While I can definitely understand people disliking whining on this thread, I understand how frustrating it can be to try several times without success. Almost every hour I have been awake this weekend and the last, I have attempted to grab a key and have failed every time lol. I am thankful for the chance, at least, though every time I see Dragon age or the like I feel a little jealous of bots lmao.
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I hope real people are finding some success in the giveaways and are enjoying the games they get! Free games are fantastic.
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I have been trying all weekend and not gotten a single one. Would've been nice to at least win something. Always too slow, that's Guatemalan Internet for you...
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Guess what I get this time 😉
EDIT: It's nothing(TM)
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Well I tried almost every hour but unfortunately never got any game and then saw most of those games here as giveaway. Atleast this way players got another chance for those games that they wanted. Better than bots taking keys and then trying to sell them I suppose.
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Apparently! https://kinguin.ly/crazy-free-weekends-phase-1/
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That's likely going to just result in more complaining from people, since a lot of games will get ignored by the majority, and everyone will fight over the expensive AAA games, meaning lots of people not getting what they want, despite having the coins.
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1 sec average to claim entire drop, not a genius but I would say scripts and multiaccounts
Not everything went as well as we hoped. On the first week, we were forced to stop the giveaway due to a massive bot attack. Even after dealing with it and introducing new safety measures, the traffic was so high that our servers started to sweat and tremble. And even though we dealt with this as well, some of you still weren’t able to try and claim a game, whilst some claimed dozens.
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Hopefully this helps with the problem we faced on weekends, but still think it could be exploited by others. But still it's better than nothing
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Yah, hopefully this can't be abused. Personally I had no issue with how it was, I won a fair amount of games, prob gonna get a lot less with this change, but hopefully people can't abuse multiple accounts for this and screw people out of anything.
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I think a lot of people was at a disadvantage like me, I live far from Poland (where the servers are at) and got 0 games in both weekends and I tried for +-20 times. Got frustrated, a lot of people ended up with similar issues as I. Even saw a guy on twitter commenting on his friends using scripts. I appreciate the more or less leveled playing field they're trying to implement now
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Every hour they change the list of games, you can spent the "kinguin coins" with them.
i grab now star wars the complete saga(150), you need to grab hurry, the list is gone fast.
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For some reason on the crazyweekends site it tells me I have 0 Ninja Krowns, even though I have 200... Guess no games for me this weekend ¯\(ツ)/¯
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My experience was different. I tried to get Oblivion which was available for quite some time. But when I clicked 'Buy' it said I had already claimed a key for this game (which I have not). Reloaded and tried to buy multiple times until it was officially sold out.
If their server can't handle the load and spazzes out like this it doesn't really matter if the sought after games are available for 30sec instead of 1sec. For me the end result was the same.
Maybe it will get better towards the end of the weekend once a lot of people have spent their points. We'll see.
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I don't know for sure, but someone said 2pm CET
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/PXBm6/crazy-free-weekends-free-games/search?page=28#UHqcS7V
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Well, it seems, that at https://crazyweekends.kinguin.net/ they are showing 8 games every hour. At 20 minute past hour there is just one not "sold out" with price tag of 250 Ninja Krowns, so it seems for now, that it should be possible for everyone to get a game, but likely we will have not enough Krowns to get more than 2 per week... which would be still great, if it works long term.
Problem is, that I don't think, that currently they have any real protection against folks creating multiple accounts to claim Krowns (and games) on each of those accounts. If they don't implement some serious protection (like linking their accounts with at least lvl 5 Steam accounts), shortly most of the Ninja Krowns will be claimed by alt accounts, and again there will be more Krowns, than games, and the madness will start again. But for this weekend it seems, it should work OK.
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Kinguin seems to be evolving pretty fast to curb bots, I'm interested to know what more they decide to do! At least they're taking it seriously. A scheme to detect alt accounts could also help them weed out scammers who sell fake / illegit keys on their site.
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Yup, I agree. They've started it being totally unprepared and quite ignorant, but they seem to learn pretty fast. So, I do expect, that they will shortly find a stable working solution.
Really interesting is, why are they doing this and what does it mean for us in addition to those GAs? This seems to be quite big investment into getting their name known. Have they decided to fight to join the top league, with likes of Humble, Fanatical and Epic? Will they also get into the bundle business?
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Game | Ninja krowns |
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Blood Bowl 2 Steam CD Key | 150 |
Borderlands 2 Game of the Year Edition EU Steam CD Key | 150 |
Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons Steam CD Key | 100 |
Bulletstorm Origin CD Key | 150 |
Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box Origin CD Key | 150 |
Company of Heroes 2 Steam CD Key | 100 |
Dead Island Riptide Steam CD Key | 100 |
Dragon Age: Inquisition Origin CD Key | 150 |
Dragon Age: Origins Origin CD Key | 100 |
Eternal Step Steam CD Key | 100 |
Euro Truck Simulator 2 GOTY Edition Steam CD Key | 150 |
From Dust Uplay CD Key | 150 |
Hatred Steam CD Key | 100 |
Hitman Absolution Steam CD Key | 100 |
Hitman: Blood Money Steam CD Key | 100 |
Keebles Steam CD Key | 100 |
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga Steam CD Key | 150 |
Medieval Engineers Steam CD Key | 250 |
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Steam CD Key | 150 |
Outlast Steam CD Key | 100 |
Overcooked Steam CD Key | 100 |
Prey Steam CD Key | 250 |
Risen 3: Titan Lords Steam CD Key | 100 |
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam Steam CD Key | 100 |
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Steam CD Key | 100 |
Sniper Elite V2 Steam CD Key | 150 |
Space Engineers Steam CD Key | 250 |
Star Wars Empire at War: Gold Pack Steam CD Key | 150 |
Stellaris Steam CD Key | 150 |
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion GOTY Edition Deluxe Steam CD Key | 150 |
TrackMania 2 Canyon Steam CD Key | 150 |
Tricky Towers Steam CD Key | 150 |
Turmoil Steam CD Key | 100 |
Twilight Struggle Steam CD Key | 100 |
Vanquish Steam CD Key | 150 |
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III Steam CD Key | 150 |
Wars Across The World Steam CD Key | 100 |
World of Warships - Admiral Graf Spee Pack Code Wargaming key | 100 |
Worms Ultimate Mayhem Steam CD Key | 100 |
Worms World Party Remastered Steam CD Key | 100 |
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idk, I saw that this game was in the first hour games.
Tried to get MGS at 00, but site bugged and I saw only that no more keys left - multiaccounts won :(
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It seems like the games for the whole weekend are announced beforehand and they will just kind of rotate through them.
As you will see this Friday, now you’ll also know what games we chose for the entire weekend.
You can see the list in this post:
https://kinguin.ly/free-games-and-how-to-claim-them/
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World of Warships - Admiral Graf Spee Pack Code very likely is the same starter pack, that they've been offering in past 2 giveaways, not the Steam DLC. Great starter, if you want to begin playing with Wargaming account, but almost totally useless for a player, that already has an active account.
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