, I don't do public giveaways for a few simple reasons, entirely unrelated to wanting to only give to people who give back to me, or something else selfish. I don't do pubs, mainly because the large majority of the community, from about the summer sale onwards particularly, has been filled with mult accounters, scammers, beggers, invite beggers, people who don't bother reading rules for groups they want to join or even this site's rules, just people who don't give a damn about the people who are giving them a game. Now, because I am in a quite dire situation financially, I would rather not give games I bought with cash I could barely miss aside from daily necessities to people who don't have enough pause for thought, empathy, and appreciation to be grateful, or at least act with a modicum of decency, in even something as small as asking someone to, for example, read rules on a group they want to join. A minimal 5 minute effort asked for interaction in a smaller community of decent people, and yes, their giveaways. I know I have won a lot, but that's purely due to there being a bunch of people in the groups I'm in who I consider good people, not because of how much or what they give away, but because they simply are genuine, and communicate, and in some cases, you even end up with good friends. The giveaways (and my lucky streak the past while) are a side effect of all this. I feel very grateful to all who I won something from, and also to all the other people in those groups, just because of who they are. This smaller subcommunity I dabble in is about a few hundred users in total, and when I give one of them a gift I spent cash on that - again - I really can hardly miss (and a number of them I'm close enough to by now that they know exactly why, like how my life's going etc.) - I feel appreciation and gratitude from them. Now, it's not so much that I want to feel their gratitude for myself, making it not really altruistic, but rather that I enjoy seeing someone be happy and truly appreciative, whether from a win of one of my giveaways, or someone else's. Me being able to still scrape enough together for games people really want, but might be on a good sale, makes me feel happy to be able to share, even though my life's a bit in the shitter right now. Now note, there's a few users that just give a lot out (which I would too, if I had a steady job now, no issues etc.) just for the hell of it, because they feel like sharing that much. There are, however, enough others that hardly give anything out at all, maybe who also have some kind of issue, maybe financially, or maybe simply that they're young, and don't work yet or so. It's simple - I'd rather not give to someone who doesn't show appreciation or basic respect / decency. Which is how, again, the large majority of users here now are. Not all, but definately a whoooole lot.
As for having a lot of money - let me put it like this: I got around 40/50 euros a week for myself now, food, everything. I live in NL btw, quite an expensive country. In the past few months I've spent around, oo, I think 100 euros on giveaways? Maybe a little more? Just scraped a bit together, saved some over time, etc. Because I always try to share, no matter how little I have. And yeah, I've won a lot! It's amazed the heck out of me, and I always give genuine thanks out to people. But that's simply due to how many giveaways are made by some of the more financially solvent members in these groups. And they're usually just happy to see someone they also see as a good person win.
Anyway, sorry for the harshness, fuck fighting. Let's not fill in shit for each other anymore, k? I hope you understand the points I make anyway.
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The design of website is not appealing, I don't think I'm going to use it.
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Looks shoddy. Interesting ideas, but initially poorly executed due to seemingly little concern on the site makers' part. Took two days for my registration verification to work, with all but one failure not even giving an indication why.
If you haven't registered, the site looks broken. If you haven't registered, you can only see the first page of giveaways, and the filter options don't work. The forum looks not much like a forum. The FAQ reads like they haven't really thought out the whole giveaway site concept (and the early days of the site seemed to confirm that idea.)
You can't seem to filter out games that you already own. The site doesn't even mark giveaways that you have entered, a feature that was apparently once present, has since been broken, and has not been fixed. (It appears to work in the regular view, but it doesn't work for the search results page.) There is no easily available search function. If you want to search for all the giveaways of a specific title (which is important for a "choose your giveaway price" system), then you have to first find a giveaway for that game, click "Enter" (which does not actually enter you into the giveaway yet), and then you get to a page that has a link to show all the giveaways for that title.
And, for those curious to find possible good deals, there doesn't seem to be an option to sort all giveaways by entry price. (EDIT: Though a price sort for all giveaways might be a bad idea with a site that gives anyone below a certain point value a small amount of points each day. Anyone who drops below that point value might simply burn all their freebie points each day on every cheap giveaway they can find, which could discourage people from making giveaways at or below the freebie point cap. Or it could encourage such low giveaways, if people see it as a way of harvesting points from a larger audience. It depends.)
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Tried this site for fun and won my first giveaway.
Meh, probably won't use it ever again when all my points have been used since the only way to get more points is to make giveaways. I doubt I'll be making giveaways on this site considering the design and work behind it is so bad...
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I think they just account for the games in your account at registration. No matter how many you have later on won't matter. I guess it prevents people from building a bunck of 1 game accounts to register for more chances, but it really penalizes people who just can't afford a bunch of games.
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I mentioned some of my opinions about the site in the first thread. But to sum things up- it's flawed. Badly flawed. It's gotten slightly better than it was before(at least now you can open giveaways in new tabs and the giveaways are actually sorted by time remaining), but as long as it's pay-to-win it just a big scam in my eyes. "Contribute to the site or buy our bundles and we'll give you points. If not, then stay at those 2500 points forever! Let's see what you get with them.". Yeah... Remember how gifting was to give to people who can't afford it? Well, if they're constantly making giveaways there or "donating" to the gala bundles to keep their points up, then I guess they CAN afford it.
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It's odd that they start people off with all of those points, but eventually most will be at 2500. Even if people create giveaways, more points are spent on entries than earned by the giver. This will eventually drain the economy of it's large # of points. I don't see gala sales injecting that much into it, especially since contributing only gives you the extra points until you spend them. If the site survives, I'd expect the point amounts on the giveaways to drop off significantly.
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You guys probably heard about this thing popping up recently.
What do you think of this?
Personally, I understand that you get points here ONLY for activating games on steams and making giveaways. Not sure if it's a good idea for all the poor folk.
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