Family share maybe ? I think playtime and achievements are saved
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assuming the worst like i always do...
he removed the game from his library, entered the ga, won, traded the game, got caught, reactivated his game licence. -.-
or just family share like others said, but that's no fun to discuss here :3
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I don't think steam allowed you to remove games one year ago (Without contacting support).
It's silly if they went to the trouble of contacting steam support to get a game removed just to enter giveaways...
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Hmm, Steam family sharing page says people earn their own achievements. Also would family shared games appear on Steam profile pages as owned games? I admit, I have never used the family sharing on anything so I wouldn't know much about it.
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Ah okay now I get what you folks were saying. They family shared the game, earned the achievements back then and now finally own the game themselves so it shows the dates when they played it.
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I've heard achievements stay from free weekends too.
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Probably not that in this case, considering the dates. Three different months in a span of eight months are when the achievements have been earned.
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Let me show you some magic then.
This is a purchase I made 5 minutes before writing this: http://i.imgur.com/Kp14IlQ.png
This is my play time in one of the games with a date when I posted a review on it: http://i.imgur.com/P77X3Cq.png
And this is without family share.
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I had these games part of the Unreal pack. I realised that I'll never play the other three, so I had them removed, but I already played UT '99 and UT2k4 previously, and also reviewed them. Since all stats remain (hidden) even if you remove a game, by buying them again, now separately, just made these stats visible on my profile again.
So the answer is: you can have month-old stats from a game you seemingly don't even have either by having it removed since then (which also includes free weekends) or with family share. The account who played knows the difference, but viewed from the outside, it cannot be determined.
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Maybe you folks can help me figure this out.
So one of my giveaways (won't tell which) ended in a classic case of regifting. I sent the Steam gift, it ended up sitting in their inventory and eventually disappeared from there but wasn't added to their library. I reported the winner, they got suspended, I blacklisted them and that was that.
Now out of curiosity I checked their Steam profile again and I noticed they indeed have the game now. Okay, I thought, maybe they wanted to fix that for sgtools checks and such. Then I looked at their achievements and the unlock dates on them. According to the dates, they have gained achievements over several months, all from way before they won my giveaway, like over a year ago.
They certainly didn't have the game when they won the giveaway, so can those achievement unlock dates be manipulated somehow?
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