Good idea?
People would abuse of the system and make alternate accounts to get a lot of copies of the freebies and rise their CV.
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I, for one, would really like to see this. However, I see a few problems which the site owners might not want to face:
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The site could limit the amount of giveaways you can make for a free game. So if there's say 100 giveaways that have been created for Limbo the site will tell you that enough giveaways have been created for this game and prevent anyone from creating more until that number goes down.
There should also be a separate FREE category so it doesn't clutter up the main page and a link to a list of all the free games that have been given.
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This was already suggested many times, it won't happen. Even if it was made that you don't get CV for freebies your "Gifts Sent" counter would go up. That way people could improve their ratio for free. It would just take too much work to redesign the giveaway system in a way where giving freebies would be fair and wouldn't annoy people.
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Just close this please. It's been discussed numerous times (links posted by Daerphen) and it won't happen.
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There are key dump threads for this sort of thing.
Post on one, announce you have a key, and pick someone who replies, if you really want to make a GA out of it.
The giveaway system on SG is to make sure things are fair and reward someone when giving away games that cost something.
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Take Limbo for example. It was given away free a while back, but maybe some people missed out on that and still want to win the game. You could create a giveaway for the free game, and before making the giveaway an alert could say "Warning: This game was previously free, you will not receive CV for this giveaway." That way there's no confusion on why the creator's level didn't go up, and the winner of the game can still be happy that they won a game they wanted.
Of course you could just give someone a key and get the same result, but it's not as organized as making a giveaway on here and having the winner be randomly picked for you.
EDIT: Closed because I did a horrible job at searching discussions, there are numerous other threads about this topic
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