Weren't they supposed to wait till the 20th, when voting actually closes?
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As in, they "were" supposed to wait till the 20th to start giving out keys, but someone screwed up somewhere and the keys are being given out ahead of schedule.
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Every other game that's gotten given out for free gets removed after a while, what's the difference this time?
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It'll count as bundled game at the start of the giveaway, not at the end/when marked as received. So it'll be listed as a bundle game and they'll get whatever any other bundle game would give.
Xcom probably will be removed (though if memory serves, civilization 5 wasn't from last year) eventually just takes the hand of the powerful ones.
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Still waiting for mine. Guess I don't qualify for it. Oh well. Story of my crappy life.
Was going to give it to my friend anyway.
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The Free Points Party started already, go ahead with Carlton ; )
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I'm already registered in playfire, how can I redeem my key without creating a new account?
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It was messing up before, but now it should work if you just enter your existing account info.
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You just missed this one!
Thank for your interest, however, due to huge demand we’ve now run out of game codes!
Apologies that on this occasion you were unable to claim a free game from us. You can still earn great credit and codes for simply playing your Steam games with Playfire Rewards - play games, earn rewards.
So I registered for nothing.
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got the same bloody error and then they told me that I missed it. damn damn ninjas have taken the initiative even here D<
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Such a terrible, terrible way of claiming your key. I thought they will just send them out. I would've been without a game if it wasn't for you, the kind folks of SG community letting others know. Unfortunately there will be a lot of people abusing their site and ours. Anyway, I hope everybody who doesn't have the game, gets it in time! I am still waiting my turn.
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You just missed this one!
``Thank for your interest, however, due to huge demand we’ve now run out of game codes!
Apologies that on this occasion you were unable to claim a free game from us. You can still earn great credit and codes for simply playing your Steam games with Playfire Rewards - play games, earn rewards. ``
ALL KEYS GONE~!
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Yeah, some f.... m....s get all the keys to make GA.
I hope they remove the price for this game and all ..... don't raise their CV. :)
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It was just a bait from GMG to get people to vote. They didn't actually have many keys. Going to claim the game resulted in errors all day (Apache errors and whatnot.)
Then they run out of keys. How? You couldn't claim keys to begin with due to the errors. Which means they only had very few keys. Probably like 100 keys or such. Which is why they didn't mention the exact amount, otherwise people wouldn't vote.
It was just a bait to get their "GOTY" crap popular.
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Lel 100. There were like 100 giveaways of it here.
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Yeah, I got the email from GMG exactly 4 hours ago. I've been trying all this time, but all I've got was a "you don't have permission to access this server - Apache 2.x.something" error.
It looks like they were blocking many countries from claiming their game.
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I'm not saying you are not right to certain extent. Of course that their offer was a bit limited if we consider the huge amount of interest it was meant to get (and amount of interest it will bring to their golden joystick and affiliated sites) but they probably had a lot more than just 100 keys or such. Or there wouldn't be so many giveaways and many other people (me included) who actually got their keys.
I would guess that they had about few thousands of them.
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Mystery solved, it seems. They were blocking many regions from claiming, resulting in an "access forbidden" error. That's what I got. A user tried through a UK proxy and was getting through with that. No "forbidden" errors:
https://forums.playfire.com/gmg/thread/122367?page=3#post-4047778
This is borderline fraud.
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They already stated "while stocks last". So it goes without saying that the keys were limited.
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What's with the sudden influx of Xcom Enemy Unknown giveaways? The Golden Joystick keys don't come out until the 20th.
My theory is that people are currently creating the giveaways now, while the game still rewards CV. Due to the fact that you have to wait a week before filing a "Did not receive" complaint, the GA creators will be getting their keys one day before the deadline.
Edit: Look, GMG said they were coming out when voting ended (IE the 20th), so that's what I went with. Did they screw up and release them early or something?
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