Happy cake day Amano. Unfortunately time and experience tends to lessen our optimism and increase our pessimism about anything which is probably why as we get older, we get more cynical. If you blacklist people, you cant expect people to be happy about it so it goes with the territory i'm afraid. Keep your chin up and ignore the bad stuff and focus on the positive stuff. :-)
With regards to levelling, you should enjoy making giveaways and the pleasure of gifting rather than looking at a number and checking how many giveaways you can enter. Hope this helps in some way. Peace and love.
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Thank you :)
To avoid any misunderstanding: I stopped looking at numbers, CV and levels since I hit level 8. Since Level 3 I give because I want to give, not to level up or increase my CV :)
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in my country they say all that's good doesn't last :o
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Happy cake day! Let's hope the "decent" people on sg will keep you here for another five years :)
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Happy Cake Day. :)
I'm sorry to hear you had bad experiences with the SG. Wish you only good ones in the future.
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Happy cakey.
Sorry you feel like this. And thanks for the giveaways.
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Happy cake day !
Anyone still around who still remembers the OddLama and his giving sprees?
Well, that's what made me start posting in the forum when I was new here
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Thank you :)
Ha, look what has become of you because of that :-P
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Happy Cake day. my phone wanted to auto correct called to caulk xD almost wanted to leave it like that to see if anyone would notice. But ty for your generosity :)
Speaking of Oddllama, remember when he gave some dude the Hatoful Boyfriend body pillow case and the guy made a thread of him wearing it and doing an awesome/weird photoshoot?
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Thank you :)
YES! Who will or even could forget the pillow? XD
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Happy day of cake.
If it makes you feel better, I can insult you without winning a game. :P
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Thank you :)
This is so nice of you, awwww! ... Well, no! :-P
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There's a saying where I come from, it goes something like this: "All that is good only lasts a short while." Life is such, I guess.
Happy Cakeday and thanks for the awesome GA!
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Happy cake day, and lol @ the salty screenshot. :D
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Happy Cake Day! π
I won't enter Yakuza because I probably wouldn't play it, but thanks for your generosity anyways.
As for the shovelware, Steam now seems to be doing a little bit about it. Baby steps. We'll see if things change.
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First: happy cake day!
Second: yeah I get where you are coming from, especially the comment about how our GAs mirror the state of Steam (I'm partially guilty myself, since I am going for all those Flash Indiegala keys, and more often than not I already have the game, and I end up giving them here).
But, hey, cheer up! Who cares if thousand of trash games are given, we can focus on the good ones! I still manage to spend my points in things I want to play, I still manage (very occasionally) to give something I find very good, and I can still see many great people in the forums (fori? no clue), funny people, smart people, helpful people...
But I also do miss the crazy OddLama. And Rachellove. And Student123, which is probably recovering from his addiction since the incident where he....
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...wait a second, Student is still around? Come out of the shadows, Stud! Barbie is here! :D
Cheers, and thanks for the nice GA!
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Happy Cakeday!
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yakuza? ...
Recently, the yakuza became unable to earn money.
https://kuragebunch.com/episode/10834108156629370790
So, there are things like this.
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Oof, that's pretty cynical, my dude.
To an extent I do agree. There are less users who are in it for the community and more people who are in it for the free stuff.
But as to the games? There are more shovelware titles, for sure. But the amount of quality seems to be the same in my opinion. It's just that you've gotten most of the good stuff. As before, a bundle rolls out and those games tend to dominate the giveaway section for a while. If those games tend to be of quality, then those are the games you'll see. Plus, again, you won't see the games you already own usually.
I think overall you've gone for the worst possible interpretation of the worst aspects of the worst people on this site when it came to your giveaway.
That caricature of a person might present themselves, of course. But I think that it's highly unlikely. Hopefully you won't be punished for your generosity though.
Happy cake day. Also, damn you for reminding me that my cake day is in 2 days...
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Edit: I am not in a bad mood, I am really not :D I even bought Yakuza 0 as a giveaway to celebrate my half decade :)
So, today is my 5th cakeday. I registered on this site on August 15th, 2013. 5 years ago. Time flies.
At first, i was totally overwhelmed and it did take some time to figure out how this site works. I had way less money then, didn't know about bundles and it took really long to climb the ranks. Leveling up felt like an achievment.
Oh boy, how did that all change!
Now I am earning a decent wage, am an expert deal and bundle hunter, my library exploded and collecting games has become a habit. A kinda meta-game in itself.
Leveling up means nothing anymore because there are hardly any games left for me to enter.
My experience with SG in those years? Well.. Meh. The site changed. Shovelware or however you want to call it floods the site. It's logical, because in this SG is a mirror of the current state of PC gaming in general and Steam in particular.
Quality of SG users has also declined. There are still a lot of jewels around but it is harder to find them in the puddle of mudd. There, I said it. And this saddens me. Anyone still around who still remembers the OddLama and his giving sprees?
Well, here is an obligatory giveaway which is very likely to end up in the hands of a leecher with many not activated games who only does region locked giveaways, can't say Thank you and will insult me when I don't send the key within minutes after his win and who will resell the key and claim I never send it.
Public giveaways nowadays. Only for masochistic people.
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SG community never ceases to amaze me, not even on my cakeday ;) (Pictured comment was posted on my Steam profile mere minutes after this thread went live. Must be an alt account)
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I wanted to give feedback if the winner was of the category I cynically described, but I can't give this feedback without calling him out, sooo...
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Unfortunately I had to delete the giveaway :( I bought the key from Voidu and the store page didn't mention a region lock because I bought the key with a european IP-address. But if you visit the page from outside of the EU, you get a warning regarding region lock. Which I could not see. Duh. So my key is EU only and I only found out about this after the original and the re-rolled winner both could not activate the key :(
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Here is a new giveaway for all your troubles with the old one, this time it should really be a ROW version.
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